Federation at Flickr: Doing Billions of Queries Per Day

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Post by pbnaidu » Wed, Jul 09, 2008, 3:33 PM UTC

Federation at Flickr: Doing Billions of Queries Per Day
scribd.com

Re: Federation at Flickr: Doing Billions of Queries Per Day

#2

Post by prakash » Wed, Jul 09, 2008, 7:16 PM UTC

scribd seems to be as annoying as NYT, why do I need to sign in to download?

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Post by joeread » Wed, Jul 09, 2008, 7:29 PM UTC

Wonder what the cache rate is that they could need billions of queries for such a simple site.

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Post by bk » Wed, Jul 09, 2008, 7:51 PM UTC

prakash wrote: post #2

scribd seems to be as annoying as NYT, why do I need to sign in to download?

So they can drive up their valuation with an inflated number of "registered users".

Re: Federation at Flickr: Doing Billions of Queries Per Day

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Post by tialys » Wed, Jul 09, 2008, 8:20 PM UTC

Scribd is just plain annoying. You can't copy and paste, highlight (yes, I highlight my lines when I read). It's completely non-user friendly. I don't get what the hubub is. Also, I'm sure this would be interesting if I could read the damn thing without any completely un-needed browser plug-ins (IT'S TEXT!)

Re: Federation at Flickr: Doing Billions of Queries Per Day

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Post by nickb » Wed, Jul 09, 2008, 9:02 PM UTC

tialys wrote: post #5

Scribd is just plain annoying. You can't copy and paste, highlight (yes, I highlight my lines when I read). It's completely non-user friendly. I don't get what the hubub is. Also, I'm sure this would be interesting if I could read the damn thing without any completely un-needed browser plug-ins (IT'S TEXT!)

It's a PDF with images and graphs but I get your point. If you're on a Mac, PDFs are a non-issue and I prefer them over anything else because I can easily save them for printing & later viewing.

Enjoy: https://dl.getdropbox.com/u/1750/federation-flickr.pdf

Re: Federation at Flickr: Doing Billions of Queries Per Day

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Post by auston » Thu, Jul 10, 2008, 5:01 AM UTC

I dont get all the hate. I personally think scribd is awesome... it makes showing documents on the web way easier! On windows I hate viewing PDF's cause it makes me load up acrobat.

Plus A LOT of people are retarded and don't know how to view or download a PDF.

Re: Federation at Flickr: Doing Billions of Queries Per Day

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Post by felix_t » Thu, Jul 10, 2008, 8:09 AM UTC

nickb wrote: post #6

tialys wrote: post #5

Scribd is just plain annoying. You can't copy and paste, highlight (yes, I highlight my lines when I read). It's completely non-user friendly. I don't get what the hubub is. Also, I'm sure this would be interesting if I could read the damn thing without any completely un-needed browser plug-ins (IT'S TEXT!)

It's a PDF with images and graphs but I get your point. If you're on a Mac, PDFs are a non-issue and I prefer them over anything else because I can easily save them for printing & later viewing. Enjoy: https://dl.getdropbox.com/u/1750/federation-flickr.pdf

So how is dropbox? You just made my day with that file, because I really dislike scribd. Probably the most annoying thing on the internet (of course, after the Rick Astley pranks).