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This is supposed to be him live http://twitter.com/BarackObama/status/240909486234161152/pho...
You really must not understand how PR works for public figures.
>supposed to be
AMA with Barack Obama
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#72Reddit.com is down. Pretty poor capacity planning. Having spent the better part of this month trying to accomodate spikes in traffic up to 100k concurrent users then receiving just a fraction of that, I am jealous of Reddit's lazy effort.
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#73And although their will be occasional disagreements on the details of various legislative proposals [sic] THE DEVIL IS IN THE DETAILS -[engineers everywhere] Edited: for relevance ;) Edit2: SIC WTF? - per comments below Edit3: Downvotes? Wow. POTUS commenting on IP Law, Privacy, Internet Freedom. etc. PLS Read the context. It was included. Tks. ________ [–]SharkGirl 812 points 32 minutes ago We know how Republicans f…
> And although their will be occasional disagreements on the details of... One would think that the president of the united states would be able to use "their" and "there" correctly...
Interns these days. I remember the old Clinton days.
You couldn't type correctly with both hands busy and your mouth full.
Aah, those were the days.
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#74Glad too see the peanut gallery keeping it light _____________________________ demaney 69 points 28 minutes ago For proof, did he send you a picture of him holding a dated index card? Or did the Secret Service land a helicopter on your house? yishan 183 points 25 minutes ago He faxed a copy of his birth certificate.
yishan is the CEO of Reddit.
yeah... that's what makes it amazing :D
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#76The President appears to have crashed his AMA.
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#77When Obama refreshes and gets the "You broke reddit" error 500 page it's actually true
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#78There are already more than enough questions. What I'm wondering is how the president is going to answer anything if the website is down.
I was just discussing this with colleagues, maybe he gets access to a special page where he can answer questions without going through the standard load balancer/database stack.
At least, that's what I would do if I had some as high profile as the US president using a site that would get slammed HARD.
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#79I think it's particularly interesting to watch some internet event go "mainstream" and watch even large services like reddit strain under the load. Put some perspective around how many people true mainstream media services reach.
To be fair (as a longtime redditor), reddit is guaranteed to go down after anything slightly out of the ordinary (and even then it's not too uncommon).
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#80I think it's particularly interesting to watch some internet event go "mainstream" and watch even large services like reddit strain under the load. Put some perspective around how many people true mainstream media services reach.
To be fair (as a longtime redditor), reddit is guaranteed to go down after anything slightly out of the ordinary (and even then it's not too uncommon).