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Re: AMA with Barack Obama

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Post by _delirium »

msilenus wrote: post #66
001sky wrote: post #49

And 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...

Someone else corrected "a asteroid" in another question as well. Perhaps the POTUS has discovered that trolling is a art.

Re: AMA with Barack Obama

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Post by philwelch »

ashray wrote: post #86

It looks like the Obama AMA has really caused some serious fires in reddit's backend infrastructure. The site's been down for the last 10 minutes. I would've thought that they'd have brought in some additional computing power for such an event, should've been easy for them considering they have a cloud deployment. Maybe this gives them greater reason to hire more engineers. I found it impressive that they served bill…

Cloud computing is cruise control for scaling, but you still have to steer.

Re: AMA with Barack Obama

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Post by FlukeATX »

revorad wrote: post #38
untog wrote: post #30

Can't wait for the top post to be another asinine "comment phrased as a question" about legalising marijuana! Joking aside, I predict disappointment. Reddit users will want hard-hitting answers, Obama will definitely not give them (already the internet freedom question has been fluffy-answered). In all honestly, no-one should expect anything else- the POTUS is not going to unveil new thoughts and strategies through R…

The President of United States is doing a Reddit AMA and all you can do is predict disappointment ? Really? Why bother? If you're wrong, your comment will seem too negative and cynical (which it is). If you're right, well, that'd be disappointing, right? Comments like yours make me want to rename this site Hater News.

Just want to chime in, it looks like Obama is heading out[1] after answering only ten questions. I think it's fair to call that disappointing when the thread had more than 12,000 comments.

[1] http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/z1c9z/i_am_barack_obam...

Re: AMA with Barack Obama

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Post by _delirium »

xxpor wrote: post #117
bgilroy26 wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's a tough site to run because hundreds of thousands of people have write access to the database and reddit attempts to provide the millions of people reading the comments pages with up-to-the-fraction-of-a-second updates. It's like running a tenth of a twitter with a 10k char limit, if twitter had 10 people on development/operations

>up-to-the-fraction-of-a-second updates. I don't think that's true. I believe the comment pages are cached for 1 min.

I've anecdotally noticed an increase in stale pages lately as well, which I would guess is from more aggressive caching. For example, new submissions used to show up instantly, but on popular subreddits may now take a few minutes to show up on the New tab.

Re: AMA with Barack Obama

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Post by MrMember »

Jem wrote: post #120
MrMember wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What does Reddit 'humour' consist of in this case? Tired pun threads? (He did Nazi that coming, Anne Frankly...) Reddit 'celebrities' posting inane comments with all of the child comments consisting of people fawning over them? A Shitty_Watercolor painting? Someone referencing Rampart like it hasn't already been done in every single IAmA since it happened?

I believe that's fairly typical of reddit humour, yes. Apologies if it wasn't clear my response was tongue in cheek.

I'm normally fairly good at picking up on sarcasm on the internet, but I missed it in this case. No worries. :)

Re: AMA with Barack Obama

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Post by morsegeek »

ashray wrote: post #86

It looks like the Obama AMA has really caused some serious fires in reddit's backend infrastructure. The site's been down for the last 10 minutes. I would've thought that they'd have brought in some additional computing power for such an event, should've been easy for them considering they have a cloud deployment. Maybe this gives them greater reason to hire more engineers. I found it impressive that they served bill…

I'm still able to access the AMA through Alien Blue on iPhone, so that part of their infrastructure must still be up.

Re: AMA with Barack Obama

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Post by learc83 »

ConstantineXVI wrote: post #32

No flying cars or moon bases; just average people off the street able to talk directly to the "leader of the free world" on level ground. Not the future we were expecting, but I'll take it.

While, cool, this is no different than town hall meetings we've had since the inception of the Republic.

Re: AMA with Barack Obama

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Post by weaksauce »

X-Istence wrote: post #69
msilenus wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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...

Just shows that he is human...

Or typing fast because he only has 30min to answer questions. or it's an intern.

Re: AMA with Barack Obama

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Post by skystorm »

nchuhoai wrote: post #85

for redditors having trouble reading the page: log out your profile and you will get served the cache for the 99%, at least thats why theory why it works for me

It's too late now (I presume the AMA is over), but private browsing or incognito mode has the same effect.
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