facebook stats from Dare
Dare Obasanjo has a nice summary of the Facebook Engineering Road Show. They have some scary / fantastic stats: Mike Shreopfer started his talk with a number of impressive statistics. These stats include the fact that 2 billion pieces of content are shared per week when you add up all of the status updates, comments, likes and other sharing gestures …
Read Moreit’s a matter of trust (or: I dont trust Time Capsule anymore)
So, my time capsule died this morning. No light, no nothing. Dead. Of course, that takes out the rest of the network, too. I took it into Apple today, and they swapped it out for a new 1tb model (I had 500gb before). Cheers Apple, I was only expecting a refurb model. It wasn’t under warranty, but the all our …
Read MoreThe Stig Army prepaires to say nothing
Westfield Plaza. Leonie says: some say, they only hunt in packs when their girlfriend is away… some say, they can’t leave the house before 10am in the winter or their helmets frost up on the inside and they can’t see to drive… all we know is, they’re called the stig(s) I think the show should be back on shortly – …
Read More4 a day. only 4 a day – or: going back to working in .NET, at home, with good coffee
Next week I’m starting a new job. Off the PHP, back onto the C#. Off web apps, back onto back-end server development. Out of an office, into working at home, on my own (well, when Leonie isn’t at home anyway!). No more 5 days a week, I’m down to 4 now. All very different. All very familiar. I’m rather looking …
Read MoreWhy FaceBook, Digg and Twitter are so hard to scale
This is a very good read. Even if FaceBook and the BBC homepage (which I work on at the moment) was doing the same traffic (we are not, not even close), the work load wouldn’t even be in the same order of magnitude. Now think what happens on Facebook. Let’s say you have 200 friends. When you hit your Facebook …
Read MoreTortoiseGit vrs Mac: How to get around git-upload-pack: command not found
Just a quick one, as I’ve having fun with TortoiseGit talking (via SSH) to my Mac Mini, which has a SVN-pulled codebase on it. I got this error when I tried to do an initial clone (or anything else): git-upload-pack : command not found After a bit of a google around, the solution is easy. This assumes you have git …
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