Comments by paulbuchheit
Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetIt started as Lucene, but is quite different by now as Jim (http://friendfeed.com/jim) had to create all of the real-time indexing and standing query support (at any moment, it is simultaneously executing thousands of queries).
Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetI'm not sure what you mean by "tight polling", but we basically keep a connection open to the server at all times (often known as "long polling"). This is similar to how IM works.
You can pause it by pressing the pause button on the top-right of the feed.
Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetYes, that's roughly my thinking. Everyone has some part of the puzzle, but nobody has been able to put it together. My goal is to find a way to combine all the parts of the puzzle.
Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetIt's also interesting that faulty research from almost 100 years ago is still affecting the way we eat. Humans are not rabbits -- they have very different dietary requirements. Apparently nobody has managed to show a link between dietary cholesterol and health in humans. (though they've tried, which provides evidence that there is no link)
Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetThat's why I'm looking for commentary from knowledgeable people, not just simple vote counts (which reflect enthusiasm, but not effectiveness).
Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetHere's the TechCrunch story: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/06/24/friendfeed-adds-file-sh...
Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetMy point is not that they are the same, but that details matter a lot, and that just because there are parallels between two things, it does not make them the same thing. My .plan example was not made up -- that was an actual criticism from the early days of blogging (according to Jason Shellen, who was part of Blogger).
Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetAnd blogging is basically just a .plan file...
Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetLet me know if you have a YC startup and I missed your blog - http://friendfeed.com/yc-startups
Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetAlso, FriendFeed has had post-by-mail (originally called mail2ff) since before Posterous even launched.
Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetPost-by-mail is a very old feature. Blogger.com has had it for a very long time, for example (as have other blogging services).
Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetRead http://www.erowid.org/experiences/subs/exp_LSD.shtml
LSD can be very intense. Given your prior inexperience, it's probably not a "good idea" right now.
Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetIncorrect. Gzip streams just fine, so there is no latency issue. Google search, for example, writes the top of the page before the search is complete. (and I assure you, they use gzip)
Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetI don't use apache, but apparently it may be a little more complicated than that if you really want it to work: http://www.nerdblog.com/2009/04/my-modgzip-settings-deflatec...
Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetHave you actually made any measurements?
Smaller pages are actually faster (both individually and collectively), though gzip is already fast enough that the difference is irrelevant.
