EdisonW

Was just about to post this. All of my sites are down. :(

Edit: 5:01 EST ..seems to be up and down according to mass pingdom messages.

Agreed. This is what I am doing too. Especially because I do most of my git work on command line, it really doesn't make a difference where the host is as far as it is reliable. Github IMHO offers a much better interface than bitbucket, but unlimited private repo is unbeatable for bitbucket. They have the totally opposite business model that I wonder which one has a higher margin.

I was also sold on that "If you stumble on an issue and you don’t know what’s under the hood it is likely you’ll need much more time (possibly all the time you have saved in advance by using the tool) to find out a way to fix it or a workaround."

This is a problem with current HTML5 -> Native frameworks as well, you have to know what's under the hood so that you can make efficient designs.

Awesome intro! Guide looks amazing! Just a a few small things: the Install Git on Windows button on the home page should point to http://msysgit.github.com/ directly. Msysgit also comes with a GUI (that I personally appreciate that one more than tortoisegit).

All the Chinese websites are not acessible right now (weibo.com, renren.com) and when I did get on weibo a few minutes ago after trying so many times, they were talking about how none of the international websites are accessible from the U.S. The funniest thing is that Weibo.com tries to give me a error page in chinese saying that my internet connection is disrupted. [Image: https://edisonwang.sqsp.com/blog/uhp2hhr24rr3pc7ugpam3rvc9lb... ]--->it's the same message you get on Internet Explorer when you cannot access an website because of DNS issue. People on weibo were suggesting that the Chinese government is deploying a new firewall.

[Update: some sites are coming back.]

Yea. I have a few facebook friends confirming that it is not working on their phones but one of my friends somewhere else in NY is getting hits on weibo.

This is brilliant! I guess the next step of photo sharing is to it more FUN. I assume that when I tab on my phone, the client feels the shake and uploads the photo to Bump, and at the same time the browser gets the space keystroke from the keyboard so it would send the location and time to server, which would then match the photo that was uploaded with the best location and time. Matching/guessing the timestamp here is more important than location here I guess.

Yea, that was my first concern as well. Going around the typical models and straight to DB sounds dirty. :) Can't wait til I get home and try it out. Love the synchronous calls and how it synchronizes between screens, wonder how it scales up though.

Totally agreed. Engineers at instagram worked days and nights for years for probably the same amount of money that the inside traders make overnight, literally.

we should always have people commenting when the site goes down after HN/reddit effect (if no one has done it already) and then we can have an avg time goes down/host provider graph show up. :)

I have to say, this is one of the goals were wanted to achieve when I made SleepBot (Android). Sleep is such a big issue especially for us programmers. We often not aware of how much sleep we actually lose everyday and how much performance it kills.