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Well it is average req/s so peak should be much higher, and they probably can average much more than what they are doing now in case of spikes and other such things.

But yeah the title is pretty much useless.

I don't think that is right, it says that automattic has 2000 servers but they also run things like gravitar, akismet, and vaultpress. Which makes me think that using that number is completely wrong. (Also these are just the load balancers not the back end, which could be taking up a large amount of that 2000 server count)

From the article it seems more like they have ~100, maybe less, for the load balancers which comes out to 175 requests/second per cpu which is getting a little more reasonable.

The github repo[1] says they are under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

[1]: https://github.com/subtlepatterns/SubtlePatterns

I can't find the open beta part or more information about linux but I hope they didn't use adobe air and still think it is compatible with linux.

Where I found one of my favorite books from a genre I generally don't like (alt history): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Yiddish_Policemen%27s_Unio...

Ubuntu Mono on Ubuntu and Consolas on Windows. Both of them look so much better on their own platform.

I sit on the floor and put a laptop on a coffee table that has open space for my legs underneath. The ergonomics for my arms aren't very nice but everything else seems to be fine.

I do move around every hour. I use a wireless mouse but I don't end up using a mouse that much. Sometimes I will hook up a keyboard and use the keyboard on my lap under the coffee table but not that often.

The submitter is probably using it to track hacker news visitors (especially those using https).

The submitter is the owner of the blog.