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cstefanovicion Netflix Outage observations: database issue, not bandwidth/streaming related

No i did not. But Netflix is streaming technology anyhow, so it would not make a difference except for buffering time which isn't much.

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We would have heard of this here in NY if this was real. Gimme a break....

cstefanovicion SHOW HN: Listered.com lists of user-defined objects. Share, sort, follow

View some examples:

Articles http://www.listered.com/view/cat/Articles

Apps http://www.listered.com/view/cat/Apps

CD Covers http://www.listered.com/view/rony/CDs/

cstefanovicion SHOW HN: Listered.com lists of user-defined objects. Share, sort, follow

Listered lets you define a thing that you would like to make a list of and add items to that list. People who are interested in what you are listing can follow one or more of your lists.

You could list anything from movies, favorite baseball players, motorcycles, articles, works of art... you define the object and its properties.

Lists can then also be sorted according to any of the object's properties.

What do you think?

cstefanovicion Why developers should build single-purpose websites

I just built a simple, single-purpose one... it's powered by Twitter though and I hope people will use it. Let me know your thoughts everyone. Check it out: http://www.blibu.com

cstefanovicion Ask HN: Are you a founder?

I am in touch with Twitter API folks to fix problems. Sometimes it goes down for a few seconds. We are looking into caching results so that the Search API is not queried on every page load.

cstefanovicion Ask HN: Are you a founder?

Founder of http://www.blibu.com I'm the developer, designer... and the rest

cstefanovicion Apple now bans e-books from the App Store

They are planning to do their own e-book thing with the upcoming tablet. Although for iphone and ipod the apps wouldn't hurt, they probably don't want people getting used to e-books on iphone and ipod before the tablet comes out.... ? The e-books would kill the battery on the iphone/ipod anyway. Don't think it would work. Just some ideas, don't shoot me down.

cstefanovicion Serious Twitter, LiveJournal Outage Ongoing

Can anyone comment on whether the issues with Twitter, Facebook, LiveJournal are related? Nobody seems to be saying it, but it doesn't seem to be a coincidence? I know Twitter has had downtime before but this is of long duration, early in the morning and coinciding with issues with the other sites. Is this an anti-socialnetworking hacker attack???

cstefanovicion Massacre Gmail Ads with These Two Sentences (and Some Tragic Words)

Embrace the ads people. They pay for all of Google's free services, which these ad-hating people obviously are using. Also, I find that whenever I glance at the GMail ads there's always something interesting or amusing there (more of the latter).