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From the article: "browsers do not cache files to disk if they’ve been retrieved via SSL"

I don't think that's correct at all. Perhaps browsers have more secure defaults with SSL, but if you're explicit and specify Cache-Control headers, it'll be cached.

The jquery version specified on Google CDN's have Cache-Control public, so it'll be cached on disk.

Just put up a blog post about this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2120773

Right now I have the "shadow" role for the streaming API: see http://dev.twitter.com/pages/streaming_api_methods

I requested "birddog", which provides 400k stream follows.

This seems more like a strategic investment. They're obviously partnering with Goldman Sachs for an (eventual) IPO, and the terms were probably good. Why not do it?

Ditto. I ditched Bank of America and switched to Schwab, it's great.

Go does concurrency well, but it's designed for concurrency on a single machine, not so much parallel processing on many different machines.

Thanks for the post :)

I wrote this Facebook app in Go: http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=135488932982

It's running very smoothly.

One of my friends from high school is a freelance dancer in SF. I'm amazing by what those girls are capable of. It takes so much determination to keep going.

Most girls can't make a living on dancing itself, so they have to have to find side jobs. Since there's almost no monetary incentive, they do it mainly for the love of the craft.

It's physically demanding because they're often in the studio for the entire day, and they have to be careful to avoid injury. It's emotionally demanding because they have to put themselves in the abstract mindset of choreographers and directors, who they may not agree with.

These girls are fearless. I'd compare it with being a software consultant, but without the pay and flexibility.

Might be too late but I just forwarded this news item to some people in Google. Hopefully they can shake things up a bit.

Also, shoot me an e-mail (in the profile). I know a couple unemployed architects in the SF area that used to work in woodshops. They might be able to help out.

At least the bing text is designed to contrast the background image. The Google homepage looks awful, and there doesn't seem to be a way to turn it off.

Interesting data, but the comment about political polls is a bit misleading. Political polls are a random sample of a target population and are designed to avoid biases. This is a voluntary survey with plenty of response bias, so I'd keep that in mind when drawing conclusions.

This is a really informative talk, thanks for posting. I'm definitely the target audience - I avoid designing stuff until the very end, and it's often a daunting process. The site mentioned at the end, pattertap.com, is great.

Ah, that makes sense, thanks.

When parsing boundaries you know the first character is going to be a hyphen(-), and the last character is going to be a newline. Wouldn't it be easier to search for hyphens, and then read until you see a newline, and then compare to the boundary? Typically boundary characters are random printable characters, so you might be doing more work than you need.

I'm mostly worried about Flash in the context of network usage. I can't say how the power performance is for graphics and gaming, but I'd guess it's about the same as native phone apps.

It's easy to imagine flash apps with network access patterns that aren't optimized for phones. Take any advertisement or analytics system which continually polls the server for more data. This will kill your battery if left running.

It's something more fundamental. When writing software for mobile devices, you really need to optimize for power consumption. There was a recent talk at Google IO about the new polling vs pushing for web services, and it's alarming. If your Android app polls a web service every 5 minutes, it'll use something like 10% of the battery in one day (just that one app!).

Flash apps are simply not designed for optimal power consumption. Flash is designed for multimedia apps, which are generally power hogs.

I develop Flash professionally, and I'd never run it on my phone.

I hope they get the interface right this time. App Engine has an awkward interface that's not nearly as flexible and powerful as EC2.

I'm glad HTC is doing this. Since the iPhone came out, Apple has developed this smug godlike aura and it's time that someone stood up against them.

Just a couple nitpics:

1. Redbot doesn't like some of the http headers: http://redbot.org/?uri=http://tempalias.com/ Content-type should be "text/html; charset=utf-8 ". Why the keep-alive connection?

2. It feels like the home page is rendering slowly.

If IMVU was wildly successful like he says why did he leave so early?

I've been using it a lot. I've built a couple Facebook apps with it and they're running great. Recently the language got exceptions, which makes writing robust services a lot better.

You know, there's probably a whole class of professional athletes that have a hard time supporting themselves. I don't have the numbers, but I'd expect that most minor-league players don't make remarkable salaries, but they continue for a chance to make it to the major leagues.

This isn't surprising, but it does worry me. After some googling I found an e-mail service called hushmail (http://www.hush.com/) which provides secure e-mail. Apparently it was started by the same guy who designed PGP. So if you want to send private e-mails, I'd use that account :)

I've been using Go and contributing a little to the project. It's a cool language and the guys who review your code (Rob Pike, Russ Cox) really know their shit.

It's an interesting guess but it's not me :)

I am concerned with online privacy, but not to the extent as "onetimetoken" (my FB profile is globally viewable). Also my comments are usually short, and I avoid big generalizations.

Looking at the thread in question, though, I'd definitely guess jgrahamc.

It seems that more and more people (and companies) and recognizing the potential of Redis. It's the default data store for projects I start. Congrats!

Actually, the authors of couchdb did eventually start a company around it: http://is.gd/aEdvW . I think it's still in stealth mode, though.

That's the very first thing I noticed on the site. A lot of early adopter types will recognize it instantly.

Yeah, they're just selling different levels of access to their data stream. Besides the firehose, they have streams of things like all links and retweets, which require some kind of partnership.

out of curiosity, why is this useful? what kind of functionality do you need in clojure that you can't find in jruby?