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toolateon Ask HN: What would you like to see in a students resume

What area are you looking at? If you're looking for web roles then put together a website explaining who you are and a portfolio if you have enough to show. Polish your smaller projects, publish them on GitHub and link to them from your site.

toolateon The Single Page Interface Manifesto

Really Simple History packages this in a library, and it will be introduced natively in HTML5.

toolateon Making Facebook 2x Faster

The big_pipe used on the homepage is quite cool. The initial request just returns <script> blocks as each partial is rendered. I wonder how they work it on the server side - they use PHP so they're not using any kind of threading.

Perhaps the initial PHP request passes off most of the heavy lifting to their backend services over asynchronous Thrift calls. If that's the case then their PHP layer wouldn't be doing too much work, which doesn't seem to really tie in with them releasing HPHP.