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Bret Taylor
The technology behind Tornado, FriendFeed's web server - Bret Taylor's blog - http://bret.appspot.com/entry...
The technology behind Tornado, FriendFeed's web server - Bret Taylor's blog
We have open sourced our web server. Download it at http://www.tornadoweb.org/. Check out the Facebook announcement at http://developers.facebook.com/news... - Bret Taylor from Bookmarklet
Wow! Thanks so much, Bret and co! - Doug Beeferman
this was very interesting; good job - RAPatton
neat - anna sauce
I wonder what the engineering decision was to not use a WSGI interface. - mikepk
mikepk: it supports WSGI, but it is not WSGI by default because WSGI does not support non-blocking I/O for things like hanging connections. See http://www.tornadoweb.org/documen.... - Bret Taylor
This actually is a very good piece of code! Thanks folks! - directeur
cool, Bret, thanks :) I was just heading through the docs now. - mikepk
Thanks for doing this, Bret! That's some pretty cool stuff. - Keith Bourgoin
that's great. thanks.. - deerstep
oh man, this is so awesome, thanks guys! - Charles Ying
Is "tonado" a typo? - Bruce Lewis from fftogo
I'm hacking my own python web framework at the moment, so now the choice on whether I want to switch gears to this or not. I'm liking what I see so far. - mikepk
Bruce: Yes - Casey Muller
Wow.. Thanks!! pretty much makes my day.. which is scary in it's own rite. - Chris Myles
Great news! Cheers to the FF team! - Egon Willighagen
Nice new title Brett.."Facebook Director of Products".. a good sign of things to come! - Chris Myles
very very glad to hear this bit: "Tornado is a core piece of infrastructure that powers FriendFeed's real-time functionality, which we plan to actively maintain." - Chris Heath
Great work - James Myatt
Franz: enables widespread adoption which leads to greater influence of the technique - Mike Chelen
So excited this is out. So many personal projects I have been wanting to build with it :) - Bret Taylor
Fantastic, Bret (and team)! - Micah
A very good project!...you know if will be possibile to use Tornado with other technogies except Python (such as JEE, Ruby On Rails, etc.)? - Nicola Junior Vitto
Cristo: we tried to use the official Python coding conventions, though we may have inadvertently strayed. Those conventions are: ClassNames, method_names, variable_names - Bret Taylor
Brilliant! I hope you can provide very valuable input for the next round of #python WSGI, which desperately needs a next round ;) - Uche Ogbuji
Re: WSGI needing help, see http://www.b-list.org/weblog... - Uche Ogbuji
grt - Xitong Liu
"Facebook's opensource technologies" link is broken on tornadoweb.org .. - deerstep
Onur, worked for me - and still works now - Chris Heath
Very cool, in case someone needs a high-end Web Server for a project, FriendFeed just open-sourced theirs, & apparently, it screams.. - Alex Schleber
Nicola: there is a Ruby example - http://gist.github.com/184760 - Mike Chelen
thx Mike, but this is a kind of eventmachine (that sounds good) for Ruby, not a Tornado client or wrapper...isn't it? - Nicola Junior Vitto
Excellent! Thank you. Was eagerly waiting for the day to come after looking this just 1 month ago; "changeset: 5afb8a445cad / date: 2009-08-11 16:34:48 / description: Initial open source packages" http://changelog.friendfeed.com/2009... - NaHi from m.ctor.org
Chris, yes it is fixed.. I swear it was broken .. - deerstep
Good catch, NaHi. :) - Micah
Thanks guys. Really appriciated. - Roberto Bonini from iPhone
That's great. thanks Bret :-) - Nimaa
Nice job on the non-blocking stuff Bret! - Mitchell Tsai
"We have open sourced our web server" @bret took over a year but is worth the wait. thx for the follow through ~ http://bret.appspot.com/entry... - Peter Renshaw
Ohhh, ummm, btw, your underhanded behind the scenes sell out still rankles my human decency, & a lot of others too, as should yours...thumbs down/dislike x 47.5 million dollars, however not being bitter of course, keep ignorance & bliss - sofarsoShawn <Pop-Rocks>
that's the sound of I believe 100000000? or so hands clapping...& giving you the BOOOO-URNS if I'm not mistaken... - sofarsoShawn <Pop-Rocks>
oh you sonsabitchez this fscking rules! why so badass, ff? thank. you. :) - mike
So, can we say; Python is the future? - Özkan Altuner
Nice code. Started to look at it today. Thanks for doing this. Now to start testing this on some projects I had been working on. - Altan Khendup
Diego: we run on Linux. - Bret Taylor from email
@bret just out of curiosity - what would necessitate usage of such an engine for a *personal* project? :) - Michael Bravo
Michael: it is a nice framework to use for any project in my opinion (though I am clearly biased). If you are doing anything real-time like the chat demo, something like Tornado is certainly necessary/useful regardless of the size of the project. - Bret Taylor from email
@bret and for little-sized hardware? should have try it on Maemo based :))) - Отборнейший бред
@silpol I kinda fail to see Maemo devices being used for servers (unless it's some kind of satellite-based or other covert server maybe :) ) - Michael Bravo from IM
@mbravo you never know... there are some unusual (and cool) apps for web servers, granted you abstain (on purpose) from classical models, e.g.server farm somewhere there and herds of clients connecting to it... - Отборнейший бред
I think this is the best answer for the ultimate question: "Does python needs yet another web framework?" While most of us would say why, when one come across this, a real world proven technology, serving zillions of pages a day, one would say, well, why not. actually, why not even take it an try to integrate out next web app with it? great job! seems like joining FB won't do you any harm ;-) - Tzury Bar Yochay
We've seen tornado vs twisted, how about tornado vs rails? http://www.youtube.com/watch... - Tzury Bar Yochay
http://chan.friendfeed.com:8888/ It doesn't work. I'd like to see chat.js :) - Анатолий Шарифулин
FriendFeed's web server, open sourced? This is great! Welcoome, Tornado! - Thierry R. Andriamirado
Bret: how do you proxy long-living connections through nginx? Vanilla nginx buffers everything. - Alex Kapranoff
nginx has a configuration option to turn off buffering. - Tristan Seligmann
Richard Dawkins
RDF TV - Distribution of Life: The Iguanas of Galápagos - Richard Dawkins - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
RDF TV - Distribution of Life: The Iguanas of Galápagos - Richard Dawkins
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Richard Dawkins
'The Science of Origins:Studies Across All Disciplines' by Lawrence Krauss - Scientific American - RichardDawkins.net http://richarddawkins.net/article...
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Abhijeet
Green Day – Wake Me Up When September Ends - http://www.last.fm/music...
Dion Almaer
Congrats to the Kodingen team on launching a new online coding experience. Web coding FTW! http://kodingen.com/multi/
Ray Cromwell
GQuery, the ultra fast, ultra compact, jQuery clone for Gwt is now live and available at http://code.google.com/p...
Robert Scoble
The StackOverflow folks are starting new community for IT types: http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009... My brother Alex will like!
emon hassan
The Volvo Ocean Race - The Big Picture - Boston.com - http://www.boston.com/bigpict...
The Volvo Ocean Race - The Big Picture - Boston.com
Nat Torkington
Collection Of Atheist And Atheism Motivational Posters - http://www.scottklarr.com/topic...
I think my favourite, othe than the Jewish Zombie line, is the "Spoiler" poster. - Nat Torkington
yes it is true Nat. Hitler was an atheist - NoahDavidSimon
Robert Scoble
Re: Watch Out Twitter Spamers Got the @replies (and a solution) - http://www.loiclemeur.com/english...
"Why is friendfeed more resistant to spam and jerks? For one, if I block you you disappear EVERYWHERE on friendfeed, even on search or DMs. For two, if I start a node I can delete any comment underneath that node. So, the crowd can keep the community clean of spam (friendfeed has very nice decentralized moderation). On Twitter no one can delete anyone else's stuff, even if it's obviously spam or nasty stuff. This will end up being a competitive advantage for friendfeed and it will prove to be difficult for third-party applications to get rid of this stuff in time." - Robert Scoble
Also, it's very easy to tell a spammer here. They will have no followers that you trust. The following behavior here is much more tied to credibility, authority, participation than it is over on Twitter. That will be VERY hard for a spammer to fake. They would have to actually participate for a while to get some people the community trusts to follow them. - Robert Scoble
It would be good if basic stats (comments, likes etc) were shown when you hover over a person's avatar like it used to be. - WoH: Minding her Steves
I think a significant lack of spammers on Friendfeed has something to do also with the fact that "there isn't too many people on here" - it's "the best site nobody uses" //// to fight spamming subscriptions on Twitter, its good to get an email about the account subscribing first, example http://TwiMailer.com - that'l tell you, who they are, without clicking on them or more ..... - pb:
Petr: not true. Spam showed up on Twitter when I only had 2,000 followers. I already have 35,000 here. That's a lot of "nobodies." :-) - Robert Scoble
Twitter spammers have forced me to decide to turn off my sms alerts. now that's sad... - Benin Brown from fftogo
I want to stop the auto re-tweeters. I've got a #wordpress search running on tweetdeck and am now seeing everything twice due to a couple of accounts that do nothing but retweet anything containing #wordpress. Grr. - Michelle McGinnis
@Robert .. hm, interesting ... I still think partly it'd the type of people .. geekerati, as british press called it - and FF is their darling ..maybe also more "closely" knit community .. :] - pb:
Petr: I've been studying and participating with online communities since 1984 and, sorry, it has nothing to do with the kind of audience that friendfeed has attracted. It has to do with the architecture they chose (the social architecture). I need to do a video about this to explain it properly, but the social contract here is very good. If you misbehave here there are deep consequences. Over on Twitter? Not so much. - Robert Scoble
perhaps i'm missing something but i didn't see anything new from loic's post. i read it again since i saw it on friendfeed again. you follow @spam and dm them offenders. while the process can be more efficient, that's about what sums up how it goes. nothing new, just considerations for a spam button on the seesmic app(s) and/or twitter. - sɹǝɥʇɐǝɟʞɔɐןq
@Robert Scoble .. I see .. so you do remember BBS, AOL, Prodigy ..all text based .... that was early 90ties ... but what in the world world online was like in the 80ties? emails? .. and? ....and when did the Internet (www) "officially started" :]] 1992 ? :] ..... thanks - pb:
Petr: in the 1980s in Silicon Valley a couple of friends had bulletin board systems. Basically a few computers in a garage with a bunch of expensive Hayes modems. People would call in, download a few files (email style, or actual executable files like video games) and upload a few of their own, then sign off. Ahh, the good old days! :-) - Robert Scoble
twitter has a real problem on their hands with this @reply spam - they better beef up their spam filtering asap! - Susan Beebe
Anybody been to the main Twitter stream lately? It is all spam.. - David Gross from email
@RS .. :] yep :] .. sounds like that sweet sweet nostalgia, ..innocence ... Hayes modems! 2400 kbauds ..correct? ... I was on a BBS (91,92), and somebody mentioned "some internet" to me .. but "I'd have to get some "browser"" for it .. so i didn't ..so i haven't registered a lot of good names :] ............couple of friends in Silicon Valley?? .. Gordon Moore? Steven Jobs? ... me got no idea:] - pb:
Yeah, we had 2400 bps modems, but I think those were our fast ones. Yeah, we all wish that we had registered more names back then. Sigh. - Robert Scoble
whats the history on the biggest names? ...yourself gotten any winner? :] ---------- well the second world industrial revolution just blew past us - "the Internet" ...../ first was the steam power, simple machines /.... well whats the next one? ..because I want to "register" :] - pb:
I remember accessing the Wildcat BBSs with 300baud modems and a RS Color Computer. On the Twitter Spam, when you think about it, there's a fine line between what's spam to me and important stuff to someone else and vice versa. - Carl Pruitt
zsafwan 
Google's Android's market share compares well with Apple's iPhone #Android #iPhone (via http://friendfeed.com/applero...)
Google's Android's market share compares well with Apple's iPhone #Android #iPhone (via http://ff.im/2xCzh)
Google's Android's market share compares well with Apple's iPhone #Android #iPhone (via http://ff.im/2xCzh)
Dion Almaer
Chromium Tech Talks: 5 Chromium experts gave mini tech talks on subjects ranging from the network stack to hacking on WebKit. - http://blog.chromium.org/2009...
Darin Fisher talking about Chromium's multi-process architecture Brett Wilson talking about the various layers of Chromium Dimitri Glazkov talking about hacking on WebKit Ben Goodger talking about Views (and how to write good tests for them) Wan-Teh Chang and Eric Roman talking about Chromium's network stack (and its history) - Dion Almaer
emon hassan
Email spam title of the day: "If your hair can grow, why can't your member?" Dr. Phil would be proud!
Tim O'Reilly
via @wesabe: The Wesabe iPhone app is live in the App Store! http://ax.itunes.apple.com/WebObje... This is a very cool app.
Wesabe is a O'Reilly portfolio company, and, no doubt, a very cool app... - Cliff Gerrish
Paul Buchheit
WiTricity Corp. — Basics of WiTricity Technology - http://www.witricity.com/pages...
WiTricity Corp. — Basics of WiTricity Technology
WiTricity Corp. — Basics of WiTricity Technology
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"WiTricity power sources and capture devices are specially designed magnetic resonators that efficiently transfer power over large distances via the magnetic near-field. These proprietary source and device designs and the electronic systems that control them support efficient energy transfer over distances that are many times the size of the sources/devices themselves." - Paul Buchheit from Bookmarklet
Trying to harness the WiFi name recognition, I guess. WiTricity appears to be the MIT spinout. Intel has demonstrated technology which seems similar, relying on tuned coils to achieve magnetic resonance. - DGentry
I wonder if there are any health worries - cancer, etc. that you'd have to worry about with such a device. - Jesse Stay
This is the most interesting wireless power scheme that I've ever seen. It does not rely on induction or radiation, so it works over reasonable distances without creating high energy fields. Here's another article: http://web.mit.edu/newsoff... - Paul Buchheit
Yeah - this is amazing stuff - I had a dream we'd see stuff like this when I was younger, but never thought it would be possible. - Jesse Stay
Define "high energy" b/c this probably not true (i.e. the the idea this would have low impact on human health) in any practical application. I'd need more evidence to believe. - coldbrew
Interesting. I never studied electromagnetics so it feels beyond me, but the magnetic resonance part I think I get. The clever part, as I understand it, is that without resonant coupling, there is no power transfer, so it behaves like all the other oscillating magnetic fields in the world (near AC motors, etc.). I'm not aware of solid evidence that magnetic fields affect health, but it is curious to me that the brain has so much magnetic activity. Anyway, this shouldn't be worse that what we've got. - Daniel Dulitz
I can't wait until wireless power becomes ubiquitous. - Louis Gray
I don't see how it would hurt humans unless we are unlucky enough to have the same resonance as the system is using. I'm wondering how animals with inbuilt magnetic navigation would fare though. - Ray Cromwell
Hmm, reminds me of a Tesla patent. It's not new science by any means, but I'd be chuffed to see it mainstream. - Mo Kargas
They claim it's not the same as Tesla's technique either. - Ray Cromwell
"Using self-resonant coils in a strongly coupled regime, we experimentally demonstrated efficient nonradiative power transfer over distances up to 8 times the radius of the coils. We were able to transfer 60 watts with ~40% efficiency over distances in excess of 2 meters." - Gabe
Keith Coleman
Official Gmail Blog: New in Labs: Suggest more recipients - http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2009...
Official Gmail Blog: New in Labs: Suggest more recipients
"Have you ever realized you mistakenly left someone important out of an email, or just spent too much time trying to decide who from your long list of contacts to include? Well, some of us on the Gmail team feel your pain, so we wrote a new Gmail Labs feature called "Suggest more recipients."" - Keith Coleman from Bookmarklet
Wow, that was one of the more 'out there' ideas I never thought would actually make it to the head of the feature queue. Awesome!! - Kevin Fox
This was one of the very earliest Gmail brainstorming ideas (from before there was any Gmail). It's very cool to see it live! Gmail labs is a great idea Keith. - Paul Buchheit
It's not working on mine. :-( I turned it on in Labs and my UI has the extra line of space under the To: box but I can add several people and it makes no suggestions. Tell me who my friends are!!! :-) - Kevin Fox
Very cool :) Happy Sneezy Sleepy LOL!! - Susan Beebe
These labs are continually coming up with stuff that genuinely help! Keep it up! - Dan Walters
It works for me. I would post a screenshot, but editing images (to remove email addresses) is nearly impossible on my mac due to lack of mspaint. - Paul Buchheit
You could install VMWare to get mspaint, I suppose. - Kevin Fox
Why overkill and install VMWare when you can just install Paintbrush for the Mac? http://paintbrush.sourceforge.net/ - Edmund Tay
Nice - I always want to peak at my contact list to see who I'm missing - BEX
awesome. glad we got this out. - Dustin
Great! - stanjourdan
Very nice :) Now only if Gmail would stop asking me "Send message without a subject?" - Ralph Harik
@Ralph Would you rather like a lab feature that replaces empty subjects with "Don't you like informative subjects so that you can organize your emails?". That's so much better for your receivers :) - Jérôme
@Jérôme Ideally, I would like Gmail to keep track of the contacts I send email to without a subject line. Having to deal with the popup every time, slows me down. It's ok if Gmail asks me once or twice per contact, to learn my preference. However, after that it becomes frustrating to deal with. It can replace empty subjects with the first X characters of my email. - Ralph Harik
+1 Jérôme! :) - stanjourdan
Thanks, but I prefer the Yahoo mail Plus. www.miguellomelino.com - Live Feed
Allen Stern
wow - http://www.youtube.com/watch... - wow for so many reasons
wow - http://tinyurl.com/c49rgl - wow for so many reasons
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Wow this is amazing - Chris Saad
This took my breath away - amazing voice - LPH™ and his dog P™
I'd admit it...I was getting a little misty-eyed. Hard not to. - caj
When will Simon Cowell bag the ugly ass haircut? - Scoble, Alex Scoble
I love these things. Worth watching. - Robert Scoble
Robert, agreed. I wish the iphone had the ability to send a link to a youtube video quickly so this could be sent to my daughters today - LPH™ and his dog P™
I wish they tuned down the audience a bit... Could barely hear her at times - Mark Philpot
this lady certainly has a voice! good for her i say for being brave. :) - Tatty Gibson
OMG, I'm in tears here. That was lovely and wow that song with all that. Had to favorite it. </sentimental wimp> - Anika
Is good to see what nature can do. Incredible voice! - Rafael
Alan, me too. Out of this world. - Meryn Stol
Newspaper says she's the frontrunner to win: http://news.scotsman.com/enterta... - Sprague D
That's a magnificent clip, I wish America's Got Talent was so entertaining and surprising. - Jonathan Coffman
i watched this last night, love her! Her voice is a true gift. - Laura Zickus
Thanks for sharing that - perfect for this time of year - Jesse Stay
She's this year's Paul Potts. Great voices, the pair of them. - Mark H
That was just amazing. And the perfect song for both her situation and to start the waterworks. Now i have to follow the show and see if she wins. - Kevin Fox
While I absolutely detest these shows, I must say, this woman got to me. - Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)
It says "embedding disabled by request." - Dawn
You can click through to YouTube via the link. :-) - Kevin Fox
Awesome - Rodfather
Wow. - Todd Hoff
Oh, Duh. Got it, Kevin. This reminds me of the British man who sang opera. It was unbelievable. I think our American shows shoudn't limit the age. I'd love to see what some of the older folks here can do. - Dawn
Here's the opera guy: http://www.youtube.com/watch... - Dawn
Dawn, America's got talent doesn't limit age either - Jesse Stay
Great! I was thinking of American Idol. Never seen America's Got Talent. - Dawn
"so you think you can dance" limits at 30 years or so. Such a shame. - Kevin Fox
"So that's just one side of me!" Hahaha. So nice, she's courageous and willing, good game! So modest to have her walk away after her performance, I'm almost crying. - Zu from AOD
Wow. I usually avoid all of these types of shows. But that was very cool! - Louis Gray
As LG said, it's my first view of that. Damn talents' shows, they got me. - Zu from AOD
it's terrific.. awesome.. fantastic.. - Ozan Kilic
I loved this-she is sublime! - Susan Dennis
What a beautiful voice. Love how she proved them all wrong. - Patrick Ward
Fantastic. Thanks for the newspaper link @Sprague D, her life story is just as amazing. - Henry Burger
awesome - Shey
Wow! - Phil Maxwell
WOW! brought a few tears to my eye. - Jasmin Smith
incredi-wow. - Micah
Gosh, I think I've watched this video like 50 times already. - Nir Ben Yona
Just goes to show how synical we all are, and how fast we are to judge people. - Steve Mactaggart from twhirl
Not bad! I still prefer this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch... - That said, it was a surprisingly good performance. Not as much as Paul Potts, who was entirely horripilative and transcendent. - david beckwith
This was a surprise--and lovely, thx - susan mernit
and I love this song - Erin @queenofspain
Awesome performance. I've never seen the look of pleasant surprise on Simon's face before. You could tell that even he enjoyed it. He still needs to get a better haircut though. - Scoble, Alex Scoble
Britain may have talent, but that's more than I can say for Simon Cowell. The man is the Antichrist, as far as i'm concerned. - Iain Baker
He was a tamed little kitteh for 6 minutes during that performance though. - Scoble, Alex Scoble
Don't know enough about Cowell to make a value judgement on the man. Sometimes (and I don't know if this is the case with Cowell) the a-hole attitude is a public front. It's possibly the case with Gordon Ramsey, and it certainly is with Ann Robinson - I've been to a recording of 'The Weakest Link' at Pinewood Studios, and she switches 'bitch mode' on and off along with the cameras. - Ian May
Wow! Brings back memories when I first saw paul potts... - Jorg Jansen
Seriously? This reeks of scripted viral. The show caught (online) fire in '07 with the Paul Potts audition...arguably the hottest shared video of the year. When the show returned last year, there wasn't an act even minutely close to the WOM impact Potts had generated the privious year. Clearly the BGT online buzz strategy for '09... Potts 2.0. #fail - Zach Lytwyn
I cried... - mjc
I was completely amazed... - Anthony K. Valley ©
Watching Simon's eyes go wide was soooooo worth it. - Great Scott!
ahh, the power of the edit. great job of making her look like a 'cat lady' for the first several minutes. all the more powerful when we find out she's not totally daft. - MikeAmundsen
That is one courageuos woman with an amazing voice. Goosebumps all over. - Jochen Lillich
Don't judge a book by its cover! - TheHenry
That's absolutely awesome - C.K. Johnson
'Embedding disabled by request'! :-( - Kol Tregaskes
Nicholas, yeah I did just wondering why it didn't work embedded. :-) - Kol Tregaskes
Michael Nielsen
"Amazon Elastic MapReduce is a web service that enables businesses, researchers, data analysts, and developers to easily and cost-effectively process vast amounts of data. It utilizes a hosted Hadoop framework running on the web-scale infrastructure of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) and Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)." - Michael Nielsen
emon hassan
Checking out @nytimes multimedia slideshow. Very nice! - http://nytimes.com/package...
Brillaint. Thx @emonome 4 sharin - Aloch Rye
emon hassan
Porn Moguls Asking Congress For $5bn bailout. - http://www.imdb.com/news...
Porn Moguls Asking Congress For $5bn bailout.
*LMFBO* I support ths bailout. Ppl do need smethn 2 boost their saggin "spirits" in thse depressin times. SAVE PORN SCREW THE OTHERS - Aloch Rye
Larry Flynt -""With all this economic misery and people losing all that money, sex is the farthest thing from their mind. It's time for Congress to rejuvenate the sexual appetite of America." LOL...very true - Aloch Rye
haha, Flynt will do anything for publicity. - Thomas Hawk
Beyond funny!!! - Jeff P. Henderson
Erik Duval
Bloomsbury Academic Launches Creative Commons Only Publishing Imprint - Creative Commons - http://creativecommons.org/weblog...
Might be a good venue for The Book? - Erik Duval
emon hassan
How To Lose Your Cuil 20 Seconds After Launch - http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r...
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