Evan Prodromou on identi.ca

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1. Evan Prodromou (evan)'s status on Monday, 28-Jan-2013 21:27:14 EST Evan Prodromou

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   Fortunately, Web servers do that a lot (get stuff from client, stuff into database, send back some other stuff).
2. Evan Prodromou (evan)'s status on Monday, 28-Jan-2013 21:26:51 EST Evan Prodromou

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   The trick is to do these things off-line, in a separate process, and only have your Web server do I/O-bound things.
3. Evan Prodromou (evan)'s status on Monday, 28-Jan-2013 21:25:50 EST Evan Prodromou

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   • reality
   ...gzip a file or encrypt an outgoing email.
4. Evan Prodromou (evan)'s status on Monday, 28-Jan-2013 21:25:29 EST Evan Prodromou

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   Not because it's not quick at doing it, but because the event-driven model means that everything else waits for the 400ms it takes to...
5. Evan Prodromou (evan)'s status on Monday, 28-Jan-2013 21:24:50 EST Evan Prodromou

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   So, there are some things node.js is not so good for. Anything that's CPU-bound, like compression or encryption, for example.
6. Evan Prodromou (evan)'s status on Monday, 28-Jan-2013 21:15:33 EST Evan Prodromou

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   • fontana
   @fontana that makes you a likely target.
7. siebrand (siebrand)'s status on Monday, 28-Jan-2013 14:05:02 EST siebrand

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   Help us test and investigate VisualEditor http://is.gd/8rY4Fy !MediaWiki !Wikipedia !Wikimedia !i18n #testing
8. Evan Prodromou (evan)'s status on Monday, 28-Jan-2013 19:44:51 EST Evan Prodromou

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   • gabrielsaldana
   It sounds insane.
9. Evan Prodromou (evan)'s status on Monday, 28-Jan-2013 19:43:52 EST Evan Prodromou

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   • gabrielsaldana
   What was the reason?
10. snapl (snapl)'s status on Monday, 28-Jan-2013 19:03:03 EST snapl

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    Want to reform health care? Have one bill when you leave the hospital, itemized, with all doctors reporting. Individual Billing is a joke.
11. Evan Prodromou (evan)'s status on Monday, 28-Jan-2013 08:55:21 EST Evan Prodromou

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    How do we know that? The secret courts might be incredibly awesome.
12. Evan Prodromou (evan)'s status on Monday, 28-Jan-2013 08:54:53 EST Evan Prodromou

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    Gnolls!
13. Evan Prodromou (evan)'s status on Saturday, 26-Jan-2013 21:55:33 EST Evan Prodromou

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    • reality
    foo-wooo-wooo-wooo-woool's gowold!
14. Evan Prodromou (evan)'s status on Saturday, 26-Jan-2013 21:50:33 EST Evan Prodromou

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    That's totally crazy. A proprietary-relicensing poison pill!
15. Evan Prodromou (evan)'s status on Saturday, 26-Jan-2013 21:48:27 EST Evan Prodromou

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    • copyleftnext
    Hooray!
16. Evan Prodromou (evan)'s status on Friday, 25-Jan-2013 22:18:04 EST Evan Prodromou

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    @csolisr I tried to grab as many of the things you were missing as I could and stick them into http://identi.ca/url/74838678
17. Evan Prodromou (evan)'s status on Friday, 25-Jan-2013 21:36:27 EST Evan Prodromou

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    I don't actually have a home server; my old Slug is unplugged.
18. Evan Prodromou (evan)'s status on Friday, 25-Jan-2013 21:36:03 EST Evan Prodromou

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    Wow. I'm seeing a whole new side to you people.
19. Evan Prodromou (evan)'s status on Friday, 25-Jan-2013 21:28:32 EST Evan Prodromou

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    I'm a wee bit worried about the in-memory database. But it seems to be working OK.
20. bkuhn (bkuhn)'s status on Friday, 25-Jan-2013 21:23:00 EST bkuhn

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    • rms
    • cwebber
    @cwebber, I got sign-off from @rms to begin work on so-called "Lesser !AGPL" which !FSF is prepared to do It's purely tuit problem now.

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