Daily dose of aero <3

If you are playng q3 then why use major on level 5? :O

cause using major 100 is not what i want from life

You could use another bot aswell. =)

I quit facebook.

sgood

Never been there, I'm feeling lucky.

why, i'm about to join. help!

Well open an account, it's useful. Just try not to use it.

I've left my account open, I've abandoned it, but I don't plan to ever use it again, aside from maybe replying to any messages people send me.

All the times in the day that you just check it, starts to add up, and I think it takes up too much time.

"I've left my account open, I've abandoned it, but I don't plan to ever use it again, aside from maybe replying to any messages people send me."

rofl

yup. nailed it. :D

everyone's using facebook ... it's not possible without ...
but damn can't be possible this crap site is worth 65 million,
I mean you could easily code that site in a month ...
even more lol is that I read once that google clashed with facebook for the students of stanford, etc., damn if I had a degree from stanford, I'd have better things to do than php-scripting for a crapsite.
Tbh. I think there should be something different than facebook ...
like DNS for internetdomains, something for a social network, uris contain ... independent from a contentprovider ... just like someone has a website-domain, someone has a profile-url ... it should be a public institution maintaining this ... but of course since there is money in it, and us is more or less ruling the internet, this won't happen anytime soon, and more and more people will logon to some crappy facebook site or some social network from google (google's overslept the social network trend, now it will be very hard for them, because their name is not anymore positive like in times of gmail, find it so funny that everyone's in my class has a gmail account, as if gmail is any different from other e-mail providers, it was just this stupid "google is cool" vibe ... good this time is over now)

...

Most of the difficulty in facebook comes from writing applications for their target scale. It's insane. They've done a lot of work and contributed a lot of code to the community (Cassandra, memcached, etc) that make it possible for a lot of today's sites to even function.

And lol @ preferring something regulated rather than letting private industry take care of it.

"for a lot of sites even to function"

dude ... esreality (xsreality) is more than 3 years older than facebook

no prob that someone gets money for a good product,
but facebook ... really a site like this can be programmed in 1 month by an experienced web developer ... of course it got now extended with some algorithms for advertisement search and facebook applications ... but the advertisement and apps are only interesting to 5-10 % of the userbase ... the rest just uses functions I could prog in 1 month ... sorry, can't accept its worth is around 65000 million ...

well shit, you should've progammed it then

its market worth is not proportional to the amount of work put in

it was not even the first network, there were already other networks like this ... it's not like they were really creative or pioneers ...

yeah, you're right many things are just marketing/exclusivety ...
especially if the products of the competitors are more or less all of the same quality ...

it's shit, we all know it

even that posterboy said he did most of it in a week or weekend or whatever

thing is, most things are like that.. oversized sunglasses.. high heels.. jeans.. religion.. list goes on. get used to it :c

http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=409881258919

"A few of the big numbers we deal with:
* 500 million active users
* 100 billion hits per day
* 50 billion photos
* 2 trillion objects cached, with hundreds of millions of requests per second
* 130TB of logs every day"

When I said for a lot of sites today to function, I meant ones that get heavy traffic. ESR doesn't get heavy traffic.

Your standard webstack nowadays (Again .. for sites at their scale, its an entirely different game than developing code for e.g. ESR) has a distributed database and a caching layer infront of it, both of which have seen impressive developments from Facebook (And others .. e.g. livejournal for the original memcached implementation) in the past years.

Scaling out horizontally is a hard thing to do. Optimizing for the traffic that they get is also very hard. It's a lot more than throwing together a few PHP scripts.

And its not 65 million, its 65 billion :P

it's just machine power ...
I'm a distributed system guy ... wrote my bachelor thesis about SaaS for a company, but I have to admit on another aspect, but still I read also some stuff about horizontal scaling of the logic in that time ...
just buy a lot of machines, run several server instances on them, each being monitored of their usage ... use server load balancing to distribute always the requests to machines which have less usage ...
of course it's not an easy task to make all this work ... but you know I didn't hear so far of a site in the internet that failed, because it couldn't answer the requests it got ... it's difficult, and you need some specialists in distributed systems for that ... but still it's not comparable to invent some algorithm like quicksort or solve np = p ... and in the end, you just need to buy enough machine power, and everything is solved itself ...

ye facebook algorithms are super easy

there are thousands of thousands of sites like facebook ...
even sites that are better than facebook ...
but ... no userbase ...
you know facebook became not what it is today because of its algorithms ... it became big because it was exclusive to some (pseudo) elite universitys and then people wanted to be part of it ...
now everyone is there and I *have to* use it :-(

okay.

freedom is slavery

slavery is freedom

Funny how true this is.

*cough, cough* for most people

that was like a retarded re-tweet bone

And the original post was...?

like a tweet?

#tbone

@ #melted slavery is freedom ^_^

lol what the fuck

Yes, spending time on facebook means you aren't spending that time doing something else. Quick fix - don't go to facebook.

How hard is that? People who complain that facebook is a timesink are fucking retarded and probably spend that time on farmville or making witty comments on peoples photos.