Author: Ryan Neudorf
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200 Days Without TV
Disclaimer: The following post is fictional. It does not represent an admission to any illegal activity or wrongdoing. About 6 months ago my wife and I decided to cancel our cable and tivo subscriptions in an attempt to save some money. We weren’t quite sure how painful it would be to go without. At the…
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Facebook Does It Again
I feel compelled to comment on the new Facebook layout. Based on status updates, I was one of the last people on my friends list to receive the new layout. Every single one of their status updates were negative, all of my Facebook friends universally hated the new layout. It seems like that last redesign…
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Even Google Makes Mistakes
This is an expert from a Gmail Blog Post re: the recent gmail outage: Unexpected side effects of some new code that tries to keep data geographically close to its owner caused another data center in Europe to become overloaded, and that caused cascading problems from one data center to another. It took us about…