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Facebook 'EOF' Error

So I went to facebook 5 minutes ago, and was presented with this error:>Got EOF while waiting for outstanding responsesWhat do you make of it?

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Re:100% Uptime for Web Applications on Wednesday May 09, 2012 @11:43PM (#3951759)
It says in the article that "In 2007, only 3 of the top 20 websites were able to achieve 5 nines or 99.999% uptime." Among the top 3 was Myspace. Which is funny because you need traffic to worry about Uptimes...
Re:Perspective: All of Earth's Water in a Single Sphere on Saturday May 05, 2012 @04:45PM (#3933231)
How likely is it that this sphere of water actually collided with our Earth billions of years ago? What is the possibility of even more such "water meteoroids" flying around nearby galaxies?

Request HN: Can we please start using tl;dr?

tl;dr: To summarize your wonderful thoughts, can you please use tl;dr?I don't know about most of you, but I can't get through ALL the comments from ALL the submissions on the front page of HN in a day. Believe me when I say that if I could, I would love to read every single one of them.. every day!But can we please start using tl;dr for some of our slow readers (or the ones with very busy...

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Re:Scaling GitHub on Thursday January 26, 2012 @04:58PM (#3516179)
Can someone explain what exactly he meant by "throttling the google bot"?
Re:Show HN: My Zappos/Twilio hackathon entry on Sunday December 18, 2011 @12:33AM (#3366029)
Apart from the comments seen here, just a small bit of advice from me: Fix the color of your ordered list. I noticed that it's gray for "li" in general, and white for "#splash ol li", but its still gray in Chrome for Ubuntu.
Re:Startup Ideas We'd Be Willing To Pay For on Wednesday October 19, 2011 @08:41PM (#3132832)
Strange how nobody here has mentioned http://clixpy.com

Although it's more strange that the site's down atm.

Re:Personality in Design on Tuesday October 18, 2011 @01:38PM (#3126148)
Strangely, I can never read the articles on alistapart. I find them to have a very 'boring' personality.
Re:Show HN: My new project - Making Ads Fun on Thursday September 01, 2011 @12:35PM (#2950681)
I actually see them being quite successful tbh. At least for a while until everyone gets used to them and starts ignoring them like it always happens.
Re:How I name my apps on Thursday September 01, 2011 @12:33PM (#2950670)
And if you really get stuck, try removing vowels and repeating some letters
Re:How many .com domains are available? on Monday June 27, 2011 @09:19AM (#2701183)
And out of those, how many are parked?
Re:Google Search By Image on Tuesday June 14, 2011 @02:09PM (#2654036)
It actually should. Probably put FBI out of business too.
Re:Google humans.txt on Friday May 06, 2011 @08:27PM (#2522943)
Apparently, Facebook does not have any humans.
Re:Blackberry App for Hacker News on Monday May 02, 2011 @01:57PM (#2507177)
Can't believe there isn't one for BB already. Good Job!
Great idea! But I think you meant hot "off" the press.
Re:Create pretty qr codes on Sunday April 24, 2011 @07:12PM (#2479859)
I always wondered how these were created...
Re:Why startups in India find it hard to hire devs on Sunday April 24, 2011 @02:29PM (#2479343)
#3 is actually the main issue, in my opinion.