dbau

Re:A Letter from Tim Cook on Maps on Friday September 28, 2012 @10:29AM (#4585669)

The reports I've read indicate that Google are still working on their iOS Maps App so I don't believe there is anything for Apple to simply approve right now.

Mixpanel API Downtime Post-mortem

Posted by dbau on Tuesday August 07, 2012 @10:47PM
from the blog.mixpanel.com dept.

http://blog.mixpanel.com/2012/07/31/post-mortem-api-downtime-on-july-31st-2012/

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Re:Using Node.js and JQuery to Crawl Public Tweets on Sunday August 05, 2012 @09:17PM (#4343303)

So does this it seems: Be mindful when running it, as Twitter limits the number of requests that a single client can make per hour.

Re:Node.js v0.8.0 [stable] is out on Monday June 25, 2012 @10:59PM (#4160012)

Yay! This looks great. I'm particularly excited about v0.9x as the current SSL performance is still a massive issue when it comes to actually running apps in production (it's SUPER SLOW). It seems that optimising this will be a core focus moving forward:

SSL performance leaves much to be desired at the moment. Node's interface with OpenSSL is somewhat naive and leaves a lot of potential optimization on the table.