A feature that Yahoo has that I wish Google had:
July 30th, 2008
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Google sometimes I know better than you and want to see results without you thinking for me.
Categories: Google
Ruby Could Replace my Python Crawler Pretty Soon
July 28th, 2008
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One of my developers just sent me some truly incredible stats about Ruby 1.9 and its threading performance.
20 threads * 100,000 iterations
Ruby 1.9 = 1.54 s.
Ruby Enterprise = 3.01 s.
JRuby 1.1.2 = 5.82 s.
Jython 2.2.1 = 11.86 s.
Python 2.5.2 = 12.32 s.
Ruby 1.8.7 = 22.68
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I’m convinced Twitter needs a complete rewrite
July 3rd, 2008
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… from scratch. Yeah the performance is incredibly horrible and I really feel like I could take a small chunk of that $15 million and immediately make the performance rock, but I am starting to feel like the developers who built it complete cocked it all up. The damn [...] Continue Reading…
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Twitter is giving Rails a bad name
June 5th, 2008
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Uggh. Rebuild it already. Its only a few actions. It wasn’t built for this kind of app.
Python, C, Perl, whatever.
Categories: Ruby on Rails, Social Networks
Google Crawling HTML Forms IS Harmful to Your Rankings
June 3rd, 2008
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A couple of months ago Google officially announced it would be “exploring some HTML forms to try to discover new web pages”. I imagine more than a few SEO’s were baffled by this decision as was I but were probably not too concerned about the decision as Google promised [...] Continue Reading…
Categories: Google, Search Engine Optimization
