dwineman | 13 years ago | on: Is a federated Twitter even possible?
Huh? When Twitter's down, no one can post, so immediacy is meaningless. This is like saying "my car's faster than yours after yours hits a tree."
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dwineman | 13 years ago | on: Is a federated Twitter even possible?
Author here: a few people have raised this point. Perhaps I should have made a distinction between "federated within the same data center" and "federated across the internet." They are two entirely different problems.
dwineman | 13 years ago | on: Is a federated Twitter even possible?
Right, but since Twitter manages all of Twitter's servers (and the dedicated low-latency network via which they're presumably all connected) they can satisfy both of these constraints without sacrificing the third (immediacy). I'm speculating here, but I think that's why it takes a few seconds to post a tweet: it's propagating across the internal federation so that all the nodes have it before it "goes live."
dwineman | 15 years ago | on: Apple Patent Application Uses 3rd Party App Screen as Example
I'm the guy whose blog is linked here. I've posted a followup: http://venomousporridge.com/post/909651311/whereto-patent-fo...
dwineman | 15 years ago | on: Apple Patent Application Uses 3rd Party App Screen as Example
Note that the patent doesn't necessarily cover the functions of the 3rd-party app. It's only the diagram that I'm sure is a copy.
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