keysersosa

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by keysersosa 10y ago
Though I'm happy we got top billing in the headline, Reddit wasn't actually impacted directly (though of course many of the sites we linked to were).
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by keysersosa 10y ago
At the time, in late 2005, we were writing in (I believe) python 2.3 and had rolled our own web framework because it was otherwise normal behavior to hook straight into wscgi. "wild west" might have been a bit of an exaggeration,
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by keysersosa 11y ago
Confirmed, but the time dependent model didn't ask for long. I seem to recall switching to the current model (with slightly different constants) during the switch to python in late '05. That said, one of the early "mistakes&
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by keysersosa 12y ago
I too remember it being pretty harrowing at the time (if only because it felt like we were alienating [har] such a large chunk of our community), but in fairness it happened barely 6 months in. It all happened in a couple of weeks of quick
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by keysersosa 12y ago
Point! I think I found it http://www.redditblog.com/2007/08/its-slow-its-unstable-its-... Also just as anemic as the last one. Oh well.
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by keysersosa 12y ago
We switched to python about 4 months into the startup and a full year before getting acquired.
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by keysersosa 12y ago
Yeah I think that post dates from a time where you still heard people refer to them as "weblogs". Edit: Found it. It was the 14th post on our blog a time, but definitely light on the implementation details. http://www
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by keysersosa 12y ago
Yup that was the case. Though, I believe it was also a long weekend -- I think it might have been Veteran's day because I remember putting the finishing touches on it around Thanksgiving.
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by keysersosa 12y ago
At the time it was "TBNL" ( http://weitz.de/tbnl/ ), which I believe has indeed evolved into Hunchentoot.
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by keysersosa 12y ago
Yeah it should be noted that all of the referenced decisions we made around web frameworks in this thread predate django's 1.0 release. I think I was comparing pylons to django 0.96 iirc, and in 2005 when aaron wrote web.py, I don&#x2
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by keysersosa 12y ago
A lot of the decisions made in designing web.py were also carried over to tornado's web framework (which not coincidentally is also a web.py). At the time (and I have to admit my memory is a little foggy as it was 7 years ago), I belie
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by keysersosa 12y ago
At the time that we switched to pylons and decided to punt django, flask didn't exist. I believe it was some time on '07 or '08. I'd check, but I also think it predates our switching to git from subversion... Personall
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by keysersosa 14y ago
ketralnis will likely remember this better, but by my recollection we switched to cassandra after we hit the limit of what we could do with memcachedb: http://blog.reddit.com/2010/01/why-did-we-take-reddit-down-f... We were already using
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by keysersosa 15y ago
Fortunately he didn't ask where I spend my time in Chrome.
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by keysersosa 16y ago
Thanks for linking those. I would have posted here as well, but I didn't want to break any shameless self promotion etiquette rules, and honestly I feel like I've hit my quota for that for one day. :)
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by keysersosa 16y ago
So here's the back story: we're working on migrating the reddit blog off of blogger and have a test environment set up that we were playing around with. We have a semi-private IRC channel that your coworker, as a close friend of the reddit
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by keysersosa 16y ago
> Conde Nast were chumps when they allowed Chris Anderson, high on his own supply, convince them to buy Reddit for its supposed "Long Tail News" value. That's not how it happened. > Now they're chumps for not putting a grown up in c
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by keysersosa 16y ago
Well I guess that's also one way to free up budget. I'll let raldi know his days are numbered.
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by keysersosa 16y ago
Thanks. We really hope this will help us more than hurt us in the end. Part of the problem with releasing something like reddit as open source is that it isn't designed around installation. For the most part, the pieces have been built in
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by keysersosa 16y ago
The choice to use VMWare was nothing personal to VirtualBox; we just happen to already be running VMWare on our dev boxes. (I'm actually downloading VirtualBox now to see if cross-compatibility is possible.)