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  1. Steam keeps spontaneously installing EVE when I boot it up. I've never had EVE on this PC. Valve is trying to kill me. about 2 hours ago via web
  2. @zarawesome well, flashdevelop isn't a flash program so that's fine, what i mean is the flash player for linux is basically dead about 2 hours ago via web in reply to zarawesome
  3. @zarawesome Does flash count as portable anymore? They've given up on mobile, linux support is dead, and mac support still sucks. about 3 hours ago via web in reply to zarawesome
  4. @seanparsons The lack of rate-limiting is also unfortunate; the visibly stale data leads to more F5 spamming which means more load... about 4 hours ago via web in reply to seanparsons
  5. @seanparsons They do have aggressive caching in place (obvious stale data being sent to end-users...) but warming seems to be their issue. about 4 hours ago via web in reply to seanparsons
  6. @seanparsons Additionally, the week of downtime has created pent-up demand (to buy/sell) so when it comes back up, it's hammered instantly. about 4 hours ago via web in reply to seanparsons
  7. @seanparsons The problem is that they built a service that relies heavily on caching but clearly have no way to warm caches or rate-limit. about 4 hours ago via web in reply to seanparsons
  8. Build auction service around people spamming F5 to snipe last-second bids and you're shocked by load issues? Maybe consider job as barista. about 4 hours ago via web
  9. People who have used memcached at scale might find prev. tweet familiar. Alas, nobody at Blizzard seems to read about web architectures... about 4 hours ago via web
  10. F. ex: commodities trading has been disabled in Diablo 3 for nearly a week now. They can't bring it back up because the load crushes it. about 4 hours ago via web
  11. The saga of the Diablo 3 Auction House could be called 'things not to do when building realtime commerce services'. Worth paying attention. about 5 hours ago via web
  12. The first thing I see on dishonored.tumblr.com is a man being stabbed over and over. I guess this is one of them vidya games. about 5 hours ago via web
  13. @HilariousCow Cue 'get a real computer', etc. Don't all modern macs have a right-mouse-button equivalent gesture? about 6 hours ago via web in reply to HilariousCow
  14. @vectorpoem the rage pro really was a terrible card. I remember transparencies didn't work in it so half life and TFC looked dumb about 18 hours ago via web in reply to vectorpoem
  15. @littlecalculist Don't forget rounded corners and box shadows 10:51 PM May 25th via web in reply to littlecalculist
  • Name Kevin Gadd
  • Location Mountain View, CA
  • Web http://luminance....
  • Bio Video games! Programming! Oh god, the spiders they're everywhe
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