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Re: World of Warcraft comes alive (Why you should pay attention to MMORPGs)

kellan — Wed, 28 Sep 2005 17:57:13 -0000

So the real question is, do you play?

Re: Come Work at Jelly

kellan — Sun, 30 Apr 2006 16:09:06 -0000

Love the graphic. So when are the Jelly alum shirts getting printed up? :)

Re: Thoughts On Scalable XMPP Bots

kellan — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 10:16:00 -0000

Just to third, confirmed ejabberd round robin load balancing components. But it *seems* like you could re-use the your presumably more sophisticated (and possibly implemented in hard ware) load balancing infrastructures if you move to s2s.

Of course, sophistication is just another word for more ways to break down :)

Re: Everything Buckets

kellan — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 10:55:24 -0000

Orthogonally, your aside on Engelbart reminded me of time spent at Palm where the ability of people to learn was always the central design philosophy --people's ability to learn the graffiti notation system over the unsolved at the time (and still largely unsolved) handwriting recognition.

I'd posit that NLS merely had too steep a learning curve -- people still spend 6 months learning to use your product as long as there are useful milestones where you get value all along that curve. (and as long as a competitor can't provide 80% of the value, with a shallower learning curve, as most users will only ever use a fraction of the power of your product)

Re: Laszlo’s Boston Office

kellan — Sat, 19 Mar 2005 02:14:22 -0000

which ERC is that? I'm currently do a couple of days a week at either the Gainsborough ERC, or the Newbury ERC

Re: Getting My Neoclassical Card Stamped

kellan — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 01:37:59 -0000

But um, what if the quiz gets some of the questions wrong? :)

Re: Having seen The Golden Compass

kellan — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 12:08:38 -0000

Saw it last night :-/

Re: squid on the mantlepiece.

And undermine the otherwise loud clanging signaling that this was the first installment in a movie dynasty?

Re: Social Networks Assume A Great Deal

kellan — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 21:50:57 -0000

I get ads for startups, Jasmine get bridal ads, though we're both listed as engaged :-/

Re: Lois Bujold Reads from New Miles Book

kellan — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 07:30:41 -0000

I *want* to believe, but Diplomatic Immunity sucked.

I think that well might be tapped. (though there are *lots* of stories to tell in the Vorkosigan Universe, its just Miles has reached his natural conclusion)

Re: Friends in Need

kellan — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 10:52:26 -0000

Not to be difficult, but isn't that Lilo and Stitch?

Re: Tagging cache keys for O(1) batch invalidation

kellan — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 11:58:00 -0000

I realize this comment thread has already gone to hell and spam.

But assuming anyone is still reading, you might want to consider a technique by which you invalidate and re-build out of band or you're subject to a thundering herd problem.