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I am 12 and what is this
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Blërg is a miniblogging platform. It's less limited than
- microblogging platforms like Twitter, but much simpler than
- full-blown blogging platforms like Wordpress or Livejournal. Blërg is also an open
- source tagged text database engine written in C that does the back-end
- work.
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Blërg is a microblogging platform. Or maybe a miniblogging
+ platform. Blërg is not sure. Blërg is a lot like Twitter, but aims to fix some of its
+ idiosyncracies. Blërg does not want to be a full blogging platform
+ like Wordpress or Livejournal. Blërg is also an open source tagged text database engine written in C
+ that does the back-end work. Blërg's author finds it entertaining to
+ anthropomorphize Blërg in the third person.
But what's wrong with Twitter?
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I'M GLAD YOU ASKED. While I don't believe the basic social premise
- of Twitter is broken, there are two facets of it that are IMNSHO just
- wrong:
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I'M GLAD YOU ASKED. There are two aspects of Twitter that just bug
+ me as an engineer:
- Ruby on Rails - Using rails to prototype a system is
- fine — scaling up to a million hits a day with it is just poor
- engineering. As the service grew, I'm sure it cost them a lot more
- time than it saved.
+ fine — scaling up to a million hits a day with it is just a bad
+ idea. As the service grew, I'm sure it cost them a lot more time than
+ it saved.
- 140 characters is not enough - I routinely write
- sentences longer than 140 characters, so I can't imagine even beginning to
- make a point in such a small space. This textual confinement has led to the
- rise of URL shorteners, which are breaking the internet.
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fully functional service created in a fit of hubris to poke fun at Twitter's
engineering. It's just for fun, but no one is going to keep you from using
it seriously. :]
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Tell me more about this database engine.
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Here, take a look at the design docs.
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I'm a social media whore and I want to share links!
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I've created a bookmarklet just for you: Blërg it!
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