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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:

  1. 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.
  2. + 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.
  3. 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.
@@ -100,6 +100,11 @@ 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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