Ryan Joy (atxryan)

Robert Johnson discusses Facebook’s approach to scalability issues resulting from a large growth of the user base. He talks about: why one needs to prepare for horizontal and not vertical scalability, very short release cycles which are better becaus…

atxryan: RT @fontosaurus: BP wants Twitter to shut down a fake account mocking the oil company. Twitter wants BP to shut down the oil leak that’s …

atxryan: The situation _under_ the surface of the Gulf looks bleak. Dispersants create oil/chemical/seawater emulsion. http://is.gd/crPxs

Open all the images from the series in Photoshop CS3 Extended. From the top menu, select File >Scripts > Statistics. In "Choose tacks Mode" dialogue, select "Median."

atxryan: Careful, @BaldMan. I was greeted with a $600 phone bill after returning from a trip to Vancouver. Pre-iPhone era. Turn data roaming off.

atxryan: “We don’t have any idea how to stop this” – NatGeo: Gulf Oil Leaks Could Gush for Years – http://is.gd/cq9Rh

atxryan: The Ahi tuna tartare is the best. — at Roaring Fork http://gowal.la/v/c/NMaS/tw

atxryan: Wow. Wow. Wow. RT @doogsatx: Formula 1 coming to Austin in 2012. In other news, WTF? http://bit.ly/a0J4OJ

atxryan: Watching the market open. Brutal. Dow opens down 2%. 70 stocks down for every 1 showing a gain this morning.

atxryan: My Top 3 Weekly #lastfm artists: PBS NewsHour (32), podcast@wsj.com (10) and Scientific American (5) http://bit.ly/csFnBr