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• Clear Up the "Cloud" Confusion

  tldr (slashdot.org)
  contributed by sillygwailo · read 87 times
  

  Clear Up the "Cloud" Confusion

  tl;dr by sillygwailo

  • We should talk about a service performed, not a service delivered.
  • It is inherent in the notion of a service that you can see and try what the vendor invites you to buy.
  • A cloud should enable both dramatic acceleration and radical risk reduction for developing and deploying new applications.
• Facebook’s plan to find its next billion users: convince them the internet and Facebook are the same

  tldr (qz.com)
  contributed by sillygwailo · read 260 times
  

  Facebook’s plan to find its next billion users: convince them the internet and Facebook are the same

  tl;dr by sillygwailo

  • Facebook Zero, launched in 2010, is a free-over-WAP version of Facebook for certain mobile carriers and only in certain countries.
  • Loading text is free, but the mobile carriers will charge for photos, explaining how Facebook got them to sign on.
  • In developing countries, Facebook is effectively the Internet for most people.
  • Facebook has made itself usable for any type of phone.
  • Facebook SIM works through text messages with a customized SIM card in Argentina. Facebook is going towards Android, total integration, and commerce
• API Design is UI for Developers

  tldr (shkspr.mobi)
  contributed by sillygwailo · read 243 times
  

  API Design is UI for Developers

  tl;dr by sillygwailo

  • Design your API for other developers, not just you. Make it easy to access, with a console, with no absurd API key signing requirement.
  • Provide commented example code in a variety of languages, examples of code that won't work (and why).
  • Document what I can do, how I can do it, why I should do it a certain way, and what response to expect.
  • Enable a variety of response languages, including a human readable response
  • Keep the API as unchanging as possible, as simple as possible, provide libraries, make sure errors are detailed, and open channels for feedback (and act on it).
• Overlooked Books of 2012: The Fault in Our Stars, People Who Eat Darkness, and More

  tldr (grantland.com)
  contributed by sillygwailo · read 222 times
  

  Overlooked Books of 2012: The Fault in Our Stars, People Who Eat Darkness, and More

  tl;dr by sillygwailo

  • Threats by Amelia Gray: Gone Girl, but way more fucked up.
  • The Fault in Our Stars by John Green: The most uplifting cancer story since Lance Armstr— never mind.
  • People Who Eat Darkness by Richard Lloyd Parry: The perfect gift for that obnoxious friend who won’t stop boasting about his/her upcoming trip to Japan.
  • A Hologram for the King by Dave Eggers: A Kafkaesque elegy to pre-recession America.
  • How Should a Person Be?, Sheila Heti; Birds of a Lesser Paradise, Megan Mayhew Bergman; The Obamas, Jodi Kantor; Behind the Beautiful Forevers, Katherine Boo.