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The Internet Is 'Built Wrong'
An anonymous reader writes "API Lead at Twitter, Alex Payne, writes today that the Internet was 'built wrong,' and continues to be accepted as an inferior system, due to a software engineering philosophy called Worse Is Better. 'We now know, for example, that IPv4 won't scale to the projected size of the future Internet. We know too that near-universal deployment of technologies with inadequate security and trust models, like SMTP, can mean millions if not billions lost to electronic crime, defensive measures, and reduced productivity,' says Payne, who calls for a 'content-centric approach to networking.' Payne doesn't mention, however, that his own system, Twitter, was built wrong and is consistently down."
It's not Twitter's fault, it's the Internet's!
“Common sense is not so common.” — Voltaire
HTTP and JavaScript on TCP/IP over IPV4 is "not the best it could be"?
Wow, I'm fascinated by your ideas and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. - Winston Churchill
The only thing wrong with Twitter is that it has too many users. The way to fix it is to stop using it.
My buzzword filter prevented that term from reaching my conscious mind.
“Common sense is not so common.” — Voltaire
Your unconscious mind is a hell of a typist.
Nerd rage is the funniest rage.
This story should be tagged "failwhale."
"There are a lot of places where unholy cludges exist and are perpetuated because it's a lot easier to live with them than it is to try and change everything that depends on them."
You're telling me. I personally witnessed a critical point that 75% of all internet data passes through in an unnamed very large University that is powered by a goddamned lobster on a treadmill! If Pinchy ever gives up the ghost, we are all well and truly FCKed.
1. You don't get modded up by asking.
My entire modding strategy revolves around searching for the phrase "I know I am going to be modded xxxx for this, but.." and then meeting their expectations.
Web 1.0
NO! Dammit! I refuse to let you retroactively coin a phrase for an era in which all of the damned rabid PHP weasels had no part!
You can have your blogosphere, twitter, all those lame-ass social networking sites that do nothing for the good of mankind; but I have to draw the line when you reach into the past and blaspheme the good old days of gopher, FTP, and just reading the web page for the content and not the blinking god damned gnome game!
It was NOT web 1.0. It was an era of purity of information and good porn the likes of which will never grace your browser again!
Now, take your PHP for weasels book and get off my lawn!
There's a 68.71% chance you're right.
That really is one of the great mysteries of slashdot.
All your base are belong to Wii.