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  1. showed a few friends asciiflow.com @RitualCoffee. Good for techies; pay designers to turn ASCII diagrams into graphics

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  2. asks @dland: Did you work @ Sun? Yes, parttime tech-support one quarter while in college. Worst tech corp slogan ever. in-reply-to: twitter.com/dland/status/107604872580440064

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  3. what happens on a slow network when users click an AJAX #!-link before the JS loads? nothing. slow net is like JS-off.

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  4. The network isn't the computer. The network is the slowest, most unreliable, untrusted, insecure part of the computer.

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  5. e.g. slow connections: conferences, dialup, third world, rural cell coverage, urban subways/BART, protests, disasters.

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  6. there will always be slow connections. minimize HTTP requests from pages and make your bytes count (per Amdahl's law).

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  7. #gmail UI feature request: sort smallest first. would cause quicker replying to short emails, and thus shorter emails.

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