Joe Petviashvili

“Amazon is turning its personalization engine towards webpages.”

Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart. Or Pain In The Ass.

“it's time to dig deep and unearth the shortcuts, tweaks, and even Easter eggs that Mozilla marketing doesn't mention.”

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The more wallpapers you rate, the more intelligently Socwall can recommend other wallpapers to you.

have big, gorgeous and good quality images by default

Wait... First you wanted to clone Digg... Then you wanted to "add the social aspects of Facebook to it," and NOW you want it to be Wikipedia?

“Google Doctype is an open encyclopedia and reference library. Written by web developers, for web developers. It includes articles on web security, JavaScript DOM manipulation, CSS tips and tricks, and more.”

Developers working on Web Software supporting multiple users or profiles can use CookiePie to simultaneously test their software with each user without needing to open a different browser.

However, what if we took Mongrel out of the equation? Nginx, by default, comes prepackaged with the Memcached module, which allows us to bypass the Mongrel servers and talk to Memcached directly. Same hardware, and a quick test later: ~3,550 more...

“the belief that an endless influx of newbies since that date has continuously degraded standards of discourse and behavior on Usenet”

Reliability at massive scale is one of the biggest challenges we face at Amazon.com, one of the largest e-commerce operations in the world; even the slightest outage has significant financial consequences and impacts customer trust. The Amazon.com platform, which provides more...

logged into a brand new web service today and this was my default profile picture.

Amazon's recommendation system. "The first version of similarities was quite popular. But it had a problem, the Harry Potter problem. Oh, yes, Harry Potter. Harry Potter is a runaway bestseller. Kids buy it. Adults buy it. Everyone buys it. So, more...