jrydberg

I would argue that computer scientists (academia) is the biggest offenders when it comes to writing "non-clean" code. They normally don't have any incentive to create reusable and maintainable code.

You might be right. I'm betting on the fact that if you compose your system of small decoupled components you can change your mind at a later time. Lets see what happens :)

Usling the monkey, have you found that some design patterns are better than others? For example, queues vs RPC?

yes, it was.

Always good with some discussion.

Why didn't they just use Zookeeper?

is it just me that thinks dialog boxes sucks?

i don't want to get interrupted in my flow.

design so that you don't need something to pop up in the users face.

I wonder what will happen to Microsoft Smooth Streaming if this happens.