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Varnish is heavily threaded. It maintains queues where connections are put and worker threads pull them out. It is expected that a single connection gets a dedicated thread.

When a page is requested, some of the links (fnid=X) map to functions on the server that are held in memory. The id (X) is a key that is associated with a continuation for a specific "session".

It's not a bug, but a feature of Arc and other continuation servers. If continuations aren't reclaimed by the server (and those links invalidated), the server runs out of RAM.

Expired links are the result of Arc's web server reclaiming stale continuations. It's a side effect of creating a web application using a continuation-based server.

I don't spend my vacations working for other people. You also can't expect a contractor to be passionate about your company when they have no vested interest in its success.

Fair enough.

I personally feel that Dropbox removing files from someone's account is completely wrong, regardless of your ToS. Your service is there to backup files. When you delete references to files from someone else's accounts, you're violating the trust that people put in your service.

I finally jumped into ios development. Not really on the side since it's been my main focus lately. I went from not knowing any ios stuff to launching my first app in a week. I'm about to put my third app on the app store. I'm not making much money but there's a ton of potential.

It was just bad wording on my part. What I tried to say was that there's a difference between giving $150k to a charity outright and donating money on behalf of the users who refer more users.

You're right. After jumping the gun I realized they're not "giving it to charity", but rather using it to acquire users.

It looks like $10/referral up to 100 referrals. If they make $20/user/mo this is a no brainer.

That makes sense. At least you guys are using it to get user referrals rather than throwing it in a wheel barrow and burning it :)

This seems like a slap in the face of the investors. Giving a chunk of your startup capital to a charity is basically throwing it away. Good for the charity but this startup seems too early stage to be giving that kind of cash away. I hope it pays off for them.

Felix is still working on Chicken. He's also active on the mailing list. There are a number of people actively working on it as well.