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Why HN was slow and how Rtm fixed it

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257 points pg | 1 comments | 19 Jan 11 18:41 UTC | HN request time: 0.217s | source
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gms ◴[19 Jan 11 18:54 UTC] No.2120793[source]▶
Who's Filo? David Filo?
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1. sh1mmer ◴[19 Jan 11 21:16 UTC] No.2121300[source]▶
Yahoo's entire BSD kernel team report to filo still.

Last time I had lunch with him we talked about the minutia of DNS server implementations because I was working on some optimization tricks and he was really interested in seeing them get implemented.

filo is a really amazing guy. He's the most down to earth billionaire I know. He talks way more about his family and hacking more than 'stuff'. If he isn't hacking on code as much as he used to it's because he cares about his company and is doing an important job looking after technical stuff that needs doing, even if it isn't interesting.