programming

Dave Winer, the inventor of RSS, wrote today about twitter’s latest API update for supporting the lists feature It turns out there’s an API call that retrieves the timeline for a list, and it works exactly like the API call that retrieves the timeline for an account. So much so that I didn’t even have to change the glue script, I pass in a different URL and it just worked > orig link

Recently I got asked, what the best way to do a join between two large lists, into another list was? I always tend to answer that question with: it depends. Just like any other algorithm, there is no silver bullet. It is a trade off between CPU and memory utilisation. Sometimes, we do have to think about these things (this is code in c++ on a device with scarce resources, to say the least).