(Bouncing back to the list) On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 10:32 PM, Vinicius <m...@vmesel.com> wrote: > Sorry for my bad English guys.
Your English is fine. Don't stress about it. :) >> Em 15 de mar de 2016, às 9:34 PM, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> escreveu: >> >>> On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 11:31 AM, Erik <pyt...@lucidity.plus.com> wrote: >>> >>>> I often like to make a small >>>> change when I reimplement, though - something that I thought was >>>> ill-designed in the original, >>> >>> >>> OK, so maybe the idea for Vinicius (if he's still reading) to pursue is that >>> it should be something that can be used as the basis for a URL shortening >>> "service" that is distributed and can NOT go away (think DNS). That is what >>> some people don't like about the URL shorteners, so maybe that's an itch >>> that he might want to scratch. > > So I really don't see what you were trying to say with this paragraph, the > part of "that is distributed and can NOT go away". You think that the project > could be distributed with a range of people and get them all syncronized? > The problems with URL shorteners are: 1) They are centralized, and thus vulnerable to outages 2) They might be taken down completely, particularly if they're losing money for someone So you would need to come up with a system that's distributed (such that one computer's inaccessibility doesn't bring everything down) and permanent (keep on circulating that information!). It could be a rather fun problem to tackle. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
