Twitter engineer Alex Payne is, needless to say, not impressed with Google's new "Chrome" operating system.

Financial writer Heidi Moore is, needless to say, as unimpressed with Best Buy as Alex Payne.

CNET's Rafe Needleman is, needless to say, as unimpressed with sleazy sales tactics as Hedi Moore, as unimpressed with Google Chrome as Alex Payne and, for all his angst, unable to even ask for a refund.

The Onion's Joe Randazzo wants you doing blow by the time he returns to this bathroom an hour from now, or there's going to be hell to pay.

The Huffington Post's Jason Links accused Mediaite of having ZERO Tumblarity. Or maybe negative Tumblarity. Ya, that bad.

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Berkeley writer Ayelet Waldman is now microblogging her insatiable lust for husband Michael Chabon, and feels appropriately conflicted about it.

Twitter's Alex Payne spent some time in the office with fellow software engineer Harper Reed, and it was "sexy." How could it not be?

Talking Points Memo's Matt Cooper is still terrible at naming his sources.

Air America's Ana Marie Cox graduated during a recession.

Australian journalist Harley Dennett is getting to know our nation's capital better than most actual Americans — and better than most actual DC residents.

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It's not unreasonable to expect that Newsom, a candidate for California governor, might have seen the essay from Twitter API lead Alex Payne (pictured); it's attracted plenty of notice among bloggers on both coasts. The blog post, titled "So You're Moving to San Francisco," carries extra punch for two reasons: Its tone is more dispassionate than ranty, acknowledging the city's upside along with its flaws; and it comes from a man whose job involves interfacing with the growing ecosystem of Twitter-centric startups, many of which are based in and around San Francisco.

After giving the city credit for its weather, food, cocktails, coffee and tech scene, Payne moves on to the reasons he desperately wants to ditch San Francisco for the uber-trendy hipster haven of Portland, Oregon "once I'm able to work remotely with confidence:"

• an annoying surplus of superifical and narcissistic well-to-do white nerds;
  
• crime;
  
• human waste and other filth in the streets;
  
• streets choked with homeless people;
• terrible mass transit;
  
• "mediocre" cultural offerings;
  
• hollowed out neighborhoods with weak architecture.

And then there are the ones that hit Newsom where it hurts. Though the mayor was first elected in 2003 on a promise to improve the homeless situation, Payne complains that

• "the city government seem[s] to accept these circumstances..."
• and about "Generally poor urban/civic planning"

An excerpt:

For a first world city, San Francisco is dirty. No, filthy. No, disgusting. Whenever I travel outside of San Francisco, I'm amazed at what a disastrous anomaly it is. Sidewalks are routinely covered in broken glass, trash, old food, and human excrement...



.... Aging hippies in the Haight argue about marijuana legalization and anti-war referendums when men and women are dying – visibly dying – on the streets of the Tenderloin. It's as if all parties don't occupy the same city...

Payne isn't the first to make these observations about San Francisco, and he won't be the last. But he's a key staffer at a company Newsom holds up as a pinnacle of local entrepreneurial achievement, and his scathing evaluation comes fully six years after Newsom was elected to office on a promise to clean up many of these exact problems. Oh, and then there's this: Payne is largely correct.

Twitter Inc. probably isn't leaving San Francisco anytime soon; co-founder and SF resident Evan Williams is building a new house, Silicon Valley is too dreadfully dull for Twitter's hipster executives and Portland lacks the depth of tech talent needed to source top flight engineers. But the high-profile startup need not abandon its hometime to damage San Francisco's reputation. It just needs to complain this loudly.

(Pic by Lou Springer)

Earlier this week, co-founder Evan Williams and his wife live-tweeted a labor, as well as the first moments of their baby son's life. Plus his naming. It was all very sweet.

Now Alex Payne, who heads up Twitter's API team, has announced the news of his engagement, and posted a picture of the ring. So did his fiancée, with the caption, "LOOK WHO'S ENGAGED, BITCHES!!"

It's all very w00t worthy, but what's with the wave of private moments from Twitter staff? When the third one hits, we're just going to come out and ask whether there's some kind of internal bonus program or something. In the meantime, we'll just congratulate them, both on their moments and their candor.

Well, to be honest, I suppose we should have picked either variable length IP addresses or 128 bit but we didn’t. And we bound the TCP/UDP endpoint identifiers very strongly to the IP address which resulted in less flexibility for multi-homing and mobility. Nor did we make better (generalized) use of broadcast media with protocols that take advantage of such media to deliver the same transmission to multiple recipients (multicast is a weaker, less efficient alternative).

On the other hand, the system has scaled by about 6 orders of magnitude over the last 25 years and I think that’s not a bad record.

What we've actually learned from this: Google keeps Vint Cerf so underemployed as chief guy-who-invented-the-Internet officer that he has time to respond to Twitter engineers.

Payne and company fixed the problem, the developer wrote, by increased the API rate limit and disallowing unauthenticated requests to the API. Which means they widened the door into Twitter's database, but installed a more careful bouncer to review who wanted in. Eventually, Twitter got a bit faster. Perhaps it's a good thing Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey never made it into this year's keynote. He might have gotten booed off the stage.