HowardRoark
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I tried Hittail a year ago, and didn't quite work for me. I ended up writing a few scripts myself.
But I heard in Rob's latest podcast that Hittail is growing 30% per month.
"Everything stupid in life has a legal or accounting reason behind it." -Unknown
There are different levels of scaling, and for different kinds of apps, the trade offs that you can make are different.
Unless you are making a really huge leap, most of the time it will be a gradual process. So unless you are talking Google or Twitter Scale in a matter of months, it may not be as bad as it sounds.
Monitor, optimize your current configurations, cache, load balance, cluster, use messaging, use existing industry knowledge on distributed systems, read academic papers and innovate...
For advanced distributed systems, checkout Prof. Indranil Gupta's lectures amont many others:
http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/class/fa10/cs425/lectures.html
I have been brainstorming something similar for a different country and vertical, and I am seeking for some ideas. Do do have an email?
May I ask what you are using for the site?
I wonder what they use on the backend to power this. Anyone knows?
Groovy doesn't get enough press in HN but I would think Groovy is practically the most widely used of them all just because of Grails.
I prefer Scala when I am doing backend stuffs but use Groovy/Grails for web stuffs.
I built
http://www.onesong.me in appengine using the java playframework, and I quite like what I get for free.
I used JSR-168 (JBoss Portal) back in 2006/2007 and was my worst programming experience ever.
Web development has only gotten better since 2006, so there is no reason why you shouldn't be able to do the same using any of the modern frameworks.
HTML, CSS, Javascript, browsers, database, IDE, at least one server side language, and hosting for a simple web app.
Web development sucks. We are just used to it.
Don't get into the Rails vs Django war. Just pick up any one of them and start coding. Both frameworks are highly productive and very easy to pick up.
If you go with Rails, you can use Heroku for hosting which is free to start with. If you go with Python, you can use Google Appengine, which is free as well for starters.
You can own or start a company, but you cannot work for it until you have proper authorization, ie. CPT, OPT, H1b, Green Card, etc. If you are found to be working for any company including your own, you could be out of status and hence deported. Thats my understanding.
Working on
http://OneSong.me - an app that lets you describe your friends in one song, just like ThreeWords.me.
I cannot bring the page up. Looks down to be.
I agree on the design. I am not a designer myself but I will see what I can do without spending absurd amount of time. Thanks.
Posted by
HowardRoark on Saturday April 02, 2011 @03:17PM
from the show-hn dept.
If you were to describe your friend in one song, what song would it be? Thats what http://OneSong.me is.Not to forget, it was inspired by ThreeWords.me and Gabriel Weinberg's post http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2168220, and written using Java Playframework and hosted on Google Appengine.Any feedback is welcome. Anything I can do to make it viral?
There can be no explanation for this. I think we should all boycott GoDaddy.
Yet another Search Engine Optimization technique?
GAE Java only handled one request at a time till now?
I agree its better than having nothing to show or talk about, but I wish hiring the right person was that easy. There is a lot of junk in Github and there are lots of smart developers outside the Github community.
Thank you Google for trying out. But it doesn't look like something I am going to use because most of my social contacts don't have a clue about my professional life - which is what I am searching for mostly.
hazenet.co.uk - $8.40 for 1GB
intovps.com - $10 for 1GB
prgmr.com - $20 for 1GB
vpsfarm.com - $21.6 for 1GB
chunkhost.com - $37 for 1GB
linode.com - $39.95 for 1GB
slicehost.com - $70 for 1GB
Whats your bandwidth requirement?
To get started, try Mining the Social Web, followed by Programming Collective Intelligence.
I think Binary search algorithm is very elegant.
Posted by
HowardRoark on Thursday February 24, 2011 @05:26PM
from the rackspace.com dept.
Same here. Loved the idea though!
Just curious, did you develop it using the playframework?