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https://github.com/angular/universal https://github.com/angular/universal-starter

Design doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1q6g9UlmEZDXgrkY88AJZ6MUr...

It still seems like a WIP

> are there any good form validation libraries for Go?

Here are a couple:

http://www.gorillatoolkit.org/pkg/schema

http://godoc.org/github.com/mccoyst/validate

There are also some bigger web framework projects that include validation, Revel is one: http://revel.github.io/manual/validation.html

One of my first mentors was a blind programmer. He's actually one of the smartest and most productive programmers I know.

The main tool he used was some screen-reading software called JAWS, which apparently is pretty sophisticated these days. You can see some of the other tools available here: http://www.freedomscientific.com/products/fs/blindness-produ...

> Also, for those who are using Java, where do you host your application/service?

Heroku, EC2 (or Elastic Beanstalk) and Google AppEngine are all pretty good choices if you ask me. For side projects I usually just throw them up on Heroku, but I'll use EC2 for more sophisticated deployments.

> Django/RoR or Flask/Sinatra have their niches - what are good reasons for a solo developer or small team to look outside Python, Ruby or PHP?

I'm struggling to come up with an answer to this topic. To be honest, I think you'll be fine with whatever tool you choose and I think you should just use whatever is most comfortable for you. That said, some scenarios where it might make sense to use Java (or another JVM language) over Django/RoR include:

(1) This doesn't matter for most applications (and isn't necessarily true for all applications), but if you are expecting a lot of load you will likely get more throughput out of the JVM (see how the Java platforms compare to Ruby and Python ones in this benchmark: http://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/) and you will probably be able to handle more traffic with fewer machines (Twitter reportedly needs about ten times fewer machines to run its site after rewriting a bunch of Ruby services in Scala).

(2) You may need to use a particular JVM library (there's a lot of really good ones).

(3) Some spaces of the open-source ecosystem are largely written with JVM languages (especially in the data space: Hadoop, Mahout, Spark, etc). If your team is heavily dependent on one of those spaces you may choose the JVM for your web applications simply to focus your teams knowledge and tooling on one platform.

There are heroku buildpacks for C: https://github.com/atris/heroku-buildpack-C

I'm a designer who knows how to code (or more accurately: a coder who knows how to design).

When I am mocking and laying things out, it's much faster to use Photoshop because it's easier to just drag objects around instead of tweaking CSS properties (at this point I'm mostly just dragging around and resizing vectors/shapes/photos/text to get them in the right size/position).

After I'm pretty satisfied with the layout I will go into vim or Sublime Text and start hammering out the actual design in CSS. I find tweaking CSS properties and refreshing my browser to be at least as productive as editing layer styles in Photoshop (if not more productive). Features of CSS like gradients, borders, opacity, shadows, etc. actually make it a very reasonable environment for quickly iterating on designs (especially when paired with SASS/Compass or LESS). Plus it saves you a step (it's gonna need to be coded sometime anyway...). YMMV

I believe they are referring to this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5332192

I think you missed my point, which was that the Wired article is citing the number from the second half of that sentence: "and 135 million are active in just the stream." (not the first number, which includes people who just +1'd an app)

I don't think the statement in the blog post could be much clearer, you just have to read the whole sentence :)

> Which would be great if checking a feed meant more than logging into your gmail.

If you read the actual announcement it would be clear that when they say "stream-actives", they are not including people logging into Gmail.

"Today Google+ is the fastest-growing network thingy ever. More than 500 million people have upgraded, 235 million are active across Google (+1'ing apps in Google Play, hanging out in Gmail, connecting with friends in Search...), and 135 million are active in just the stream."

Source: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/12/google-communities-an... (which is linked from the Wired article)

Looks interesting, but it's unfortunate that the timing clashes with Startup School.

Have you checked out the handful of books listed on the YCombinator "Startup Library" page (http://ycombinator.com/lib.html)?:

Dale Carnegie: How to Win Friends and Influence People

Edward Tufte: The Visual Display of Quantitative Information

Paul Graham: Hackers and Painters

Jessica Livingston: Founders at Work

The typical engineering setup is Mac laptop + Goobuntu workstation.

I really like the Linux/server tutorials SliceHost has: http://articles.slicehost.com/

The goals of Go, as stated in the 2011 I/O slides (http://golang.org/doc/talks/io2011/Writing_Web_Apps_in_Go.pd...):

- fun to work in.

- efficient - performance approaching C for CPU-intensive tasks,

- designed for modern hardware (multicore, networks),

- aimed at software such as web servers,

- ... but turned out to be a great general-purpose language.

Jersey actually has reasonable support for the traditional MVC thing too, you just return a Viewable from your actions [1]. I think out-of-the-box Jersey only supports JSP templates but it's easy to write custom view processors, I hacked one up for Mustache templates a few months ago [2].

[1] http://sleeplessinslc.blogspot.com/2012/02/jersey-jax-rs-mvc...

[2] https://github.com/murz/jersey-mustache/blob/master/src/main...

Stanford has a free series of iOS lectures that you can get on iTunesU: http://itunes.apple.com/itunes-u/ipad-iphone-application-dev...

I highly recommend them.

Nice work. I like the idea and it looks like you've executed it really well.

I'm curious how you determine whether a given review is positive or negative, did you use something like http://nltk.org/ ?

http://www.startuply.com/ was pretty popular back when I was fresh out of college and looking for jobs.

It's tough to measure, because you can't really know for sure how much traffic a site is getting unless you are the owner of that site. However, services like Alexa attempt to estimate the most trafficked sites by tracking segments of users (in Alexa's case they track users of their toolbar). Their top-site estimates can be split by country:

http://www.alexa.com/topsites/countries

AIM has been integrated in Gmail since 2007.

http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2007/12/gmail-chat-aim-crazy-d...

Have you looked into S3/Cloudfront?

http://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/#pricing

> Woz believes that Android’s voice commands and built-in navigation system are a big advantage

Personally, this is why I've kept my Nexus S around. I think the #1 thing I use it for is navigation while I'm driving. With a car mount it's as good as a TomTom/Garmin/whatever.