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Reddit co-founder Steve Huffman to teach Web App Eng-Building a Blog at Udacity

38 points by dhawalhs 15y ago

heretohelp 15y ago
I sincerely hope he doesn't tell them to stuff pickled Python objects into Postgres like they did with Reddit. I'm not trying to be snarky, I'm legitimately concerned.
- zmitri 15y ago
  FriendFeed actually used a similar mechanism with MySQL for some schemaless data that they knew they wouldn't need to index. "Entity bodies are stored as zlib-compressed, pickled Python dictionaries." http://backchannel.org/blog/friendfeed-schemaless-mysql http://backchannel.org/blog/friendfeed-schemaless-mysql
seltzered_ 15y ago
huh, how different will this be from berkeley's saas-class on Coursera? I'm taking it right now and am so far finding it decent for non-web programmers.
- Ecio78 15y ago
  I dont find it particularly decent: the video image is cut, its resolution is not high enough to read the code (so you have to jump between pdf, pastebin and video) and i think some instruction are missing (maybe if you buy the book you dont have this problem, i dont know)
- stordoff 15y ago
  Content-wise I imagine they'll be some crossover, but, so far at least, the execution of the Udacity classes has been better IMO.
drats 15y ago
On android my browser refuses to go to the link without logging in and the G+ app says it can't handle the link (what is G+ for then?). This along with YouTube and sometimes Google groups demanding logging in is getting too much for me. I've already switched to Duck Duck Go for search. Now I'm in the market for a new email provider and docs are going to cloud storage.
mhartl 15y ago
I'm surprised spez has time for this. Isn't he busy with Hipmunk?
sheff 15y ago
I also had a problem with this URL being inaccessible from my phone without logging into Google. The course they are talking about is this one : http://www.udacity.com/overview/Course/cs253 http://www.udacity.com/overview/Course/cs253 .
dpatru 15y ago
I think we are witnessing the end of the traditional educational business model in real time. Every week it seems new courses are coming out. Yesterday for example MIT released a basic electronics course, https://6002x.mitx.mit.edu/ https://6002x.mitx.mit.edu/, complete with labs, homework, and two exams. It's free. They are planning on releasing more. At some point, the online offerings will become to traditional colleges as wikipedia is to traditional encyclopedias.
j2labs 15y ago
I hope he doesn't teach it using Tornado! :)

38 points by dhawalhs 15y ago

I sincerely hope he doesn't tell them to stuff pickled Python objects into Postgres like they did with Reddit. I'm not trying to be snarky, I'm legitimately concerned.

zmitri 15y ago
FriendFeed actually used a similar mechanism with MySQL for some schemaless data that they knew they wouldn't need to index. "Entity bodies are stored as zlib-compressed, pickled Python dictionaries." http://backchannel.org/blog/friendfeed-schemaless-mysql http://backchannel.org/blog/friendfeed-schemaless-mysql

seltzered_ 15y ago

huh, how different will this be from berkeley's saas-class on Coursera? I'm taking it right now and am so far finding it decent for non-web programmers.

Ecio78 15y ago
I dont find it particularly decent: the video image is cut, its resolution is not high enough to read the code (so you have to jump between pdf, pastebin and video) and i think some instruction are missing (maybe if you buy the book you dont have this problem, i dont know)
stordoff 15y ago
Content-wise I imagine they'll be some crossover, but, so far at least, the execution of the Udacity classes has been better IMO.

drats 15y ago

On android my browser refuses to go to the link without logging in and the G+ app says it can't handle the link (what is G+ for then?). This along with YouTube and sometimes Google groups demanding logging in is getting too much for me. I've already switched to Duck Duck Go for search. Now I'm in the market for a new email provider and docs are going to cloud storage.

mhartl 15y ago

I'm surprised spez has time for this. Isn't he busy with Hipmunk?

sheff 15y ago

I also had a problem with this URL being inaccessible from my phone without logging into Google. The course they are talking about is this one : http://www.udacity.com/overview/Course/cs253 http://www.udacity.com/overview/Course/cs253 .

dpatru 15y ago

I think we are witnessing the end of the traditional educational business model in real time. Every week it seems new courses are coming out. Yesterday for example MIT released a basic electronics course, https://6002x.mitx.mit.edu/ https://6002x.mitx.mit.edu/, complete with labs, homework, and two exams. It's free. They are planning on releasing more. At some point, the online offerings will become to traditional colleges as wikipedia is to traditional encyclopedias.

j2labs 15y ago

I hope he doesn't teach it using Tornado! :)