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2. "hosting open-source web applications" does not really describe GitHub 3. He's not talking about using multiple cores, he's talking about using multiple thr
by wwwtyro 14y ago
2. "hosting open-source web applications" does not really describe GitHub
3. He's not talking about using multiple cores, he's talking about using multiple threads vs (for example) multiple processes.
6. Reddit, Hacker News
- friendly_chap 14y ago2. I think github is the most notable example. 3. Gotta reread that. 6. Oh come on, facebook, youporn, whatever. As I said, too vague.
- mseebach 14y agoGithub is not an open source webapp. It's a closed source web app that hosts other people's open source apps (web and not).
- CodeCube 14y agoI think for #1, there are a number of hosting providers that match this description, such as Dreamhost, that offer a number of open source web apps that you can install with a single click. They manage them, upgrade them, back them up ... all you gotta do is pay them. That being said, GitHub does indeed match the description, though I think people are thinking about the code they are hosting for other people ... but I think where they fit the description is with the fact that they are hosting Git for you (and making some money through enterprise services).
- ImprovedSilence 14y ago>> 6. Oh come on, facebook, youporn, whatever. As I said, too vague. Yeah, so he didn't call out a specific "type" of socializing, or draw up the wireframe for facebook here. But he just recognized there is a huge trend of people wanting to share their lives and communicate in near real time. I think he nailed it. Facebook and twiiter are just that. Even look at his move example. These days, you watch you movie or TV show, then laugh and comment on it with your friends not in the theater, but on facebook or twitter. I'd say he NAILED that prediction.
- doomlaser 14y agoFacebook already existed with over a million users when he wrote this.
- ImprovedSilence 14y agoPerhaps, but they were all in college, it was a very different FB. This article was written my sophomore year of college, and I hadn't even had a FB account yet.
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