HowardRoark

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by HowardRoark 16y ago
Java - Grails and PlayFramework to be specific.
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by HowardRoark 16y ago
This article was written in Nov 2008. Quite a lot has happened in the Erlang world since.
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Websites with great SEO
1 points by HowardRoark 16y ago|1 comments
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by HowardRoark 16y ago
I second that Grails advice. Jersey, Hibernate and Maven isn't that bad, but Grails beats that anyday if you don't mind Groovy. While Play framework is cool too if you want to stick with Java, but it is not as mature as Grails or any other
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by HowardRoark 16y ago
I think the best one so far was Github Cofounder Tom Preston-Werner's talk. Almost every sentence of his was a gem, and the fact that he had bootstrapped both his startups made it even more interesting!
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by HowardRoark 16y ago
I am primarily a Java developer too, but I have very rarely seen any hobby projects being done in Java/Jsp. I wonder if there is a reason why you did it in Java? What framework do you use? Does Java needing a lot of memory have to do with t
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Ask HN: Best books on Politics
11 points by HowardRoark 16y ago|10 comments
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by HowardRoark 16y ago
Although I love Scala, I preferr Groovy/Grails over Scala/Lift for my web development needs. I would love to give Scalatra a try too.
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by HowardRoark 16y ago
I would also add "Jonathan Livingston Seagull" by Richard Bach. Its a simple and inspiring story about a bird who tries to question the very simple facts and norms of life established by generations before.
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by HowardRoark 16y ago
I thought Qwiki isn't meant to replace Google. And yet it can make certain kind of information retrieval sexier and very helpful - esp. when you might be multitasking. It can very well focus in a vertical markets where it solves the proble
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by HowardRoark 16y ago
Ron Conway rocks but the email almost feels like it was intended to be leaked.
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by HowardRoark 16y ago
1. Start looking. 2. Explain to your manager your reasons for leaving and what actually happened. 3. Tell the new company that you are politely calling out their name. And see what they think.
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by HowardRoark 16y ago
http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/quotas.html Assuming that is your daily pageviews, you could run that app for free on Google Appengine. The only down side to Appengine in my experience is the cost of rewriting the app and migration,
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by HowardRoark 16y ago
What?
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by HowardRoark 16y ago
Instead of manually finding interesting people on my niche, I set my criteria and let my program do the dirty work for me. What's wrong with it? I don't even spam people. I send one link to my site per every 5 witty and inspirational quotes
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by HowardRoark 16y ago
I have written a script to follow 1000 users on my niche every day. I find that around 15% of users follow me back. In the next couple of days, I remove the rest 85%. I have been doing this for a few months now and I have a few thousand fol
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by HowardRoark 16y ago
I only added top people on my niche!
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by HowardRoark 16y ago
Thank god. Its everyone.
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by HowardRoark 16y ago
I deleted my Facebook account yesterday. I quit Google search 2 years ago. With Wikipedia, Stackoverflow, Github and Bing, I don't miss Google search much.
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by HowardRoark 16y ago
Goodbye to Github. Goodbye to the private Git repo on my VPS!
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by HowardRoark 17y ago
1. Google App Engine is free to begin with, but you known the cons. 2. Rackspace Cloud Servers (21$ for 512 MB. Pay for BW separately) 3. Slicehost (Same as Rackspace Cloud Server, but 40$ for 512 MB. But you get 100 GB BW I think) I am usi
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by HowardRoark 17y ago
No it doesn't. Its just another form of slavery like H1b.
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by HowardRoark 17y ago
Does this mean I can't bootstrap my company?
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Functional Ability of Scala Comparing to Haskell - an Example(blogtrader.net)
2 points by HowardRoark 17y ago|0 comments