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by ajessup 16y ago
What absolute bollocks. While I take the argument that being an infrastructure player rather than a traditional 'make something people want' business is a good idea in the long term, I disagree with the advice that it's a good idea for a ne
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by ajessup 16y ago
Apparently stone tablets make a very effective data store. They are persistant, replicable, don't have arbitrarily complex index interactions, and of course don't require the pain of interacting via SQL.
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by ajessup 16y ago
http://www.noosbox.com/ (in private beta) does exactly this, without too much extra fluff. Contact me through my HN profile for an invite.
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Chrome/OS/Store is about disruption, not domination(dontstopthesignal.com)
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by ajessup 16y ago
I've written sites in both Rails and Drupal, and so am somewhat qualified to say... it doesn't matter. Have your guy pick what he feels most comfortable with and run with it. Either Drupal or Rails would be a fine choice. This is especially
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Don’t worry, Paul Graham, Australians aren’t all stupid(delimiter.com.au)
2 points by ajessup 16y ago|1 comments
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by ajessup 16y ago
Not sure if this will solve your problem, but have you looked at GAELucene? http://code.google.com/p/gaelucene/
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by ajessup 16y ago
All the points he makes are valid - and stem from the fact that GAE is designed to be 'infinitely scalable'. Because of this, it forces you into a number of design patterns that facilitate distributed, scalable software. This can be a good
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by ajessup 16y ago
Can definitely advocate Objectify. It's much nicer to work with and if you're working with Google Web Toolkit it is also GWT-serializable, so you can use the same objects in your DAOs and GWT UI.
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Google Wave open source project much closer to being useful
8 points by ajessup 16y ago|0 comments
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by ajessup 16y ago
Nice work! Are these guys thinking about open sourcing the OT components? A couple of us are starting up an npm module to allow generic OT using node. http://github.com/ajessup/pluto http://www.dontstopthesignal.com/2010/05/design-goals-
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by ajessup 16y ago
Yahoo just released a paper explaining what S4 is, the rationale for it's development, and provides detailed comparison with Hadoop (and map/reduce frameworks in general). http://labs.yahoo.com/node/476
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Yahoo to open source s4, their real-time mapreduce project(qr.ae)
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by ajessup 16y ago
I've been building GWT projects like http://beste.st/ entirely in Java, so I can share models between my client side code and server side code. While this way of working is elegant and very powerful, especially when you have lots of share
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How the Enigma cipher was broken(en.wikipedia.org)
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by ajessup 16y ago
I'm trying to build a OT library to run on node.js. If anyone's interested in getting involved drop me a line (ajessup -at- gmail dot com)