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by dood 19y ago
I'm curious what you dislike about SQLAlchemy, the ORM, the SQL toolkit, or both?
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by dood 19y ago
I don't think this is a good way to evaluate a framework; tutorials don't necessarily bear much relation to the reality of using the tool.
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by dood 19y ago
Pylons is deserving of attention. There is a small comparison of Django and Pylons here [ http://wiki.pylonshq.com/display/pylonscookbook/Concepts+of+... ]. I'm playing around with Pylons and have been impressed so far. The whole approach
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by dood 19y ago
Interesting that they don't require registration to submit links, presumably relying on javascript + obscurity to avoid spam.
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by dood 19y ago
However much anyone is willing to pay for it, like anything else.
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by dood 19y ago
The google tech talk from the book tour: [ http://youtube.com/watch?v=m6gaj6huCp0 ] I watched it a couple weeks ago; fun and fairly informative, but not terribly impressive. I highly recommend Connections [ http://news.ycombinator.com/item?
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by dood 19y ago
I would agree if there was a flood of them, but I thought this one quite appropriate. Its unusual in not being just some awful random mistake, but a possibly instructive lesson in turning around a murky situation. The bigger threat has to
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by dood 19y ago
The point, as I understood it, was that the Cool Cam was instrumental in turning the project from a failure to a success. From the last para: "Tim's "cool cam" saved European Air War. It went from a money-leaking embarrassment to a top-tier
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by dood 19y ago
My reading was that the Cool Cam galvanised the management and the dev team, when they were feeling pretty stuck. It gave them a taste of the coolness that the project would be when done. I sometimes do something a little similar, say I'm b
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Does your project need a Cool Cam?(worsethanfailure.com)
31 points by dood 19y ago|8 comments
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by dood 19y ago
Thinking aloud: Something about the idea of oracles makes me recoil. The obvious problem is that this approach may reinforce groupthink, both algorithmically and socially. And groupthink is already a considerable problem in these sort of sy
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by dood 19y ago
Change of context: book, film, game, chat... Preferably something that keep the brain ticking over, but allows the 'work' parts to take a rest. Oh, and virtually any kind of exercise.
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by dood 19y ago
News moving from print to web is a fundamental shift in the nature of the market, which brings many opportunities for growth by embracing the realities of the net, and a high chance of failure by ignoring those realities. Some thoughts: The
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by dood 19y ago
It depends on the context you are using it in! For social news (e.g. reddit et al.), this sort of thing might be a great help at providing personal recommendations. Here is a fun recent paper from google, about 'Scalable Online Collaborati
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by dood 19y ago
I imagine there are loads of variations on this theme (i.e. trust networks) that could produce useful recommendations, without the need for unwieldy computation. Sure there'll be a lot of number crunching, its just a matter of choosing the
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by dood 19y ago
There is plenty of research into this, try a search on ACM [ http://portal.acm.org/ ] or google scholar for 'trust reputation recommendation network'. Reddit could/should have been using this kind of approach for ages (I don't know if they
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by dood 19y ago
If you're considering sqlite, you should read 'when to use sqlite' [ http://www.sqlite.org/whentouse.html ]. Also see this thread 'Thoughts on using SQLite?' [ http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38287 ].
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by dood 19y ago
I would wager that the chances of two separate startups producing detrimentally similar websites is negligible, unless you are working on a totally unoriginal me-too type site (and even then...). [where 'detrimentally similar' is defined a
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by dood 19y ago
I suspect a lot of the disagreement expressed here is due to the nature of the people who read ycnews (and the colleges they went to). Entrepreneurially-minded people view college as this wonderful opportunity to learn, experiment, develop.
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by dood 19y ago
A smart move, long overdue. The web news business will probably evolve and mutate significantly in the next few years, and NYT was already well positioned for that. Dropping the wall puts them in an even stronger position.
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by dood 19y ago
A good question to pose would be: assuming a significant economic downturn is likely, how would this affect typical 'web 2.0' businesses? The answer may well be 'badly'. A great deal of these sites presume a healthy, wealthy economy: they h
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Do we need, and does the web want, a new reddit-like site?
3 points by dood 19y ago|13 comments
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by dood 19y ago
Is there value in karma-neutral interaction? Perhaps some users are better at up-voting and some better at down-voting.
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by dood 19y ago
A fair point, but there is a downvote threshold (20 points). Easy to overcome, but also easy to detect.
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by dood 19y ago
Reminds me of Gary Player's quip, in response to the suggestion that he was a particularly lucky golfer, "the harder you practice, the luckier you get."
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by dood 19y ago
An abject lesson in unchecked desire.
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by dood 19y ago
Youtube probably uses more than all but the top 0.0001% of sites combined (or some very very small percentage). "All by itself, YouTube comprises 20 percent of all HTTP traffic, or nearly 10 percent of all traffic on the Net. Let's repeat t
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by dood 19y ago
Super-fast, ubiquitous (beyond mobile) network computing: the internet thoroughly integrated into the world. Access to all your data, all the time. Query-like access to the worlds data. Distributed, fragmented, interconnected web apps, APIs
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by dood 19y ago
In case you missed it, check the comments in this link [ http://www.25hoursaday.com/weblog/CommentView.aspx?guid=f8e6... ], discussed here [ http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33093 ]. The suggestion is to constantly write db logs from EC2
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by dood 19y ago
I would suggest the word 'sidestepped'.

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