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by jsjenkins168 18y ago
Sorry, was just a bit confused when I saw iPhone web application framework because I usually think of involving server-side when I see that term, and from that perspective there is little difference between the iPhone browser and others. Be
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by jsjenkins168 18y ago
I'm not really so sure what makes this an iPhone specific "framework". Its just a safari browser with javascript, except you can only capture click events. All you really need in order to make a website iPhone "friendly" is keep buttons &#6
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by jsjenkins168 18y ago
Agree. Looks awesome, but a super brief description of what its about would help.
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by jsjenkins168 18y ago
Luckily annotations, like generics, are optional. Because damn is that syntax ugly.
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by jsjenkins168 18y ago
I know rails itself is sound, my comments are directed more towards rails/DB integration. The database always seems to be the real bottleneck..
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by jsjenkins168 18y ago
If true, this is a pretty big blow to the viability of RoR as a large-scale platform, at least as it is right now. I've always thought RoR's tight coupling with traditional SQL would be a serious scaling issue. RDBMSs in the traditional sen
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Twitter Said To Be Abandoning Ruby on Rails(techcrunch.com)
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by jsjenkins168 18y ago
I'm having difficulty understanding exactly what it does... And I'm a technical person. If your product does a better job of being simple, you can beat them.
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by jsjenkins168 18y ago
This is true, but unfortunately only really with the iPhone. Flash Lite works on all of the other handsets that matter right now. And its really Apple keeping the gate closed on Adobe, not the other way around. I agree though, widespread mo
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by jsjenkins168 18y ago
"HTML 5 is currently a work in progress. Although the specification can be used in some cases now, it is not likely to reach completion until 2010 at the very earliest." Flash and Silverlight WILL take over if the W3C cannot decide on HTM
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by jsjenkins168 18y ago
Would you be content studying medicine while others were running around creating successful startups? Or would you feel a bit like a grounded child having to watch his friends play outside? If you love helping people then medicine can be a
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by jsjenkins168 18y ago
I only say that because it seems few groups continue to build their product into something of quality after being rejected by YC and its sad. A prevailing view is if they cant be funded by YC, then there is no point in continuing. Its almos
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by jsjenkins168 18y ago
As someone who was also turned down, my advice is actually the opposite: Do not reapply in 5 months. It's a mental thing. If you always keep the dream of YC on a golden pedestal in your mind (one that must be reached in order to be succes
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by jsjenkins168 18y ago
Congratulations. You're an inspiration to all of us. If you dont mind me asking, did you take on investment money or was the decision to sell solely yours?
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by jsjenkins168 18y ago
Is the 1st edition a very good book? I've heard about it but never checked it out. My current favorite is Head First Java. I've successfully helped 2 non-hackers to learn Java with it. The casual (even comic) writing style is really easy to
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by jsjenkins168 18y ago
Since you were lucky enough to be part of the YC program, I would suggest going back to them and seeking some advice. I'm sure they've faced similar situations (Kiko comes to mind). If you are getting sustained demand for likebetter though
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by jsjenkins168 18y ago
java.security.SecureRandom should be used for anything even remotely important.
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by jsjenkins168 18y ago
With SimpleDB, you can still accomplish many-to-one and even one-to-many. So in your example schema you described, you could have an attribute (aka column) in your tags domain (aka table) which holds the ids of the article items (aka rows)
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by jsjenkins168 18y ago
All valid points if compared against a single-instance RDBMS. Except that modern RDBMS used in any large scale web service will also be guilty of these points. When you shard/cluster your data across various master/slave DB instances you
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by jsjenkins168 18y ago
Exactly. And its not just hardware you can forget about. No longer having to worry about indexing, scheduled backups and database shrinks, temp table sizes, connection pooling, and all the other nasty stuff that goes along with maintaining
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by jsjenkins168 18y ago
Do you manually make recommendations for each request or is there some sort of natural language parsing algorithm that you've built? If the latter, then really cool this has potential..
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by jsjenkins168 18y ago
The problem with most "traditional" RDBMSs is that they were not designed with modern web server environments in mind. In order to scale to handle the frequent and speed sensitive requests needed to serve web pages, techniques such as shard
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by jsjenkins168 18y ago
SimpleDB shifts the burden of database scaling and maintenance from the programmer. Being free from those worries is a hugely important consideration. Even if it means having to forgo the ability to do joins or order by. And you can still u
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by jsjenkins168 19y ago
My vote is to constrain growth as much as possible, at least that which comes from stupid sources. Smart hackers will find this site just fine without Yahoo or MSN, probably even Google. As "evil" as blocking sites and crawlers may sound, I
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by jsjenkins168 19y ago
A lot of big tech and wireless companies in Dallas (Verizon, Texas Instruments, IBM, etc). Some noteworthy game companies are located in Dallas too. I would say Austin has a better investment climate for startups than Dallas, but thats not
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by jsjenkins168 19y ago
Its the first major round of financing from a Venture Capitalist. Typically, it is after seed money, but you could go straight to a Series A without prior investments. Subsequent VC rounds count down the alphabet: Series B, Series C, etc..
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by jsjenkins168 19y ago
Upon hearing the news that YC decided not to fund us, my co-founder refused to take no for an answer and decided to call PG on the phone and plea. PG was really really cool and even offered additional advice to help us, but wouldnt budge on
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by jsjenkins168 19y ago
Its a great language and easy to learn and use, but it might greatly limit their business relative to AWS. I polled HN about a month ago to see what percentages of HN readers used what languages for web development, and while Python was the
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by jsjenkins168 19y ago
It is perfectly sensible if you are starting a project from scratch or have already built something purely in Python. For everyone else looking to host something already written in another language, it is a problem. I'm sure Amazon doesn't
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by jsjenkins168 19y ago
This is a huge announcement, although I am surprised that it is not designed to support anything other than Python. This hindrance might keep more people using AWS than they might realize.

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