doublez

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by doublez 15y ago
As a native Russian speaker, may I advise German. Russian has all the grammatical complexity of German + non-Roman phonetics + Cyrillic alphabet + word order that's not prescribed, but has stylistic meaning.
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by doublez 15y ago
Ppl, this is a low-fi piece journalistic trolling - the "subject matter" was growing a beard when I was a Moscow high school senior 20 years ago :). Leaving aside the Russian tendency to take ill-informed pot shots at Americans (a national
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by doublez 16y ago
Great stuff - thanks for the work! Minor UI nits: - your value proposition is in the "it's XXX but you can get there for YYY". Put that front and center and give it a better visual treatment than the insufficiently anti-aliased black sans ;
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by doublez 16y ago
What's not mentioned (it's hard to sell) is, 50%+ of the reason Lift is so fabulous is, you're writing Scala. It's a mighty upgrade in quality of life, from either Ruby, Java or Python. By corollary, what's being omitted is, the learning cu
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by doublez 16y ago
* A sample report would be nifty - I had to pretend to be a business I'm not to get it * An obvious feedback form with a callout would help. There are numerous start-ups providing these, or you can roll your own
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by doublez 16y ago
+1
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by doublez 16y ago
I was in a startup that built a MySQL/Spring/Wicket app, and I'm building a Mongo/Play one right now. So, point by point: 1) Java isn't amenable to pre-installed hosting like PHP is. You usually deal with machine images that you have to pre
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by doublez 16y ago
https://github.com/lift/lift
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by doublez 16y ago
The Lift framework core has some rather lithe Scala in it. Do mind that it's an actively developed, actively deployed framework - functionality sometimes takes priority ... ;)