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by dumbphone 15y ago
I have to admit that my first thought was, "Yawn, yet another social something-something," but then I read the blog post and was pleasantly surprised. I might just sign up. Btw., the design could use some tweaking. It looks a little like a
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by dumbphone 15y ago
Gonna answer this one myself: Seems http://www.sqlobject.org/ might be a good alternative.
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by dumbphone 15y ago
"productivity is equally as important" Node has a lot of good features, but programmer productivity isn't one of them currently. There are close to zero full-featured frameworks with "the works" (Geddy comes close, but is no longer maintain
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by dumbphone 15y ago
'With Node and a framework like Express, you can understand things at the level of "let me look at this HTTP request and decide how to respond to it."' Sure, but roughly the same kind of thing is available in most other serverside languages
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by dumbphone 15y ago
Flask seems nice and simple until you need to access a database such as MySQL. With SQLAlchemy it seems like there's a lot more code needed just to perform simple CRUD operations, whereas Django's ORM is really simple. Is there a better alt
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by dumbphone 15y ago
I like the idea of using a web-based interface for tasks that are normally done in framework code: Altering data structure/models, etc. Drupal already has this (CCK), but it's not exactly a lean/small framework, so it's not the ideal soluti
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by dumbphone 15y ago
I didn't say they sell our data (although I honestly can't say for sure, since there are a number of things Google employees aren't allowed to talk about). I'm talking about the fact that Google builds huge databases about its users, and th
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by dumbphone 15y ago
Their business model isn't dependant on it. This makes it not worth the risk to sell personal data (the risk being bad publicity).
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by dumbphone 15y ago
Apple doesn't make money by mining my personal data - that's the difference.
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by dumbphone 15y ago
Beats me how anyone would use a computer where both the OS, browser, and major applications are made by the same company - a company whose living depends on making huge databases about its users' personal data - a company that is based in t
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by dumbphone 15y ago
Rackspace Cloud is (sort of) missing on your list. "Sort of", because Slicehost is on your list, but Slicehost was bought up by Rackspace, and Slicehost will eventually be moved into the Rackspace Cloud brand, as far as I know. Also missing
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by dumbphone 15y ago
This is one of the reasons why I'm moving away from Gmail and starting to use a European email provider.
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by dumbphone 15y ago
Slightly irrelevant fact of the day: Tigger means "beggar" in Danish.
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by dumbphone 15y ago
> While it is annoying, it is how he got to where he is. Not necessarily. For years GoDaddy has had the cheapest non-promotional domain pricing. That's what made a lot of IT-savvy people use GoDaddy despite of its annoying user interfac
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by dumbphone 15y ago
For smaller projects CodeIgniter is great. It's simple to learn and use, and has excellent documentation (better than Kohana's).
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by dumbphone 15y ago
> (can't believe I used to use pure PHP!) Actually, pure PHP (I assume by "pure" you mean "with no framework") is the safest of all, providing that the programmer is experienced. Hackers target known vulnerabilities in popular framework
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by dumbphone 15y ago
I agree with your stance on Symfony, but it's important to realize that not every PHP framework is like that. Symfony adds a lot of complexity that doesn't necessarily mean lower development time or later flexibility - whereas many other PH
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by dumbphone 15y ago
Exactly - Azure is more like Google App Engine than AWS.
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by dumbphone 15y ago
> Check out http://jobs.hasgeek.in/ That's an awesome interface!
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by dumbphone 15y ago
Sure, alright, but that's supposed to mean faster servers and a smaller footprint, and since one or two people here mentioned that Node doesn't really live up to that, my question is: What does Node offer me in terms of speed and footprint
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by dumbphone 15y ago
So what's done best with Node?
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by dumbphone 15y ago
Anyone know which framework the sites mentioned by the commenters use? Geddy? Express?
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by dumbphone 15y ago
There was an important question I couldn't find an answer to on the site: What happens when the user clicks the fake button? It wasn't until I clicked on the sign-up buttons for the paid plans that I got it. Getting users excited enough abo