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Comment · 10 years ago
You! - you are my master!! (bows to you)
Comment · 10 years ago
You think YC Combinator is not motivated by money or fame? Then what is it? What drives it? Desire for anonymous charity?
The point of that blog was to give a down-to-earth assessment of life's choices and guidance on gambling on those choices. Do you know how big is the percentage of youngsters slogging in those exciting startups due to lack of access to truths and guidance? Do you still believe the work-life in these startups is the life to dream of?
We are talking about an average and most common startups which keep trumpeting forever to its employees about the bright future just around the corner. Not the already-successful ones.
Comment · 10 years ago
Java is battle-hardened and has seen almost every situation in the business programming. Go has miles to go before it can even be eligible to be compared to Java in terms of productivity and maintainability.
Comment · 10 years ago
Sure - Will publish to github and post here. For a brief note, the java servlets use Google's gson for interfacing wih web requests. Beyond that it is all plain old JDBC with sqlite. That is all to the "API" part of our service :-)
Comment · 10 years ago
It depends on what you mean by a "website". You need to understand that a web application need to have a client-side (managing user interaction) and a server-side (mostly fetching data). Java is still more popular than any other technology for the server-side part. May be you should read more. And think more.
Comment · 10 years ago
NodeJS rev proxy allows custom logic after intercepting requests - all in javascript. Not sure if NGinx would allow that. But yes, I would probably move to Nginx in near future for its tomcat-like robustness.
Comment · 10 years ago
Here is what I settled with for my website after trying a few things over the years. In the process I have discarded nodejs, JAX-RS, maven, Undertow, JQuery, bootstrap (partially) etc.
Currently, pure java servlets serve json over REST-like API. The jar dependencies are servlet-api.jar, a couple of json-related jars and an sqlite jar. Multiple fine-grained sqlite files for data. Tomcat as the servlet container with no static content.
A nodejs reverse proxy forks the API and static web requests between tomcat and another nodejs static webserver. The static content is angualrjs + html + css with minimal and reusable js files mostly fetching json data. I also have a little bootstrap dependency for forms.
I have an apache ant build file that copies the ~60kb war file and static content directly to the production from my dev system. Tried maven before but Ant seemed much simpler and more than enough for my needs. The ant build does a lot other things also.
I use Eclipse for the easy navigability across the code and other nice refactoring features. Ant does all the build work.
Earlier I tried pure nodejs (no java), then JAX-RS and then Undertow container etc. Nothing seemed simpler than the current setup. By the way, the site is https://worktheme.com
Comment · 10 years ago
Make a product that keeps reminding and preaching people to be people - the biological creatures. To try to break the shackles of dependencies on technology, knowledge, awareness, reputation and more importantly, perfection.
Comment · 10 years ago
People don't need more connectivity. Excess of anything is bad. Social networks and connectivity is already in the realm of being evil and eating away all the time from people's lives.
Comment · 10 years ago
aha - got another idea. I'll just use a different format to display the admin comments. So the imposter can't mimic the format, though they can use the same username.