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Seaside ( http://seaside.st ), which powers dabbledb ( http://dabbledb.com/ ).

Thank you.

The OP didn't appear to be "sneering at new users", but complaining about a post that contains nothing but drivel. That said, the story is scoring well. I blame premature upvoting …

Interesting stuff. Perhaps "startup generators" are an example of free market solutions overcoming market restrictions (e.g. government regulations). Or maybe startup generators ar…

If you do decide to go with Python, web.py ( http://webpy.org/ ) is simple and you'll be up and running fast. If you're interested in how it all works, dig into WSGI. And if you fi…

No, but the dependency on "horizontal scaling" for medium-traffic web apps is more common due to Rails and one reason I ask.

I'm excited for a tidier, more practical Lisp but curious about how efficient the initial public Arc implementation will be for web apps.

If you want a VPS for Lisp (SBCL), I recommend Slicehost. I tried Linode out for a week, but had trouble getting SBCL (w/threads) running on their new Xen nodes - but their support…

The view server can be swapped out. More here: http://www.couchdbwiki.com/index.php?title=View_Server_Proto... There's already Python, Ruby, and PHP servers.

It's not imaginary, but it is unimportant. Spend a day in #haskell, #python, or #ruby asking basic questions about the language, then repeat in #lisp. There are helpful people in t…

If you're looking to optimize for learning, choose a more powerful language that you don't yet know: Python, a Lisp, or Scala.

In a way, YC is a PR firm and Hacker News is its primary outlet.

There are other episodes as well. Using Selenium for testing: http://www.lispcast.com/index.php/2007/10/lispcast-episode-2... Adding macros to make the episode 1 code prettier: htt…

More on the naive fibonacci micro-benchmark with Lisp (SBCL) and Haskell (GHC).

The Linux kernel is fairly important and the kernel developers trust a "bleeding edge" VCS. SVN is great for an individual or simple project, but sharing patches between branches i…

Make it available to customers, even users that don't read source code will get a "warm and fuzzy" knowing that other users can and may have.

Not from the 80s, but Wolfram's "A New Kind of Science".

Thanks for the reply. I know you're right, and I have a few ideas that I should start on and let evolve. I am looking to join up with a few others (technical, design, or business/m…

Found a summary of a book on "lateral marketing" from a previous "Ask YC" thread that's helpful, though obvious. It's nice to have the vocabulary, and associated granularity, for i…

I've been thinking about writing an app to provide services that would go great with online backups. Hit me up if you're interested in discussing more: mrevelle (at) gmail

Identifying a good idea is my limiting factor. I have the ability (practical and theoretical) to create all sorts of software, but no idea feels solid enough to base my future on. …

We use Lighthouse ( http://lighthouseapp.com/ ) and find it simple, extensible, and useful. It covers most of your points but doesn't include bug reporting/tracking by people not o…

Apple IIe. But programming foray was on a 386SX running MS-DOS with QBasic.

Not to disregard the benefit of community, but a reason the bay area may appear a more successful location is that there are many startups there. For each success, how many failure…