Exactly. A Reddit frontpage for 1 user and 10 articles should be about 90 lines of code.
Actually this will serve as many users as your system can handle.
Different sense of the word "user".
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#12News.Arc ? Isn't all of hacker news written in a lisp variant thats only a few hundred lines long?
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#13News.Arc ? Isn't all of hacker news written in a lisp variant thats only a few hundred lines long?
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I don't understand what you mean by "Exactly." (I'm not trying to be snarky, I just seriously feel like I've missed the point)
I think the point is that replicating pretty much any site is trivially easy in any language if you don't have to worry about query performance, cacheing, scaling, etc.
Not to mention the hard part ... building a community.
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#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think the point is that replicating pretty much any site is trivially easy in any language if you don't have to worry about query performance, cacheing, scaling, etc.
Slightly on topic: How would you attack the "query performance, cacheing, scaling, etc" problems?
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#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't understand what you mean by "Exactly." (I'm not trying to be snarky, I just seriously feel like I've missed the point)
I think the point is that replicating pretty much any site is trivially easy in any language if you don't have to worry about query performance, cacheing, scaling, etc.
And features such as comments.
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#17News.Arc ? Isn't all of hacker news written in a lisp variant thats only a few hundred lines long?
and also suffers from scalability too. How many times have you accessed this site and got a connection error? Scalability and all that other work requires code.
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#18That seems to be missing a few features, like accounts.
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#19I think Reddit clones would be a lot more commonplace and popular if they had a name other than "Reddit clones"; it's a simple site architecture in retrospect, analogous to a blog or a wiki. They are all categories of web applications that have interactive elements, but also act as websites for those who don't care to participate.
Now, imagine if blogs had been called "Wordpress clones", or wikis had been known as "Wikipedia clones"? [Yes, I know, not the originators of the species, but surely the ones the most people are familiar with.] I don't think they'd have nearly the traction on the web that they do now, as the media wouldn't be caught dead talking about the "Wordpress clone usage and participation phenomenon" without being payed off. If there was a non-trademarked, one-to-two syllable name one could use to describe both Reddit and HN, I think we'd see the usage shoot up.
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#20Bestinclass.dk is always hyping clojure and actually does more damage than good. Remember the 'clojure vs python', 'clojure vs ruby' and 'clojure vs global warming' articles.
If you name your blog 'best in class' I think that sets that bar for the quality a bit higher than what is generally on display there.