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Reddit's not profitable though..
If there is one lesson that HN needs to learn, it's that profitable is not the same thing as important.
I am curious how much a Go lang rewrite would make a difference in scaling up.
It depends how much time is spent doing computation and how much time is spent doing lookups from disk. If the latter is clearly dominating, then a switch to Go will not help much.
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If there is one lesson that HN needs to learn, it's that profitable is not the same thing as important.
So they are important, but need to live off ramen every day (figuratively). What good does that do to them? I don't think grandparent should be downvoted, he raises a good point. Tons and tons of people use Reddit, but Reddit has a hard time making a living.
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Why? Looks like a legitimate question to me.
Some time ago the HN hivemind went through a period of blind Node.js love. Now it's going through blind Go love. Regardless of what you think of either language, "rewrite in X" is not a magic incantation that will spontaneously solve all your architectural issues. Designing a good architecture involves balancing many components, of which your primary implementation language is an important, but not exclusive, element…
Disappointment in the HN community has reached a new high today. So, instead of discussing the topics in the video, the majority of commenters here are discussing the flaws of the website it's hosted on or debating whether or not reddit is profitable. Neither of which has ANYTHING to do with scaling. I expected better, people. Seriously.
In this and some other technical topics, people end up discussing their personal tastes with web site's design, their individual UI frustrations with some button on the web site, the font, the color, and other random non-relevant topic; like now the profitability.
Disappointment in the HN community has reached a new high today. So, instead of discussing the topics in the video, the majority of commenters here are discussing the flaws of the website it's hosted on or debating whether or not reddit is profitable. Neither of which has ANYTHING to do with scaling. I expected better, people. Seriously.
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AllAdvantage was great for free money as a teenager. It only took a few minutes to slap together a VB application to move the mouse a few pixels every minute. I made a few hundred dollars from them while I slept.
I guess I didn't have my act together enough as a teenager to commit fraud over the Internet while I slept.
Was it fraud if you got a dog to play with the mouse, and never looked at the screen? The dog might have still been looking at the adverts!
I was confused about the memcached problem after moving to the cloud. I understand why network latency may have gone from submillisecond to milliseconds, but how could you improve latency by batching requests? Shouldn't that improve efficiency, not latency, at the possible expense of latency (since some requests will wait on the client as they get batched)? And while maybe efficiency is valuable, why would that be an…