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Twitter Reportedly May Abandon Ruby On Rails
Raster Burn writes "According to TechCrunch, Twitter has plans to abandon Ruby on Rails after two years of scalability issues. Candidates to replace Rails are said to be PHP, Java, and Ruby without the Rails framework." The post links a brief comment (at 139 characters, probably a tweet) from Twitter founder Ev Williams saying it ain't so. The comments following the post embody the controversy over whether or not RoR sucks.
You're obviously underestimating the amount of effort it takes to store usernames, passwords, and phone numbers in a database, then associate them with messages no more than 120 characters in length.
In my day, we had talk, finger, vi, and elm and we never complained! Green vt100 terminals were all anyone really needed! Get off of my lawn!
Seriously, talk had advantages over IM. You actually could see what the other person typed as they typed it, including backspaces...
And finger worked great. I knew a nerd that had his
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
See Hilton, Paris
That sounds like advanced stuff to me.
On an unrelated note, is anyone here good with hello world programs? Mine keeps crashing.
MABASPLOOM!
I'm fairly certain your problem is trying to talk to the whole world at once. Your computer program's seeing that, and it's trying to yell too loud. Try doing "Hello user" and see if that helps.
and digg, reddit. Not slashdot though.
Of Code And Men
Les Miserables Volume 1 now up with my reading of
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Most popular things are useless.
Like Windows?Have you tried PHP? I hear it runs several high load websites ;-)
Bradley Holt