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by codecamper 3357 days ago
Why does HN limit the depth of replies? Just to keep the page looking snappy & fresh?

That's pretty awesome that you guys thought of hosting videos. The idea escaped me, even after watching photo.net & then Flickr. I was working on an idea back then & the issue was the cost of bandwidth, right? Sure.. put videos on the Internet... but how would you ever pay for that much bandwidth? I guess that's why a Silicon valley crew did it. They could somehow see the decline in bandwidth pricing, understood how much extra fiber capacity there was.

We should have gotten together then. I owned the domain fullscreen.com (and I made nice websites!)

Software is hard! The winners show what it takes. Just put something out there! AirBNB ruby on rails! Facebook... PHP! Google... python!
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nebabyte 3357 days ago
> Why does HN limit the depth of replies?

OH.

I felt like I was going insane reading some of the comments that seemed like they had no context. Ha. (Now to figure out what the proper ordering is? Unless it's deleted)

Thanks for the context

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pfarnsworth 3357 days ago
He deleted his initial post. He claimed to have written a taxi app early on, and regrets not finishing it.
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jacquesm 3357 days ago
Well, to be honest, the cost of bandwidth was one of the factors that caused me to nix the project, we were having enough bandwidth problems as it was (we got kicked off the international backbone because the webcams saturated it).

Was the first iteration of Google really written in Python?

That's quite interesting.

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andrewljohnson 3357 days ago
Pretty sure it was Java: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/comp.lang.java/aSPAJO0...
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