Hacker News: nateaune

New comment by nateaune in "Ask HN: Looking for a simple solution for building an online course"

nateaune — Mon, 02 Jul 2018 17:11:33 +0000

If you create your assignments as Jupyter notebooks then you can use OK to grade them. http://juypter.org http://okpy.org

New comment by nateaune in "Ask HN: Looking for a simple solution for building an online course"

nateaune — Mon, 02 Jul 2018 17:10:34 +0000

If you create your course assignments in a Jupyter notebook then you can use OK to grade them. http://jupyter.org http://okpy.org

New comment by nateaune in "Ask HN: Can we help the police sort through the photos of the Boston Marathon?"

nateaune — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 01:02:04 +0000

Some of us tech entrepreneurs in Boston built this site yesterday to aid in the collection of photos and videos from the Boston Marathon. http://evidenceupload.org

It can be used from a mobile phone to bulk upload photos/videos directly from the phone and preserving all metadata (timestamp, lat/lon coordinates).

We used Filepicker.io for the upload widget, Amazon S3 for the file storage, Heroku for hosting and Ruby on Rails.

Things Every Open Source Project Should Have

nateaune — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 14:32:32 +0000

Article URL: http://appsembler.com/blog/10-things-every-open-source-project-should-have/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5331297

Points: 1

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New comment by nateaune in "Ask HN: When does it make sense to develop your product as open source?"

nateaune — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 03:11:44 +0000

Tom Preston, the co-founder of Github had some interesting things to say about the benefits of open sourcing almost everything that the company creates. http://tom.preston-werner.com/2011/11/22/open-source-everyth...

But a deeper question is what problem are you trying to solve with another PaaS product that is not already served by the likes of Heroku, Dotcloud, Stackato, OpenShift, CloudFoundry, etc?

The last two (OpenShift and CloudFoundry) are already open source PaaS solutions that you can use either on-premise or hosted externally. Read more on my post comparing these four providers. http://appsembler.com/blog/paas-bakeoff-comparing-stackato-o...

I can tell you from experience that building and supporting a PaaS is a lot of work, and I think it will be difficult to make it sustainable unless you are offering it as a hosted service.

The only other provider that I know that is not offering a hosted PaaS is ActiveState's Stackato, and they have 15 years of experience selling to enterprise customers.

New comment by nateaune in "Tips for Hackathon Success"

nateaune — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 03:02:43 +0000

I've disabled the proactive chat as many found it annoying. Thanks for the feedback.

Tips for Hackathon Success

nateaune — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 00:00:07 +0000

If you've never been to a hackathon, they are typically a 24-48 hour event during which time your team needs to build a working prototype for a product, usually a web or mobile app, but some teams build actual hardware devices. I've been to a lot of these hackathons, and have observed some patterns for what makes for a successful hackathon experience.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4834721

Points: 3

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New comment by nateaune in "VMware launches Node.js, Rails and Spring PaaS"

nateaune — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 05:32:09 +0000

It'll be interesting to see if/when Python/Django support emerges for CloudFoundry. In the meantime, the DjangoZoom PaaS provides automated deployments of your Django app in as little as 30 seconds. Sign up for the private beta and mention that you saw this Hacker News thread to get priority in the queue. http://djangozoom.com

New comment by nateaune in "Boston Companies Using Ruby on Rails"

nateaune — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 00:29:10 +0000

@kmccarth's BostInnovation article "Boston companies using Django" can be found here: http://bostinnovation.com/2011/03/31/boston-companies-using-...

Thanks @jtauber for planting the seed for this article.

New comment by nateaune in "Boston Companies Using Ruby on Rails"

nateaune — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 22:53:31 +0000

If you're a company or organization in Boston and using Django, please submit your company to this form by 3/29 so we can include you in Kevin's next article "Boston Companies Using Django" coming out this thursday. Thanks! http://noderabbit.wufoo.com/forms/companies-using-django-in-...

New comment by nateaune in "Salesforce Buys Heroku (YC W08) For $212 Million In Cash"

nateaune — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 17:03:26 +0000

Another Heroku-like service for Python is DjangoZoom. Sign up for the beta at http://www.djangozoom.com

Disclaimer: I'm a co-founder of DjangoZoom.

New comment by nateaune in "Sneak Preview of Django Zoom (Heroku-like service for Django apps)"

nateaune — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 03:08:43 +0000

Thanks for your suggestions! What kind of info would you like to see that would help you understand the service better?

We have no plans to support Tornado, but if there's enough demand we'll consider adding support for it.

New comment by nateaune in "Sneak Preview of Django Zoom (Heroku-like service for Django apps)"

nateaune — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 03:03:42 +0000

@kilian - we fully intend to polish the UI and make it look nicer, but you're right - we've been focusing on getting the backend working well, as that seems to be the biggest challenge. It could like all nice and pretty but people won't use it if it breaks. Looking forward to getting your feedback when you deploy your Django projects!

New comment by nateaune in "Ask HN: Best tool to book "office hours"?"

nateaune — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 18:40:50 +0000

Hey Angus - just saw you speak at the Startup Bootcamp yesterday. Great talk! http://startupbootcamp.mit.edu

For letting people schedule meeting with you, you might try Tungle.me. See my page here for an example: http://tungle.me/natea