What the fuck is Heroku?

I'm dead serious, I have no idea. I looked at the website, I looked at the wiki, and all I see are buzzwords lumped together herp derp SaaS cloud services enterprise derp. What does it actually do? What would I use it for?

herp derp
Back to reddit, ``please''

gtfo /prog/ and commit heroku, kudasai!

It's apparently a shitty web host that doesn't support things that even free hosts do.

>>4

And Diaspora developers are stubborn using it, fucking kikes.

/prog/ should take this over.

>>5
Diaspora is a shitty idea anyway.

>>6
Not necessarily, but it was executed in the poorest possible fashion.  Diaspora is what happens when corner rounders try to do cryptography and privacy-enhancing software.

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>>6

The idea is pretty good, to create an alternative to facebook, more secure and private.

The development is pretty horrible, though. Ruby on rails, discussions about the simplest shit, arguments over simple features, "this is too hard, wont do" developers, no commit edit more than 10 lines maximum, slow as shit, no RERO, etc.

I actually didn't believe Diaspora would end up like this. Quite a pity...

I will have 2 months off work in April/May and might try rewriting/copying the base of Diaspora in Common Lisp and begin developing independently and adding real cryptography, as well as following the "release early, release often" philosophy.

Would any /prog/ be interested? If so, a good project leader/management should start setting up an IRC channel and github repository. I'm only good at writing code, I'm bad at organizing people.

Looking forward to this.

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How the fuck is an alternative to Facebook a good idea?