easternmonk

I am sure HN has many people who have worked on scalability and web. As an ordinary developer I can certainly see holes in his arguments as to why Indian Railway's booking service does not work but I dont have experience managing a website of that scale.<p>I will really be thankful if more knowledgeable members on HN can tell me if he makes sense.<p>Here is the complete interview:<p>http://www.techgig.com/knowledge/IRCTC-chief-talks-about-bandwidth-clogging-e-commerce-and-steps-to-improve-services--3540<p>Background: http://irctc.co.in is the only website through which we can book train tickets in India. Trains in India are controlled by government alone. This website too is managed by one of the railways department. Overall it is reported that only 20% of the attempted transaction succeed. During peak time it is below 2%.<p>Forget about completing the transaction, even the stylesheets wont load during the peak time and the very next page you see after logging in is "Session Expired".

My employer who otherwise has banned Facebook use in the company has a standard process. Whenever we launch a product, Facebook is made available for an hour in the evening where we are told to login and like the company product page.

Is this process followed anywhere else ?

Hi All,

Now that I have enough connectivity in my village. I have decided that I will build a nice comfortable home for myself and work remotely. I already have an old house (almost 100 years old) which is a bit crampy. As an extension to my house I am building a bedroom, spacious bathroom, office and a pantry.

On a forum where people have lived off in cars I am sure there will be some who will have good tips and experiences to share about building a space right from scratch. I need ideas.

Note: I live in India.

In Batman begins it was "The Trolley Problem" in Dark Knight it was "Prisoner's dilemma" and do you think in the third and last installment Nolan has represented Plato's allegory of cave ?

I have built one myself using Mozilla's DZSlides here but I would prefer something ready made with lot more features.

http://www.e-yantra.org/preview