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How long would it take an average programmer to do a Ruby on Rails Reddit clone prototype?

16th December 2010

My answer to How long would it take an average programmer to do a Ruby on Rails Reddit clone prototype? on Quora

Just FYI, Reddit is an open source Python project: http://code.reddit.com/

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