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by EvanMiller 14y ago
Sorry. It's back up.
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by EvanMiller 14y ago
For future reference, uploading a video to Dropbox when you are on the HN front page is a bad idea. My account was suspended almost immediately. Switching to YouTube...
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by EvanMiller 14y ago
Sorry about that. The HN traffic was unexpected. I will upload to Dropbox ASAP.
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by EvanMiller 14y ago
Sorry for the poor audio quality in the video. Some random thoughts that may be of interest: 1. I've been in grad school for economics the last four years. The program basically embodies all the things I've learned about econometrics, i.e.
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by EvanMiller 14y ago
An event horizon means there is no going back, not that you are actually in the black hole. Although Microsoft may have continued to put out innovative products and create shareholder value after 1992, the company is now run by a textbook b
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by EvanMiller 14y ago
Some neat Erlang projects: * ErlGuten, PDF generator: https://github.com/hwatkins/erlguten * OpenCL binding: https://github.com/tonyrog/cl * gen_smtp, SMTP library: https://github.com/Vagabond/gen_smtp * erl_img, image manipulator: h
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by EvanMiller 14y ago
Dalton Caldwell sends email the hard way.
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by EvanMiller 15y ago
Well, if all you care about is the space complexity you could do the same thing with 8 bytes of memory, an integer and a floating point. Start the floating point at zero. For each item, set the integer to 0, then compare the item to every o
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by EvanMiller 15y ago
Original author here. For the academically inclined, there is a critique of this approach in this paper: http://www.dcs.bbk.ac.uk/~dell/publications/dellzhang_ictir2... Of course, I think the authors miss the point of the algorithm, since
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by EvanMiller 15y ago
Not to poop in your cocoa puffs, but I wrote an Nginx module to do the same thing in 2007. https://github.com/evanmiller/mod_zip The module is quite mature at this point, and is used in production on many websites (including Box.net, whic
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by EvanMiller 15y ago
The main benefits of running code in the Erlang VM are: 1. All network I/O is non-blocking, even if you write code in a blocking manner (i.e. no callback programming when writing scalable servers) 2. Erlang's processes are green threads, so
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Luerl - Lua on the Erlang VM(erlang.org)
61 points by EvanMiller 15y ago|8 comments
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by EvanMiller 15y ago
The alleged behavior of these companies is appalling to me. Halting an employee's application to another company is an abuse of power and amounts to theft. In my opinion the perpetrators here should do time in prison, just the same as execu
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by EvanMiller 15y ago
If you're looking for an Erlang web framework check out Chicago Boss. Brand new tutorial and everything: http://www.chicagoboss.org/ Of course, the project still needs some performance work, as highlighted in this post: http://labs.evolo
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by EvanMiller 15y ago
"In our tests, Go's performance blew away most of the competition." Since it didn't blow away "all" of the competition, this reader is curious about which other stacks held their ground. This reader is also curious as to why Erlang wasn't i
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by EvanMiller 15y ago
For those of you stuck with R14B or earlier, Thomas Lindgren's smart_exceptions library will add line number information to exception backtraces: https://github.com/thomasl/smart_exceptions
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by EvanMiller 15y ago
It is possible they didn't use the right tool for the job.
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by EvanMiller 15y ago
I think this is great news. I remember the excitement of first discovering Nginx back in 2006 and realizing that the world's most popular web server (Apache) was based on inferior technology. Here was this unknown proxy server written by on
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by EvanMiller 15y ago
This should be called "not-as-blocking" MySQL queries. As they say in the blog post, the calls to send and read still block, but they've made it so you don't call read until there is at least something to read. I imagine this will be an imp
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by EvanMiller 15y ago
The author emphasizes the first picture (which shows Misultin delivering 3X the throughput of a Node.js server), but I think the most interesting picture is the Response Times (picture #3). Look at the purple and yellow lines. When Node.js
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A benchmark comparison of Node.js, Tornado, and 3 Erlang servers(ostinelli.net)
95 points by EvanMiller 15y ago|33 comments
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by EvanMiller 15y ago
Looks neat, but I'm not sure how useful this will be in practice. If your problem domain seems to be linear, Eureqa won't offer any advantages over linear regression. If your problem domain is non-linear, Eureqa won't be able to answer the
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Comet Chat In 6 Lines Of Erlang [video](vimeo.com)
3 points by EvanMiller 16y ago|0 comments
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by EvanMiller 16y ago
I do wonder whether Stack Overflow will become a victim of their own success. By providing a place to get answers from experts to technical questions, actually employing an expert is worth much less than before. In other words, Stack Over
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by EvanMiller 16y ago
Learn C, then decide. 1. If you like programming logic puzzles then you will enjoy programming in C. In C, everything is a number, memory address, or byte array. So every "while" loop you write is a new logic puzzle! But seriously, the thin
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by EvanMiller 16y ago
Lessons learned: 1. Adding a feature to someone else's product is a risky business model. If it's popular, the product-maker will implement your feature, at which point your goose is cooked. 2. Adding a free feature to someone else's free p
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Sync vs. Async I/O in 5 minutes [video](livescribe.com)
1 points by EvanMiller 16y ago|0 comments
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by EvanMiller 16y ago
"3. Parallel action by competitors is in itself normally quite harmless and does not subject them to liabilities." Not sure what your sources are, but courts have ruled that parallel action can be sufficient evidence of conspiracy under Sec
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Ancient prototype for Facebook Wall found in Pompeii(books.google.com)
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by EvanMiller 16y ago
ErlyDTL, a Django Template Language compiler: http://github.com/evanmiller/erlydtl Chicago Boss, an MVC web framework in progress: http://github.com/evanmiller/ChicagoBoss This doesn't get mentioned enough, but Erlang has excellent comp

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