LukeHoersten

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by LukeHoersten 11y ago
Stripe's tech and customer service was unparalleled for the small business I had. Other guys like Braintree were just so far behind. If I hadn't used Stripe, I would have assumed the hype was over-hype as well. I don't think
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by LukeHoersten 11y ago
I didn't realize when first looking at it but this is an official Amazon application. The github account is "awslabs" and it's linked right at the top of the docs: https://aws.amazon.com/cli/
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by LukeHoersten 11y ago
Agreed. For those who didn't read to the end of the post they tacked this on the end: "Vagrant 1.8 is our first major Vagrant release since releasing Otto. There was a lot of concern around the future of Vagrant since announcing O
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by LukeHoersten 11y ago
Great points. I can attest to the fact that low-latency Java code looks nothing like idiomatic Java. Ironically, the techniques for writing low latency Java are the same in Haskell (avoiding object creation, boxing, garbage collection, etc)
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by LukeHoersten 11y ago
I prefer to work for smaller companies because of the way work and responsibility are divided. At large companies I've worked for, work gets divided into much smaller chunks so each developer is working on a very small sliver of the to
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by LukeHoersten 11y ago
Haskell's learning curve is certainly steeper than other popular general programming languages. But my view on that is best explained with an analogy: calculus is certainly harder to learn than arithmetic approximations but once learne
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by LukeHoersten 11y ago
Easily one of the best articles I've read on Medium or for free online in a long time. Funny and in-depth analysis of incumbent competition with great supporting evidence. Other comments here on HN are about the forced analogy or verbo
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by LukeHoersten 11y ago
Same here. ML-family languages are my favorite. Haskell seems to be the most popular though I may be biased considering I consider myself a Haskeller.
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by LukeHoersten 11y ago
This is a surprisingly clear and articulate explanation of digital currency mining and how it was used to mask a ponzi scheme by over-issuing securities against it. Well done SEC.
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by LukeHoersten 11y ago
awesome
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Google Launches ASUS OnHub Router with "Hand Wave"(amazon.com)
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Bitcoin purchasing power index(bitcoinppi.com)
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by LukeHoersten 11y ago
I've found the exact opposite to be true. With Postgresql, for example, strong types can be enforced through the entire application stack using tools like Opaleye. Check out composite types in Postgres and Opaleye to see what I'm
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by LukeHoersten 11y ago
I know John W from the Chicago Haskell group. He's great. Nothing more to say really. Perfect choice for the role.
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by LukeHoersten 11y ago
I switched to Lyft after having a verbally abusive driver. Uber support kept giving me canned responses. Finally I got a human over email and asked if I and my wife could be blocked from the driver. They said no, just cancel the ride if I s
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by LukeHoersten 11y ago
Pusher is doing some awesome stuff with Haskell! They run a lot of the bitcoin exchange web socket APIs on their infrastructure. I'm sure they have other users too. Cool stuff.
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by LukeHoersten 11y ago
Definitely a generalization but I think that's how it's viewed by many from 30k ft. I should have made it clearer that I was making an observation about a perception not my own views.
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by LukeHoersten 11y ago
Bitcoin is a solution. Ethereum is an experiment. Both noble pursuits.
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by LukeHoersten 11y ago
Agreed. http://www.chicagotribune.com
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by LukeHoersten 11y ago
Thanks for htop!
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Combining Rust and Haskell(tab.snarc.org)
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by LukeHoersten 11y ago
It's unfortunate how many CS graduates I talk to who haven't heard about this pretty simple concept. It's the kind of thing you get once you hear it and it's important to be aware of. Fortunately, many CS graduate do lea
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by LukeHoersten 11y ago
Great questions! I think you're right this is a tooling issue. Haskell has valgrind-like heap/memory analysis built right in but not much for thunk-based memory allocation. Neil's article is really about Haskell's thunk
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by LukeHoersten 11y ago
Completely agree. Laziness has too many benefits not to justify the added complexity of thunks and thunk-based space leaks. If you don't agree, don't use Haskell =)
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by LukeHoersten 11y ago
As someone who's programmed extensively in Haskell, Java, and C++, I would say each of these languages have their own problems regarding memory. Write a decent sized Java application and you will have a ton of memory usage and perhaps
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by LukeHoersten 11y ago
I wonder if these features will be available for Google Inbox on iOS.
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by LukeHoersten 11y ago
Impressive work and explanation regardless of the language being used but the code does look particularly simple and elegant.
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by LukeHoersten 11y ago
This is such a cool project as a whole. The domain, the simplicity of the project (curl wrapper), the fact that the homepage is basically a man page, the simple auth. It's just an awesome concept and really well done.
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by LukeHoersten 11y ago
Usually it feels like companies open source projects are kind of lame or just to look fashionable. These projects are extensive and awesome. I love the personal projects section at the bottom of the page. You can see why Stripe is so succes
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by LukeHoersten 11y ago
There are many routers out there that fit the bill of what you're looking for. I think Google's aim here is for the generic consumer that has wifi signal problems but doesn't want to fiddle with it. This seems more a competit

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