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by MCRed 12y ago
It really is concurrent and at a fundamental level, eg: it's supported in the VM. The JVM does not support it. It's not a language feature that simulates concurrency and it's not throwing the baby out with the bathwater an
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by MCRed 12y ago
Haskell's not new compared to Elixir which got it's 1.0 release last summer. It is new compared to erlang which has been around longer than the startup CEO in silicon valley has been alive. :-) Also "new" is one of tho
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by MCRed 12y ago
Elixir is one of the best ways to program erlang. I learned erlang first, many years ago, and I don't really think of them as different languages. Yes, they have different syntaxes and yes Elixir has added features. But when I'
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by MCRed 12y ago
Those weren't unnecessary digs at Google and Microsoft. They were illustrations to show how this technique works. Believe it or not, I was trying got make it clear that I'm not just an Amazon basher, but that I'm recognizing
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by MCRed 12y ago
The bottom line is always about money. What's the money here? It's not the money made from hosting, it's all about the P/E. Tech companies have high P/E ratios. Retailers do not. Amazon is a retailer whose most
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by MCRed 12y ago
If everyone who opposed the War on Drugs had instead of voting for it's Architect in the last two elections, or the other guy, had actually voted for either the Green Party or Libertarian Party candidates, things would be very differen
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by MCRed 12y ago
You might enjoy reading the pre-amble to the Bill of Rights. I could tell you, but you'll appreciate it more when you see it yourself. It gives context to the Bill of Rights that I think most people have forgotten. It also makes it cl
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by MCRed 12y ago
Reading thru these tests they are measuring database performance as much as framework performance. They are also single node which is great if you're entire system is only going to ever need one machine's worth of capacity (Eg: ve
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by MCRed 12y ago
I think it's really useful to watch the video of the "failure". The guy explains the value add and PG is just not getting it. He didn't do a bad job of pitching, but he would be answering the question and getting to th
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by MCRed 12y ago
This is reminding me of the movie Real Genius. A must watch for hackers. Anyway the guys build a really big laser under pressure from a professor and realize at one point that there's a reason the laser needs to be that big-- it&#x27
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by MCRed 12y ago
I think that's kinda silly to say. I knew there was going to be a housing bubble in 2001, before 9/11. The reason was the the changes to the CRA under clinton forced banks to make uneconomic loans (Because otherwise was conside
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by MCRed 12y ago
CPI dramatically understates inflation, because non-compressible, and non-substitutable items are excluded (such as fuel.) The basket of CPI goods is arbitrary and changed from time to time to massage the numbers, and the things that would
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by MCRed 12y ago
Yes, and having travelled extensively and lived in Mexico and Chile, my experience tells me that while the USA has failed to have adequate checks and balances, other countries often have even less. I loved both of those countries, but I wo
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by MCRed 12y ago
Supreme Court, Legislative and ultimately voting are all mechanisms that should moderate corruption. The problem is all of these mechanisms are controlled by the government, which is the source of the corruption. Even voting-- I do believe
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by MCRed 12y ago
All people have an agenda. Their agenda generally favors themselves in some way or another. We, as the potential victims of injustice want a real, actual, scientific, blind justice system that presumes innocence and requires proof beyond a
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by MCRed 12y ago
Think about the hypothesis that all fingerprints are unique. That's voodoo. First off you would have to fingerprint everybody to check it. And secondly they don't actually match fingerprints, but match a description of the fing
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by MCRed 12y ago
A few years ago I remember reading reports of the FBI forensic labs doing much worse-- taking evidence from the crime scene and contaminating evidence taken from the accused with it so that it would produce a "match" and the like.
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by MCRed 12y ago
Having a minority opinion is often perceived as "provocative" by people who feel threatened by that opinion, no matter how well articulated. These days the feeling of being "threatened" is at an all time high. (I say th
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by MCRed 12y ago
Yeah, that should be table stakes.
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by MCRed 12y ago
Couchbase is well established and reliable, has a track record going back to memcached and couchdb. And they're moving very fast with good features (but the way they do it their paid enterprise edition has the new features while the c
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by MCRed 12y ago
There are many kinds of bridge loans. But one that's very relevant to HN readers is the bridge loans offered by VCs to startups. Let me relate to you one experience. I experienced this directly. The startup was very profitably using c
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by MCRed 12y ago
This article is pure propaganda. Look at the "flavoring" in it, it's sneering, snotty, and has strong indications of being dishonest: > a man from McKinsey insisted that “while it isn’t politically correct to say so”, the
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by MCRed 12y ago
This was posted yesterday, and variations of it have been posted regularly over the last year. (just search "schools" and "iPad" in the search box at the bottom.) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=938
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by MCRed 12y ago
OMG, I didn't realize it was December. I was assuming next May. Going from the cinematography and art direction this movie seems to have more in common with the original trilogy than the second trilogy. Which is great. So much detail,
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by MCRed 12y ago
Yeah, Hacker News is full of not only censorship, but doing it secretly. I've been on this site since at least 2007. For instance, I once had my account hellbanned for talking about how I'd met grace hopper as a kid. Seriously,
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by MCRed 12y ago
These "secret orders" are an abuse of power, and we already have many indications that they are being abused (eg: more used for going after drug dealers than terrorists, which was the "justification" for them originally.
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by MCRed 12y ago
"Good germans," even years after war, were certain there's no way their government could have perpetrated something like the holocaust and were convinced it was just allied propaganda. Hence the phrase "good germans&quot
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by MCRed 12y ago
Git commits are hashes of the patches, right? So, while it would be difficult to change the blockchain of bitcoin because its widely distributed and computationally expensive, it wouldn't be too hard to do it to git. Process would be
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by MCRed 12y ago
In answer to your question, corruption. Buying influence, access and lucrative contracts is a lot more common than I think people seem to think about on a day to day basis.
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by MCRed 12y ago
Isn't nokia owned by Microsoft? So, shouldn't this be Microsoft buys Alcatel-Lucent?

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