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631.
by Periodic 17y ago
This had me laughing out loud: "The same mistake is done on the Computer Language Benchmark Game. There's an Array sorting benchmark where Haskell just blows away even hand-optimized C. The secret is that the benchmark never prints out the
632.
by Periodic 17y ago
I have a four-day weekend coming up. I just lost it.
633.
by Periodic 17y ago
It is an apples to oranges comparison because Blackblaze is only including the cost of components in that graph for their solution, but they're including all of the research, development, assembly, and support costs in the other vendors' so
634.
by Periodic 17y ago
The cost they are quoting is the hardware cost. It isn't including developer time, housing costs, maintenance, etc. Hardware is cheap, power and developers aren't.
635.
by Periodic 17y ago
That's just the cost of hardware. How much more do you think it would cost if they included all their research and development, installation and assembly hours, etc? That is just the cost to buy all the components they have. If you budget
636.
by Periodic 17y ago
This is what always gets in my way. It takes a lot of work and a lot of expertise to put together a home-grown system that works as well as one from the major vendors. If you're only going to be using one or two, you're much better off goi
637.
by Periodic 17y ago
Brevity is a skill. Different things require different amounts of space to adequately explore, and there are different depths you can go to for different audiences. This post was rather long, but I agree that 140 characters is generally to
638.
by Periodic 17y ago
Re: @newsycombinator But then you've thrown out the voting and the comments, which is the whole reason I come to news.ycombinator.com. Did this article get 100 points or 10? Does it have 50 comments or 5? Time is precious. I need context!
639.
by Periodic 17y ago
I'm getting really tired of people saying, "just use Twitter, then you'll get it and you won't know how you lived without it." I tried, but I still don't get it. If I am just not using it "correctly", perhaps someone could enlighten me as
640.
by Periodic 17y ago
It feels to me that most* programming languages were created to solve a particular problem and use a particular style. If you are working in that problem domain then often that language will be best. If you are looking for a language to b
641.
by Periodic 17y ago
I've been really enjoying learning Haskell. I believe I'm still in a honeymoon phase though, and it too will pass, though it has lasted longer than for any other language.
642.
by Periodic 17y ago
I had a physics professor who used to drill into us during our labs that, "a number without an error estimate is meaningless." I didn't really get it at the time, and thought he was just being curmudgeonly. Now I understand how important i
643.
by Periodic 17y ago
[I did a quick search, didn't see anyone mention games yet, so I thought I should] People bitch and moan about this, but the fact is that for a lot of developers this won't be an issue. Why? Because the game market for the iPhone is HUGE
644.
by Periodic 17y ago
I see domain names being too close to trademarks for this to be viable. For many companies the domain name came first, and the trademark came second (e.g. Flickr, bit.ly, del.icio.us). If others could somehow come in and buy your domain n
645.
by Periodic 17y ago
These shoes were the ones that informed me that I am disabled. I never considered my mutation to be a deformity because it really didn't impact me until now. It is only after seeing these shoes a while back that I wasn't able to do someth
646.
by Periodic 17y ago
It's also part of this. Groupthink is a danger regardless. Either you're all trying to appease each other so no one tries to have different ideas or stand out, or you're all friends so no one with different ideas lasts.
647.
by Periodic 17y ago
Generally when people post their cute hack-logs they remove anything that would give any information as to how it happened. They aren't interested in showing off how they did it so much as that they did it. It's all part of the hacker-kid
648.
by Periodic 17y ago
It's pretty obvious that this is written like a rant. He's been trying to get into Android on the G1 but has gotten frustrated. Now he's venting. However, he does point out how many of his issues can be solved and after his list he makes
649.
by Periodic 17y ago
It really is more if a general reference document or a summary. Most of the Haskell books I've come across are presented in the tutorial style where they slowly present new concepts. This makes it hard to find simple definitions for things
650.
by Periodic 17y ago
The appendix a popular target just because people aren't entirely sure what it is there for, or weren't for a long time. In recent years we have found more evidence that it has a function in the immune system and in the health and homeosta
651.
by Periodic 17y ago
I see what the GPL wants to do as quite noble. It's a share-and-share-alike system. I've run into many people who are very opposed to the GPL, generally because they can't build upon GPL code without being required to release their code un
652.
by Periodic 17y ago
It's an interesting idea. I need an echo chamber, er, like-minded group to prevent me from going crazy working with these imperative biologists.
653.
by Periodic 17y ago
I'm probably going to be buying a smart phone in the next year. I'm finding myself leaning more and more towards an Android phone as the applications at least seem more open. I like a lot more control over my device than Apple seems to wa
654.
by Periodic 17y ago
I had 450 with AT&T. It cost $35/month or so (I can't remember the intro and long-term rates). I'd gladly take 50 for only $15.
655.
by Periodic 17y ago
But the point is that the app is already loaded. It's just shifting the burden of loading from dock click to startup. The users probably won't notice that their system takes longer to start because it already takes so long compared to the
656.
by Periodic 17y ago
Publishers, please, please allow us to buy electronic versions of your books. Just make it reasonably cheap ($5-10 instead of the full $50?) and in multiple formats (PDF and HTML are my favorites), and I will gladly buy them. I have a lot
657.
by Periodic 17y ago
I had this problem too. It sounded like he was upset that software written for Linux and assuming Linux tools doesn't run on his pristine server. It sounded like he wanted everything to compile on his old Digital Tru64 Unix Alpha box. I
658.
by Periodic 17y ago
Yell at them script kiddies to get off my public interfaces!
659.
by Periodic 17y ago
Maybe I'm privileged then, because I got used to downloading software written for Linux and not necessarily getting it to compile without a few tweaks for my specific setup. It taught me my way around the OS and really helped me learn how
660.
by Periodic 17y ago
I don't think you can blow the stack. They do Tail Recursion Optimization, meaning they don't maintain a stack of previous web pages since the information isn't required anymore.

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