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by TY 15y ago
Agreed, this is "a great success": my family budget can finally move from Excel/Dropbox to Google Docs. On a more serious note, this does open up some interesting possibilities for Business Intelligence "in da cloud". Pivot tables coupled w
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by TY 15y ago
I detect sarcasm here, however Autodesk is a great success story at least if you look at it from financial point of view. They managed to built a graphics software empire buying pretty much anything that they could acquire. Think Oracle but
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by TY 15y ago
Redis cluster will be great when it gets here. I really like 2 new features in 2.4: - variadic versions of functions to reduce pipelining. This will reduce latency in my write-happy app - memory optimized memory sets that will saves me mone
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by TY 15y ago
Actually, I don't see any reinvention of Erlang's core features here: - Erlang: a functional language based on actor model that allows to create distributed applications easily as actors don't share state (plus much more that I won't mentio
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by TY 15y ago
Unfortunately, it's not that easy. Don't forget about the impact of SQL parsing and connection costs. Here is a very illuminating post about it: http://yoshinorimatsunobu.blogspot.com/2010/10/using-mysql-a... The authors created a MySQL p
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by TY 15y ago
It's real and it's happening now. I have nothing to do with online gambling (anymore), but this just sent shivers down my spine. Who's next? The US Government has just strengthened the case of those who were concerned about having parts of
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by TY 15y ago
Most of the essay can summarized by this quote from it: Lisp is so powerful that problems which are technical issues in other programming languages are social issues in Lisp. While this is not a bad essay I'm experiencing a fat
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by TY 16y ago
Can't agree more. I worked for an online gambling company for several years in the analytics area. I saw young players rise meteorically, win millions (not exaggerating) and eventually go broke. Almost everyone is human. Once losses start t
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by TY 16y ago
And Bodhi was the name of Patrick Swayze's character in "Point Break", so in a mind of a movie geek it makes total sense to think of this distro as Linux for (web) surfers...
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by TY 16y ago
Thank you for a good article, Travis. Quick side note - you might want to add simple validation for sign up form for exipe.com - it currently accepts empty string as a valid value.
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by TY 16y ago
Interestingly, all of them purchased by Amazon.
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by TY 16y ago
... and soon there were no more great worms and the spice stopped to flow. Sorry, just couldn't resist.
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by TY 16y ago
Thanks to WSGI you can. For example, here's a handy page in Flask's (outstanding I might note) documentation on how you can run it on Tornado, Gevent and Gunicorn: http://flask.pocoo.org/docs/deploying/others/
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by TY 16y ago
Please do lets us know about this, I read PDFs on my computers and ePubs on my portable devices. And thank you for the book and the awesome video and comic! :-)
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by TY 16y ago
I think he probably spoke about "Designing and Programming Personal Expert Systems" by Carl Townsend that dates back to 1986. From http://www.faqs.org/faqs/computer-lang/forth-faq/part5/ Contains LISP and Prolog emulations in Forth,
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by TY 16y ago
This is a very interesting product from the great Chuck Moore that needs a "killer app" to take off. I wish I had time to invest in it... What's interesting is how different this company is from the idea of a startup that most of us here ha
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by TY 16y ago
When Soviet Union still existed, we had weekly "civil defence" classes where we were taught a number of interesting things such as what to do in case of a nuclear attack, why we will win the war and what to do with the weapons (boys) or how
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by TY 16y ago
AK-47 is the simplest automatic weapon that I've seen. When I was in high-school I could take it apart in 7-8 seconds. It's simplicity and reliability are remarkably astounding.
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by TY 16y ago
Thank you, I'll be looking forward to the release of the electronic versions of the book.
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by TY 16y ago
Any plans to release the book in electronic formats (pdf and epub)?
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by TY 16y ago
From the end of the article: PS If you need a bit more beautiful simplicity go and read about NAND logic and realize that they are all you're ever going to need. A wonderful demonstration of how this can be done can be found in the "The E
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Depositing Checks, Right From Your Phone(gadgetwise.blogs.nytimes.com)
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Scale-out vs Scale-up(natishalom.typepad.com)
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by TY 16y ago
To the question of why it was sold to a company with such a vastly different culture. Because it does not matter to the shareholders what kind of culture Oracle has. The only metric that mattered was how much money Oracle was willing to pay
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by TY 16y ago
Does anyone on HN use any of these hashing functions? Or sticking to SHA2 family till SHA3 finalist is announced is your strategy? Or do you simply not care at all and use SHA1 or MD5 because it's easy?
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Ask HN: What is your SHA Strategy?(csrc.nist.gov)
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by TY 16y ago
Jason, the interview with Richard Dolan (UFO guy) was the best show in my memory and I listened to almost all of Techzing episodes.
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by TY 16y ago
Great article, thanks for the link. Couple more helpful links for some basics not covered in the article (all work in progress): Compojure docs: http://www.compojure.org Stub for "Clojure Web Development" book: https://docs.google.com/Do
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Another OReilly 50% off e-book promotion - ends 7/30
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by TY 16y ago
Here is the direct link to the PDF version of the second edition published in 1994 (third one published in 2006 is in print though): http://www.math.upenn.edu/~wilf/gfology2.pdf

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