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by akg 15y ago
An interesting take on Operating System design is the Synthesis Kernel that makes use of techniques like lockless data structures and run-time code synthesis: http://valerieaurora.org/synthesis/SynthesisOS/
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by akg 15y ago
I agree about the point regarding tile based window managers. Few others come close to maximizing productivity of windowed apps; but OSX's various other productivity enhancing features make it not worthwhile to switch back. Of course tools
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by akg 15y ago
I was a long-time lurker as well for the same reason. I do find however, that participating in the community opens up new discussions and I can further my learning by connecting with other people. It's always a learning experience to have d
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by akg 15y ago
It's interesting to see how different social networks tend to heavily favor certain topics of discussion. For example, I have yet to find intellectual discussions on my Facebook friend feed...then again, that probably says more about my fri
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by akg 15y ago
Interesting idea to use optionally registered accounts for moderation; although I guess it kind of digresses from the point of anonymous posts. Interesting idea to use mturk, it would probably be cost effective but the turn-around time may
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by akg 15y ago
This seems to be a general problem with anonymous posting venues. The amount of spam is often inversely proportional to the effort required to distribute the spam. I wonder if the app's user community can fight against it by using a simple
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by akg 15y ago
I think there is an unbalanced amount of effort and enthusiasm spent these days on development methodologies: agile, waterfall, what-have-you. I think the thing that makes or breaks a product is the customers; and customers don't care if yo
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by akg 15y ago
I will also reference PG's essay on Great Hackers. He explains pretty clearly what great developers want: http://www.paulgraham.com/gh.html Also, as PG mentions in the essay, it is hard to recognize great developers unless you have worked
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by akg 15y ago
For those interested, here is a pretty good discussion on HN comparing different NoSQL DBs: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2052852
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by akg 15y ago
Querty with the Kinesis keyboard ( http://www.kinesis-ergo.com/ ). I considered learning Dvorak for comfort and speed advantages, but it's a bit daunting and time-consuming to get used to. I opted to get the contoured kinesis keyboard inste
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by akg 15y ago
Exactly right. A startup's project is their bread and butter making them all the more inspired to do the best they can. Where as a Google can just write it off if it doesn't work out; they also probably won't have their best people working
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by akg 15y ago
There are several other reasons regarding why startups win: * Startups usually have great hackers. Business is about people, and successful startups are started with or staffed with great developers who are exponentially more productive tha
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by akg 15y ago
Has anyone looked at How to Design Programs? http://www.htdp.org/ It seems to steer away from PL details and focus more on how to design programs and think about programming.
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by akg 15y ago
I don't subscribe to the dogma about tools. You should use what ever gets the job done. I personally use Firefox for debugging (I love FireBug). I use Safari for general browsing, mostly because of the integration of Bookmarks and Reading L
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by akg 15y ago
A lot of creativity is stemmed from asking is the right questions. Children, as a result of their lack of knowledge, make connections with the few things they do know and thus interpret questions in ways that adults might not think of. Thei
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by akg 15y ago
I've been using jekyll with linode quite successfully. Haven't really had any problems. I did have to make some modifications to the Jekyll source to modify the way it finds posts (I don't like that it only looks for posts that have dates i
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by akg 15y ago
Boss: We have too many customer support calls. Can you work on fixing the open tickets so that these issues go away. Me: Sure thing. Boss (2 hrs later): Why aren't you answering the phone for our customer support calls!?
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by akg 15y ago
The author touches on a very important point here by distinguishing determination and grit. I think most of us, myself included, will use sheer willpower and determination to perform tasks on a super-human level, e.g., work 20 hrs/day, stop
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by akg 15y ago
I wonder if being uberly social about things will eventually lead to the anti-social revolution. Who's in for creating the next big wave, "deface book"? Actually, that's not a bad idea, Defacebook will let you create mustaches on your frien
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by akg 15y ago
This reminds me of the dichotomy that Apple and Microsoft faced when developing their empires. There are two major camps I think: one that ties in hardware + software (native apps) and one that relies on software with disregard to the under
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by akg 15y ago
You're totally right. I think when I say "coding", I don't literally mean writing code. Coding requires different facets of creation: designing, testing, etc. I think another way to say point 1, is to say that the person should be passionat
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by akg 15y ago
Newton has been an inspiration. There was a famous quote by him that always stuck by me: "If others would think as hard as I did, then they would get similar results."
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by akg 15y ago
I usually use the criteria of "What does this person do in their spare time?" There should be two things that they should be doing: 1. They should be coding all the time. Not just for their current job, but because they genuinely like it. T
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by akg 15y ago
After few months of reading hacker news articles and reading comments I decided to be a part of this community. The discussions here are of the highest caliber from any other community out there. Already over the past few days of joining, I
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by akg 15y ago
I think as the distribution channels of music become more prominent through services like Spotify, it will give them a significantly more bargaining power. I think consumer behavior and notable popular services will change the music industr
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by akg 15y ago
Awesome! Should be interesting to see a slew of new collaborative tools and games coming out soon!
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by akg 15y ago
You're right. But it was after that pain-staking experience that I became fully engrossed in using unittests for all non-trivial functionality. Live and learn.
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by akg 15y ago
I really think there are some really powerful applications for this going forward. Building computation/logical rules into the materials to organically create complex structures might be one way to achieve goals synthetic approaches cannot.
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by akg 15y ago
I was always curious how they measured these things. Does anyone have a good reference that doesn't involve years of particle physics study?
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by akg 15y ago
Is that available commercially in the US? I can see many potential applications for something like this.

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