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by al3x 16y ago
Coworking spaces are great, but good coworking spaces are hard to find. I toured and worked from every coworking space I could find in Portland before settling at the one I presently work out of. I'm happy with it, but not thrilled; I've ta
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by al3x 16y ago
http://github.com/al3x/emacs
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by al3x 16y ago
Thank you!
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by al3x 16y ago
Hi Max, Normally I wouldn't respond to a comment like this, but the value of Hacker News is in fostering discussions about the business of startups. You actually pose some interesting questions, and hopefully I can offer useful answers for
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by al3x 16y ago
It's not so much that I'm "hung up" on local physical concurrency, just that I don't see any reason to ignore easy gains. You can write maintainable, correct, concurrent programs that scale across cores today if you use technologies other t
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by al3x 16y ago
The complexities of scaling Twitter have been pretty thoroughly discussed elsewhere, both by Twitter staff and informed third parties. At this point in time, I don't really want to comment any further on what issues they may or may not be h
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by al3x 16y ago
For what it's worth, I don't think Twitter currently counts as a scaling success story either. Hence this in my post: "Twitter is still fighting an uphill battle to scale in the large, because doing so is about much, much more than which te
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by al3x 16y ago
When it comes to the Go language, bare-metal performance certainly seemed to be something Pike was giving a shit about when he spoke last week at OSCON and the Emerging Languages Camp I organized. Go in its current fairly young stage has pe
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by al3x 16y ago
There are regulatory challenges, but the other two BankSimple guys (the real brains) have figured out a ton. I'm confident we can do some cool stuff.
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by al3x 16y ago
We'll get there. Running lean right now.
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by al3x 16y ago
I was just as dubious about what could really be done until I talked to the guys who are now my co-founders. There's actually a ton of good stuff that can be done, today, in the current regulatory environment. The future looks good.
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by al3x 16y ago
Hi Max, I understand where you're coming from. The simplest answer is: if you don't want to bank with us, then don't. We don't imagine that we'll replace every bank ever. There are plenty of traditional banks that may be going bust left and
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by al3x 17y ago
Bullshit called. This article is talking about an application that few people, even geeks, would ever consider running on a mobile device: a database application. Plus, it's not even a particularly nice looking database application. This is
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by al3x 17y ago
I was frustrated by the same aspect of the Android ecosystem, until I had this minor revelation: it's not really about "the" phone, it's about the phone that works best for you. The nice thing about Android is that you can pick the carrier,
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Announcing the First Emerging Languages Conference(emerginglangs.com)
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by al3x 17y ago
I bought a license for Fever, and I hated it. It's a lovely UI and a great concept, but in practice it ended up requiring a ton of fiddling to essentially end up with Techmeme (that is, it only floats content to the top based on inbound lin
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by al3x 17y ago
This is a particularly valueless comparative assessment of some programming languages, with a focus on Clojure. I'm surprised that it was posted here, and more surprised that it's getting up-voted. But then, people don't really want hard co
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by al3x 17y ago
I grew up on the East Coast. I can deal with harsh winters. Plus, I'm only happy when it rains.
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by al3x 17y ago
Getting feedback on posts before I publish has been valuable. If and when I get back to blogging, I'll be soliciting that peer feedback for each and every post. Great advice. Thanks!
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by al3x 17y ago
>> Point is, when you have good partnerships that are not just fluff, you also need solid communication. You really, really do. While I don't think the various tech blogs that "reported" on my tweet did anyone a service by blowing i
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by al3x 17y ago
You're joking, but honestly, I really do think there's going to be a wave of private/closed-community products that counterbalance the boom in highly social technology over the past few years.
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by al3x 17y ago
That's pretty much it. I have people who read my blog regularly, and if I didn't explain why I was taking a break, they'd want to know. I didn't intend the post to be on HN. I didn't submit the post to HN. I didn't upvote the post on HN.
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by al3x 17y ago
No, he didn't. For one, he quit blogging, whereas I'm just taking a break. For another, I don't read Joel.
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by al3x 17y ago
Google has announced their intention to bring Buzz to Google Apps. The nice thing is that as a Google Apps administrator, you can pick and choose which features/products are available to your users (ie, you). So even if they do make Buzz av
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by al3x 17y ago
The guys who were really pushing Bespin forward went to Palm several months ago. The project looks great, but it may not have the same velocity right now.
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Web Developers Are Stupid and Arrogant(fupeg.blogspot.com)
39 points by al3x 17y ago|19 comments
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by al3x 17y ago
Flattered to see these on here, but the slides won't tell you much without the accompanying talk. The video will be up on DZone before too long, along with the rest of the great talks at Strange Loop 2009.
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by al3x 17y ago
Read the source to Marcel Molina's AWS::S3.
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by al3x 17y ago
1. Stop using IM. Period. Not just when you're working. All the time. You don't need it. There's email, SMS, phone calls, Twitter, and other social messaging services. IM is the most brutally distracting and easiest way to waste time when t
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by al3x 17y ago
I only periodically experiment with Emacs as my day-to-day editor, but my configuration isn't too shabby: http://github.com/al3x/emacs

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