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   by alexpopescu 14y ago

   > Especially .run() feels a bit weird, can you make queries lazy (like Django's QuerySets, which only run when evaluated)? In a way queries are lazy. You can write a query and without calling `run` on it nothing happens. The whole chain
2. 62.▲
   by alexpopescu 14y ago

   Awesome feedback! Let me try to address some of these questions here, before figuring out how to improve the tutorial. `r`: is the top level ReQL namespace that gives you access to the functions defined r.db('name'): is accessing the 'test'
3. 63.▲
   by alexpopescu 14y ago

   personal != marketing P(biased|personal) -> 1
4. 64.▲
   by alexpopescu 14y ago

   > However, does anyone have any practical real-world experience using it? It's not production ready (from what I gather), but has anybody actually used it for real world stuff? There are people that told us they are experimenting with i
5. 65.▲
   by alexpopescu 14y ago

   I'm not sure I get it... analytics for server side?
6. 66.▲
   by alexpopescu 14y ago

   Why not adding a comment to make that clear?
7. 67.▲
   by alexpopescu 14y ago

   I would have actually appreciated more your comment above, then that cold press release.
8. 68.▲
   by alexpopescu 14y ago

   If his business tips and ideas are similar to the 5 things mentioned in the post, I'm really not sure what companies he's consulting for.
9. 69.▲
   by alexpopescu 14y ago

   I'd recommend the first 200+/- pages. Afterwards it just keeps repeating.
10. 70.▲
    by alexpopescu 14y ago

    Ask HN: 1. how many of you have actually bought a promised product with a clear deadline? 2. how many of you have actually bought a promised product with no deadline? In my case the answer is 0 for both.
11. 71.▲
    by alexpopescu 14y ago

    I'm half way through the article... and I still haven't figured out what the future looks like. Anyone could summarize it here?
12. 72.▲
    by alexpopescu 14y ago

    That has been my combo for a long time. I've switched though to the uniball sign 0.38mm and zebra sarasa 0.4mm which I seem to enjoy more (non scratchy, nice ink flow)
13. 73.▲
    by alexpopescu 14y ago

    I use the following pens (all of them are 0.38mm/0.4mm/0.5mm): - Zebra Sarasa (0.4mm) - uniball signo 0.38mm - Pilot Hi-Tec-C - Pilot G2 Pro (0.5mm)
14. 74.▲
    by alexpopescu 14y ago

    The clean link: http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2013/01/03/google-larry-page/
15. 75.▲
    by alexpopescu 14y ago

    Interestingly after reading the post I've realized that while I've been using the more advanced stuff, I was missing the first 2 basic ones.
16. 76.▲
    by alexpopescu 14y ago

    Where did you get the data for Asterank? The visualization part looks pretty neat.
17. 77.▲
    by alexpopescu 14y ago

    I'm wondering if we could get a quick script to count how many pages are in the 75 books listed so we can understand how much did he actually read :-D.
18. 78.▲
    by alexpopescu 14y ago

    Some pictures taken by The Verge: http://www.theverge.com/2012/12/20/3788608/spacewar-history-...
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    Spacewar Video Games Blast Off: Exhibition at Museum of the Moving Image in NY(movingimage.us)

    1 points by alexpopescu 14y ago|1 comments
20. 80.▲
    by alexpopescu 14y ago

    ETL-as-a-Service
21. 81.▲
    by alexpopescu 14y ago

    Looks nice. I'd probably mention somewhere in the page that this is a Dropbox-based alternative solution to Droplr or CloudApp
22. 82.▲
    by alexpopescu 14y ago

    > No one actually uses disks in such a fashion Not sure what you mean... there are quite a few data storage & processing tools out there that use a log-structured on-disk storage that were designed to read/write sequentially. These
23. 83.▲
    by alexpopescu 14y ago

    > Can you demonstrate in these other cases that Oracle, for example, was first used by people who thought it was "cool" and insisted on it being free, and worked their way up to "people should pay $150k a year on this"? No, I cannot do
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    by alexpopescu 14y ago

    > I haven't heard RDBMS systems have to justify "look, this company used us at scale and we worked fine" in years. The main reason you've not heard this recently is because RDBMS have been around for 30+years. If we could go back to tho
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    by alexpopescu 14y ago

    This is an as wide discussion as static vs dynamic typing in programming languages. Both approaches come with their pros and cons and their impact varies from project to project. (re-reading this part feels pretty plain unfortunately) It's
26. 86.▲
    by alexpopescu 14y ago

    Could you make just a small change to the app to show who will win tonight?
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    by alexpopescu 14y ago

    This is a joke... I'm not sure why but every time I'm seeing the word ninja/guru in a title I'm 99% convinced that what I'll be reading is the most basic stuff. PS: (not connect with the product) for Mac: http://www.cheatsheetapp.com/Chea
28. 88.▲
    by alexpopescu 14y ago

    Is this a climber or just a shadow? http://cl.ly/image/3m3K3x0n3k1U
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    by alexpopescu 14y ago

    My understanding--which might be completely wrong--is that growth hackers are people coming up with "new" non-classical marketing approaches. Oftentimes these experiments seem to be based on real data analysis.
30. 90.▲
    by alexpopescu 14y ago

    I used Wunderlist in its initial incarnation and loved the automatic sync across all my devices. But I moved away because there were a couple of features I needed it didn't support. Unfortunately I cannot remember which were these and it's