alnayyir

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   by alnayyir 15y ago

   Nihilism by definition would actually eliminate these issues because they would leave the subjects with nothing to fight over. I don't think that word means what you think it means. Please stop blaming the world's problems on amorphous and
2. 182.▲
   by alnayyir 15y ago

   >now-departed Karma appears to have manifested outside of Reddit.
3. 183.▲
   by alnayyir 15y ago

   I agree with the general thrust of this, but I don't think hackerne.ws needs more Mises.
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   by alnayyir 15y ago

   Half the time, simply having transactional behavior on the application side is "enough" reliability for most. App node goes down? Meh. If it's important, it'll get submitted again.
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   by alnayyir 15y ago

   > (though, I'm not proficient in functional programming, so that might be why I find it complicated). Hint.
6. 186.▲
   by alnayyir 15y ago

   Well at least he followed up. Most people don't bother to correct their mistakes.
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   by alnayyir 15y ago

   You're not familiar with Mike Pall I take it?
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   by alnayyir 15y ago

   Do we need another fractional Lisp that reuses Python/Ruby/IO syntax? Just give me the power of Lisp and more in a new and interesting way and we'll discuss implementation performance later. Oh look, operator precedence. Yet another thing p
9. 189.▲
   by alnayyir 15y ago

   YC disagrees.
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    by alnayyir 15y ago

    Boston/Cambridge is an academically oriented area, not as startup/private sector focused. Of course MIT-land would be obsessed with credentials.
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    by alnayyir 15y ago

    That is corporate jobs, not the hacker community. I don't have so much as a single college credit to my name and the harvard educated CTO of my company didn't even mention it when I got hired. Stop reading monster.com job posts thinking it
12. 192.▲
    by alnayyir 15y ago

    So your friends were master debaters?
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    by alnayyir 15y ago

    A Haskell post not submitted by dons? Pinch me.
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    by alnayyir 15y ago

    Try using it sometime. I work for a startup that is in computer vision and managing our OpenCV dependent code is the least favorite part of my job.
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    by alnayyir 15y ago

    Kids, this is why we learn math. So we don't waste our time on what is impossible. Not to the business' advantage to know anyway, more damages.
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    by alnayyir 15y ago

    It's a serious question, not some kind of ideal strawman.
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    by alnayyir 15y ago

    I hate to be "that guy" but is this sort of contentless conjecture and armchair quarterbacking what the community really wants for HN? Is there an alternative community that expressly discusses ideas and code?
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    by alnayyir 15y ago

    I have the "learncthehardway.com" domain, waiting for Zed to stop being so insanely busy so that I can do the hand-off. :)
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    by alnayyir 15y ago

    My mother was #4. Zed Shaw was #7. The guy I worked on HNOfficeHours with is #1.
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    by alnayyir 15y ago

    Nothing public-facing. Next?
21. 201.▲
    by alnayyir 15y ago

    No, just that MrGrim is getting ripped off because he doesn't know the industry.
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    by alnayyir 15y ago

    Cursory is what people mean when they mistakenly use peruse. A cursory examination is not a thorough one.
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    by alnayyir 15y ago

    Bemused doesn't mean that, it means puzzled, bewildered, or confused. Also, peruse means to pore over meticulously, not glance over.
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    by alnayyir 15y ago

    >For an hourly fee, I'll even teach you to sound like an adult in your written communication (ROI out the wazoo). People posting jobs on HN, please give this person your money. Please.
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    by alnayyir 15y ago

    Downvoters who may not know better: it's generally expected that if you downvote someone, you will accompany that with an explanation of why you downvoted. We're here to communicate, not bicker over popularity contests.
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    by alnayyir 15y ago

    Hypocrisy is the norm with much of what passes through here. At least GS employees don't have any pretensions to holiness. I'd much rather work with people who are honest with themselves about their motivations than who try to push the suff
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    by alnayyir 15y ago

    I avoid unnecessary complication but wrapping your head around infrastructural complexity is part of being a programmer.
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    by alnayyir 15y ago

    We don't need more "victory" here.
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    by alnayyir 15y ago

    To better understand Ruby itself, which is critical: http://rubykoans.com/
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    by alnayyir 15y ago

    Yep, but first you spend all the time you saved tracking it down.