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by amirmc 12y ago
Thanks. In hindsight that should have been an obvious place for me to look.
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by amirmc 12y ago
> "What is too heavyweight is a VM image of a conventional operating system distribution with all of the baggage that it brings." Indeed. I didn't realise that Docker/Container folks had ever said VMs were too heavy
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by amirmc 12y ago
The fun thing about this is that you can try it out locally and apparently it took (about) an afternoon to put together (most of the work is in rewriting URLs). This kind of fast experimentation is going to lead to some really cool things h
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A unikernel experiment: A VM for every URL(skjegstad.com)
94 points by amirmc 12y ago|32 comments
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by amirmc 12y ago
If you can hook in FB data then you might be able to figure out so much more about the users/visitors (what's more likely to work for a given visitor). I'm impressed by the product/service but I'm so jaded about &
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by amirmc 12y ago
This is quite frustrating. There's a lesson here in keeping mirrors of projects in multiple places. That things can be 'disappeared' from GitHub is because not enough people do this anymore.
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by amirmc 12y ago
Why? Because you find it unfathomable that people would do this? Do you also believe that people never fall for 419 scams? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/419_scams
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by amirmc 12y ago
What you've stated is exactly why they can can be subverted. Pretty much every influence, sales, negotiation book will cover these mechanisms. None of this is new. If you want the short version, read the 6 principles that Cialdini r
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by amirmc 12y ago
It seems to me that you haven't looked into this space at all . See Table 2 in [1] for a list of other implementations. I'm perfectly happy about how MirageOS is doing and I'm glad there are options that allow people to choo
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by amirmc 12y ago
> "Mirageos is not going to drive uptake of ocaml in any big way" Right, because Unix had no effect on the number of people working in C. > "It makes more sense to give the people the tools they need to get the job d
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by amirmc 12y ago
> "... which seems something of a dead end." Based on what , exactly? If anything 'all this effort' should indicate the complete opposite of what you state.
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by amirmc 12y ago
If any of these prompt you to think of new potential projects that's cool too. Just email the list to discuss it. Also, a few folks raised a question about what the difficulty levels actually mean [1]. If you're new to OCaml then
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by amirmc 12y ago
You might find the intro to Real World OCaml interesting as these ideas have percolated out from languages such as OCaml. It's great if that helps lower the barrier for people to try it out. https://realworldocaml.org/
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by amirmc 12y ago
> "there needs to be major force to drive useful functionality down into canonical library packages" This tends to happen over time, as the community naturally converges on certain libraries, but it's rather opaque for a
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by amirmc 12y ago
If anyone would like to do things with Cmdliner, then there are few libs that would be great to have as stand-alone executables (it's part of the MirageOS Pioneer Projects) [1]. https://github.com/mirage/mirage-www
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by amirmc 12y ago
> "Is this time to admit we simply can't do manual memory management at this level and move to something else? I know the performance boost is tempting, but I think we can't afford the consequences." People have bui
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by amirmc 12y ago
This tells me it was a poorly organised competition to begin with. The blurb clearly indicates it's for new companies/ideas (for some definition of new). However, the eligibility criteria only states that you are a US (Mastercar
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Data Mining Reveals When a Yellow Taxi Is Cheaper Than Uber(technologyreview.com)
5 points by amirmc 12y ago|0 comments
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by amirmc 12y ago
A few of the OCaml projects are showing up under Standard ML [1]. A little disappointing since anyone using OCaml would really benefit from finding out about Merlin (see the link). This is due to a recent issue (or regression) with how Gi
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by amirmc 12y ago
Sadly, this has the perverse effect of forcing otherwise happy people to act like they might be a flight risk, otherwise they risk being passed-over for interesting opportunities, raises etc. If you're not playing that game then you&
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by amirmc 12y ago
> "Open Source is a flat structure and seems to work in many awesome ways." and "... naturally occurring ones seem to evolve better and work better." I agree that open source is awesome but successful projects a
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by amirmc 12y ago
> "... just for the sake of change and novelty." I agree with the earlier comments you make (re spacing) but this change isn't happening purely for the sake of it. Folks have been asking for a mobile-friendly HN for a l
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by amirmc 12y ago
FB (& Google) have reached a size where one of the ways to keep growing is to bring more people onto the Internet. If they can do that in a way that puts their product front-and-centre for those 'new' users, they can capture
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by amirmc 12y ago
> "What are they taking from you without your consent?" Most people don't understand the privacy settings nor do they comprehend the ToS (because the reading-skill level required is too high). So what does 'consent
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by amirmc 12y ago
> "... it's a business that needs to make money, how else is that supposed to happen?" This attitude is what's wrong. Exxon also needs to make money so maybe we should cut them some slack around oil spills. So does
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by amirmc 12y ago
> "... and have thought about all these arguments and decided it is worth it to them." I suspect 'most people' aren't even remotely aware of such arguments. Nor of the effects that choices now will have on th
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by amirmc 12y ago
The concept of 'doing the right thing' is a matter of perspective. In other words, people may have vastly different ideas about what the 'right thing' is, in s given situation.
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by amirmc 12y ago
I had similar thoughts and wondered if Stripe had agreed to cover operating costs and a skeleton crew for the transition period. Nothing wrong with this and it speaks highly of all involved that they reached that agreement. I did also wonde
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by amirmc 12y ago
I feel there's a lot of 'no true Scotsman' in the article and throughout the comments here.
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by amirmc 12y ago
That would indicate the presence of some kind of HR policy. Something that appears to be lacking in this case.

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