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by amirmc 12y ago
For anyone looking for courses using OCaml, there's a list at http://ocaml.org/learn/teaching-ocaml.html -- Prev HN discussion at: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8603202 To be honest, I&#x27
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by amirmc 12y ago
> "Maybe processing the grubs/flies into something less recognizable would help, but at some point you read the ingredients and you're back at square one." How many of the ingredients do you currently understand? Ju
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by amirmc 12y ago
It depends a lot on the type of product and the particular market. You shouldn't underestimate the inertia of something that's 'good enough'. If you're not one of the early ones then something about your product wil
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“They’ve eliminated accessibility in order to market the product. Now that means we have to figure out how to solve a problem that we didn’t create.” Ermm ... I'd argue that dragnet mass surveillance is exactly one of the causes. Goo
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The Emerging Science of Human-Data Interaction(technologyreview.com)
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Even most sales jobs come with a base salary. You might still be fired for not hitting targets but if you happen to have a bad run, you're not destitute.
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It's nice that Sandstorm is mentioned, as a way of users running web services under their own control. I think it's worth also pointing out that one of the uses of Mirage OS (also mentioned) is to build/deploy small services
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by amirmc 12y ago
> "Just as understanding the science to music does not make you a good musician or allow you to build a great band..." I'm not a musician, but I disagree with the first part of this statement. My impression has been tha
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by amirmc 12y ago
People are seeing convenience but are only just becoming aware of the trade offs. At the moment there are very few alternatives available and I disagree that 'hosting your own data is trivial' - it typically devolves into becoming
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Mirage 2014 review: IPv6, TLS, Irmin, Jitsu and community growth(openmirage.org)
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That's one of the core developers (on the left). The other was a guest who was part of the interview.
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Sure, FB uses PHP but it's also very interesting to see how they've created things like Hack and Flow (built using OCaml, iirc) to improve the quality of their code.
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On iOS it just started playing but the webpage suggests using VLC.
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There's also a series of blog posts from earlier in the year. http://openmirage.org/blog/introducing-ocaml-tls Edit: The ccc video is also up now. See it at (skip to 15mins in): http://vod.c3voc.de&#x2F
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by amirmc 12y ago
Commercialiation of communication is an interesting way of putting it. I agree that the attempts at decentralisation are so-so but I do think it's critical that the low-level pieces are done properly. Once they're deployed, every
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by amirmc 12y ago
You can only make an amateur assessment because you can actually see the document. If this had not been released, you only have the word of the gov/three-letter-agency/etc that it really really does need to be secret. Since we&#x2
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by amirmc 12y ago
Sure (as I tried to point out) but that doesn't mean that (a) every manager in the company understands it or (b) people in other types of business/industry understand it. Claiming that the concept exists is pretty useless if the
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by amirmc 12y ago
> "... the concept appears every day in business." Umm, no. It does not. Maybe in finance or procurement but it is certainly not a term in general use.
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There's a paper we'll be presenting at NSDI next year on Jitsu, so there'll be more to read about soon. The repo is at https://github.com/MagnusS/jitsu Regarding the scaling, it's definitely somethi
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by amirmc 12y ago
That's unfortunate. I just checked on firefox on my mac and I do notice a slight lag if I try to flick through slides quickly. I'm not sure what you're referring to by scrollbars though. Can you give any more detail? Feel f
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by amirmc 12y ago
The slides themselves (served via a unikernel) can be found at http://decks.openmirage.org/irill14-seminar#/
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There are unikernel implementations in a number of other languages [1] but one of the benefits of OCaml has turned out to be the module system. I don't know much about Rust but I don't see any reason this couldn't be attempt
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by amirmc 12y ago
> I think you get more casual viewers when something is on a prime channel. This is how I first came across them as a child.
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by amirmc 12y ago
Not that I'm aware of. AFAIK anyone can submit a patch to OCaml without any hurdles. There is a Consortium that companies can join and they benefit from a different licence. That might be what you're thinking of. http:/&#x
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by amirmc 12y ago
For those who may be interested in contributing to the OCaml language, the Compiler Hacking Wiki is a good place to start. https://github.com/ocamllabs/compiler-hacking/wiki
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I don't understand what you mean. When I said 'train' I did mean as an employee doing actual work.
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Companies that can figure out how to create and manage a distributed team will have disproportionate advantages if the product is successful and they suddenly need to scale. Open-source projects are a good example of this.
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> ...be willing to build people up. Promote from within and let people grow into the role they want to have... I think this is one of the missing pieces in modern companies. Very few places really want to train you up and all the pro
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by amirmc 12y ago
Not anymore. SyncThing will remain as SyncThing and Pulse will be a fork. https://discourse.syncthing.net/t/syncthing-is-still-syncthi...
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The Cicret bracelet – It's like a tablet but on your skin(cicret.com)
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