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by amirmc 12y ago
> "YC's goal is to help startups ... raise money on a larger scale." I don't think this is YC's goal. I recall comments from pg to the effect that if all the companies raised money on demo day, then maybe YC wa
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by amirmc 12y ago
There are many additional reasons that impact the maintenance of established code bases and code reuse. OCaml's Module system is good in this regard. In addition, there are many other companies that use functional languages and my (sub
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by amirmc 12y ago
I was trying to write an eloquent reply but I remembered that PG did a better job than I could. http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html
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OCaml-Java is open sourced(ocamljava.org)
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by amirmc 12y ago
Some previous discussion on a couple of the other posts in this series: the first release [1] and the ASN1 library [2]. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8005130 [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?
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by amirmc 12y ago
It's great to see this here. I meant to try out patoline over a year ago but it wasn't quite ready. This prompts me to take another look. I do remember the devs being very approachable and helpful (which is big plus for me). I&#x2
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by amirmc 12y ago
Also worth reading the follow up - OCaml: What You Gain [1] and the overall retrospective [2]. If you search HN for the titles you can find discussions about those. The author will be also be speaking at OCaml 2014 this year [3]. [1] http:
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by amirmc 12y ago
Yes, users care about this but like most things you have to segment the market appropriately. I meet more and more people who are wary of putting all their trust/data/etc into only one provider, be that Google, Apple or anyone
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by amirmc 12y ago
The interesting thing about all these services is that they're trying to abstract away the same types of problems that all developers come across: Identity, connectivity, sync/backup (and to some extent, deployment). A different (
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by amirmc 12y ago
There's a new blog post up where GADTs have been used in one of the OCaml-TLS libraries (i.e ASN1) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8020125
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by amirmc 12y ago
I was just about to suggest looking at projects like Mirage/Irmin et al but since you mention Nymote, I assume you've already found your way to them. If it helps, we have a series of blog posts about some of the recent library rel
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by amirmc 12y ago
This is one of the things OCaml Labs is working on [1]. We'll be talking about it at OCaml 2014 later this year [2] [1] http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~sd601/multicore.md [2] http://ocaml.org/meetings&#x
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by amirmc 12y ago
> "Most people don't worry about their data privacy, or else they wouldn't be on FB, take those buzzfeed quizzes, etc." The first part of the sentence is flawed, so the latter doesn't follow. It implicitly assu
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by amirmc 12y ago
> "More controversially the new law will also produce what is being described as a "clearer legal framework" to allow access to the content of calls, texts and emails after a warrant is signed by a senior government minis
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OCaml-TLS: building the nocrypto library core(openmirage.org)
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by amirmc 12y ago
Just an additional note that this is the first in a series of posts about the OCaml TLS stack. More are coming in the next few days [1]. [1] https://github.com/mirage/mirage/issues/257
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by amirmc 12y ago
Clicky link to the reply is: https://github.com/mirleft/ocaml-tls/issues/6#issuecomment-4...
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by amirmc 12y ago
Easiest way to earn the kind of respect you're after is to only make claims you can visibly and tangibly support. You cannot realistically claim you will 'never' get bought out, so don't say it.
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by amirmc 12y ago
I don't think the point is only about the product going away. If Inbox is acquired then it's no longer 'the email company' but the whatever-the-acquirer-wants company (which may well be advertising).
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by amirmc 12y ago
Indeed. They've inadvertently refocused attention from an otherwise interesting discussion about problems and innovation in Email into one about acquihires and company lifetimes. There's a PR lesson in here folks.
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by amirmc 12y ago
Those things can be just as crude as each other. Genes (and proteins) can interact in very complex ways so don't be fooled into thinking that 'direct manipulation' of specific parts means you have any idea what's going o
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by amirmc 12y ago
I'm curious. Do Show HN posts work the same way as normal link submissions? I have vague memories that certain types of posts are weighted differently and sink down the front page faster. Maybe that's for the Ask HN posts?
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by amirmc 12y ago
I'd think 'Show' and 'Tell' should be filtered into the same feed.
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Scroll down the page and you'll see a description. "This image is a “balloon race”. The higher a bubble, the greater the evidence for its effectiveness. But the supplements are only effective for the conditions listed inside the
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by amirmc 12y ago
I absolutely agree. The analogies I use when describing this are with the food (and medical/drug industry). Unless you grow/rear your own food, you really have no idea what's on your plate and your ability to comprehend the t
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by amirmc 12y ago
It's an antioxidant. You sometimes see it on labels as ascorbic acid (if the product isn't touting its health credentials).
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by amirmc 12y ago
> "... that just ensures that I have way too much of some things." That only matters if the body cannot quickly flush or discard the things it doesn't need. It's probably different for each type of supplement. As a
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by amirmc 12y ago
Aside: I found the following visualisation fun and somewhat interesting (on supplements and the ailments they might be good for). It's changed a lot over the years and it links off to the underlying spreadsheet. http://www.i
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by amirmc 12y ago
Also known as garden leave. You're basically still 'employed' but you're kept out of the office with all access revoked. It's to put some distance between any time sensitive info from one job before you move onto th
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by amirmc 12y ago
Probably because it shouldn't matter. Labelling some of the Partners as 'Founders' would be akin to saying they're 'more equal' than the others. Besides that, everyone here probably knows who they are anyway (o

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