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by amirmc 13y ago
They're also a member of the OCaml Consortium, too http://ocaml.org/community/support.html#TheCamlConsortiumatI...
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by amirmc 13y ago
For OCaml, there are many more companies using it than just JaneStreet. Facebook and Bloomberg being some of the well known ones. http://ocaml.org/learn/companies.html
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by amirmc 13y ago
Sharepoint. I'm pretty sure that's multi-billion dollar business for Microsoft.
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by amirmc 13y ago
Are ninjas known for being good at software engineering? Are Rockstars, for that matter? I think these terms have replaced "like a pro" and other such turns-of-phrase that were once common.
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by amirmc 13y ago
> "... and the options before us are to either eschew all technology entirely, or to figure out how to live without privacy." A completely false and thoroughly unhelpful dichotomy. It's comments like this which lead t
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by amirmc 13y ago
And Richard Branson's Virgin Group. Also, DeBeers diamond business, I believe.
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by amirmc 13y ago
> "...there have undoubtedly been thwarted terrorist attacks." We don't know this. In any case, it's the wrong question as we have to ask ourselves what the cost really is. The gov could just implement a curfew, loc
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by amirmc 13y ago
> "Clearly the NSA is doing something right." Unfortunately, there's no way to independently verify this statement. Only those inside the security apparatus have any data to examine this but they have a clear incentive t
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by amirmc 13y ago
Interesting. There's much more to building a business than simply how difficult it is to build the product, so using just that as a reason to reject people seems a bit off. For example, Buffer [1] seems to be doing pretty well and th
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by amirmc 13y ago
I'm sure he'd rather you just apply for the next batch of YC. Applications are open. http://ycombinator.com/apply.html
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by amirmc 13y ago
Or they'll buy whoever makes it to, say, 500M+ monthly active users of some other, new, email service. Probably for tens of billions.
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by amirmc 13y ago
Is 120 per year really ridiculous? (I assume Monat -> month). For something as crucial to online comms as email I'd be happy to pay if it was as reliable as other offerings (and ideally extensible in some form - e.g if it could do
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by amirmc 13y ago
It's clear you use the suffix '-stan' in a pejorative sense. As though simply adding a -stan is sufficient to describe the terrible, backward, self-serving state of things. It's not even comedic, as you clearly think th
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by amirmc 13y ago
Whatsapp made a huge effort to make sure you could use it from almost any device. FB less so. Not really much of a 'competition' in that sense.
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by amirmc 13y ago
Perhaps among the Erlang community but I only found out as a result of digging into the company. Would be great to have someone from WhatsApp speak at CUFP this year [1]. If anyone reading this can encourage them to do so (or put me in touc
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by amirmc 13y ago
> "...they were probably handing my data over to anyone for cash..." How ironic.
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by amirmc 13y ago
Previous discussion (when this design previewed): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5389656
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by amirmc 13y ago
> "... it will stay the same and will not develop those features that could have threatened Facebook in the long term." That's fascinating and completely believable. The question will be can FB move those people to thei
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by amirmc 13y ago
Why does it make less sense to let it run independently (at least for now)? A team of 50 people are running a service that serves 400M MAU. That's impressive by any stretch and when you factor in that all of those are mobile user
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by amirmc 13y ago
> ... but part of a manager's job is to ... minimise the difference between compensation…" In principle, I agree but in practice I don't see how this is workable (unless you're trying to retain a star -- as opposed
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by amirmc 13y ago
> "You seriously wonder what goes on in these people's brains." Perhaps it's something like: "I'll need to get approval/budget from higher up and they're going to ask me why. Maybe he can help m
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by amirmc 13y ago
New books as well as a lot of new tooling and libraries. A lot of it being coordinated from OCaml Labs in Cambridge UK ( http://OCaml.io ) and OCamlPro in France.
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by amirmc 13y ago
Do people try to avoid using package managers? Why? On my system I regularly use homebrew and opam but also have occasional need for pip, cabal and more recently npm. Not everything is packaged upstream (nor would I expect it to be). I can&
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by amirmc 13y ago
Greenwald's been asked, given how things seem to be, whether he would set things up outside the US. ISTR he stated that the Constitution (and First Amendment) still exist and the US is the most appropriate place for the NewCo. I thin
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by amirmc 13y ago
That doesn't ring true for me. I'd say CompSci is to programming as CivEng is to construction .
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by amirmc 13y ago
"Because the FBI agents had no concrete evidence that Mayfield was linked to the Madrid train bombings, they decided not to apply for a criminal wiretap, which requires probable cause to believe there is criminal activity or intent. Ra
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by amirmc 13y ago
I went to my first FOSDEM this year. It was quite an experience with hoards of people and loads of interesting sessions. I was impressed that wifi held up hopefully the videos mean I can catch up on the sessions that filled up. If you'
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by amirmc 13y ago
Or a bunch of University research. This is exactly the kind of complex problem that research groups work on but they tend not to get much attention until they're fully baked. The group I'm working with is considering what kind t
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Tim Berners-Lee: We need to re-decentralise the web(wired.co.uk)
585 points by amirmc 13y ago|200 comments
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The Four Freedoms(ma.tt)
3 points by amirmc 13y ago|0 comments

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