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by andrewvc 15y ago
FWIW Los Angeles' startup scene is quite vibrant right now. If you're in the area feel free to swing by LA Hacker News this weekend http://www.meetup.com/Los-Angeles-Hacker-News/events/1894228...
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by andrewvc 15y ago
Oh really..... try building a large scale web app in Forth then. Tools matter, at every scale.
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Clojure, Websockets, and More at LA Hacker News this Saturday(meetup.com)
9 points by andrewvc 15y ago|1 comments
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by andrewvc 15y ago
I love kbp, it's got such a simple mental model, and there's less room for outdated backlogs. It kinda makes those untenable.
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by andrewvc 15y ago
I'm wondering if this has the refs, agents, and atoms that make concurrent clojure so awesome. If not, it would feel.... strange.
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by andrewvc 15y ago
nptl (read, any modern kernel) Linux processes are cheap, they share an implementation with threads in fact. Note that this only means they can be quite cheap, if you dirty a large amount of memory you lose CoW of course.
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by andrewvc 15y ago
The hoax itself didn't undermine it all. You could reasonably make the case that it Social Text was simply lazy and just published shit w/o reading it. Reading about the hoax, however, is a good way to introduce people to what PoMo theory i
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by andrewvc 15y ago
He's one of a whole family of postmodern bullshit artists, similar to lacan, derrida, etc. Read up on the Sokal hoax if you want to learn more about it http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokal_affair .
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by andrewvc 15y ago
Postrank, is that you?
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by andrewvc 15y ago
Well, keyword arguments can be used well in ruby, though clearly, in the code you've been dealing with they haven't. Some guidelines. Use .merge for default values, not ternary operators. Keep it minimal. Rails does a good job of using keyw
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by andrewvc 15y ago
Well, as great as being polite, articulate, and compassionate is, those attributes don't (necessarily) add up to cool in school. I don't think that's something parents can really teach.
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by andrewvc 15y ago
High school rewards people who socialize well, it doesn't punish kids for loving science. If you socialize well, you can 'get away' with being a CS major, hell, you can even make it cool. It just so happens plenty of nerds don't socialize
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by andrewvc 15y ago
It is very hard to push your skills forward without side projects. Do accountants balance ledgers in their spare time? No. But good ones do read up on their craft and push their knowledge forward off the clock. It just so happens that pushi
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by andrewvc 15y ago
I'm sorry yes, the preceding post represents my opinion, and my opinion only. It does not represent the opinions of my employer, bank, or family, nor is it an official verdict of the United States Supreme Court. Furthermore, any likenesses
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by andrewvc 15y ago
While definitely not cancer, I had severe acne back in high school (way, way more than most people). There was a never-ending series of half-baked miracle cures chucked my way by strangers. In this age of the internet, anyone who has an ill
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by andrewvc 15y ago
Please. I've been writing rails apps professionally since 1.2. My observations: 1. jQuery quickly replaced prototype for most projects via the jrails gem. This just reflects the underlying reality. 2. Coffeescript as the default was a bad i
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by andrewvc 15y ago
Hey, I can believe that the game sucks in a painfully humorless way, never said it didn't. I'm just talking about the writing style of the article. If it was that unfunny, there should have been plenty of material in the article for the aut
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by andrewvc 15y ago
Its hard to trust a humorless judgement of humor. While I haven't played the game myself, I'd like to point out to the author of the article that if attempting to describe why a something isn't funny, the best weapon in your arsenal would b
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by andrewvc 15y ago
Jruby is working on cext support
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by andrewvc 15y ago
Awesome, the great thing about rubinius is playing around with the internals, since they're mostly written in ruby. The C++ core is quite tiny actually.
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by andrewvc 15y ago
Very cool. It's not an easy call, as its esoteric syntax, but I think I'll put it in.
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by andrewvc 15y ago
Yeah, I may have overstated the case for Java a bit. You don't need to be a Java expert , but you should know enough Java to be able to create your own classes, and make simple little programs with multiple classes. Really though, you shou
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by andrewvc 15y ago
Thanks for the tip! That's much better, I'll merge that in later today.
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Tackling my first Clojure project, a Graphical HTTP Benchmarker in Clojure(blog.andrewvc.com)
55 points by andrewvc 15y ago|10 comments
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by andrewvc 15y ago
Try working in any media centric industry. Soon you'll be uploading gigs of files on a daily basis.
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The Uncommon TCP Simultaneous Open, or 2x 2-way handshake(tcpipguide.com)
4 points by andrewvc 15y ago|0 comments
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by andrewvc 15y ago
I believe snopes had the final word on this http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/petition/internet.asp This change, sadly, needs to come from industry, with big $ behind it.
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by andrewvc 15y ago
Prototyping without database migrations is amazing. Prototyping with normalization and fast joins is amazing as well, SQL's awesome!
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by andrewvc 15y ago
Yeah, but I've heard it so much it's lost all value. Nerds aren't just people who are hugely passionate about something, they've also payed a price for it in the form of missing out in 'normal' social integration. Nerd/Geek are exclusionary
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by andrewvc 15y ago
The SD Meetups are, apparently, better at coordinating voting on HN than any other HN meetup. (that's not a criticism, just an observation. I think it's totally fair, but I run LA HN http://www.meetup.com/Los-Angeles-Hacker-News/ , and we

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