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by andrewvc 15y ago
I'll just point out that the thing I didn't like about enders game was that the book felt too monotone. It has a great twist at the end, but everything leading up to it is linear, predictable, and while initially exciting, quickly becomes u
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by andrewvc 15y ago
Has anyone written any Clojure for Android so far as anyone knows?
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by andrewvc 15y ago
I don't know, I was really into design in the past, and am probably more designery than most devs, but I wouldn't do TOO much reading. Design isn't about how much knowledge you've accrued, it's mostly a journey of self-exploration through w
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by andrewvc 15y ago
Your tone in really just not constructive and also not appreciated. As far as JSON being human readable, most JSON sent over the wire has no whitespace and generally needs to be run through a parser if you're going to read any significant a
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by andrewvc 15y ago
True, but, optimization is tricky, and you can say the say thing about ruby's messagepack and JSON libraries, where the speed difference is reversed. I, unfortunately don't have the time to go digging as to why, but there's a discrepancy so
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by andrewvc 15y ago
That mostly speaks to the quality of node's MessagePack implementation, nothing more. Benchmarking data format serialization is hard, because one poor implementation throws things off.
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by andrewvc 15y ago
By the way, there is a pure ruby version, not sure why you'd use it over the cext though: https://github.com/hiroshinakao/msgpack-pure
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by andrewvc 15y ago
Messagepack is built to handle arbitrary binary data efficiently
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by andrewvc 15y ago
And a jruby messagepack library
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You're Using JSON, Why not MessagePack?(blog.andrewvc.com)
136 points by andrewvc 15y ago|65 comments
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LiteratePrograms.org: An Executable Wiki(en.literateprograms.org)
35 points by andrewvc 15y ago|6 comments
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by andrewvc 15y ago
It's not about speed, but space efficiency, msgpack is significantly smaller. That's useful for a mostly in memory database. As far as speed that's negligible.
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by andrewvc 15y ago
Eh, psychology and psychiatry are still fairly young sciences. I'd say it's worth a shot, but people put too much faith in it. I've had family members in professional help forever with no noticeable improvements. They'll even admit to it. M
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by andrewvc 15y ago
That's cool, but not nuts about JSON. They should include at least one space-efficient format, like messagepack (which is 100% compatible with JSON after encoding / decoding). Of course, this opens the floodgates... Also, is zlib available
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by andrewvc 15y ago
It's not just the technical side of trade classes, it's breaking out of the abstractness of most education that's also valuable. I went to a high school with a remarkably well funded theater and stagecraft department thanks to a very genero
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by andrewvc 15y ago
Sounds right, but I doubt that's true with compiz
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by andrewvc 15y ago
Well, I'm in Los Angeles, and tech / startups are booming down here. I'd say there's something more than inertia at work.
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by andrewvc 15y ago
BS, all code is glue code, even assembly (what, you don't write your own hard drive controllers and NIC firmware?). It's ALWAYS been the case that if you want to go deep, generally, the best way isn't to write your own, shitty ORM, or HTTP
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by andrewvc 15y ago
Look, new projects should have these pages, and they SHOULD be passionate and biased. However, shit like this makes me stop reading: "Git has a huge user community. If following the herd and being like everybody else is important to you, th
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by andrewvc 15y ago
I usually can't get those kinds of speeds from most of my servers in datacenters generally. Speedtest uses servers in the same city, and game downloads probably do as well (CDNs) but the average case is likely significantly slower.
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Best Practices AKA Just Another Option(blog.andrewvc.com)
1 points by andrewvc 16y ago|0 comments
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by andrewvc 16y ago
Los Angeles / Santa Monica CA www.vokle.com We've got a fun codebase, switching between, Ruby/Rails, Clojure/Java, and Backbone.js. You'll be on a small team (it'll just be you and me) and be able to make a big impact on not just the code b
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by andrewvc 16y ago
Eh, the other thing is dealing with hardware failures is easier on the cloud since you have instant provisioning. At small scale this is worth a lot.
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by andrewvc 16y ago
Maybe this has no basis in reality, but one reason I stopped cycling as a primary form of cardio ( I run now ) is I just felt wrong moving from sitting at a computer to sitting on a bike.
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LA Hacker News Live Stream(vokle.com)
15 points by andrewvc 16y ago|4 comments
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by andrewvc 16y ago
I've seen github count jquery other libs as javascript several times. There's no real solution to this as far as I can tell, since JS libs just can't be required like other libs.
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Continuations for Scalable IO in Jetty(docs.codehaus.org)
2 points by andrewvc 16y ago|0 comments
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by andrewvc 16y ago
verbosity creates messes.
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by andrewvc 16y ago
Umm, did you read what you linked to? PHP reflection is a verbose, ugly mess. Example PHP vs. Ruby PHP: $a = new A(); $reflector = new ReflectionClass('A'); $properties = $reflector->getMethods(); Ruby: a = A
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by andrewvc 16y ago
Am I the only one who thought the title of the article was a joke?

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