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by antics 16y ago
I am aware. But I appreciate the gesture! When I said that I'm not a fanboy, I didn't mean to say that I don't use functional languages, but rather, that I don't use purely functional languages, and certainly purely functional languages e
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by antics 16y ago
Although it should be noted that it is pretty ironic that Joel wrote that post in response to Java being taught so pervasively at schools, because Hadoop is implemented primarily in ... yup, Java.
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by antics 16y ago
A lot of people talk about having an "epiphany" when they learned functional programming. I never put much stock in that until MapReduce really sunk in. Not that I'm a fanboy -- I still do almost everything in Java or Python -- but it was c
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by antics 16y ago
I should say, though, that when I started reading HN, I was a first year CS student and had no practical ability to program.
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by antics 16y ago
Awesome. Probabilistic descriptions of reality are highly useful for computer scientists these days. If you are in college and you have not taken a probability or statistics course, I highly recommend you give it a shot. I use it all the ti
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by antics 16y ago
Question: Do you pick the card, or do I? Easiness is good, but even telling your trusted assistant to run to the store and grab a card is not something most people do, unless that person is not someone you really care that much about, or if
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The Curse of HP(economist.com)
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by antics 16y ago
I completely agree. There certainly are bright people out there. What I'm saying is, I consider myself to be about average intelligence, and so my example is probably more typical, although I do concede there are probably outliers.
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by antics 16y ago
Do you have enough experience to do a startup? Really the only way to find out is to actually go do it yourself. See, you're thinking about it the wrong way, because skills are not a function of time, necessarily. In my opinion, tenacity an
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by antics 16y ago
First, actually Linux and Minix (and BSD as far as I know) are both POSIX compliant, so the syscall table will be more or less the same. The thing that changes between architecture is the instruction set, which is different, no matter what.
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by antics 16y ago
I tried that when I started in the fall of '09 and it failed miserably. When I came back this summer after intensively studying C and computer systems in general, things went a LOT smoother. If you want to learn that way, you have to be inc
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by antics 16y ago
Linux is a monolithic kernel designed to operate on all sorts of hardware, in all sorts of environments. So it's complicated. In some cases it can be beneficial to see a simpler implementation, which is a task I think Minix [ http://www.min
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by antics 16y ago
The main problem I see here is that, even if a wiki wasn't too nebulous a solution to this problem, it is almost certainly perceived as one. Do you want to keep up Yet Another Wiki(tm)? Because I sure don't. But besides that, it actually
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by antics 16y ago
I admire your initiative, but "structure" -- at least as you describe it here -- is not a problem. It's a solution to the problem of organizing content. Don't you think? The question is, are Wikis the best answer to this problem? They're
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by antics 16y ago
My mistake then. I apologize.
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by antics 16y ago
Thanks for sharing that. I didn't think there was an equivalent.
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by antics 16y ago
Well, what need of yours is not being met? Let's start with the problem you're having, and build something that can fix it. I'll even help you with the coding. :)
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by antics 16y ago
Asynchronous image loading is something that most sites can benefit from, and the YUI has a simple and elegant solution for this. If you're in web development, I highly recommend looking at it, if not using it.
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by antics 16y ago
That, and the fact that concurrency without garbage collection has been shown to cause brain cancer.
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by antics 16y ago
Since the author of the parent comment expected other users to pick up what "anecdotal" evidence he was talking about, I took it to mean what it typically means. I know what the study is saying. I wasn't responding directly to it.
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by antics 16y ago
But might the same criticism be leveled at web content in general? So the advertisements are disposable, but then, so is most of the content. My suspicion is that people have a penchant for content that they actually hold, because tangible
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by antics 16y ago
That's very insightful, but it's my guess is that it's not as salient as one would think. Scientists (at least in the lab) will typically use a number of metrics to measure ADHD, most notably cerebral myelination. ADHD tends to involve impr
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by antics 16y ago
Let's nip this in the butt before people actually think this is correct. This study confirms ONLY (edit: [redacted]) that development is affected by what kids do with themselves. (Duuuuuh.) It does NOT erase the fact that there are real, em
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by antics 16y ago
The best part of the article for me is the fact that that picture is the iPad, down to the little x at the top right corner of the keyboard window. And yet it can't be that far off. ChromeOS is basically a browser with a kernel. Done righ
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by antics 16y ago
Yeah, well, what does the iPad do that the Android doesn't? The game is not, and has never been, about feature exhaustion. Slashdot famously wrote about the iPod [ http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/10/23/1816257 ], "No wireless. L
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by antics 16y ago
Right, but what attracts you to doing a startup? Is it building something amazing? Is it leading other people to success? Do you just want to get rich? I'm an engineer, and here's what I want out of a startup: I want to build something amaz
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by antics 16y ago
Well. What do you bring to the table? Edit: I ask not because I want to be impertinent, but because no one here is going to make you a successful cofounder. Think about what it is that makes you want to be involved in a startup, and what
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by antics 16y ago
No, I suppose not. It's been fun, though. :)
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by antics 16y ago
Funny you should mention that, because both of those things took DECADES to enact, through massive policy overhauls, with millions of man-hours of deliberation. Thank you for demonstrating my point.
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by antics 16y ago
> No, they have a best effort obligation to deliver what > they'e sold. The fact that most of them don't make that > effort does not mean they're in the clear. Well, Jacques, once again, that's actually precisely their argument:

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