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by aws_ls 10y ago
Honestly, I came to this page expecting some really intriguing story, from which I could learn a lot. Its been voted to 2000+ points, so must be it hit a nerve of a lot of people. But to me it seemed like a nice but very simple story.
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by aws_ls 10y ago
Its a great and useful survey. But would have liked to see a question(if not a complete section) on search engine optimization(SEO). Most important thing for internet apps. For enterprise apps it doesn't matter and for that you can saf
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by aws_ls 10y ago
I was moved by his blog post, few weeks back, on HN. As a token of my respect, I just bought his book, The psychopath code[1] [1] http://hintjens.com/blog:_psychopaths
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by aws_ls 10y ago
Aah, Seeing such a good reply, so late. Does HN need notification? Probably not :-) So, I agree with you a lot. There are no guarantees that Go will remain good for ever. It would be a challenge and need effort on the part of the language d
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by aws_ls 10y ago
Isn't it more fun reading these articles from the other side? I find reading such fun and interesting, and you always gain something from them, like the 4% rule in this one, which was new to me. Of course you can intuitively plan some
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by aws_ls 10y ago
I think timing the market doesn't work, when you look at short term. Short term is hard to define. But say, a target from a few months to even 3-4 years is short term. And long term say 10-15 years or more. After seeing a few crashes,
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by aws_ls 10y ago
"Facebook will just have to conquer the stigma that it’s for fooling around, not getting work done." This. After offering people, at work, trillions of hours of entertainment, now its going to help make people more productive. B
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by aws_ls 10y ago
>and people who sound like they may be (literally) mentally unstable I wonder what kind of people accompanied Columbus and other explorers on their ships. If you also noticed there was one woman questioner, who wanted to kiss Elon Musk
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by aws_ls 10y ago
>Adding 8 hours of sleep, only gives him 6 hours to do EVERYTHING else in his life. That's friends, family, leisure, excersise, but also groceries, commuting, cooking, cleaning, walking his dog. He never slept for 8 hours. He ment
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by aws_ls 10y ago
Just to make myself clear, on the point of 'providing a better C'. I just made that comment from language evolution point of view. And did not at all mean that Go is better than C, in all respects. I dare not say that. What I mea
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by aws_ls 10y ago
My question was more rhetorical. But thanks. After posting, I realized its concurrent programming model, is another thing which I (and many others) am a fan of. I found the channel and go based approach, much better compared to explici
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by aws_ls 10y ago
>Sorry, but in what way is Go "revolutionizing"? By offering simplicity. Taking a step back to before C++. And providing a better C. C + strings + GC + map + slice(array) + json/xml parsing + http transport layer (server
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by aws_ls 10y ago
>routinely think of themselves as mere monkeys...nerd hazing This phenomenon is also there. But I think, more prominent is the derogatory usage by others, especially when coining terms like <xyz> monkey. For that matter, I am Oka
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by aws_ls 10y ago
Good reply. At first the sarcasm (usage of monkey) was almost lot on me. GP seems to have a very condescending attitude towards high level programmers. How would they feel, if he is called a manager monkey, a deep learning monkey. Or simply
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by aws_ls 10y ago
So sad to hear this. I am typing this comment from a Ubuntu on Lenovo (some 2014 model). Looks like Lenovo is not interested in business of us people. Also Microsoft, of late, has been getting some positive news regarding open source contri
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by aws_ls 10y ago
Great! Oh man, I can't even imagine how it would be in -25C. As I live just below tropic of cancer, so its always warm - 13-15C in winters (just for name sake!) and 35-37 in Summer - these are day time temperatures.
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by aws_ls 10y ago
I think there have been one such campaign at least in the past few years. But I totally agree, there should be continuous campaigns till he gets one, and by then if he is not pardoned, it will be a big embarrassment to the US government.
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by aws_ls 10y ago
Don't lose heart. It takes time. In my 30s, I used to barely do 400m of relatively brisk running. And I'd mentally resigned to looking at running as a thing for the young. Until a wise friend told me about the book 'Born to r
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by aws_ls 10y ago
>rest of us who enjoy sweet foods I'll wager there are more on HN, who cut down or take no sugar. I left it about 10 months back. And recently in a movie hall, I had to take tea with sugar (as their machine could only serve with s
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by aws_ls 10y ago
pure gold comment by Eduard Fischer (in Reader's pick section): "Last week while traveling in the US, I witnessed a mother place a cola soft drink in front of a young child. The girl began to sip on the drink, the volume of which
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by aws_ls 10y ago
Yes, I can think of a case where how it may be used to solve some problems on a M x N grid, where in you could move in either directions top-left to bottom-right Or vice-versa. I perhaps used smaller where subproblem may be a more optim
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by aws_ls 10y ago
That was my first thought too. I thought the page was referring to DP/Memoization[1], initially. Thats the most useful concept I learnt about a decade back, and was fortunate to be able to find a case in real-life to apply it. I have o
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by aws_ls 10y ago
I totally agree with the concept of "gateway". Kind of like a social protocol similar to SMTP(which is for emails), by which Facebook/G+/<some-new-player> inter-operate. That's the best solution and the only s
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by aws_ls 10y ago
I saw the entire thread of comments under yours, and I'm glad that you were so willing to admit, you crossed a line, so I am commenting in general, just to understand better. And offer my thoughts, if you don't agree please explai
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by aws_ls 10y ago
And they remain with nothing: 'The refugees who harbored him three years ago still live in miserable conditions in a wealthy city that doesn’t want them'
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by aws_ls 10y ago
Generalizing observations from the lowest common denominator in any work place, at its core this article is very cynical and perhaps wishes everyone would just be happy in their mediocrity. In most projects, there are minority extra-brillia
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by aws_ls 10y ago
They got rejected in India by activism among users and the regulator TRAI. So, I also wondered the exact same thing.
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by aws_ls 10y ago
Earlier discussion on the same article on HN, few years back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5134023 Edit: On HN, you occasionally see can't forget articles, every once in a while. This is one of those..
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by aws_ls 10y ago
Let me guess, GP is a 20 something person and you are at least around 40 (pardon me if you are not, your maturity level surely is). I think, its a spectrum between extreme honesty and extreme dishonesty, and when very young extreme honesty
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by aws_ls 10y ago
Grigori Perelman, who became famous because of turning down the Fields Medal, including a million dollar prize, for proving the Poincare conjecture, 100 year old standing problem, despite living in near-poverty. Stuff of legends. He also fi

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