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   by balakk 16y ago

   While the point is valid, certain institutions do require some reverence and respect. Chess is certainly such a game. I'm not saying one has to be a Fischer to invent a new chess format; but unless the person has seriously understood/appr
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   by balakk 16y ago

   Probably Sybase ASE with Tcl as the scripting language. I've heard good things about Sybase replication capabilities.
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   by balakk 16y ago

   Is it ML week on HN? Sounds like everybody has got ML envy now..
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   K2: The killing peak(mensjournal.com)

   5 points by balakk 16y ago|0 comments
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   by balakk 16y ago

   Here's a darker version of this, aka Metrofy. http://www.csspivot.com/33z8z LCARSish too!
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   by balakk 16y ago

   For U.S. Customers Only :(
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   by balakk 16y ago

   tl;dr: Somebody put up a website advertising hit-men for hire. Nobody died, but the site is dead.
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   F#: History, Today, Tomorrow(infoq.com)

   3 points by balakk 16y ago|0 comments
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   by balakk 16y ago

   Would be probably similar to the HTML output from Microsoft Word.
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    Nexenta - the fastest growing storage startup(theregister.co.uk)

    3 points by balakk 16y ago|0 comments
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    by balakk 16y ago

    I have a question to the functional gurus out there: Do you use unit testing in a functional programming context? The reason I ask is that programming with a REPL fundamentally changes how you typically write programs - the bottom-up mental
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    by balakk 16y ago

    Well, as they say, a quick death is better than a slow, painful death..
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    by balakk 16y ago

    I understand Android is quite different from vanilla Linux - I meant Android is closer to the Meego platform than WP7. Moving from Meego to Android is less of a stretch. For example, porting QT to Android should not be too difficult. I rea
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    by balakk 16y ago

    Nokia on WP7 would mean they would have to cannibalize their OS teams, their app.dev stack(QT), existing software etc. gutting a huge part their workforce. It is far more easier to have Meego adopt an Android personality, since they're the
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    by balakk 16y ago

    Nice. Can any one please highlight the differences between this and jqtouch?
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    by balakk 16y ago

    F# does have a full REPL - and its imperative/OO behavior is fairly close to C#. More people(on .NET & otherwise) should look at F#.
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    by balakk 16y ago

    https://datamarket.azure.com/ Some free, some paid.
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    by balakk 16y ago

    How about decentralizing the search page? Hear me out for a bit. My theory is that these complaints are coming from specific interest groups, not the general public. For example, spammy-content is created and targeted at a developer/progra
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    by balakk 16y ago

    We didn't start the fire..
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    by balakk 16y ago

    Doesn't Heroku use EC2? Would that change?
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    by balakk 16y ago

    Ocaml prepares you for Fsharp - a first class language of the .NET framework. Full IDE support, cross-platform, very liberal licensing, and more or less on the cutting-edge from a MS languages point of view. Ocaml is also used in the fina
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    by balakk 16y ago

    Enterprise software perspective - IT managed directly by business users. In that, the system can accept natural language descriptions of business logic, resolve ambiguity, and can self-modify, maintain, and heal itself. In other words, a vi
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    by balakk 16y ago

    You mean programmers will actually admit they can't do everything? Fantasy.
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    Interview with Jonathan ellis, co-founder of Riptano(blogs.msdn.com)

    1 points by balakk 16y ago|0 comments
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    by balakk 16y ago

    I'm learning making my own. This is the first time I'm seriously muddling through parsing and lexing. I want to make at-least a toy-language interpreter.
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    by balakk 16y ago

    Have you tried it? it doesn't.. when the focus is on the address bar it reverts to the whole URL.
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    by balakk 16y ago

    The last two builds broke gmail for me. However, the latest one works.
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    by balakk 16y ago

    I'd like Google to be more aggressive on chasing Enterprise customers. Make something compelling/disruptive enough for the enterprise space - things like CRM, ERP etc. Aggressively price/promote your cloud product. I'd set a target like get
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    by balakk 16y ago

    Some are kinda NSFW.
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    by balakk 16y ago

    And some computation.