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by chops 16y ago
A highlight is not an empty comment, but an effort to improve usability by highlighting key elements.
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Aurora Borealis Tonight(msnbc.msn.com)
8 points by chops 16y ago|1 comments
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by chops 16y ago
People can still vote down a comment even after it's hit the -4 floor. It's still counting against your Karma even after hitting that floor.
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by chops 16y ago
As a longtime Zune user and appreciator, I'm hoping that the Zune-Pass will be rolled into something else and that existing devices won't suddenly lose access to the Zune-pass service songs ($15/mo for unlimited (DRMed) songs and 10 MP3 Dow
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Grammy Awarded to Video Game for the First Time (Baba Yetu from Civ IV)(latimesblogs.latimes.com)
1 points by chops 16y ago|0 comments
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by chops 16y ago
Because I'd have to make an account to answer this one question, while I'm already a member here at HN.
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by chops 16y ago
I'm surprised to see Markus Alexej Persson (aka Notch) missing from that list for Minecraft. Between doing the coding and art, he's demonstrated that he can basically do it all.
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by chops 16y ago
The trailer was released within the past few hours, and the film is set to release April 15th.
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by chops 16y ago
Snowpocalypse 2011
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by chops 16y ago
That was also the first chapter in the book where suddenly Erlang seemed freaking amazing. Up until then, it was just a functional language with an odd syntax. After the introduction to message passing and concurrency, I was in love.
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by chops 16y ago
I have an engineer friend that tweets exclusively about his poop at work: http://twitter.com/poopsatwork He likes to be very graphic with his descriptions. Personally, I find them amusing.
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by chops 16y ago
Disclaimer: I've been doing Erlang now for a handful of projects for a year and a half, and I love it. The syntax is a little jarring at first, more-so than most languages, but it's really not that bad. And as long as you stick with OTP, g
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by chops 16y ago
This went a slightly different way than I was expecting. I expected it to be more of an "AOL is dead, it's about Twitter/Facebook hookups now", a direction which the author alluded to briefly at the end. That said, the way it did go with
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by chops 16y ago
The closest thing Erlang has to mutability is the process dictionary (get() and set()), which can be thought of as a sort of memcache for each process. Native variables themselves are immutable, without exception. Unless you have a really
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by chops 16y ago
I find the poll rather offensive: Should it be legal to snoop into your spouse's e-mail? -No way! Privacy is a basic right, even in a marriage -Sure, why not? How else can I keep tabs on him/her? Why does the second option have to be
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by chops 16y ago
Related: Erlang/OTP R14B01 Released today: http://www.erlang.org/download/otp_src_R14B01.readme
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12 Years Ago today, Erlang/OTP was released as Open Source(web.archive.org)
10 points by chops 16y ago|1 comments
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by chops 16y ago
Absolutely. Perhaps I'll do a more elaborate comparison between a few other languages just to see.
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by chops 16y ago
I just did a followup test to see just how the re:replace function did with converting a 16kb text string with a BBCode parser I've written in Erlang, and on my crappy laptop it did 1000 conversions in 12 seconds. Further, I'm not running t
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by chops 16y ago
Working with strings in Erlang hasn't been much of a problem for me. The re module's ( http://erldocs.com/R14B/stdlib/re.html?i=0&search=re : ) regular expression handling is pretty decent, and it takes binaries, iolists, and of cours
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by chops 16y ago
This is on my Christmas list to my fam. I've been looking forward to reading it ever since ErlangCamp, which was organized by some of the authors, and fully awesome. If the book's as helpful as ErlangCamp was, then I expect this book to
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by chops 16y ago
I'd second Erlang. It's a lot of fun first learning. I know when I went through Armstrong's book on it, the first 5-6 chapters were mostly just "okay, so an intro to the syntax and functional programming", then when the meat of the langua
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by chops 16y ago
My sport of choice is beach volleyball (2v2). My problem is that I'm wildly obsessive - so instead of just going out there and playing volleyball for a couple hours, then heading home to work, I stay at the beach for 5-6 hours, and after th
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by chops 16y ago
Another Milwaukeean! The little bit that I played was also online. I didn't (and still don't) know anyone that played, either in person or online, so I haven't had anyone I can just bombard with questions. Whenever I played online I just g
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by chops 16y ago
Seeing how I'm currently in Chicago for ErlangCamp (which is excellent so far), it's relevant for me to recommend Erlang if you want to go big in the multiprocessoring and concurrency stuff. I know that wasn't one of your 4 mentioned langua
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by chops 16y ago
Thank you for the feedback. It's worth noting that if you don't have flash, it won't work. It currently relies on flash for persistent socket connections. I'm working on getting it working with websockets. But it should work on chrme, which
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by chops 16y ago
Oh, and it's written entirely in Erlang (runs on the Nitrogen Web Framework), except for a bit of javascript.
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by chops 16y ago
http://www.triviathing.com - Trivia game inspired by IRC trivia bots. Very early, still needs a TON of questions, and a handful of bugfixes. But it's semi-functional, and I've played it with my friends and family for a smashing good time
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by chops 16y ago
There are some very clever ideas in there. Number 4 ("A website that you can submit your design and work with vendors to manufacture your own clothes line") is something I'm sure my wife would take advantage of. I wonder how much of a mark
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by chops 16y ago
My MMO Guild Hosting site started as my own personal WoW guild website, which itself was a fork of the code powering my personal LAN Party website. After deciding in late 2005 to try to make a business out of it, I launched in May 2006 and

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