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by chunkbot 16y ago
Why does Loopt use a Microsoft stack?
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by chunkbot 16y ago
It's not an article in The Economist ; it's a post from one of their blogs on the site.
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by chunkbot 16y ago
This isn't interesting anymore; Erlang and Prolog simply aren't related beyond the most superficial of syntactical rules. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3542891/erlang-programmin...
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by chunkbot 16y ago
Plenty of languages were initially prototyped in C, but we don't consider them "based on C" because they kept braces. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3542891/erlang-programmin...
35.
by chunkbot 16y ago
No?
36.
by chunkbot 16y ago
It's parasites all the way down.
37.
by chunkbot 16y ago
Facebook tracks your movement across every page with a Facebook asset? Does Google do something like this as well?
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by chunkbot 16y ago
Obliged to respond, even if this is from two years ago, as a lot of our work is in Erlang... 1) is completely wrong; Erlang doesn't have anything to do with Prolog, and the syntax is actually pretty straightforward. 2) is for the most part
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by chunkbot 16y ago
This statement only reflects a poor understanding of what it means to be "based on Prolog". I know Prolog well, and use Erlang every day, and I can tell you that they share nothing in common beyond the most superficial of commonalities. ht
40.
by chunkbot 16y ago
"Similarly different?"
41.
by chunkbot 16y ago
When someone says $300 million dollar company, it doesn't mean a company with $300 million dollars of revenue or profit per year. Generally, it means the valuation (based on any number of measures, ie. acquisition price, last traded price
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by chunkbot 16y ago
Would FSF really use a "dislike" button if it were available?
43.
by chunkbot 16y ago
Good stuff. Compared to the more "popular" generic behaviours like gen_server, gen_fsm doesn't get a lot of attention. It's nice to see it added to your tutorial with this level of detail.
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by chunkbot 16y ago
I'm pretty sure that the majority of people here use an Apple computer.
45.
by chunkbot 16y ago
Everything old is new again.
46.
by chunkbot 16y ago
"It seemed to frustrate Appelbaum, who has a vivid and compassionate way of talking for a programmer , that Tor seems forbidding. [emphasis added]"
47.
by chunkbot 16y ago
The problem is that people starting to raise families usually move out of NYC and into NJ suburbs with much better private and public schools (and a bigger, better house).
48.
by chunkbot 16y ago
Delicious lived up to its founders' potential when it was acquired for millions.
49.
by chunkbot 16y ago
C# the language is exciting. C# the platform , however...
50.
by chunkbot 16y ago
I used to think the same thing about people here on HN, but I realized that a lot of accounts are tied to peoples' real names (and professional lives). So there's a filter that keeps people from discussing anything outside of politically-co
51.
by chunkbot 16y ago
You're surprised? Why?
52.
by chunkbot 16y ago
How do the Chinese do business? And how is it different from how U.S. Tech companies do business?
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by chunkbot 16y ago
My favorite landing page is the one for Buckyballs ( http://www.getbuckyballs.com/ ). Thanks to it, I'm sure they moved a lot of product on the day Google doodled "buckyball".
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by chunkbot 16y ago
I don't think they're orthogonal; they're probably positively correlated.
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by chunkbot 16y ago
I'm skeptical when anyone says a upcoming product is going to make running a fault-tolerant scalable environment "trivial".
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by chunkbot 16y ago
An API for a third-party to query app-store data (things like Genre, Position, Name, Icon, Screens, Free/Paid, Reviews, Popularity, etc.). Update: Turns out Apple has this (iTunes & App Store Affiliate Tools), including the revenue sh
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by chunkbot 16y ago
Do any of the mobile app stores have an API? Developers could come up with better app stores that drive more sales. Bonus points if they get a small percentage of every sale that flows through their app-store app. “Let a thousand flowers bl
58.
by chunkbot 16y ago
Haven't seen this before... I think this "Google" thing is going to be big.
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by chunkbot 16y ago
I'm just surprised that a search engine I've never heard of has 800 servers, each with 64GB of RAM and 8TB across 8 disk. (OK, I've heard of them, but now I'm interested enough to take a serious look!)
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by chunkbot 16y ago
These are hard problems to solve, even approximately, and nothing we're doing is original. Like quantitative finance, a lot of the original research comes from outside the field (ie. "quasi-clique detection in protein-protein interaction ne

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