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by cmbaus 13y ago
Depending on the language, delegation can be faster. For instance in C++, virtual function dispatch is slower than calling a non-virtual member. It is easier for the compiler to optimize member function calls vs virtual functions which cann
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by cmbaus 13y ago
To clarify, what concerns me is that by adding syntax that is similar to Java, developers coming from other languages (namely Java), won't take the time to understand the differences between the two languages and continue to write appl
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by cmbaus 13y ago
In JavaScript, like other duck typed languages, you have dynamic dispatch without inheritance. For example: var objA = {doIt:function(){console.log('hello from a')}}; var objB = {doIt:function(){console.log('hello f
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by cmbaus 13y ago
I am bit concerned that the standard committee is going to make the language worse while trying to fix it. Yes it is inconvenient to do traditional OO programming with JavaScript, but I'm not convinced that is a bad thing. Encouraging
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by cmbaus 13y ago
I have to agree. I've been working on a prototype for an app that I think is pretty cool, but I'm afraid to release here it in an early state. I'm concerned the focus will be on what it isn't versus what it could be. It
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by cmbaus 13y ago
What the author is alluding to is that centralized messages queues can cause catastrophic failure over[1]. Industry knowledge of how to distribute loads has improved significantly in the past 10 years. I wish the author would touch on some
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Minecraft: The Story of Mojang (2013)(youtube.com)
3 points by cmbaus 13y ago|0 comments
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by cmbaus 13y ago
I have a question regarding the Puma architecture. Does it use async/evented connection handling combined with a thread pool of workers handling requests?
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by cmbaus 13y ago
Don't know. It has been shown to work. One of the major benefits touted by the proponents of Agile was that it modeled how successful software teams worked. Well here's a successful software team and this is how it works. For most
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by cmbaus 13y ago
This is my all time favorite HN comment! For everyone who claims there is one true way to write successful software, it should be noted that one of the most popular (or least influential) sites frequented by developers was built on the live
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by cmbaus 13y ago
One suggestion. I would make the description on the landing page more informative about the service you offer rather than how exceptional you are. It took me a while to understand what your product was. For instance, on the Y Combinator hom
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by cmbaus 13y ago
Here's an example of some of their content: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsS4uCRrN_Y
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by cmbaus 13y ago
I'm not sure I would go as far as calling Grunt a complicated OO framework, but the first thing that crossed my mind when looking at Grunt was 'why not use make?' It may not be perfect, but at least you get incremental builds
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by cmbaus 13y ago
Can someone vote me up so I can get my karma above 1000 :)
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Is Hierarchy Helping Or Harming Your Organization?(forbes.com)
1 points by cmbaus 13y ago|0 comments
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by cmbaus 13y ago
Presentation is pretty important in much of the business because that's how the products are sold and fees justified. Let's say your firm trades bonds. Your product is your expertise in trading those bonds, and you have to sell th
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by cmbaus 13y ago
I don't think that is true. There are a lot of new firms targeting individual investors (even some YC funded). You are going to be competing against the brokerages themselves which are constantly pushing more sophisticated platforms fo
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by cmbaus 13y ago
Certainly Excel works for many people, but there was a significant number of users who wanted a vertically integrated presentation/reporting platform. I think there is still room for innovation in this area.
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by cmbaus 13y ago
You might be able to do something with the correlations of the index returns and stock returns, but I doubt their would be enough information there to depend on results.
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by cmbaus 13y ago
Factset's main defensive position it that they have direct feeds from most of the money managers and can do attribution analysis on their trade data overnight. That might not be as hard as getting the market data Bloomberg has, but sti
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by cmbaus 13y ago
Not all Bloomberg users are traders though, and that's where I would try to challenge them. I worked on software for many years that was used side by side with Bloomberg. Many of our customers were Bloomberg customers as well -- althou
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by cmbaus 13y ago
I think you are drawing conclusions from a small sample size. I've had the exact opposite experience.
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by cmbaus 13y ago
I had this exact experience yesterday. I was reviewing the code spit out by a Yeoman generator, while reading some Angular docs (admittedly out of order), and I has confused about how variables were being defined. I finally read something t
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by cmbaus 13y ago
I took a business meeting in Houston one time, and my colleague kept telling me that the office was "in the mall." That seemed very odd to me, but there was a massive office building attached to the mall. Not a bad idea I guess co
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by cmbaus 13y ago
Joking aside, there is something to be said about doing CM with the shell. If somebody created a list of requirements for the perfect language for doing CM it would probably be similar to: - Always available on every machine - Proven reliab
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by cmbaus 13y ago
I agree. This would be far more awesome if you could install it with a fucking shell script. It is called fucking shell scripts. Not fucking ruby scripts.
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by cmbaus 13y ago
But there is a lot of tooling required to solve problems seen by common web apps. Node is doing it differently, and it has advantages and disadvantages. One disadvantage is if you are doing CPU bound work, you will have to consider how you
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by cmbaus 13y ago
Yes it is true, if your app is CPU bound, the event driven model has limitations. But many applications are not CPU bound.
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by cmbaus 13y ago
Using synchronous I/O is only simpler if you never have to synchronize threads, which you always do. After taking a closer look at Discourse, it seemed to me that there was something amiss about how the Ruby community handles concurren
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by cmbaus 13y ago
During the PC boom in the 90s many of the hot products were productivity apps that allowed non-programmers to do "computing" (for lack of a better term). - Access/dBase/Filemaker - Word/WordPerfect - Excel/Lotu

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