dvt

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by dvt 14y ago
I think you may be right, and I completely understand the problematic benchmarks that always crop up. I don't pretend I'm smarter than the people at Google (because I'm not), but some questionable decisions were made (there's plenty of li
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by dvt 14y ago
To be fair, I haven't used it since 2011 and I'm sure a lot has changed. I've read plenty of valid criticisms however which (after having used it for several projects) deterred me from using it again. For a project a couple of years ago, I
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by dvt 14y ago
I think this is an amazing milestone; I contributed to Go in the early phases and was very excited about the project. I even had Rob Pike OK some of my patches (which was a huge nerd ego boost, obviously). However, the direction the languag
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Cesar Chavez Google doodle on Easter Sunday outrages conservatives online(guardian.co.uk)
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by dvt 14y ago
100% agreed. As a matter of fact, just about all schools on the top USNWR rankings are a crap shoot ( http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/... ) You can get in one and not get in 20, get in 20 and not get in the one y
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by dvt 14y ago
... says the high school senior being published in The Wall Street Journal. Can't tell if irony.
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by dvt 14y ago
I think you make fair points and I don't have any strong disagreements. And it's true that I may have extrapolated "working for a start-up" to "founding a start-up." However, I really do think that places like Github aren't dime a dozen and
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by dvt 14y ago
Even though I'm sure just about everyone here on HN will somewhat agree with the gist of the slides (startups are fun!), I'm not sure if this is good advice for students. I'm 27 and just now finishing up my undergraduate degree (at a top 10
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by dvt 14y ago
Contrary to most commenters here, I've recently started to embrace "being a statistic." I think completely understanding where you stand (on the normal curve) is not only important when helping you prepare for taking an exam, approaching a
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by dvt 14y ago
Exactly. JS was never meant to be a general-purpose language. Using the right tool for the right job is a fundamental aspect of software engineering. If you use C for writing web-apps and JavaScript for writing operating systems, you're doi
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by dvt 14y ago
What bothers me about asm.js is that no one really needs it. I mean don't get me wrong, Unreal III in Firefox is pretty cool, but very very few developers will seriously consider writing a production game for the browser. So then what are w
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by dvt 14y ago
As I was reading this, all I could think to myself was "wow, I would've done the exact same thing" in almost every circumstance Formspring found themselves in. Bottom line is: it's easy to play armchair CEO when reading a post-mortem (and h
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by dvt 14y ago
> So... how would you have handled it, out of curiosity. Imo separate heaps is the first big mistake. Even implementations like Erjang (Erlang on the JVM using the Kilim microthreading library -- which I've also contributed to) improve
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by dvt 14y ago
Same old hype. Erlang is good I guess, and I've used it in production a couple of times. But it's just a language that solves 3 problems but creates another 30. Just like C++11, Dart, Go, etc. This kind of belligerent rhetoric (we're solvin
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by dvt 14y ago
Article screams of "you jelly?" And most of us are, indeed, jelly. The bottom line is, if you're into start-ups, you understand that in many ways it's a lottery. Instagram won last week, then Pinterest, and now Summly. This is the norm. Ove
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by dvt 14y ago
To me this whole "new Yahoo!" thing is all backwards. 1. Yahoo! is in trouble. We need someone to take us out of this rut? But who? Enter Marissa Meyer: an executive with little top-level leadership experience and even less experience makin