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   by edan 3mo ago

   Guess the relative frequency in the English language of 5 words, and share the result with friends. The fun of this game is that you find unexpected word-frequency rankings. The mechanics are intended to be simple, but the problem is that r
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   Show HN: WordRank: A Word Frequency Game(timd73.github.io)

   1 points by edan 3mo ago|1 comments
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   by edan 15y ago

   We use both thrift and protobuf, and my experience with both has been very positive. I feel that protobuf is more mature and has better performance for the most part, but thrift does provide built in RPC support, which protobuf doesn't. I
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   by edan 15y ago

   I can vouch for re2 - if you need to run a lot of regexps, or run user-supplied regexps, or run non-trivial regexps on user-supplied arbitrary data, re2 will save your application from certain death if you use pcre. Google "catastrophic ba
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   by edan 15y ago

   If you're a C purist (or just a purist in general) then of course you're right, but I personally think that C-with-classes is clearer, easier for a layman to understand (many people who call themselves C programmers still get nervous when f