ehsanul

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by ehsanul 16y ago
Well, this really depends on the startup and what stage they're at. At the early stages, where it's just the founders, it's probably for the best if the founders are generalists and can handle almost anything. Once someone lands the funding
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by ehsanul 16y ago
Please elaborate on what the correct flags would be, for those of use who wouldn't know.
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by ehsanul 16y ago
Anyone else got any good strategies for concurrency analysis? Probably not what you're really looking for but, maybe you could try to eschew shared state when at all possible? I, myself, am absolutely no good with threaded code. Message-p
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by ehsanul 16y ago
The PostgreSQL planner has always done a flawless job for me in terms of choosing between indexes and tablescans - on reasonable queries. While that has been my general experience as well, things can break down at the edges sometimes. I s
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by ehsanul 16y ago
On a related note, reading J's getting started guide has been pretty interesting so far: http://www.jsoftware.com/help/primer/contents.htm
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by ehsanul 16y ago
I upvoted you, but as mentioned earlier in this thread by silentbicycle, this was written by one APLer to be read by another. I suppose even knowing APL makes it still difficult to follow, but only as difficult as APL itself is to follow ri
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by ehsanul 16y ago
Wow, thanks for that clue. Will have to take a closer look at that source now. I don't feel too bad for not really getting it, given the creator of J saying this about it: My immediate reaction on seeing the page was recoil and puzzlement:
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by ehsanul 16y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humour
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by ehsanul 16y ago
Yeah, I realized that fact a little late. Relevant snippet from the link about that initial bit of code for J: I showed this fragment to others in the hope of interesting someone competent in both C and APL to take up the work, and soon re
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by ehsanul 16y ago
Nevermind the comment about it being slightly obfuscated. Have to realize that this is the creator of J we're talking about. He probably saw it as highly expressive code (much meaning in as few characters as possible). Though I can't agree,
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by ehsanul 16y ago
That's interesting, but damn is that some ugly code. Slightly obfuscated on purpose? Though of course it wouldn't win the IOCCC. On the other hand, it's notable that many IOCCC submissions happen to pack a lot of functionality in often less
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by ehsanul 16y ago
Can you think of any way in which intelligent design might not be mutually exclusive with evolution?
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by ehsanul 16y ago
Great set of questions! Also like your last bit of advice - think about the person's point of view before evaluating what they've said. And by doing this, I see how one could also get to the root of a disagreement, rather than just the surf
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by ehsanul 16y ago
I've read that book already and even have alerts on it for new chapters, but thanks for mentioning it. It's thoroughly entertaining! Well, in my case, it's not that I make fallacious counter-arguments. My arguments are generally quite sound
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by ehsanul 16y ago
That's an enlightening comment. How can I stop being a "faker", as you call it? I, and probably some other HNers, are often pretty critical or take things people say more literally than they meant often, rather than giving them the benefit
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by ehsanul 16y ago
You can try to direct some of that attention to yourself, since you're in the same space. You can't compete on prizes, but you'll have a different offering - you have to distinguish your product from Yahoo's product in other ways.
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by ehsanul 16y ago
It will probably do you more good than harm. First of all, a competitor should spur you on to work hard on your product, lest everyone picks your competition instead. Secondly, you can use it as a real marketing opportunity. What I mean is,
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by ehsanul 16y ago
That would also be missing the point. Simply ordering the cells by code weight doesn't give you "periods", which is the main point of a periodic table.
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by ehsanul 16y ago
Also note these other headless javascript testing frameworks: Zombie.js: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2038663 HTMLUnit: http://htmlunit.sourceforge.net/ Celerity (JRuby wrapper around HTMLUnit): http://celerity.rubyforge.org/
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by ehsanul 16y ago
I absolutely love that analogy, especially as an amateur self-taught guitarist + programmer. I'd still not be too inclined to apply anywhere with a heavy CS slant, even though all the theoretical stuff interests me a lot.
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by ehsanul 16y ago
These results demonstrate that implementation language matters, and that C++ delivers a significant performance advantage. What a strange thing to say, given that it's probably very likely that the implementations probably work pretty dif
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by ehsanul 16y ago
You were probably thinking of this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1984325
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by ehsanul 16y ago
This is actually just what I'm starting to use for inter-process communication with node.js, for a realtime MMO game. I'm dividing the (2d) world into squares, each handled by a node.js process which will each be responsible for all the gam
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by ehsanul 16y ago
It was xuland.com. If you want to see the text of the post, you have to turn on showdead in your profile settings.
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by ehsanul 16y ago
For the record, it was not my post, I just found it odd to see a perfectly fine Ask HN post being killed like that.
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Why was this "Review my startup" post killed?(hackerne.ws)
4 points by ehsanul 16y ago|3 comments
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by ehsanul 16y ago
I urge you to look at the link to djb redo posted in the beginning of the article. It's quite a teaser: http://apenwarr.ca/log/?m=201012#14
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by ehsanul 16y ago
This reminds me of that post by the ex-Facebook manager, who said that tools are top priority. This article really brings it home for me. However, despite their purported effectiveness as engineers, I'm not sure what Backtype is really doin
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by ehsanul 16y ago
Interesting, wouldn't have expected the viral coefficient to go so high with such a minimal change. Did you just say that if you invite your friends, you'll get in sooner? Care to share the exact copy you used? When I check your website, it
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by ehsanul 16y ago
Concise electronics for geeks: http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/electronics/

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