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by ekidd 16y ago
The author argues that PDF isn't obsolete, because it's an excellent replacement for paper forms that need to be reproduced exactly. This is true. But I think these paper forms are themselves becoming obsolete as bureaucracies switch to onl
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by ekidd 16y ago
Continuations can certainly be ugly (under some circumstances), and difficult, too. But there's no reason why this particular implementation of continuations needs to be inefficient—it has a one-to-one mapping with ordinary asynchronous Jav
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by ekidd 16y ago
Here are some suggestions I've seen on HN and elsewhere. Your mileage may vary. :-) 1) Work on something that interests both you and a cofounder. 2) Choose a potentially huge market. 3) Compete with big, dumb competitors in a market with no
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by ekidd 16y ago
Adult language acquisition is a really weird problem. tl;dr: Plenty of adults actually _can_ learn foreign languages if they put in the hours, though few have sufficient dedication. But maybe not everyone. First, some background on my own e
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by ekidd 16y ago
That's an interesting article, although the level of hype for cloud computing is rather high (and I'm an enormous fan of cloud computing): "When PCs and client/server computing came along, the departmental computing guys (i.e. DEC), conside
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by ekidd 16y ago
One of the classic papers on category theory and databases is "Comprehending Queries"[1], which is ultimately the basis for Microsoft's LINQ. In one sense, it's a fairly straightforward paper: Joining two tables is just a special case of a