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by gcv 16y ago
Does this app help someone who spends most of his time looking at Emacs.app with a dark background and screen brightness turned all the way down?
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by gcv 16y ago
Pen and notebook; Emacs; org-mode; Gmail; Git (and GitHub); Dropbox.
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by gcv 16y ago
Not at all! Just try not to repeat yourself. Be creative. Invective can be a form of poetry. See, e.g., Gunnery Sergeant Hartman in Full Metal Jacket. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8Nf1MK7lts
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Ask HN: Any demand for C and system-level Unix consulting?
2 points by gcv 16y ago|0 comments
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by gcv 16y ago
I personally would not, but more importantly, I think very few non-geeks would. Most people don't get hierarchical filesystems; they are thoroughly unintuitive to non-programmers. I shudder at the thought of trying to explain that "this fol
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Bleeping Expletives (William Safire, 2008)(nytimes.com)
1 points by gcv 16y ago|0 comments
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by gcv 16y ago
For the first time in my life, I truly wish I had the money to be an angel investor.
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by gcv 16y ago
TFA seems to be down right now, so I can't read it, but I have a sense of its gist from this thread. I have an extremely low opinion of CSS. It has poorly thought-out abstractions, and the designers sold that as a feature ("it's not a progr
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by gcv 16y ago
First of all, Clojure has struct-map, which supports keywords, much like default Common Lisp struct constructors. Second, Clojure's defstruct is on its way out. defrecord provides similar functionality with far better performance. By defaul
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by gcv 16y ago
I have no exact data at the moment. I looked through my application's logs and compared the response times in situations when the front page loads from a full-page cache entry and when it has to build the page from multiple pieces of memcac
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by gcv 16y ago
I'm starting to notice that App Engine's memcache is incredibly slow. If serving up a page requires one memcache hit (for, say, caching entire response objects), it works well. If it starts to require, say, a dozen, the response time slows
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by gcv 16y ago
The Enlive system (for Clojure, see https://github.com/cgrand/enlive ) does something very similar.
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by gcv 16y ago
The second page of the article claims that asking for extended permissions on a Facebook application results in significant drop-off. The article doesn't cite any data, and this contradicts my impression that users blindly click through any
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by gcv 16y ago
Yes. :) I also really need to find time to record a screencast.
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by gcv 16y ago
I'm looking at a live App Engine console for the Clojure app I'm working on right now, and I see cold-start JVM times varying from 3 to 10 seconds. Although this is a lot, with the latest App Engine, you can (1) pay $9/month to have 3 JVMs
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by gcv 16y ago
I'm the author of appengine-magic. Rather flattered to see this on the front page of HN. If you have any questions about appengine-magic, or running Clojure on App Engine, I'll answer as best I can. One thing to keep in mind: the latest ver
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by gcv 16y ago
The example in the README is intentionally minimalistic: it relies on no external libraries. The Clojure ecosystem has several highly respected libraries for handling server-side templates, e.g., Enlive and Hiccup. All work fine with appeng
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by gcv 16y ago
Has anyone actually tried this, or something similar? A hosted node.js combined with a hosted CouchDB? Does it work well? Is it actually easy to program? Does it perform well?
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by gcv 16y ago
You can still handle your validations server-side in a single-page application. The client JavaScript code sends a JSON packet to the server containing whatever data it needs to process. The server responds with a JSON packet which looks li
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by gcv 16y ago
Gmail predates GWT by several years. I'm also not entirely sure Gmail is written in Java to begin with.
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by gcv 16y ago
I'm under the impression that certain units within the armed forces do, in fact, have somewhat decentralized job assignment systems. Dick Couch writes in The Finishing School, for example, that SEAL platoon assignments result from individua
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by gcv 16y ago
In the free configuration, I've clocked it between 4 and 6 seconds. (Sometimes up to 10 seconds, but not recently.) With the 1.4.0 release of the App Engine SDK, the cold start time has become less important, though. First, you can pay $9/m
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by gcv 16y ago
You could be cool as Clojure, though: https://github.com/gcv/appengine-magic
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by gcv 16y ago
I hope not. I personally think Scala's greatest complexity is in its type system. While algebraic data types are straightforward in themselves, Scala blends them with an object-oriented mindset more rigorous than Java's. In particular, Scal
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by gcv 16y ago
From the description: "The goal is to have a portable assembler." Why not just use Fortran?
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by gcv 16y ago
Fascinating. My experience with MTurk suggests that Amazon has mostly abandoned the product. Amazon still uses it for product classification, but does not participate in the community forums (even on the official AWS MTurk developer forum).
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by gcv 16y ago
While this is a really, really tempting front page, won't this just encourage groupthink? HN doesn't suffer from this as much it might, but it has its share. In addition, interesting stories languish unnoticed on /newest all the time, and i
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by gcv 16y ago
Far be it from me to defend the TSA (its behavior and policies are outrageous), but your comment is simply wrong. Before September 11th, private companies handled airport security. After September 11th, airlines and airports were heavily cr
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by gcv 16y ago
I'm not an App Engine apologist, although I'm seriously evaluating it for my current project. That said, could you please clarify the following points: 1. "You're supposed to handle exceptions from the datastore? Really?" — Are you saying y
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Ask HN: Opinions on jBCrypt?
2 points by gcv 16y ago|0 comments

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