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by ghc 13y ago
Here's some feedback: 1. Your logo is extremely similar to Buffer. Buffer won't sue you b/c Joel's a nice guy (on Twitter at least), but Buffer has a huge amount of traction, to the point where I thought your logo was a
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by ghc 13y ago
I think it would be fair to say that Wolfenstein would qualify as a relatively small system in Haskell. Haskell's own compiler, GHC is a highly complex system and one of the most sophisticated compilers in existence. The source is free
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by ghc 13y ago
I don't know if anyone remembers the game MayaQuest, but it was one of my favorite Mac games and I dreamed of exploring the Mayan ruins on a bicycle for years. If drones had existed back then, I think this would have been my dream job.
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by ghc 13y ago
Contrary to the editorialized title (which I'm sure will be changed soon), here's the best article on Unicode I've ever read: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html
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by ghc 13y ago
I'm glad to see more classes like this come online. I think its a bit of a shame that the material (of the book) focuses so much on Java, however. The algorithms classes I took in college focused a lot on math, logic and proofs. It too
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by ghc 13y ago
Pelican, Specter, Silvrback...I'm starting to get really confused. Is building your own blogging engine the new rite of passage for the web age, supplanting the practice of building your own text editor? Is it okay if I keep writing po
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by ghc 13y ago
Hashed _id's aren't the bottleneck. Disks are the bottleneck. MongoDB is seriously lacking in the compression department and bogs down our disks constantly. Riak is not slow as long as you're not running your cluster on VPSs.
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by ghc 13y ago
We had some major issues using MongoDB for time series data due to the write volume (real time sensor data). The solution for us was Riak, mainly because we never need to update a vector clock, leaving us without the need for conflict resol
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by ghc 13y ago
If that was the only thing that mattered, how do some consultants make 3x others, with exactly the same performance or worse? While the people who pay the bills think that's the only thing that matters, your ability to confidently mark
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by ghc 13y ago
I don't think you can die from overwork at that age. This is, frankly, nothing compared to some of the long hours we worked in project groups at Georgia Tech from CS class final projects. It's more likely that he had an unknown co
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by ghc 13y ago
When I was young I always daydreamed about being a programmer/hacker in a dystopian cyberpunk future. I don't know whether or not I should be alarmed that my daydreams and reality are converging.
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by ghc 13y ago
I interviewed at the New York office for an SRE job a few months ago. It took about 10 months for the whole process to play out. In the end, after a full day interview, I was supposed to get the written up feedback from every interviewer re
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by ghc 13y ago
Okay, so we're crowd-funding an email client now? Is there any reason to not just put up all of my random project ideas on indiegogo and see if they get funded? If I'm having trouble financing the development new features for my S
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Kayak cofounder plans to be tech matchmaker(bostonglobe.com)
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by ghc 13y ago
Carmack's aside about his 7 year old son learning to program brings up an interesting idea: What would happen if you taught a 7 year old to program with Haskell. I don't have any children, but I started programming at 7 so at the
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by ghc 13y ago
Does this mean I have to put a +1 button on my site if I don't want it to come after all the sites that do have +1 buttons (unless I'm a canonical source like Wikipedia)? If so, it seems like a gross abuse of power on Google'
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by ghc 13y ago
Imagine you're building a desktop application that does something like take a bunch of sensors from an attached serial port device and displays configuration of them + a table of their values updating in real time. You wouldn't cr
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by ghc 13y ago
Interesting. I wonder how this compares with Google's Summer of Code program completion statistics (at least back when it started). If you wind up with several companies that are judged as likely to be successful, what will you do? You
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by ghc 13y ago
But this strategy is especially awful if you know you don’t plan to ever actually learn the language, but you turn out to be wrong. It ends up that you find yourself using it on a regular basis, and hilariously, you don’t
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by ghc 13y ago
I don't deny that I may have missed the point of "How to Make Wealth" when I was younger, but I think it wasn't so hard to get the wrong things out of it: -- So I think you should make users the test, just as a
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by ghc 13y ago
Depressing. I'll tell you why: My Boston-based, recently acquired startup can't find people at all , so seeing hiring increase in the technologies we use (Javascript, Python, Angular) means that trendier startups who pull stunts
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by ghc 13y ago
Let me preface this by saying that when I was 19 and Hackers and Painters was just published, there was no book more subversive to the natural order of things. H&P changed my life so completely that less than a year after reading it I
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by ghc 13y ago
I wasn't expecting much (most articles with titles like that are terrible), but this vastly exceeded my expectations. If I'd had advice like this when I worked on my first couple of startups, rather than the advice in Hackers and
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by ghc 13y ago
This list doesn't give me much confidence in mattermark's "proprietary algorithm."
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by ghc 13y ago
No, and that illustrates his point in a way. Boston has the second largest amount of VC funding, tons of startups, and more institutions of higher learning than pretty much any other metro area in the US [Citation Needed...last I saw it was
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I need help with Coverage.py(nedbatchelder.com)
1 points by ghc 13y ago|0 comments
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by ghc 13y ago
That bouncy logo is incredibly annoying, just FYI.
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Experience: I was a bartender in Antarctica(theguardian.com)
1 points by ghc 13y ago|0 comments
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by ghc 13y ago
Well then...first I learned something about DSA, and now I'm 1/3 of the way through re-reading The Black Goat of the Woods with a Thousand Young . Jesus Christ I am a nerd. Iä! Iä!
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by ghc 13y ago
The traffic to http://algorithmic.ly has been outstanding. I think your site just put us over the top. We have gotten more signups than we know what to do with. I'll have to write up a post about it.

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