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by ghc 14y ago
Please spare us this trite bullshit. I see people trying to justify their inability to improve themselves all the time. "If I'm having trouble, everyone else must be too!", they think, instead of considering the obvious: maybe they just suc
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by ghc 14y ago
Seeing this resolution to the mystery made my day. It's refreshing to see that all this buzz was the result of a glorious postal mishap, not a concerted effort to hijack our attention with a viral marketing stunt.
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by ghc 14y ago
The page seems totally broken in Android. They need to turn off that "join the conversation" modal.
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by ghc 14y ago
I feel like they don't know what pivoting means. The first pivot doesn't sound like a pivot; they built a new business with the same venture money. The second pivot isn't a pivot either. I think reasonable people would call that "growth and
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by ghc 14y ago
I believe what you are thinking of is called "Haskell Prime". Haskell' is an effort to evolve the language standard of Haskell, and my impression of it has always been that it's rather analogous to Python 3, except that Haskell seems to evo
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by ghc 14y ago
I find it hard to imagine how I could be less impressed with this landing page, even if it does look pretty nice. In this age of launchrock pages that usually amount to nothing, I expect more of an HN post than a vacuous mission statement a
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by ghc 14y ago
I'm never going back to a sub-1920x1080 laptop screen for development. Screen real estate is just too precious to waste by having a sub-optimal resolution. Maybe in 10 years, or whenever I need reading glasses, I'll feel differently.
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by ghc 14y ago
When writing a database, performance is extremely important. Languages like C++ give you manual control of the computer's resources, which means you can count on predictable performance and memory management. Why is this important? All of y
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by ghc 14y ago
The trouble is, larger apps are logical extensions of smaller apps in Flask. I find it rather pleasant to use Flask to build large RESTful APIs, but I don't find there to be any interesting challenges or insights that would make it worthwhi
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by ghc 14y ago
> 11. Never use early exits. As a general piece of advice, this is flat out wrong. Or, to put it more correctly, this is only valid advice when using certain languages and only under certain conditions. Just because it is sound advice i
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by ghc 14y ago
I suppose one benefit of launching is you can't put off fixing known issues like the wrong error message displaying because I disabled signup after posting the question. I suppose you're right, and you've convinced me to turn signups on aga
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Ask HN: When do you say "enough is enough" and just ship it?
2 points by ghc 14y ago|2 comments
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by ghc 14y ago
This may often be true, but if you work on something that is closely tied to the flow of information on the internet then it's almost impossible not to get distracted by your own product. I've been working on a stream aggregation site for s
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by ghc 14y ago
I would, but only as an unpaid intern. Dealing with payments to India is too hard for a fledgling startup. Maybe you'll find a more established company to pay...but as a Python/Haskell hacker I could at least offer you intellectually stimul
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by ghc 14y ago
I actually think it's harder for most companies to take a chance on someone remotely when they're so young.
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by ghc 14y ago
If you were located in Boston (or SV), you'd probably have your pick of startups that would give you a paid summer internship. The best thing you can do is get involved in your local startup scene. Most of us doing software startups don't c
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by ghc 14y ago
I don't. I happen to waste google's cycles. Good point though, I'd forgotten what it was like to use a desktop email client.
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by ghc 14y ago
Lean Startup Machine takes the three-day approach and it works extremely well.
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by ghc 14y ago
I think he's doing it wrong. Why go through the effort of unsubscribing when you can just create a filter in a few seconds that deletes the message for you? Almost all my filters result in the deletion of email, not filing it away.
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by ghc 14y ago
Fantastic idea! I hadn't thought about that method at all. I've been researching this problem for a long time myself and wound up taking an entirely different approach.
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by ghc 14y ago
I just want to chime in and say that I've been thinking about and researching solutions to this for years. Only recently have I been pushed towards creating a real product that does solve this problem (due to enough people liking the idea a
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by ghc 14y ago
Oh, thank Gabe! I've been waiting for this for a decade now!
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by ghc 14y ago
I'm building a virtual assistant that prioritizes your reading list. I've been building it for awhile and we made it to MassChallenge semi-finals, but no farther. Hopefully we'll launch soon :). If anyone here wants a beta invite, you can s
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by ghc 15y ago
There are some instances of Haskell outperforming C/C++, but this is generally limited to situations where unboxing, strict application and Haskell's type system allow GHC to perform some amazing optimization. In other words, don't expect H
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by ghc 15y ago
Why is the White House preceded with an article? I don't think it's significant.
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by ghc 15y ago
I would have liked to see how easy it is to add a new statement to pypy for comparison's sake.
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by ghc 15y ago
You have to remember that this is relative to SQLite, which has a global write lock of its own.
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by ghc 15y ago
I'm surprised to see Klipsch do so poorly. Their Image X10s are my favorite earbuds of all time, especially for classical.
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Rant: I Love Photography(wired.com)
1 points by ghc 15y ago|0 comments
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by ghc 15y ago
Oh great. So now what am I going to use to search for new apps in Android?

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