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by goldmab 15y ago
Fair enough, but you can also have a schemaless store by using JSON fields in PostgreSQL or MySQL.
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by goldmab 15y ago
Can somebody find the actual text of the Brochet studies? I've seen them referred to several times, but without citations.
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by goldmab 15y ago
There's a mistake in the math: one year of a salary cut is given as the amount invested. Why one year?
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by goldmab 15y ago
That's cute but it's not accurate. I interviewed there over two years ago and I appear to be blacklisted, since whenever I look at any of their job descriptions I get this: "Hey, we have reviewed your application and unfortunately don't h
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by goldmab 15y ago
"Meathead" is just a stupid thing to call someone. It's a stereotype that requires no mental effort, and it makes you feel superior.
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by goldmab 15y ago
I feel the same way. I have a Dell Inspiron that cost me something like $500 two years ago, and I have no problem doing Python development on it with vim. If I had a compile step I might feel differently.
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by goldmab 15y ago
Seriously? Everyone here agrees that unemployment is so high because of technology? Nobody remembers that the financial system nearly collapsed three years ago?
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by goldmab 15y ago
I don't understand what you're saying. What do you mean by "nested function calls," and how is that antithetical to both lists and callbacks? In what way is WSGI anti-callback?
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by goldmab 15y ago
That would be true if your investing structure were the only variable. I think Aloisius is talking about the YC culture. You have said that the idea doesn't matter nearly as much as the personalities of the founders. The implication is that
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by goldmab 15y ago
Summary: The creator of VoltDB thinks MySQL is hopelessly slow. No other sources are cited.
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by goldmab 15y ago
I think some of you are misunderstanding the idea DHH is advocating. This is just part of 37signals' campaign to recognize profit as the primary measure of business success, as opposed to valuation. It's more of a common sense understanding
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by goldmab 15y ago
Make that two: Verdana. Both designed by Matthew Carter. You may remember him from the hit film, Helvetica.
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by goldmab 15y ago
I guess it would be pointless for me to rant about why you should enjoy some piece of writing that you hate. I'll just say that the essay isn't about cruise ships so much as it's about loneliness and depression.
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by goldmab 15y ago
Really misleading headline. The study wasn't about hammocks at all, just a normal bed that sways. Makes me think more of being on a boat. I haven't experienced the effect, but David Foster Wallace wrote about it: http://www.harpers.org/med
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by goldmab 15y ago
A skip list written in Python is itself an optimization. You could simply use a sorted list with the bisect module.
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by goldmab 15y ago
Well put. And I forgot to mention: thanks for the article! I especially like your definition of "feel", distinct from "look".
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by goldmab 15y ago
What you call eye candy, I call trendiness. To take the closest example: Attack Of Design looks lovely, but that background noisy pixel look is very 2010/2011.
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by goldmab 15y ago
Hacker News or Stack Overflow are good examples of very successful sites that have horrible visual design. Does anyone else actually like the visual design of HN? Besides the endless horizontal text problem, it's very easy to read, and th
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by goldmab 15y ago
1. I don't see how this is better than using a system that already has a mature language and libraries. Java, .NET, Python, Ruby, Perl, PHP, et al have that. Yes, Node is catching up very quickly. But how is catching up better than being
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by goldmab 15y ago
A lot of smart people find themselves asking this very question, and they choose a lot of different answers :) Anyway, I vote for something in Python with SQLAlchemy and either Werkzeug (maybe Flask, if it suits you) or CherryPy. Pyramid mi
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by goldmab 15y ago
Programming as a profession is only moderately interesting. It can be a good job, but if you want to make about the same money and be happier, you could actually just go run a fast food joint. Zed appears to be saying that he isn't happ
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by goldmab 15y ago
If the term has any connotation, I think it's more an emphasis on best practices, especially things that help programmers work together: version control, continuous integration, bug tracking, API documentation, etc.
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by goldmab 15y ago
I asked some non-programmers about this recently and they all said that "software engineer" sounds professional and they know what it means. "Computer programmer" sounds very old fashioned to them. If anyone thinks that I work in "IT" after
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by goldmab 15y ago
I made this for some personal projects of mine, since I like using Python itself to do my HTML templating. I haven't tested it in very many situations, so there are a probably few bugs still.
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Show HN: My embedded DSL for HTML in Python(github.com)
1 points by goldmab 15y ago|1 comments
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by goldmab 15y ago
The author is 19 years old, so I'm guessing he dropped out pretty early. I don't think he was actually in college long enough to even know that it was a waste of time for him. I loved college, especially a lot of the stuff that happened wel
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by goldmab 15y ago
Reduce got banished to functools, but map and filter are still around. So people can process collections using the lispy style if they like. I just hope they realize that it's only a difference in style.
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by goldmab 15y ago
I disagree with map/filter/reduce being "key" in Python. I've been writing Python for a long time and I never use them. Comprehensions are more pythonic than map+filter, and reduce just doesn't come up. Here's Guido explaining why he wanted
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by goldmab 15y ago
"We interview the best graduates of U.S. universities..." The best at what?
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by goldmab 15y ago
GitHub is just really well designed. I prefer Mercurial, but I use GitHub because they are so far ahead of everyone else.

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