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by hassy 11y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, but surely in the scenario that you are Ashton Kutcher and tweet a link to your followers, the average inter-arrival time would decrease but overall it would still be a Poisson process?
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by hassy 12y ago
In what sense does Erlang not handle clustering well? It's true that you wouldn't run a "native" (ie EPMD-based) cluster of hundreds of nodes, but what would stop you from implementing a clustering architecture you'
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by hassy 12y ago
I don't seem to see a mention of the file descriptor limit. As recently as last year the default on Ubuntu was 2048 iirc, which is laughable given that it was 2014. I guess it's not strictly performance related, but should definit
64.
by hassy 12y ago
Personal anecdote - <2% of visitors that play a preview ever click on a buy link on http://wonderwheel.fm It's something I built for myself and I didn't expect to make anything, but it's still been entertaining
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by hassy 12y ago
Increasing the number of file descriptors on machines running HTTP servers is one of the first recommendations I make to my consulting clients. It's much easier to overlook than you'd probably imagine. I have seen apps serving hun
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by hassy 13y ago
If you liked this you should read The Score Will Take Care Of Itself by Bill Walsh who lead San Francisco 49ers to win three Super Bowls. Jack Dorsey recommended this book at the recent Startup School http://www.amazon.com/T
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by hassy 13y ago
£800 for a two bed on the Royal Mile?
68.
by hassy 13y ago
I have some awful elisp code that glues together org mode, iimage.el and Deft to do something along these lines. All notes are stored as plain text with images in a sensible directory structure. I don't use git, everything just sits in
69.
by hassy 13y ago
> I think what needs to be done after this is checking how much data can be sent per second. Both in terms of raw bandwidth and messages/sec. These are on the list :)
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by hassy 13y ago
I ran a quick test, an entry-level box from Digital Ocean can sustain 350+ connections/sec and maxes out at around 7,200 open connections. Having root access to the machine would allow you to optimise some things and probably raise tho
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Heroku WebSocket performance(veldstra.org)
66 points by hassy 13y ago|24 comments
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by hassy 14y ago
I agree, flat design is in vogue (and is done badly most of the time). Where were all these designers with their beloved flat designs before Windows Phone came out? Rhetorical question, I know exactly where they were: designing and blogging
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by hassy 14y ago
I'm putting polishing touches on http://wonderwheel.fm and I would love to build another Spotify app. In general, I'm interested in projects with novel UIs, interesting interactions, and new ways to present information, like I would total
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by hassy 14y ago
> The black swan is something that is completely unforeseeable and for which there are no previous partial or complete examples, either of the final outcome or the contributing causes. As far as someone is concerned. You misundersta
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by hassy 14y ago
> For a $10mm company to become a $1bn company, know what you need? Luck. Luck is necessary but not sufficient. You also need to be in a position to disproportionately benefit from luck. I think PG's latest essay outlines what a ventu
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by hassy 14y ago
I can't believe it still needs pointed out to someone who's been on HN for a while: YC was never about the money. For an insight into PG's motivations, you might want to re-read his essay on cities (it's more likely to be "power", as in you
77.
by hassy 14y ago
It's almost an acid test: the person complaining either has only a cursory familiarity with Erlang or is someone who prefers style over substance.
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by hassy 14y ago
I think you're right. What I was trying to point out is that learning "Lisp" (which one?) is not a good way to get better at Javascript. Lua or Io - maybe, but even then the suggestions of other people in the thread for actual JS resources
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by hassy 14y ago
Sexps aside, no continuations, no TCO, and no macros mean that JS is actually pretty far from Lisp.
80.
by hassy 14y ago
Perhaps they have more interesting problems to solve than "how do we build our UI in HTML5"? Getting a shirt that will fit well ranks much higher in most people's priorities than using only HTML-based webapps.
81.
by hassy 14y ago
You forgot parsing the formulae. You forgot having to decide which functions to include and implementing them. You forgot testing. Sure those aren't super hard, but minutes add up to hours and hours add up to days which turn into weeks. Mos
82.
by hassy 14y ago
chess is old school. i want to see a list of founders who are exceptional at starcraft. (only half-joking)
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by hassy 14y ago
So what does it do exactly? Is it something like automated A/B testing on prices/segments of customers? ("let's see if we can charge visitors on Macs a dollar more?" type of stuff?) Love the design of the site.
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Z Kombinator(zkombinator.com)
43 points by hassy 14y ago|22 comments
85.
by hassy 15y ago
early stage startups and property for example
86.
by hassy 15y ago
I'll worry about it when I have it. But my current thinking is along the lines of: 10-20% in highly speculative stuff (much more so than stocks) and the rest in super-safe stuff (much safer than stocks).
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by hassy 15y ago
Taleb is not a source of investing advice at all - he merely illustrates his philosophy with examples from finance as it's something he's more than familiar with. Stock market is a fool's game by its nature.
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by hassy 15y ago
Wouldn't ever do it. Stock market is for suckers. (Based on reading Nassim Nicholas Taleb and conversations with people that worked on trading floors.)
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by hassy 15y ago
I use ido and imenu to jump around, but this is for when you already know what's where and how it all fits together. What about when you download some library from Github and want to quickly get an idea of how it all works?
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by hassy 15y ago
What do you use for browsing code in a bunch of files in different directories (if anything)? I use Emacs 99% of the time, but when I need to look through a codebase I'm not familiar with I use TextMate for its project panel.

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