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by hassy 16y ago
so having joshu and not selling in desperation is worth at least $13 million
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by hassy 16y ago
Cross the bridge when you come to it. You only need a handful of programmers in the first couple of years of a startup's life. The better they are the better. Worrying about whether you'll be able to hire 20+ Clojure programmers is best lef
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by hassy 16y ago
You make a good point. The solution is quite simple though, look at what they did with the non-mainstream language and ask a few questions. In my case, it would take me a couple of minutes to find out if someone just read "Programming Erlan
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by hassy 16y ago
It's "whatever programming language is not mainstream paradox" to be precise (and the author of the blog post would agree since he also nominates Haskell, Erlang, and Clojure). Which is obvious. And since "whatever programming language is n
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by hassy 16y ago
You should also mention Mochi Reloader and Distel. The first one takes no time to set up and removes so much friction from the dev process. Distel requires some set up and learning time, but that will pay off very quickly.
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by hassy 16y ago
This. Spotify is amazing, they've done extremely well, and they will be huge. > I have a hard time explaining spotify to people that havent used it not because its complicated, just because they dont believe it can work like that. Any
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by hassy 16y ago
An example going the other way: Russian does not have an equivalent to "artist". There are words specifically for "painter", "singer" etc, but nothing generic. The closest is "творец" (tvorets) but it's closer to "creator" and calling yours
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by hassy 16y ago
I thought it would be an interactive console, like http://tryruby.org . Imagine being able to play with an API like that, with nothing to sign-up for or download and set-up.
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by hassy 16y ago
JIT is great http://thejit.org/
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by hassy 16y ago
No curly braces, no hashtables, awkward strings, doesn't look object-oriented. (This coming from someone whose favorite language is Erlang.)
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by hassy 16y ago
In addition to the tenuous link between the two activities, the 10 to 1 ratio is almost certainly untrue. Details here (in the main text and in cited materials): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-86_Sabre#Korean_War http://en.wikipedia.org/
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by hassy 16y ago
I worked on a spreadsheet compiler at hypernumbers.com and some backend stuff for vidiowiki.com (video transcoding, file uploading/streaming and some other smaller stuff). Erlang excels at distribution. People tend to forget its raison d'êt
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by hassy 16y ago
Between the SC2 shoutout in the Scaling Disqus presentation, and the name & icon of this, my money would be on the Disqus team at Startupcraft ( http://www.startupcraftsf.com ).
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by hassy 16y ago
I will use this. One suggestion: give me a list of mixes to listen to right after I sign up. I had to go to your twitter page to find something.
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by hassy 16y ago
Cool, thanks, should make this one much easier to organize then.
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Hacker News Meetup Netherlands
17 points by hassy 16y ago|5 comments
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by hassy 16y ago
Since this seems to be the thread for beta participants who wants a game?
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by hassy 16y ago
From the linked article: Taleb’s style is to severely criticize experts and authorities--lots of 'morons', 'idiots', and 'fools' out there--while implying that both he and his reader or listener are exempt from their many biases. A third
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by hassy 16y ago
> And I'm not sure you can try to avoid mutable state and still do OO. Check out Erlang's parametrized modules, a form of functional OO. http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.58....
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by hassy 16y ago
Only unlike 20 years ago, consumers are tired of computers that confuse them and break, and don't want to be at the mercy of tech-savvy people. That, and Apple have both the market share and the number of developers in their favor.
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by hassy 17y ago
Or: let users influence tactics, but not strategy.
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by hassy 17y ago
Tim Bray exhibits the error of rationalism in this piece. Knowledge can be split into two types. The first one is what's usually called knowledge: what you can learn from a book, get graded on, formalize, prove, explain etc. This is academi
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by hassy 17y ago
You should check out vertexdb. It's designed to be used just like a filesystem, but it fixes the shortcomings of filesystems when they are used as dbs. http://github.com/stevedekorte/vertexdb In production use at http://stylous.com
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by hassy 17y ago
There may be a bubble in that lots of money may get wasted on ideas that will seem foolish in retrospect. However, iPhone/smart phones have as much potential as the web. One, iPhone is white-label hardware that will get more and more powerf
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by hassy 17y ago
As torial said many algorithms lend themselves well for running on GPUs. Algorithms can also be designed to be run on GPUs. These guys are using GPUs to convert series of images into 3D models in biology http://vidiowiki.com/watch/m5xbpad/
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by hassy 17y ago
> Why not on Posterous or Flickr? Sure, some people would want that. I'd use the setting on Facebook, maybe on Twitter too, but not on my Posterous.
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by hassy 17y ago
As a user I should be able to tell a website that I want it to forget something I'm putting on it after a while. Nothing complicated, say a default setting of one year. Not on sites like Posterous or Flickr, but on sites like Facebook, Twit
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by hassy 17y ago
“Syntactic sugar found to be leading cause of semantic diabetes.” Steve Dekorte on Twitter recently http://twitter.com/stevedekorte/status/7926192582
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by hassy 17y ago
Looks rather complex. Based on hypergraphs which are generalizations of graphs, and are difficult to draw on paper. Haskell of databases?
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by hassy 17y ago
Learning a new language to improve your programming skills is a cliché. I realized recently (and I'm into languages) that tinkering on a project in a different domain is hundred times more educational and fun. E.g. if you mostly do webapp b

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