hassy

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by hassy 17y ago
I agree, although OS processes, job queues, and libevent/libev can help in many cases. Erlang is also an option for when you need massive concurrency.
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by hassy 17y ago
> Perhaps they're just good at being friendly. I think that's it. Here in Edinburgh, there are many independent coffee shops, but few manage to create the friendly warm atmosphere of Starbucks. Out of my favorite 4 coffeeshops, 2 are
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by hassy 17y ago
> Blue jeans are very practical in all seasons. Not when it rains. (Think Northern Englang/Scotland, or maybe Seattle.) :-)
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by hassy 17y ago
I tried single letters but didn't think of that.
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by hassy 17y ago
Anyone up for StupidGolf? :-) My entry: "haha... lol" (11 chars)
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Mandelbulb: The Unravelling of the Real 3D Mandelbrot Fractal(skytopia.com)
200 points by hassy 17y ago|23 comments
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by hassy 17y ago
BERT supports binary data natively, you don't need to encode it like with JSON-RPC.
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Scott Wheeler (wheels) talking about DirectedEdge 12:30 PDT/3:30 EDT (ish)
20 points by hassy 17y ago|0 comments
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by hassy 17y ago
It's still only early evening in California.
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by hassy 17y ago
It is nice to have schema updates as part of ActiveRecord right there in Rails for you, but South is so easy to set up I don't feel like it can be considered a win for Rails.
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by hassy 17y ago
What sort of software do you write in Rebol? I've only read about it and I find it fascinating. It'd be great to hear something from an experienced user.
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by hassy 17y ago
Summary: A lot of people don't use "svn export" and leave .svn directories readable to everyone. The authors of the article wrote a crawler that scanned 2.2 million domains, mostly in the .ru zone, for the vulnerability over the last couple
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by hassy 17y ago
Especially absolutely useless ones like this one. This article is of no use to anyone: boxers already know this for inside the ring, and know not to get into fights outside it – which is what everyone should do.
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Shinichiro Hamaji, winner of ICFP '09 Programming Contest, prefers C++(vidiowiki.com)
12 points by hassy 17y ago|4 comments
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by hassy 17y ago
Glad to see Loc8 on the list. They are the guys behind the official iPhone app for the Edinburgh Festival, the largest festival in the world. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edinburgh_Festival
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by hassy 17y ago
Looks interesting, but no support for IE6 and IE7 can be a deal-breaker for many users, especially when there's 960gs ( http://960.gs ) which supports those browsers.
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by hassy 17y ago
My take on this is: 1. The OO model of C++ and Java (the languages the author has experience with) is not the only model of OO around. 2. State has to be maintained somewhere in the program. While functional languages encourage minimizing s
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by hassy 17y ago
I would subscribe to a list with "Ask HN" type of discussions.
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by hassy 17y ago
Snappy quote, but it does not make much sense out of the context. "they've" must be referring to functions/methods, not programming languages. And in prototype-based languages methods aren't as tightly tied to data as in class-based lan
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by hassy 17y ago
As does Britain's Ministry of Defence as well as many other departments in the British government. Moreover, they don't even have upgrade plans in place either.
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by hassy 17y ago
> The major problem these can have is that there is no border; the sheet is very thin and its easy to slip up and draw outside. I fix that by drawing a border (with a red marker -- hard to miss).
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by hassy 17y ago
> Lets be honest -- techno, trance, electro, progressive etc. it's all ultimately pretty much the same thing. Electro sounds nothing like trance, even if you know little about electronic music. Compare Kraftwerk with Tiesto or ATB for
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by hassy 17y ago
> it seems like there is no easy way to browse about and find suggestions etc Not sure if you've seen it (and I don't know how Last.fm does it), but try this: Type in an artist's name and click on the name in the result list to go to
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by hassy 17y ago
> The point he's making is that Erlang grew organically into its current form by way of continual sculpting during use by its creators, rather than being refined to approach a theoretical ideal. Thank you. That is exactly what I meant
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Erlang is pragmatic(12monkeys.co.uk)
21 points by hassy 17y ago|14 comments
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by hassy 18y ago
I don't think this has anything to do with Erlang's internals, which is what the headline suggests. Most likely this is a snippet of code from Reia dealing with currying or partial application support.
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by hassy 18y ago
1. OO has no precise and universally accepted definition. http://www.paulgraham.com/reesoo.html 2. Parameterized modules in Erlang can be seen as a form of lightweight functional OOP. http://www.lshift.net/blog/2008/05/18/late-binding-wi
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by hassy 18y ago
The AXD301 ATM switch, one of Ericsson's flagship products, 1.7 million of Erlang code. This is just one example of large-scale software projects written in Erlang. Your perception of it as a research language needs to be re-evaluated.
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by hassy 18y ago
> If this is the way you approaching languages, then the problem is not with Lisp, but with your application area. No, the problem is with CL (not "Lisp") if: a) it doesn't provide something compelling enough to make me use it over an
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by hassy 18y ago
which one? Squeak first appeared around the same time as Java. was there a free, open-source, solid Smalltalk VM back when Perl, Python or Ruby were started?

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