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by hassy 18y ago
A business reselling French sailor shirts (one of the examples in the book) would not require long hours or a co-founder and you would be able to outsource pretty much everything. You see, Tim Ferris does not talk about startups, he talks a
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by hassy 18y ago
> But what is the big advantage of making all your calls into GET PUT and DELETE? If POST can handle everything you need, then what's the problem? XML can also be used to represent anything, but that does not mean it's a good idea to us
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by hassy 18y ago
So Perl is like Java then: the language sucks but the platform is great?
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Coffee shop programmer(12monkeys.co.uk)
36 points by hassy 18y ago|32 comments
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by hassy 18y ago
That's Luxi Mono.
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by hassy 18y ago
Finding stuff to read is the easy part. It's finding the time to read it all properly that I'm struggling with.
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by hassy 18y ago
Not really. Erlang was born out of practical experiments in language design with the explicit aim of finding a better way to program telephony applications. The experiments were done over a few years in the second half of 80s at the Compute
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by hassy 18y ago
Ack is a beautiful tool. http://petdance.com/ack/
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by hassy 18y ago
Good article for C# & Java boys. Hacker News worthy? Hardly.
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by hassy 18y ago
> itostr takes time to mentally process (or pronounce), if I had to read your code. integer_to_string takes no effort and can't be confused. The idea is that the first time you saw `itostr` you'd do something like this: * Jump to the de
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by hassy 18y ago
I found that terse naming has several advantages: * Most obvious one: it's easier to type. Especially in Erlang - the language I write most code in these days, where variables must start with a capital letter. The fewer times I have to reac
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by hassy 18y ago
> ... They would have discovered that some of the same traits are shared by these people, like hard work and risk taking. This tells me that the unique trait that the millionaires had in common was mostly luck. Ah sure. Does this mean h
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by hassy 18y ago
> Also, I believe it's the only country in Europe except for the UK where everyone speaks good English. In most big cities in Europe you will eventually find someone who speaks English, but in Amsterdam the odds that it will be the firs
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by hassy 18y ago
Thinking out loud: could this desire for "cleverness" stem from the fact that most Ruby programmers work on webapps?
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by hassy 18y ago
In my opinion, no one without serious programming credentials has any business writing articles like this one: telling others what "real programmers" are like (and often implying that the author is one of those programming demigods). Fair e
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by hassy 18y ago
`map` covers the majority of what for-loops are used in imperative languages. There's also `foreach`, which is a `map` that doesn't give you a new list back. You've also got list comprehensions if you prefer them over `map`. Then there are
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by hassy 18y ago
I'm coming from Edinburgh and staying until the 21st. There's a photo of me here: http://younoodle.com/people/hasan_veldstra Come say hi if you see me.
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by hassy 19y ago
I know 5 students who bought new laptops in the last 2 years, 3 of them chose a Mac. Also, most laptops at a local Starbucks popular with students are Macs. PG was right.
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by hassy 19y ago
Right now, an EEP for Unicode support in Erlang. (EEPs are like PEPs in the Python world). Apart from that, I've got about 10 other things on my "current stuff" list, most to do with Hypernumbers ( http://hypernumbers.com ), but there's a c
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by hassy 19y ago
I heard that more screws is better in laptops, though I'm not sure why. I'm still using a 12" Powerbook as my laptop too. I've had it for 3 years now, and don't have a single complaint. I love how it fits into pretty much any bag, and how t
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by hassy 19y ago
Under 21 => not allowed in bars in the US.
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by hassy 19y ago
http://twitter.com/hasanv Started using it recently, still haven't worked out what it's really about.
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by hassy 19y ago
* Allow unlimited editing within X minutes after posting. (Many forums do it this way.) * Keep history of all edits (as diffs of course). This would be very much in spirit of the board. :)
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by hassy 19y ago
The thought that I might've misunderstood what you were trying to say did cross my mind while I was writing that second comment. :) I agree with what you are saying. Erlang has some ugly corners, but all-in-all it's awesome, and it turned o
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by hassy 19y ago
I'm not trying to tell anyone it's a "better language". I have neither time, nor desire to do that. As I said, I'm busy getting things done. :) As for building something, how about a non-trivial application with no analogues out there, 6 mo
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by hassy 19y ago
Bah, whatever. I'm busy getting stuff done with Erlang.
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by hassy 19y ago
There's AtomPub -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atom_ (standard)
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Using Erlang in a web start-up [PDF](hypernumbers.com)
16 points by hassy 19y ago|0 comments
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by hassy 19y ago
Yes they do when you don't have an exact spec of what you're creating. That's been my experience anyway. Tests are great when: * You have the spec before writing any code (not necessarily for the whole system, or even large parts of it). *
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by hassy 19y ago
Presumably, a YCombinator start-up is one where writing good code is the core competency, and a major competitive advantage. You don't outsource your core competency.

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