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by icey 16y ago
I've been using it to learn Erlang (along with a couple of books) and it's been pretty fun. I'm glad you're doing this!
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Learn You Some Erlang: Building an Application With OTP(learnyousomeerlang.com)
82 points by icey 16y ago|6 comments
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by icey 16y ago
Heavy functional bias. STM. Although, I don't know that those things make it more practical than Scheme. Just more desirable to a subset of people who like that sort of thing.
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by icey 16y ago
https://github.com/richhickey/clojure-clr
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by icey 16y ago
Man, I forget how nice it is to be able to look into the source of stuff. Other than being obviously new, this is pretty cool. Edit: Would there be a better way to fix it than to add functions like this? function adder() { var args
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by icey 16y ago
> (+ 1 1 1 1) => 2 > (* 3 4 5 6) => 12 Does it only consider the first and second items in a list?
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by icey 16y ago
I feel like I'm missing something. As of this moment (9:42AM PDT) Amazon's stock is up 5.6% for the day and near a 52 week high. That doesn't seem like panicky shareholders to me. I'm not a stock maven, so it's possible that I'm missing som
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by icey 16y ago
Yahoo! has quite a few impressive engineering teams that appear to be saddled down by terrible management. Maybe this can be a new business model for them - a high-end tech incubator. Of course, they'd first have to stop habitually buying c
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SpaceX aims to put man on Mars in 10-20 years(physorg.com)
152 points by icey 16y ago|98 comments
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by icey 16y ago
Do you have a source for this? I'd love to read more about it; I knew they had python in use in some places, but this is the first I've heard that it was used in their search engine.
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The Return of Michael Moorcock's 'New Worlds' Magazine(sfsignal.com)
1 points by icey 16y ago|0 comments
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by icey 16y ago
SQL Server Enterprise edition has this feature... but the licensing on it is pretty painful (Around $30k a processor, last time I checked).
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by icey 16y ago
I'm definitely for this cause, I just worry that signing an online petition gives people some way to vent their frustration and may cause them to not fight laws they dislike in ways that have proven effective; such as calling their congress
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by icey 16y ago
Do petitions like this ever get results? This is an honest question - these seem pretty popular, but I can't recall any legislation getting overturned on the basis of a digital petition.
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by icey 16y ago
The only thing I miss is an indicator that I actually did hit the upvote button and didn't accidentally downvote someone. I use HN from an iPad about half the time, and I don't really trust my ability to accurately hit the correct arrow.
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Erlang Hot Code Swapping: Interfaces(technicalmusings.blogspot.com)
1 points by icey 16y ago|0 comments
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by icey 16y ago
Erg, sorry for being a deletionist. On reread I noticed my statement wasn't very well thought out. Didnt think that anyone had seen it yet :(
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by icey 16y ago
I ordered directly from No Starch Press and got stickers (and a manga postcard).
619.
by icey 16y ago
Cool idea, but I imagine adoption would be pretty tough.
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by icey 16y ago
Legal according to whom? Poker websites are a good example: legal in most of the world, but not in the US.
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Ask HN: How would you make a site resistant to government takedown?
147 points by icey 16y ago|57 comments
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by icey 16y ago
Except for horse racing.
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by icey 16y ago
I think it's a matter of perspective. We do this with enterprise software, except we don't call it a "time bomb". "We've deployed your installation with a provisional, expiring license. We'll issue your permanent license once you've confirm
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The WakeMate: A Review after Three Months(blog.nuclearsandwich.com)
37 points by icey 16y ago|12 comments
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by icey 16y ago
Most of the non-computer savvy people I know don't call it internet explorer, or even the web. They call it "Google".
626.
by icey 16y ago
Wouldn't they be able to resolve that by packaging their new browser as the default in Windows 8? They could even call it the "Microsoft Bing! browser"
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by icey 16y ago
I'm not sure. I know Google spends a ton of money paying to be the default search engine in Firefox. No idea what would happen if Microsoft tried to do the same thing on its own with their own defaults. I'd guess it would be kind of a PR ni
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by icey 16y ago
There are still mountains of money available on the web. Since Microsoft controls the OS, they can ship a browser with defaults set to sites under their control, like msn.com and bing. My assumption is that they consider those properties as
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by icey 16y ago
Yeah, you're totally right. I probably should have said that they would have to maintain two separate teams working on browsers; but I imagine they do that as well given the number of people that work on browser teams.
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by icey 16y ago
I feel like Microsoft should have branded IE10 as a completely new piece of software and not as the newest Internet Explorer. Then it would have become a feature of Windows 7 instead of just another browser. It would have also given them th

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