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by icey 16y ago
I've spent time with both of these frameworks and the answer is "it depends". I'd recommend Play! over Lift if: * You just want a data entry / CRUD style app * You prefer MVC architecture - Play! will feel pretty familiar if you
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by icey 16y ago
Excellent point. Not being a Rails guy I sometimes forget that being opinionated is considered one of its strengths. If any framework can get away with doing something like this, it'd be Rails. At any rate, I'm excited about anything that i
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by icey 16y ago
I think a side effect of kids growing up with computers is that CS doesn't carry the same social stigma it carried 10 or 15 years ago. It's much less common to see a programmer portrayed as a fat, slovenly nerd as it used to be.
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by icey 16y ago
Don't you feel it would have been more prudent to start by bundling CoffeeScript support and then changing the default in a later version? It seems like an overly aggressive goal to do both things at once.
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by icey 16y ago
Now I have to put on my fruity hippie developer hat. I feel like it makes a big difference when a language implementor values beauty in code. CoffeeScript was created by someone who values the aesthetics of code, and it shows. The CoffeeScr
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by icey 16y ago
Oh wow, that is strange. Bundling CoffeeScript support is an great idea. Setting it as the default seems very non-user friendly to me. I love CoffeeScript, but if I was just picking up Rails and felt like I had to learn it I'd be pretty dis
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by icey 16y ago
Yes, CoffeeScript is amazing. No more headaches over missing semi-colons, callbacks feel significantly less "spaghetti-like". Syntactically it feels much cleaner and I've found that I end up staying much nearer to the left margin than I did
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by icey 16y ago
If it helps - people complain, then they leave. You won't have to endure it much longer, I'm sure.
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by icey 16y ago
HN used to feel like it was full of artists and now it feels like it's full of critics.
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by icey 16y ago
This isn't a forum for entrepreneurs: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2403868
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Fun with Erlang by Joe Armstrong [video](vimeo.com)
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by icey 16y ago
As long as the comments are still ordered appropriately I guess I don't see what the big deal is.
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by icey 16y ago
I made a quick site a few months ago that will let you search for stuff in other languages on Twitter - it translates the results back to English for you. For example, here's what Japanese people are saying about Fukushima: http://twitmers
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by icey 16y ago
Update - evidently the talks were not recorded :( Fortunately, his metrics project has a pretty good overview on github: https://github.com/codahale/metrics
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by icey 16y ago
Coda's talk was really, really good - especially the parts where he talks about taking measurements in a meaningful way. I think that the talks are being recorded; it would be worth watching the video even if you've gone through the slides.
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When & How to Fire an Employee at a Small Startup(blog.eladgil.com)
2 points by icey 16y ago|0 comments
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by icey 16y ago
It was certainly more interesting then; I wonder if it's because the community was smaller or because the topics were more focused. I don't value HN as a resource for entrepreneurship anymore. There are some interesting technical conversati
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by icey 16y ago
What do you gain from using this vs using GMT for everything? At least with using GMT universally your clock still works.
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by icey 16y ago
I would certainly hope not.
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by icey 16y ago
You can't call it realistic unless you know what the investors know. I have a hard time thinking that Color could be so amazing that it warrants such a huge early investment, but it's not realistic for me to say that Sequoia wasted their mo
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by icey 16y ago
I was under the impression that everyone believes these companies are printing money, but don't know how much money they're making relative to their valuations. Although, I'm not sure about Twitter, are they considered to be significantly p
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A few points about the “tech bubble” debate(cdixon.org)
56 points by icey 16y ago|24 comments
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Google Doing Some Profile Unification Leading Up To… Well, Something.(techcrunch.com)
5 points by icey 16y ago|1 comments
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by icey 16y ago
Did anyone find a link to the CoffeeScript he used? He's linking to the generated js, but it'd be cool to see the CoffeeScript.
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by icey 16y ago
Here is the demo: http://kenneth.kufluk.com/google/js-mindmap/
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by icey 16y ago
That's only true if you want someone to watch a movie exactly once and not think about it again. Sowing confusion creates a ton of follow-on merchandising opportunities in the form of special editions, additional cuts (directors cuts, unrat
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by icey 16y ago
This is the part that would worry me regarding scaling: "The pieces get plugged in to the appropriate areas, combined and narrated into beautiful product that you can share on all your favorite outlets" Who does the combination and narratio
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by icey 16y ago
It's great to see an idea that isn't just a clone of some other popular tech service. This looks pretty original; what are your plans for success? How does this scale up?
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by icey 16y ago
Come on dude, is it that hard to change the dropdown yourself??? The parent was talking about CLOJURE and linked to JAVA's RESULTS Look, the results aren't usefully different: http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32q/benchmark.php?test=al..
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by icey 16y ago
Downvoting vacuous commentary hasn't helped yet. What would you suggest?

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