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by jamii 16y ago
I would be interested to hear why riak, disco etc aren't viable alternatives. I've seen very few good comparisons of the various options (the Mozilla data blog being the only one that comes to mind).
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Ask HN: Who is doing interesting work in distributed/p2p systems?
1 points by jamii 16y ago|0 comments
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by jamii 16y ago
I'm pretty tired of languages that claim 'erlang-style' concurrency without any of the erlang features that actually make it useful (process isolation, link/monitor, supervisors etc). EDIT: Personally, I would also add to the above list: al
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by jamii 16y ago
For higher-level systems programming (ie not bare metal) I think the approach taken by the Rust language is interesting. Mutable data structures are thread-local and are GCed (GC happens independently per thread). Immutable data structures
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by jamii 16y ago
In South Korea under-19s can't sign up for an MMORPG without their parents consent. There was also talk about imposing time limits and shutting down MMO servers during school hours but I haven't heard since I left whether this went into eff
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by jamii 16y ago
Lately I've been writing a client for TeleHash, a protocol which provides addressing, subscription and NAT traversal for p2p apps. The protocol itself is still being fleshed out and the existing clients are only prototypes so I'm aiming to
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by jamii 16y ago
Python dicts have a similar behavior. There is a version optimized for string-only keys. As soon as you insert a non-string key it will switch to the slower generic version.
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by jamii 16y ago
I write a lot of ocaml code (for money, even!) and haven't touched haskell for about four years. I still find the haskell version here easier to read. I imagine what's tripping you up is the operator soup. Whilst ugly (one of the things tha
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by jamii 16y ago
Since I ordered I have moved to a country that they don't ship to. It's nice that they have a forwarding service but I wish they had told me about it before I sent mine to a friend instead.
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by jamii 16y ago
SEEKING WORK Remote work preferable. Nomadic, currently in Hong Kong. I've worked professionally with python, ocaml and erlang. I've worked in search ( http://bit.ly/ji-texsearch-opt , https://github.com/jamii/texsearch ), testing ( ht
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by jamii 16y ago
I believe it was the latter but I don't follow anyone so I didn't read it all that carefully. You get to the warning before confirming that you want to disable Buzz, so try it out.
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by jamii 16y ago
I just did it and there was a warning about unfollowing everyone in Google Reader.
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by jamii 16y ago
You really need a better class of client. A couple of things that I have learned: 1) you are more likely to get paid by big companies because the person writing the cheque isn't spending their own money, 2) you are more likely to get paid b
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by jamii 16y ago
> lets invent something else telehash.org, for the interim.
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by jamii 16y ago
The Locker project has a similar goal but is completely open-source. You can run it on your own server if you don't want to put all your eggs in someone else's basket. https://github.com/quartzjer/Locker
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by jamii 16y ago
On my little netbook this is a deal-breaker. It wastes about 1/10 of the screen.
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by jamii 16y ago
This is the aim of Locker: https://github.com/quartzjer/Locker
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by jamii 16y ago
I've never gotten any use out of LinkedIn. Maybe my network just isn't big enough but the only messages I ever get are recruiter spam and job offers at dodgy hedge funds. I've had much more success recently by adding 'PS - I'm currently loo
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Life beyond Distributed Transactions: an Apostate’s Opinion (cidrdb.org)
2 points by jamii 16y ago|0 comments
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by jamii 16y ago
> I would love to read more about that system and its implementation. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2332633
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by jamii 16y ago
I've had a couple of people recently ask me about the exchange software about Smarkets so I wrote about one of the systems I still remember. I've poked the Smarkets team about writing more technical articles. I also just noticed that their
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Building an exchange with transactional mealy machines(scattered-thoughts.net)
4 points by jamii 16y ago|2 comments
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by jamii 16y ago
I don't work there any more so its pretty hard to write about it without the code in front of me. They were intending to open-source some of the more generic systems if they ever got time. Maybe if you gave them a nudge they would at least
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by jamii 16y ago
I don't think anyone (sensible) is advocating that the entire program must be free of side effects, just that side effects have a cost in terms of clarity and maintainability and so should be avoided when possible. > programming a GUI o
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by jamii 16y ago
> I would love to hear from someone that's done a purely functional application with a large surface area that has been subjected to a real-world business environment to comment on the subject. I worked at a betting exchange where the b
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by jamii 16y ago
TeX is great for typesetting but it does very little else. It's a nightmare to parse and analyse. The equation language doesn't convey any information about the equation other than it's appearance (eg syntactic scope, semantics). This makes
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by jamii 16y ago
I've had good experiences with high-end hp laptops (HP Envy 13, 15). Beautiful and reliable without the Apple markup.
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by jamii 16y ago
I applied for an internship at Echo Nest and never got a reply. It's not a big deal but it does make life easier for job hunters if companies respond with a definite 'no'. Even a form letter would be fine.
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by jamii 16y ago
I guess marital arts do burn a lot of energy.
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by jamii 16y ago
Sure, I'm just comparing the methods. I think its interesting that as software systems become more complex that scientific methods become more and more useful.

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