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by jbarham 14y ago
I can't help but think that this investment marks the Pets.com point in this investment cycle. GitHub is essentially a web interface to a single open-source DVCS. The switching costs to using another DVCS such as Mercurial (which I persona
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by jbarham 14y ago
Funnily enough I just watched The Amazing Spider-Man and the car thief scene featured a stolen BMW: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aPU8q-bni4 (Also, apparently Spidey's preferred search engine is Bing, but I assume that's a paid produc
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by jbarham 14y ago
Celebrity gossip is fungible. E.g., suppose I cared about the gory details of the Cruise/Holmes divorce. A quick search tells me there are almost 2600 articles on Google News for "TomKat". Clearly there is very little incentive to buy a
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by jbarham 14y ago
> ...newspapers are being clobbered by paltry returns on underfunded pension plans. So that would be "defined benefit" pension plans then. The markets have no obligation to meet absurdly optimistic forecasts of returns on investment. I
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by jbarham 14y ago
I'm Canadian and worked in high-tech in Ottawa, Toronto and Vancouver until 2006. Then I moved to Southern California and worked there until 2010 (on a work visa) and have been in Australia since. In Ottawa I worked for the federal governm
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by jbarham 14y ago
Considering that the central banks have conjured trillions of dollars and euros out of thin air, this story this seems sadly quaint...
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by jbarham 14y ago
> What evidence is there, if any, that Go is significantly more performant than Python? You do realize that Go compiles to machine code and Python is a dynamically interpreted language? The obvious answer is that the Go standard library
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by jbarham 14y ago
Git: the cargo cult SCM. Too much unnecessary voodoo. Given the choice I'd take Mercurial any day.
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> But would he [Elon Musk] have been able to afford to study in the US? Yes, because he did study in the US, at the University of Pennsylvania ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk#Early_life ). Granted he had a scholarship, but peo
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by jbarham 14y ago
Very true. Hollywood is overwhelmingly dominant in movies in the English speaking world. Walking into a theatre here in Melbourne and it's like I'm back in the US. (Although I will say that Red Dog was a nicely done and uniquely Australia
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by jbarham 14y ago
> It should also be noted that in most quality of life indexes, cities in the US rank far below many of those in Europe, Canada, and Australia... Having personally lived in two of the most recently top-ranked cities (Vancouver and now M
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by jbarham 14y ago
Wholesale bandwidth is probably cheaper in the US than anywhere else, but retail internet service certainly isn't. And neither is mobile internet access given the oligopoly of the big four cell phone companies.
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by jbarham 14y ago
Here's what I said when the rumour about Compute Engine came out: "If Google can deliver a semi-decent IaaS offering that works well with App Engine they will have a uniquely powerful platform." ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4150261
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And it costs $99/month. Hmm. (I'm not considering SNI since IMHO it's a non-starter not being supported by XP.) Lack of custom SSL was the main issue preventing me from considering App Engine for my web service, so I'll definitely have to r
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by jbarham 14y ago
If Google can deliver a semi-decent IaaS offering that works well with App Engine IMO they will have a uniquely powerful platform. App Engine is often criticized for being expensive compared to AWS, but putting together a production ready
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by jbarham 14y ago
FWIW Craigslist is a ghost town in Australia and virtually useless for buying & selling the type of stuff I used it for frequently when I lived in California. For example here's the furniture for sale section for Melbourne: http://mel
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by jbarham 14y ago
I'm developing a DNS hosting service ( http://slickdns.com ) and am using Django to do the bulk of the development, but I've also written a little utility web server in Go as it needs to be high performance but also lightweight and Go fits
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by jbarham 14y ago
Source is at https://github.com/jbarham/random-password-please
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Show HN: Random Password Please, Go password generating web server with an API(random-password-please.com)
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> Can I import Java libraries into Go? No. Go compiles to machine code, not the JVM. Go's built in cgo tool makes it very easy to wrap C code. See http://golang.org/doc/articles/c_go_cgo.html . Crucially, you can write most of the w
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by jbarham 14y ago
The headline feature Django 1.4 is built-in default support for time zones: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.4/releases/1.4/#support-... Essentially timestamps are stored in UTC but automatically converted to the user's time zone at th
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by jbarham 14y ago
I find the vitriol directed towards Unity puzzling, and regardless of your technical disagreements with the decisions its designers made, it's surely a tad over the top to call them "wrong, pathetic and contemptible". FWIW I recently switch
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by jbarham 14y ago
I'm in the same boat. It's an old joke that Java tried to kill off printf style formatting but had to bring it back because it's a really great idea : 1980: C printf("%10.2f", x); 1988: C++ cout << setw(10) << setprecision
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by jbarham 14y ago
The command-line tools bundled with djbdns are nice ( http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/tools.html & http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/debugging.html ) and IMO are easier to use than dig. http://www.dnsvalidation.com/ is also a nicely done site for check
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by jbarham 14y ago
The family analogy is heart-warming, but scaled up to a societal/country level it can lead to destructive practices like nepotism and tribalism.
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IMO here's a better tutorial by D. J. Bernstein: http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/intro-dns.html (although the "record" syntax is for his own tinydns server vs. BIND's zone files). But if you care about security, you probably don't want to be runni
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by jbarham 14y ago
You don't if you're running tinydns: http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/tinydns-data.html
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by jbarham 15y ago
Much as I like the general consistency of Python code with or without formal style guides, I prefer Go's "style guide" even more, which is to just run "go fmt": http://golang.org/cmd/go/#Run_gofmt_on_package_sources .
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It's 10 pm in SV and 10:30 am in India...
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by jbarham 15y ago
FWIW I used H&R Block At Home to file my US tax return after I relocated to Australia and it worked fine. Note that e.g. American teachers at international schools have to file US tax returns so there are accountants out there who unde

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