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by jflatow 11y ago
I love Erlang releases and am very happy about the improvements to maps. I have to admit the OTP motto of "move slow and never break anything" always leaves me wanting more (though).
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by jflatow 11y ago
I don't think so - in Google Finance compare both graphs are actually on the same scale. Since the scales here are independent, it depends on the chosen scale where they will cross. The graphs do not start in 2010, they start in 2000.
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by jflatow 11y ago
Right, good point - when you choose arbitrary scales you can make them cross whenever you want.
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by jflatow 11y ago
Interesting article, but the first graph is one of the most blatantly misleading charts I have seen in a long time. Showing two graphs overlapping on completely different scales is a really nasty trick.
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by jflatow 11y ago
This is wonderful and impressive. For others curious how long it took: judging from the first commit on GitHub ( https://github.com/nineties/amber/commit/bdb49d27968d6bc4588... ), which references a first commi
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by jflatow 11y ago
Yeah, I can't seem to pass the spam test either.
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by jflatow 12y ago
Your left or my left? Seriously, I assumed he was describing the one on the left for most of the discussion until showing the posters again, when I realized he didn't do his job. The question was "which one looks cleaner?", n
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by jflatow 12y ago
Glad I'm not the only one who didn't find anything here that would make me think I didn't know C.
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by jflatow 12y ago
There's a lot of confusion about net neutrality and regulation of the internet at large. I'd love to see a poll of the HN community to see the distribution of support, amongst what should be a relatively knowledgable group of peo
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by jflatow 12y ago
Wow, Fred has been providing a massive service to the community. It's great to see someone continually producing high quality, open source, technical prose (for Erlang).
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How to Run and Wrap-up a Meeting(blog.skej.us)
4 points by jflatow 12y ago|0 comments
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Meeting Manners and Scheduling Etiquette(blog.skej.us)
6 points by jflatow 12y ago|0 comments
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by jflatow 12y ago
The permissions are a lot to ask, but I found it worth the price.
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Start strengthening your connections with Skej(blog.skej.us)
2 points by jflatow 12y ago|0 comments
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by jflatow 13y ago
I agree with you. I'm just suggesting that the amount of good content at any given time might be a little bit larger than 30 links. The community has grown a lot, but we still focus on the same number of links, I think that means that
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by jflatow 13y ago
I've seen some of them, always happy to learn about alternatives. Personally I like the HN interface though, which is why I'm proposing something that otherwise preserves it. The issue for me with the alternative interfaces is tha
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by jflatow 13y ago
I believe you that #30 < #5. Partly because if you ever hit #5 the total amount of time you spent on front page is greater. I'm really curious about the jump from #30 -> #31 though. a) what's the total drop in activity? b) h
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by jflatow 13y ago
Yeah, maybe, but that's also a much bigger change. I guess it depends if HN is still growing much bigger or if it's somehow bounded. If it's bounded, then just increasing the size of pages might be good enough because you won
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by jflatow 13y ago
I guess it depends how the collusion actually occurs. The more 'sophisticated' voting rings can easily beat the referrer trick. Flagging is good for demoting bad content, but not for promoting unseen stuff. The idea here is to cha
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Ask HN: Make the front page bigger?
10 points by jflatow 13y ago|15 comments
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Palo Alto HN: 1st Event - Science Exchange (YC S11)(meetup.com)
2 points by jflatow 13y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: Introducing Skej (by Quasi Convex Union)(blog.convex.io)
1 points by jflatow 13y ago|2 comments
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by jflatow 13y ago
I've always wondered why there doesn't seem to be a Palo Alto HN 'meetup', so I created one. It's just an experiment, feel free to suggest other events...
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Palo Alto Hacker News Meetup(meetup.com)
2 points by jflatow 13y ago|1 comments
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by jflatow 13y ago
I created a Meetup, let's see how it goes :) http://www.meetup.com/Palo-Alto-Hacker-News-Meetup/events/16... If there's some other time / venue that works better, let me know. Perhaps I should repos
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Palo Alto Hacker News?
5 points by jflatow 13y ago|3 comments
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by jflatow 13y ago
Similar also to DiscoDB, which does support compression, and uses perfect hashing for constant time-lookup with minimal disk access. Not only that but it provides lightning-fast conjunctive normal form queries, a.k.a logical combinations o
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Pulling off the most audacious cell-network break-in ever(spectrum.ieee.org)
2 points by jflatow 13y ago|0 comments
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Reactionary(medium.com)
2 points by jflatow 13y ago|0 comments
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by jflatow 14y ago
Great read, but I wish he hadn't glossed over the part about not being something the free market can fix; and explained why only strong government will can. He admits that governments are partaking in the frenzy at least as much as are comp

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