jganetsk

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by jganetsk 17y ago
"640K (of memory) ought to be enough for anybody" That was my high school yearbook quote. Everyone laughed about how nerdy I was to quote Bill Gates. Little did they know, the quote gets better with age, in 2 ways... 1. It becomes ever mo
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by jganetsk 17y ago
Yodle!! We need lots of developers, quants, and product managers! http://www.yodle.com/ Send me your resume at jason.ganetsky@gmail.com
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by jganetsk 17y ago
OCaml also has a garbage collector, and so, the predictability is also not great.
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by jganetsk 17y ago
I've noticed that there's a simple formula many bloggers use to come up with titles for posts. 1) Take famous other blog post title, book title, or meme 2) Negate 3) Apply DeMorgan's law
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by jganetsk 17y ago
Multithreading is never easy. Even in Erlang, you have race conditions.
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by jganetsk 17y ago
Yes, nowadays, Google "allocates" (the actual word that they use) new employees to projects.
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by jganetsk 17y ago
Yes. This is yet another post against static typing, that does not compare against the best languages the static typing world has to offer. Let's compare with a type-inferencing Hindley-Milner-based language.
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by jganetsk 17y ago
Yes.
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by jganetsk 17y ago
People have to stop conflating the concept of OOP with that of encapsulation. No one is arguing the value of encapsulated black boxes. Any good paradigm will have that concept! The question is, do you want OO-style black boxes, or functiona
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by jganetsk 17y ago
OCaml and Factor are interesting and capable, but too far away from the procedural mainstream that is the C legacy. Statements like this are patently absurd. OCaml is definitely close enough to the "procedural mainstream".
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by jganetsk 17y ago
Looks incomplete. I used to work for Amie Street, a startup whose series A was financed by Amazon... and it doesn't show up on the map.
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by jganetsk 17y ago
I live in Brooklyn.
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by jganetsk 17y ago
Just read the original post and think GUI callbacks, and you'll get what I was trying to convey. You can have addToWindow take any element, there just has to be a function called 'asElement' which will take your type and produce a relevent
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by jganetsk 17y ago
No.
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by jganetsk 17y ago
The real answer is no. Inheritance is absolutely unnecessary for API for GUIs. Absolutely unnecessary. If we are talking about GUI callbacks, what you want is a type systems that's statically-typed, with functions as first-class citizens (H
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by jganetsk 17y ago
Nodes in the parse tree
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by jganetsk 17y ago
Would vote this up 10 million times, if I could. This is because the structures of ML and Haskell are based on the structure of logical proof, through the Curry-Howard isomorphism. Most programming languages are constructed on top of arbitr
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by jganetsk 17y ago
The difference is that Dvorak is little more than a troll.
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by jganetsk 17y ago
To me, the three basic ingredients to taco seasoning are: 1. Cumin 2. Chili powder 3. Tomato sauce This recipe is missing 2 of the 3.
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by jganetsk 17y ago
Forgot the main selling point: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/12/local-advertising-boost... We are GROWING RAPIDLY, and have a very effective business model.
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by jganetsk 17y ago
We also need non-quant developers. We need Java people (with experience in modern Enterprise Java stuff: Spring, Hibernate, etc) We do agile development, and are very effective at it. There's a dedicated product team so that random passers-
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by jganetsk 17y ago
I'm curious. This is an interesting new company, and I'd like to follow it. I'm very curious about the tools you use. What is particularly efficient about the threading model? I know very little about Objective-C. Are you guys are very comf
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by jganetsk 17y ago
Seems a very arbitrary choice. Shouldn't they be using standard benchmarks, anyway? It's easy to write your own benchmark to make something look good.
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by jganetsk 17y ago
Objective-C? Why?
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by jganetsk 17y ago
I'm so happy. Twitter is run by a bunch of pseudo-technological hipsters. By FB buying FF, hackers unite to face the foe!
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by jganetsk 17y ago
Let me make it easy. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/5ebdb666-82a5-11de-ab4a-00144feabd...
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by jganetsk 17y ago
How awesome would it be if there were exactly one one-developer shop. Then, we would all be living in a one-one-developer-shop universe.
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by jganetsk 17y ago
It's not surprising how many cells say Google.
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by jganetsk 17y ago
OCaml's internals benefit, in particular, from the GC needing very little layout information. All non-conservative GCs need to know what's a pointer and what isn't. Many languages, from Java to Haskell, associate this info, at runtime, with
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by jganetsk 17y ago
Not at all. It's a block: the first value points at the code, the rest of the values are the free variables.

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