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by jganetsk 17y ago
Sell.
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by jganetsk 18y ago
Is any of your peering with Tier 1s?
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by jganetsk 18y ago
It makes perfect sense that Google peers with downstream ISPs. However, I think Mr. Turner's analysis is wrong. It is in the interest of the Tier 1s to continue to gouge Google. YouTube pushes out way more bytes out than it pulls in... ev
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by jganetsk 18y ago
It "turned out" to be auspicious because Stephen Hawking wasn't born a physicist. When he became one, then his January 8 birthday "turned out" to be auspicious.
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by jganetsk 18y ago
The swing dancing fad that you experienced has evolved into a vibrant community of Lindy Hop and related dances. It's relatively small, and few people are aware of its existence... but it's very robust and spread across the world. I would s
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by jganetsk 18y ago
No, you can't simply apply that analysis to lazy algorithms. foldr is not a tail-recursive function in a strict language. However, in a lazy language, foldr may not push O(n) frames on the stack. The code you are looking at here is NOT tail
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by jganetsk 18y ago
It complies to neither an iterative NOR a recursive version. It compiles to LAZY version. This code doesn't loop at all. It forces the argument just deep enough to go three nodes into the list spine. Then, picks the branch based on the numb
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by jganetsk 18y ago
Allows for laziness, in languages like Haskell. Also, some data structures are simply incorrect when the data is mutable. A hash table with mutable keys comes to mind. Why? Once you insert the key-value pair, and mutate the key, you may n
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by jganetsk 18y ago
Google Ventures. Oh wait.
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by jganetsk 18y ago
Yes, OCaml is fast. It's frustrating that folks don't take it more seriously.
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Using a Variable Pricing Model for eCommerce(practicalecommerce.com)
4 points by jganetsk 18y ago|0 comments
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by jganetsk 18y ago
Ideally, I would always like to be able to up-vote a submission while reading it. Since most submissions are of off-site content, I don't always have the capability to do this. Instead, I have to come back to HN after reading, search the li
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by jganetsk 18y ago
Agreed. But it sounded like, in this case, you were using a list to represent that which would have been represented by a record in a statically typed language. I'm imagining you'd have some kind of Field record type, with isDisplayable and
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by jganetsk 18y ago
One of my buddies just started working for them. Cloudera is a real braintrust.
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by jganetsk 18y ago
References, by and large, are useless. Marissa Mayer says, in all their studies of the Google interviewing process, references are the best indicator of future performance.
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by jganetsk 18y ago
Definitely has some insightful commentary, but I feel like he hasn't gotten into the heart of the subject matter. Haskell has something like NULL, it's called "undefined". At first, it feels like it's an ugly hack, something provided by the
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by jganetsk 18y ago
For all people who say good programmers don't make type errors, here's a counterexample.
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by jganetsk 18y ago
It's not called daylight savings time. It's daylight saving time.
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by jganetsk 18y ago
IIRC, Linux uses the high-bit to distinguish between userspace and kernel space.
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by jganetsk 18y ago
People don't post more info on Erlang because people don't use Erlang as much. .NET, Python, and RoR have much wider use. The better question is, why don't people use Erlang?
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Packing algorithms could save the planet(newscientist.com)
4 points by jganetsk 18y ago|1 comments
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by jganetsk 18y ago
This is why ML and Haskell can be highly advanced languages without inheritance. Subtyping, by the way, is evil in the type theories (causes more problems than benefits, really)... and so it's no surprise that inheritance sucks in practice.
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Alien life may exist among us(news.bbc.co.uk)
4 points by jganetsk 18y ago|0 comments
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by jganetsk 18y ago
The reason any government would want to build a foreign currency reserve, as I've stated in another post, is to help mitigate a currency crisis. In the case the Renminbi has a large drop in value, they would start pumping dollars in and pum
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by jganetsk 18y ago
The AAA credit rating is in terms of US dollars. It would make no sense for the Fed to not have an AAA credit rating.
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by jganetsk 18y ago
The simple answer is, they don't have a choice. Some number of dollars flow into their country every year. Some number of dollars flow out. The difference effectively ends up in the hands of the government. They have to do something with it
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by jganetsk 18y ago
Actually, everyone in China does have more and more printed Chinese money. In order to maintain the currency peg, and to actually get the US dollars from the hands of industry into the hands of the government... the Bank of China has to pri
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Google Plans to Convert Finnish Paper Mill into Datacenter(uk.reuters.com)
1 points by jganetsk 18y ago|0 comments
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Cuba Launches Variant of Linux, called Nova(reuters.com)
5 points by jganetsk 18y ago|0 comments
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The Hairy State of Linux Filesystems(butnotyet.tumblr.com)
16 points by jganetsk 18y ago|14 comments

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