kennystone

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by kennystone 15y ago
What's amazing is that Apple still managed to grow its profit 125% year over year last quarter. A huge company, hugely profitable, and still hugely growing.
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by kennystone 15y ago
Awesome, one of the things I was really missing coming from Erlang.
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by kennystone 15y ago
New site is absolutely gorgeous. The blog post is nice, but you have to click around the full-size website to see the difference. The design gives me confidence using your site and makes me almost feel like the results are hand-crafted.
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by kennystone 15y ago
A lot of the pain a site like Twitter will have comes from GC (they wrote their own Ruby GC), and JRuby has a much better garbage collector over MRI and probably better than Twitter's.
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by kennystone 15y ago
Good for Oracle. There are (reasonable) concerns about their ownership of Java, but at least it's moving forward again.
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by kennystone 15y ago
It's interesting how closely tied to Google Closure this is. I wonder if that will present issues in the future. Regardless, ClojureScript has definitely made really smart use of it.
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by kennystone 15y ago
It is a language that will be used well into the future. There will be no 'the' language. These things are silly.
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by kennystone 15y ago
I agree with this article. What I find strange, however, is how he implies silicon valley is the normal way for humans to act, and yet the default way to do business there is to take huge amounts of venture capital. VC results in all sorts
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by kennystone 15y ago
Why someone would pick Go on the JVM over clojure/scala/jruby/java which are already mature and offer a nice, diverse set features of their own already (persistent data structures, actors, scripting, etc)?
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by kennystone 15y ago
It's incredibly easy to use and solves a whole bunch of problems easily and quickly. I don't really give a crap what the 'professional' way is.
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by kennystone 15y ago
Google is a lot C++, Java, and Python, so indeed it is. Use Erlang (or similar) and parallel is easy.
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by kennystone 15y ago
Not saying MongoHQ isn't a nice service, but Mongo is about the easiest database I've ever used...
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by kennystone 15y ago
It's pretty handy, and an easy upgrade to a 'real' database if the need ever arises - especially mongo/couch.
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by kennystone 15y ago
If you are going to start from scratch, why would you ever use XML? XML violates so many things we know to be good, including the essential lisp idea of 'data is code' (which json does OK), not to mention it's ugly, hard to read, and makes
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by kennystone 15y ago
They can't scrap it. They are bleeding cash.
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by kennystone 15y ago
'Pro Git' is a fine resource, but it is pretty intense for beginners. When I started, I just wanted to check something in. I've found the 'Pragmatic Guide to Git' to be the best reference for getting things done. It has a fantastic organ
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by kennystone 15y ago
People like to talk about black and white, native versus web, etc, but this is simply a matter of finding the right fit for the Financial Times. Many of the newsy apps can be done very well with the latest browsers (and other kinds of apps
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by kennystone 15y ago
If this is the big complaint (from the slimgems site): "Deprecations would not mean warning messages or method removal. We will work with the community to make sure library developers upgrade their code on a convenient time frame for everyb
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by kennystone 15y ago
Programming and the internet can also lead to short attention spans. Reading - for long periods of time especially - is so healing because teaches a more patient, longer attention span to your brain. Meditation can help, too. It takes pr