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by kornish 9y ago
Disclaimer: Zach is one of the cofounders of Boost. (generally it's nice to let people know when you're plugging your own service) Is Boost a chatbot or actual live chat with a human? Couldn't tell from the website.
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by kornish 9y ago
Also the multicore concurrency.
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by kornish 9y ago
Craig Kerstiens has a phenomenal set of blog posts about a few different Postgres topics to get you thinking: http://www.craigkerstiens.com/content/ It's really worth checking out all his stuff - his explanations
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by kornish 9y ago
As I understand it, the types of analysis they want to do actually aren't super amenable to indexing because they may include wildcards in the middle of the search string (e.g. `WHERE text ILIKE 'div.button % .login'`. You ca
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by kornish 9y ago
> You would use the "New" constructor function pattern in this case, using a higher order function called at injection time to keep it reusable and hide everything. Spot on. I love the decorator pattern for dependency injection
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by kornish 9y ago
Ha, you're totally right. I'm silly. Thanks!
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by kornish 9y ago
> func init() isn't the only way to execute logic when a package is imported! What are other ways to execute logic when a package is imported? init() is the only one I'm aware of.
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by kornish 9y ago
Pusher is based on websockets, yes. https://pusher.com/websockets
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by kornish 9y ago
I was just at Colorado College's graduation (go Tigers!) and spoke with friends and professors about this. Seems like right now the only people choosing to work in tech in CSprings are doing it because they don't want to move away
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by kornish 9y ago
"Disruption" frequently refers to the ideas discussed by Professor Clayton Christensen, who's written some books on the topic. Good jumping off points here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Innovator%27s
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by kornish 9y ago
You may have misread: the post said "differently" and not "definitely".
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by kornish 9y ago
> In many ways it's similar to how telephony spread in the developing world. They skipped landlines entirely and went straight to GSM. And also how banking/payment is spreading in Africa: mobile-to-mobile, skipping credit cards
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by kornish 9y ago
Hey, thanks for your comment. FWIW, I also disagree with the portrayal of C++ as niche, which is clearly a preposterous statement to anyone not living under a rock. That said, one poor point does not invalidate the article. I've been g
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When Rust Makes Sense, or the State of Typed Languages (2015)(m50d.github.io)
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by kornish 9y ago
Very exciting - thanks for sharing. Now we just need proper multicore and that's a versatile modern language.
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by kornish 9y ago
This is awesome! I know lots of people would love the type safety of a Haskell or OCaml combined with the metaprogramming and AST manipulation capabilities of a Lisp - and that seems to be the eventual goal of this project.
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Rich versus King: Strategic Choice and the Entrepreneur(citeseerx.ist.psu.edu)
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by kornish 9y ago
> Synchronicity at work I guess. Gotta love the Baader-Meinhof Effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases#Frequ... .
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by kornish 9y ago
The Gregory Hays translation of Aurelius' Meditations is especially good.
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by kornish 9y ago
> Even on Linux, there are decent ways to distribute. They're not as good at hard real time as QNX, but they work. Out of interest: what would you consider to be some of those decent ways, and what are some of the less-than-decent w
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The last 20% before shipping(philfreo.com)
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by kornish 9y ago
> and VC money Yeah, this is pretty key. If Uber's dominant position in the US is slipping but there's still a clear way for them to emerge on top globally and cash is the limiting concern, it seems likely they'll be able
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by kornish 9y ago
This comment is getting downvoted, but there might be some tongue-in-cheek truth: the CIA, after all, did a $600 million deal with AWS to build an on-premise cloud. https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/20
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by kornish 9y ago
Plus, the codebase is open-source: https://github.com/metabase/metabase
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Why Atom Can’t Replace Vim (2014)(medium.com)
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What 10x More Seed Capital Means for Founders(tomtunguz.com)
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by kornish 9y ago
If you post the same link as someone else shortly after them, you'll just get redirected the current discussion page and I believe it counts as an upvote to the article. If sufficient time has elapsed since the last posting, HN allows
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by kornish 9y ago
Here's a snippet of Go code, with comments, which spins up different goroutines (lightweight thread primitives) to read and write values in a shared map: https://gobyexample.com/mutexes
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by kornish 9y ago
Out of interest, how is common ORM support for custom Postgres types?
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by kornish 10y ago
How would you phrase it? I'm not quite sure how you can magnify the intensity of a noun or the size of an adjective.

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