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2041.
by lkrubner 11y ago
When Twitter got going, RSS was marred by political infighting: http://www.smashcompany.com/technology/rss-has-been-damaged-... And that is part of the reason why walled-gardens like Twitter sometimes do well. Sometime
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by lkrubner 11y ago
I think it is fascinating how an idea can emerge with a fuzzy meaning and, in the space of 2 years, become rigidly associated with a narrow set of technologies which will surely be much more temporary than the idea itself, thus forcing peop
2043.
by lkrubner 11y ago
Both ChuckMcM and I were remarking on how people actually use the Web, whereas when you write: "But is that really what we want to be supporting?" you are instead remarking about how things should be. Maybe there is some alternate
2044.
by lkrubner 11y ago
The best criticism of the concept of an "Operating System" is implicit in Joe Armstrong's thesis about Erlang: --------------------------- Such techniques are common in hardware platforms for building fault-tolerant systems b
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by lkrubner 11y ago
"The web is not 'one and done.' " You misunderstand what was written. ChuckMcM was suggesting that most people only read an article once. Even if they frequently go back to the same website, they don't re-read artic
2046.
by lkrubner 11y ago
That conclusion is not justified. Advertisers continue to pay a lot more for print. Nobody is willing to spend much for online advertising. So profits can still be higher for the print version. Indeed, that is the whole problem that the new
2047.
by lkrubner 11y ago
In terms of cleanly communicating one's intent, I'd also suggest a look at Sean Johnson's talk about letting the function arguments determine what version of the function is used. This is a common idea in most programming lan
2048.
by lkrubner 11y ago
"return a closure of what to do given a cursor into the database" Some people would insist that the closure is a mock, but otherwise this is correct, using closures in this way does help isolate one's tests.
2049.
by lkrubner 11y ago
If the events involve I/O then they are not deterministic. Even if you save every event to Kafka and then replay them, you may not get the same bug.
2050.
by lkrubner 11y ago
> Things are never in equilibrium. Indeed, and I now think that intellectual progress in the 21st century must be done with Permanent Disequilibrium models. Equilibrium models have taken us as far as they can. Equilibrium models emerged
2051.
by lkrubner 11y ago
Off-topic, but if you want to see a great talk about working with Voronoi in Clojure, watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=627&v=hzLAX_pr-Wc
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by lkrubner 11y ago
This is a very large study: "The new study (while confirming the 2013 work) is much larger and crosses many disciplines. This one is based on an analysis of 1.6 million papers written from 1950 to the present in the scholarly database
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Men cite their own work more often that women cite their own work(insidehighered.com)
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2054.
by lkrubner 11y ago
That is true. Many good things happened in the USA during WWII, and many of those good things were abandoned as soon as the war ended. This was also true of "Total Quality Manufacturing" using the statistical techniques developed
2055.
by lkrubner 11y ago
Are you aware how broad a term "animals" is? The term includes hawks, ants, turtles, snakes, trout, leeches, sharks, jellyfish, lions, coral, alligators and many more. It includes all vertebrates, but it is not limited to vertebra
2056.
by lkrubner 11y ago
This bit is interesting: "Inlining is a technique that will basically just "inline" one method in another and so get rid of a method invocation. The JIT automatically detects "hot" methods and try to inline them for
2057.
by lkrubner 11y ago
What does (me!) mutate?
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Inline all the things(normanmaurer.me)
1 points by lkrubner 11y ago|1 comments
2059.
by lkrubner 11y ago
Please note, this is why stuff like Twitter and Facebook do so well. Those of you who are surprised, or discouraged, when the public chooses a walled-garden like Twitter or Facebook, please remember how self-destructive some technologists h
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RSS has been damaged by in-fighting among those who advocate for it (2006)(smashcompany.com)
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Google Plus exemplifies why self-disruption doesn’t work(digitopoly.org)
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2062.
by lkrubner 11y ago
I will tell a story that I think is very strange. Last year I worked at a small startup that was focused on medical records. They used PostGres in production, but SQLLite in development. The frontend was pure AngularJS. They had a massive P
2063.
by lkrubner 11y ago
This is an example where the headline on Hacker News is 100x better than the original headline. I do wish Hacker News allowed these kinds of headlines, which draw out the parts of the article that are of most interest to the Hacker News cro
2064.
by lkrubner 11y ago
I love this bit about the humility within the Clojure community: ------------------ Well, I was bragging to Alan about a Drake release, which I was calling 0.2.0. Alan rolled his eyes. He was like, “Considering the conventions put forth by
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Drake: you can use it now(blog.factual.com)
4 points by lkrubner 11y ago|1 comments
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by lkrubner 11y ago
Short-term waves ride on top of long-term waves, but if we want an accurate picture of reality, we need to simultaneously remember the short-term and long-term waves. The trough of one wave can mitigate the peak of another wave, should thei
2067.
by lkrubner 11y ago
There are already several comments on this Hacker News thread where people suggest things like remote work. Others suggest moving to less expensive cities. Someone mentioned Tennessee. "mooreds" made the suggestion "consider
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by lkrubner 11y ago
As James Surowiecki makes clear in his book "The Wisdom Of Crowds", the wisdom is only apparent in situations where the people are not able to talk to each other. But real estate agents are able to talk to each other. In Surowieck
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by lkrubner 11y ago
The entire essay contradicts this phrase: "For one of the most hyper-rational populations in the world" and yet the essay uses that phrase without irony. A better term might be "bounded rationality": https://e
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5 mistakes Clojure newbies make(adambard.com)
3 points by lkrubner 11y ago|0 comments

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