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by lsb 17y ago
Not to piss on LA transit, but the API would much more compelling if the services were much more frequent. Here is London's high-frequency services, trains running >4 per hour: http://www.tfl.gov.uk/assets/downloads/high-frequency-serv
782.
by lsb 17y ago
What's unfortunate is that when Ruby was small and _why's shadow still loomed large, there was the acronym MINASWAN: Matz is nice and so we are nice. Now that Ruby's gotten bigger, the community's gotten bigger, and friendly small towns don
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by lsb 17y ago
This is ad hominem and abusive, and insulting to the people and the man-centuries that've gone into the projects at the ASF.
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by lsb 17y ago
Yup, in Haskell it's as explicit as a <- for assignment, and = for what amounts to pattern equality.
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by lsb 17y ago
What plant is that? It's repulsively beautiful.
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by lsb 17y ago
Let's keep things in perspective. America is 10 million square kilometers, 4 million square miles, so there are lots of communities that value smarts. My freshman year college roommate was on his HS football team, captain of the math team,
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by lsb 17y ago
If you launch a product on HN, the link is publicly viewable, and archived by Google shortly thereafter. You have, by definition, launched publicly. No one wants to debug someone else's broken crap. So deliver something worth an educated s
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by lsb 17y ago
Who's the "they" now, the cloners or the cloned?
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by lsb 17y ago
Economies of scale make taxation efficient if you have publicly available goods, like water, or mass transit, or roads, or primary health care.
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by lsb 17y ago
No, but that's not the point: anyone can be cajoled into making a graph (and I love ASCII art as much as anyone), but the fact that there wasn't the culture of putting a pretty ribbon on nice results, that's the problem.
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by lsb 17y ago
First, Apple regularly spreads disinformation to its employees to find out leaks. Most of the company was shocked that the iPod came out. Second, that's the most American-unfriendly name I've ever seen for a product. Sure, gianduia is the
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by lsb 17y ago
SQLite is targeted, actually, at specifically those people who would just use fopen() to store data: http://www.sqlite.org/whentouse.html
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by lsb 17y ago
This is a false binary. It's not just using SQL vs using a Key/Value store. Caching/denormalization speeds up almost any algorithm; store a query result into memcached to make it even faster. Scale up and get the biggest box with the most
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by lsb 17y ago
When they showed the 10-year-old pitcher as a 4-foot-tall sticker in the living room, I literally cringed with horror. It looks fantastic, and fits well, in a children's room, but it looks absolutely vile above an Ikeariffic couch.
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by lsb 17y ago
If you don't need a terabyte of data stored, just use an in-memory data structure, and have 1 server process in whatever language you're using, and manipulate whatever you would do in memory, and work from there. Maybe SQL is the right cho
796.
by lsb 17y ago
Start with Wikipedia? They've got a few billion words there, and it's a 5GB download.
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by lsb 17y ago
That's like shooting fish in a barrel.
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by lsb 17y ago
You'll probably be amused to note that the Latin word "nepos" can mean both "descendant" and "spendthrift".
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by lsb 17y ago
Exactly; and ironically enough, more indie coffeeshops have opened up recently precisely because Starbucks set their price point expectations so high that they get good margins out of it, versus $1 drip coffee.
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by lsb 17y ago
They're from the UK, so I should think that you Indianans could make similar blueprints, and produce these for under half the retail price.
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by lsb 17y ago
I don't know how it works with other frameworks, but with ActiveSupport in Rails, when I want to say "30 days from now", it's "Time.now + 30.days", and Ruby does the math from days->seconds. (IIRC, 1.month = 30.days in Rails.)
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by lsb 17y ago
You've just launched it on Hacker News. Why submit something deliberately concealed?
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by lsb 17y ago
You promote data to code. JSON is usually a data format, like {result: 42}. If you wrap that in callback({result: 42}), that's executable javascript code. Including script tags on your pags via JS, like how the Delicious API / Flickr API /
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by lsb 17y ago
So here's the thing: I'm not going to give you my Google Analytics until you show me a compelling reason to. "We track Google Analytics" doesn't mean anything to me, an intrigued audience, yet skeptical of and resistant to just installing
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by lsb 17y ago
I'm sorry, but I don't understand what it's a histogram of.
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by lsb 17y ago
That sounds like a nice technical achievement, but even the Snap plugin never had the balls to adjust the scroll position of what I was reading .
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by lsb 17y ago
And it doesn't have background processes, which is what you'd want for Skype itself to work as a P2P app. But you get what I'm saying: it's just bits in packets, and we could do so much more if voice weren't special.
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by lsb 17y ago
If you're all so damn mad, push for public mobile broadband and you could use Skype on your iPod Touch.
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by lsb 17y ago
Yes, this is why you load images and CSS from a CDN, and you can do JSON+callbacks instead of Ajax onto a big app server somewhere. (There's a gem for Rack, if you're on Ruby, to automatically handle the parenthesization.)
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by lsb 17y ago
But that's only a problem if your officespace is dreadful. For all the time I was at Songkick, the office had a full bathroom (and kitchen), and most fancy law offices I've seen have this as well.

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