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by m0th87 13y ago
NYC has unprecedentedly low crime for its density and size [1]. There might be places in the US that allow you to draw parallels with Russia, but NYC is a pretty awful example. 1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_N
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by m0th87 13y ago
I am not a lawyer, but even with censored credentials this seems like a bad idea. Especially since my profile is not exactly anonymous. Any Facebook employees want to get me a green light? :)
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by m0th87 13y ago
Does anyone else remember the friend graph visualization feature facebook used to have? It was an oddity, both because it seemed like a strange but useful feature, but also because it was a perl script. One time I clicked it and got the sou
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by m0th87 13y ago
A good interview question should give space for exploration - it shouldn't involve esoteric questions or things that are easily google-able. Good interview questions will give you insight into the candidate's thought process, not
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The Rusticon(github.com)
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What about librsync (as mentioned in the comments here)?
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I was going to say there's no way java programs boot in 0.1 seconds, but looked it up to be sure. Here's the results on my mac/i7, defaulted to server mode: $ time java HelloWorld Hello, world! real 0m0.101s
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by m0th87 13y ago
I've just wrapped up a go program that's not a toy, albeit not as large as 10k - it's a little over 3k. It was not nearly as terse as python, although the performance increases made it well worth it. This is something that su
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by m0th87 13y ago
Because most of us are developers, the medium of a software product is considered interesting as well as the finished product. This should hardly be surprising and I'm glad there's a forum whose interests span beyond an ends-justi
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by m0th87 13y ago
Yep, totally get it. Just want to make sure people know about tornado as an option for greenfield projects.
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On top of that, tornado has built-in support for multiprocessing, so you can forego gunicorn as well: https://gist.github.com/jholster/2290574
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by m0th87 13y ago
Most of the inconsistencies in JS are with respect to the DOM / standard library exposed by the various browsers. That is surely not part of the PL. As for Python 3, if they hadn't made breaking changes, people would complain inst
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Breaking out of secured Python environments(tomforb.es)
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Biggest semantic baggage of go over python that I've experienced: * Lack of exceptions causes a lot of noise. Wrapping a bunch of code in try/catch is just more terse. * Lack of parametric polymorphism means there's no useful
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by m0th87 13y ago
Yeah, that's fair. Our biggest cost has been the same - the libraries aren't there yet. This is something whose impact would likely vary a great deal from one project to the next. I do think there is quite a bit to be said of the
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by m0th87 13y ago
This library? https://github.com/bmizerany/pq If so, we're about to use it. Anything we should be forewarned about with respect to its use in production settings?
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by m0th87 13y ago
I don't get this recent narrative that the productivity you'd get out of languages like go is comparable to higher-level ones like python. As someone who uses both go and python in production, this sounds like the blub paradox in
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by m0th87 13y ago
That still makes no sense. Your information has been leaked to one party, so you're okay with it leaking to others as well? Also, it's not just what they know, it's what they do with that knowledge. And it seems pretty absurd
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by m0th87 13y ago
Yes but you do have to sacrifice quite a bit to be outside of the NSA's realm of observability. Is iMessage securely encrypted? Wasn't the DEA caught red-handed with a false memo claiming they couldn't MITM iMessage communi
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by m0th87 13y ago
It's been updated to say "less than 50% of Gmail users" now. We're seeing it across most/all of our accounts.
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by m0th87 13y ago
Not in the literal sense. But you can't not have a distorted vision of a country you haven't even visited.
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I'd bet the desire to immigrate to a location is probably a lagging indicator behind that location's actual long-term economic trends. A number of my Pakistani relatives wish to immigrate to the US, but they also hold absurd and i
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by m0th87 13y ago
Not saying you're entirely wrong, but there's a difference between incidental vs necessary complexity, and a web UI is not even remotely similar to an avionics dashboard. There might be something we software people could teach tho
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Centrifuge(github.com)
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Ask HN: What are the best tech/startup events in NYC?
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Colourful Texture(yaxu.org)
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Eve: A Python REST API Framework(python-eve.org)
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> I think Scala is an Academic language Sometimes "academic" seems like a catch-all for stuff people don't like. Scheme has a strong academic history in its use and implementation, yet it seems to be described as "aca
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Tesla Model X(teslamotors.com)
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> You could probably make the claim that static optimization is a halting problem, and dynamic optimization eventually can beat it by definition since it can optimize what the program is actually doing. It's not as if static type sy

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