mattlanger

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by mattlanger 17y ago
> The whole point of creating a successful business, of course, is to have it generate money. I like to think that the whole point is to make something awesome/memorable/useful/meaningful/worthwhile that also creates jobs and produces
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by mattlanger 17y ago
These "NoSQL" comparisons are a tricky thing, inasmuch as this is a very volatile space with a lot of really interesting development happening. Furthermore, benchmarking a handful of storage options that are really only alike in that they s
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by mattlanger 17y ago
Wow, what a trip down memory lane. I ran across this sometime in '99 or '00 and got inspired to create a Flash presentation of all the proofs. It got a little out of hand when I decided to do the same for Apollonius' conics, which in the da
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by mattlanger 17y ago
I can't help but be reminded of when Merlin Mann said "little stories are the internet's native and ideal art form... little dumb stories that I never expected." Read it all--it's worth it. Plus, that this was even written (not to mention w
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Ask HN: How do you say it?
1 points by mattlanger 17y ago|3 comments
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by mattlanger 17y ago
I don't see these two roles being mutually exclusive, nor do I see your statement to be a given ("if someone cares enough..."). The experience of sitting down with a Sunday paper is very different from that of reading a specialized outlet w
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by mattlanger 17y ago
I'm all for expecting due diligence from traditional media, but saying they're dying because Michael Arrington provided more exhaustive details for his very particular and specialized audience while the Times ran a puff piece for a much mor
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by mattlanger 17y ago
Silly, I should have included a link. Also very cool: I just tried out SnipMate fully expecting it's tab command to conflict with supertab, but no conflicts at all.
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by mattlanger 17y ago
Another one worthy of mention is supertab, which binds tab to Ctrl-p. I am not kidding when I say it changed my life.
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by mattlanger 17y ago
This just in: Daniel Dennett cites Ludwig Wittgenstein as one of the 100 most important people of the century. And coming up later on the 11:00 news: Heisenberg admits, "I never could have done it without Bohr."
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by mattlanger 17y ago
I've actually noticed the inverse problem with some non-tech-related searches. Politics is a fine example: try and find an article about a 2002 House vote on Social Security and there's no chance you'll find it; the results are all present
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by mattlanger 17y ago
"Make no mistake: This is a huge blow for the United States, and particularly Silicon Valley." This is not a new phenomenon: graduate programs saw a similar decline immediately following Sept. 11, and it only turned around a few years later
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by mattlanger 17y ago
I'm guessing Facebook ain't exactly thrilled by this news.
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by mattlanger 17y ago
I seem to recall (((((mt))))) offering both Rails and Django out of the box. Also, Google App Engine kind of fits the bill (with a little finesse).
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by mattlanger 17y ago
I was self-taught, and started working 20 hours a week after school writing C for Merrill Lynch when I was 16. I got bored in my mid-twenties and finally went to college full-time, but not for CS: I double-majored in philosophy and the hist
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"There are no words"(found.boxofjunk.ws)
1 points by mattlanger 17y ago|0 comments
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by mattlanger 17y ago
Curious: that link worked when you posted it. Now it's dead.
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by mattlanger 17y ago
Oh, neat! And how typically Microsoft to engage in browser-specific marketing antics. If only whatever it was that they'd "hid" were the HTML 5.0 and CSS 3 standards.
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by mattlanger 17y ago
Apparently I'm dense; I don't get it. Help plz.
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by mattlanger 17y ago
This is crap. It stops being a "fun example of the stuff you can do with very little Ruby" as soon as it performs some function with social ramifications. Code does not exist in a moral vacuum. The fact of the matter is that people do use
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by mattlanger 17y ago
I certainly mean no disrespect to the author (since ingenuity driven by nothing other than curiosity should never be frowned upon), but the data seem suspect. There are numerous small factors: anecdotally speaking I write code but don't use
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by mattlanger 17y ago
In our office you get funny looks if you don't read Hacker News.
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by mattlanger 17y ago
For whatever reason this really struck a nerve for me. It's erected on a false dichotomy: "given a choice between happy-go-lucky and picky-but-lonely, happy sounds like more fun." I don't personally measure my completeness or incompleteness
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by mattlanger 18y ago
To quote Heather Champ of Flickr, "i am so done with social media marketers. y'all are peeing in the pool." http://twitter.com/hchamp/status/1318999408
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by mattlanger 18y ago
With high expectations I clicked a heading entitled "Document based DBs will rule the world" but found someone lifecasting "hello world" on CouchDB.
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by mattlanger 18y ago
Funny to see this on Hacker News -- I wrote it. Which means I should also take full responsibility for the performance complaints that have shown up in this thread. Someone in the thread mentioned that they're "not sure how you could screw