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When Haskell is Faster than C(paulspontifications.blogspot.com)
93 points by metajack 14y ago|115 comments
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by metajack 14y ago
I disagree, and I've pitched companies to Suster and other VCs who've held this viewpoint. It's unfortunately very widely held by VCs, and in some cases is rather extreme, with certains VCs demanding you not only be non-distributed, but tha
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by metajack 14y ago
As someone who wrote an XML config file for a project way back when, I can provide a few answers. For me, it was either use an off the shelf parser or write my own. The config files at the time were all like apache's config - various combin
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Ask HN: What are the most innovative web frameworks?
10 points by metajack 14y ago|5 comments
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by metajack 14y ago
I really like DNSimple.com. I've been a customer for over a year and highly recommend it.
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by metajack 14y ago
Tacky message at the end totally ruined it. That is going to lose you sales.
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TalkTo Brings Its SMS-Based Communication Platform To The Web(techcrunch.com)
10 points by metajack 14y ago|0 comments
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Have You Got Any Matches? [pdf](dl.dropbox.com)
1 points by metajack 14y ago|0 comments
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by metajack 14y ago
Server died. Here's the Google cache version: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:-UXdDxO...
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by metajack 14y ago
How are there no comments? This is the most hilarious blog post title I've seen in ages!
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by metajack 14y ago
Opus is a (usually) lower bitrate codec for very low latency applications. In other words, a completely different sweet spot than Vorbis, AAC, etc.
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by metajack 14y ago
We tried to get IETF and W3C interested. They barely talked to us. The most we could do was a Vorbis over RTP draft that I wrote. The next best option was to incorporate as a 501c3 and run our own standards body, similar to the XSF in the X
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by metajack 15y ago
The book Peopleware backs up the failure of open plan offices with references and data. For any kind of knowledge work, distraction is kryptonite. I really enjoyed the book, and the info about open plan offices was really interesting. I was
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by metajack 15y ago
As someone who works remotely most of the time, I agree. I've also started several companies that were mostly or partially distributed. Getting funding for those is sometimes awkward depending on the investors. Most VCs in particular are pr
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by metajack 15y ago
Having rebinding of the vars and dictionary literals are really nice. The syntax feels a bit awkward in general. Commas have to be in non-obvious places, and the "do" keyword is essentially hard-coded. But these aren't huge problems. The ho
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by metajack 15y ago
I don't use it as much as Google or anything, but I find myself there once or twice a week. Usually it's things like geographic info (population, size), currency or timezone conversion, or various other sort of small things like that. I enj
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by metajack 15y ago
What in the world do you think this has to do with the FSF? How is releasing proprietary code at all similar to open sourcing it? I'm really failing to understand how you made this association or why you think their intent was driven by des
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by metajack 15y ago
I had some poor experiences with dedicated servers at well known providers. Essentially if the hardware fails, they'd rather fix it than get you into something new so you can be back up and running. My site ended up offline for several hour
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by metajack 15y ago
I did the exact same. I wasn't aware before calling that my representative opposed both bills, but I made sure his staff knew I appreciated it when they told me.
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by metajack 15y ago
First time I've ever been to this site, and immediately a giant pop up appears over the content. I doubt I'll be back.
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by metajack 15y ago
Dupe of http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3453208
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by metajack 15y ago
Microsoft actually started in Albuquerque, NM, but moved to Redmond 4 or 5 years later.
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by metajack 15y ago
I like them too. I buy something via the ads about once a month. In fact, I bought the Kindle with ads just for one of the ads which was a few hundred dollars off a TV. The Kindle was essentially free.
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by metajack 15y ago
To be fair, the history search is a big selling point, and is fairly difficult to set up. Or perhaps that is and out of the box feature of modern ircd implementations now? It's been a while since I've run an irc server myself. It is certain
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by metajack 15y ago
Grove prices: 5 users: $10/mo 10 users: $25/mo 20 users: $50/mo 50 users: $125/mo HipChat prices: 12 users: $9/mo 30 users: $24/mo 60 users: $49/mo 100 users: $99/mo Note the the lowest HipChat plan has only a mont
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by metajack 15y ago
Is it really necessary to post every minor version increment with no other context here? The 0.6.0 announcement was posted here just the other day and got no comments.
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by metajack 15y ago
You can use XMPP clients with HipChat.
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by metajack 15y ago
The Xiph.org project has always maintained that if there are royalty free audio codecs available for everyone, then we've won. We never cared that they were ours, but no one else seemed to be building them. It's a little silly that Apple ro
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by metajack 15y ago
FLAC has been around longer and is also part of the Xiph.org project along with Vorbis. If Google wanted to add a lossless codec, they certainly could have before now. (Disclaimer: I am associated with Xiph.org.)
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by metajack 15y ago
The AI class had 160,000+ and the Machine Learning class had more than the DB class I believe. The demand is very high, and all three of these are fairly specialized classes.

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