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Angie’s List shares jump more than 20% from IPO(marketwatch.com)
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by nathanwdavis 15y ago
In case you haven't seen the long thread of comments on the pull request that lead to this blog post: https://github.com/antirez/lamernews/pull/8
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by nathanwdavis 15y ago
What I like most about this is that it is a non-trivial, non-toy example of using Redis effectively. Thanks antirez!!
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by nathanwdavis 15y ago
It's interesting that antirez mentioned in a blog post that Steve Jobs was not his hero, because he values different types of contributions and accomplishments. His post got flagged and removed from HN, whereas this one seems to be fine. I
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by nathanwdavis 15y ago
I'm disappointed F# was not on his list. Not surprised though.
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by nathanwdavis 15y ago
John Skeet?
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by nathanwdavis 15y ago
Are these responses real? My first reaction was "Funny, but I'm sure these are photoshopped".
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by nathanwdavis 15y ago
I agree that the syntax and semantics are uninspiring (you could say the same about Scala). Where it shines IMHO is in the core library ( http://www.dartlang.org/docs/api/index.html ). Look there and you will find some interesting classes t
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by nathanwdavis 15y ago
Please allow type inference wherever possible: I shouldn't need to write 'Point p = new Point(2, 3);' var p = new Point(2,3); should be inferred as a Point
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by nathanwdavis 15y ago
That's actually kind of like Haskell.
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by nathanwdavis 15y ago
For non-mainstream programmers "scary learning curve" is a plus. The desire to be challenged is a healthy thing, why not appeal to that type?
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by nathanwdavis 15y ago
Does anyone know if the 4s will have increased RAM over the 4?
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by nathanwdavis 15y ago
"Siri, open Facebook app" (or whatever other non-built-in app) I think that is a use case that would be pretty popular, unfortunately it does not look like that is something Siri can do yet. Maybe a future release.
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by nathanwdavis 15y ago
He sums up one of the major problems well: The greatest innovation in this release of the iPhone (Siri) is actually just a software thing. It is really cool, but they could have put it in iOS5 for iPhone 4 users to have as well. On the hard
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NPR's Steve Jobs timeline - The Man At Apple's Core(npr.org)
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by nathanwdavis 15y ago
Genetics, cool!! Accounting for genetic drift must be a bitch though.
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by nathanwdavis 15y ago
Agreed, I can't dis it because it's what introduced me to OOP. That said, I'm glad I haven't had to do any VB for 8 years now. There are a host of other languages (Javascript, Ruby, C#, Erlang, Coffeescript, even C++) I prefer to program wi
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by nathanwdavis 15y ago
From what I've heard, you can't use Task<T> for WinRT components that expose async methods. Instead you have to use IAsyncOperation as the return type. This limitation seems kind of annoying IMHO. Reference: Miguel de Icaza's blog p
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by nathanwdavis 15y ago
Perhaps by complementary he means: - Scala allows you to break away from the share-nothing, strictly immutable constraints of Erlang when you really need to do that for performance. - Erlang has OTP, Scala has access to the full ecosystem
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by nathanwdavis 15y ago
I used Mog for a while and was pretty happy. It's pretty similar to Rdio, except that it has a (claimed) larger library of tracks.
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by nathanwdavis 15y ago
Why not just learn both of them? It would not hurt you to have more than one language you are good at, especially if they are very different from each other.
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by nathanwdavis 15y ago
I've lost a little respect for Schmidt with this news.
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by nathanwdavis 15y ago
I'm quite happy with my bank's customer service, interest rates and fees. And I use Mint.com to get a view of all accounts including retirement, investments, etc. So, from my view, BankSimple just does not provide enough value. Hopefully fo
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by nathanwdavis 15y ago
I'm flagging this too. Nothing but a "Email me when it's ready" landing page. Does not belong on HN, imho.
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by nathanwdavis 15y ago
As a .NET dev, I have to kind of agree with you. While I have been quite pleased with the evolution of C# over the years and am stoked about F#, MS's involvement in Node.js, ASP.NET MVC, etc., I can't say that about the .NET developer commu
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by nathanwdavis 15y ago
I would hope that MS's solution for some mundane problem has changed since 2001. 10 years is a long time (especially for development tools/frameworks)... and I'm glad for the innovation that has happened over the past 10 years even though t
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by nathanwdavis 15y ago
or "how does it compare to jQuery Mobile?"
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by nathanwdavis 15y ago
I'm pretty sure that Credit Suisse is using F# (a derivative of OCaml) extensively. Also, I've seen quite a few posts on Don Syme's blog about other F# job openings in the financial industry.
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Bing looking for a Node.js engineer(jobs.nodejs.org)
1 points by nathanwdavis 15y ago|0 comments
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Angie's List to seek $75 million in IPO(bloomberg.com)
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