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Ask HN: Any tips for hiring a freelance programmer?
5 points by ncarlson 17y ago|2 comments
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by ncarlson 17y ago
I've read from various mailing lists that the technical specifications of the Erlang VM are kept internal at Ericsson as well as "in the minds" of the language's developers. Personally, I'd love to get a hold of some documents that clearly
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by ncarlson 17y ago
Very true. Between Rewire and Cubase you had almost a complete music studio as early as 1996. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReCycle_%28software%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cubase#Cubase_VST3.0_Macintosh
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Ask HN: Have any of you ever wanted to write a compiler or interpreter?
8 points by ncarlson 17y ago|3 comments
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by ncarlson 17y ago
Do you guys think Elon Musk would be a good addition to this list?
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by ncarlson 17y ago
Thank you for taking the time to reply.
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by ncarlson 17y ago
I must be the only one, but I cannot for the life of me make sense of any of these stories. Every story I read about these leaked emails is drowned in sarcasm. I don't know up from down. Can someone explain what exactly is going on in plain
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by ncarlson 17y ago
> Tumblr just broke into the Top 100 Top 100 what? Top 100 websites by traffic?
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by ncarlson 17y ago
The constant camera cuts are to conceal any eye blinking that he might do. Don't quote me on this, though.
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by ncarlson 17y ago
Why do some programmers feel the need to piss on other people's projects?
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by ncarlson 17y ago
>"If your account is less than a year old, please don't submit comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. (It's a common semi-noob illusion.)" Sweet. Only 8 more days and then I'll be able to voice my opinion without the "noob" sti
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Ask HN: Is it just me, or are HN comments becoming more and more negative?
74 points by ncarlson 17y ago|157 comments
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by ncarlson 17y ago
> Why run your stuff on inadequate, antiquated hardware? Sometimes the problem isn't about performance, rather it's about fault-tolerance and redundancy. Granted, if all of these servers are located in the same data center, redundancy t
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by ncarlson 17y ago
Does anyone know if there are full videos of these presentations available? Thanks.
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by ncarlson 17y ago
Yeah, I misread the context of the quote. I thought he was talking about wealth.
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by ncarlson 17y ago
> It's a zero sum game. That's embarrassingly false.
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by ncarlson 17y ago
This comparison makes me wonder what the upper limit is for python-based server performance. I wonder where the main bottleneck lies.
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by ncarlson 17y ago
From my anecdotal experience, hackers tend to have a distaste for organized religion. Atheism and Agnosticism seem to run strong among programmers.
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by ncarlson 17y ago
If you have a better list, please do share.
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by ncarlson 17y ago
Same here! It's a lot bigger than I thought.
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by ncarlson 17y ago
He's talking about development in terms of oil well depletion.
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Ask HN: Stock data question (again)
2 points by ncarlson 17y ago|2 comments
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Ask HN: A question about historical stock data.
3 points by ncarlson 17y ago|4 comments
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by ncarlson 17y ago
I hate to rain other people's parades, but that interview was horrible. If show is going to be comedy based, think about hiring a funny writer.
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by ncarlson 17y ago
It's very similar to OpenGL actually. I can't defend their choice of syntax, but at least they're consistant.
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by ncarlson 17y ago
New drugs have been designed for a few years now using GPU computing.
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by ncarlson 17y ago
Don't worry, you won't be that 64k guy. 64 bit gives the possibility of 2^64 bytes of addressable memory. That's over 18 exabytes. The entire digital content of the web is only estimated at about 90 petabytes. If we go to 2^128 or 2^256, we
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by ncarlson 17y ago
This isn't a person attack. It's just a general observation. People seem to vastly oversimplify Kurzweil's (and others) stance on the singularity. The truth is that we don't know what will happen. The best one can do is prepare for possible
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Ask HN: What's your least favorite tech word? Mine's "non-trivial".
5 points by ncarlson 17y ago|37 comments
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Into the Future: Man and Machines(youtube.com)
1 points by ncarlson 17y ago|0 comments

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