nearestneighbor

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   by nearestneighbor 17y ago

   > Theoretically they should be the same; they all run on the CLR. But I think F# lends ... I think you are misunderstanding this part. Tail call optimization can (sometimes) allow functional code be as fast as its imperative equivalent.
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   by nearestneighbor 17y ago

   > How is it in terms of performance ? Same as C#, according to the author, but that probably presupposes that you'd be doing the same thing in both (equally imperative code).
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   by nearestneighbor 17y ago

   Out of curiosity, are Y-Combinator folks (start-up founders, etc.) programming for .NET to begin with? It seems the focus here is usually on web apps and the iPhone.
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   by nearestneighbor 17y ago

   > While I was in grad school or when I worked at companies I constantly felt I had one great idea after the other for software/web projects Ideas come more easily when you are not idle.
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   by nearestneighbor 17y ago

   In my opinion, MBAs are a commodity almost. PhDs may well be unique and irreplaceable (although not all). Note that Google founders were in a PhD track, not MBA.
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   by nearestneighbor 17y ago

   Let me guess, you are a UK native MBA holder under 28? Not for nothing, but valuing an MBA higher than, say, a math Ph.D. is a bit insulting to some. MBAs are just taking jobs from other MBAs, really. Edit: braino
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   by nearestneighbor 17y ago

   The US is not rational, but just follows its regulations (as judged by the case adjudicators). Are you familiar with the so-called "NYSDOT case" with respect to the National Interest Waiver? Why did your lawyer put you into NIW? Does your w
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   by nearestneighbor 17y ago

   2002 and 2007, according to Wikipedia. I'm skeptical about OpenBSD being more secure overall, in the real world (who has time to apply patches manually?!) But, to be fair, I'm pretty sure Debian and Ubuntu had a big OpenSSL-related fiasco j
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   by nearestneighbor 17y ago

   OpenBSD might be doing better than some others, but it's not flawless in the security arena: http://openbsd.org/security.html#43
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    by nearestneighbor 17y ago

    http://www.mailcom.com/besm6/
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    by nearestneighbor 17y ago

    Speaking of machine learning, does anyone have any potential start-up ideas involving it that they are not going to implement themselves?
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    by nearestneighbor 17y ago

    If they have a better spell checker, why tie it to a particular editor/web site?