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by npalli 13y ago
I have no doubt it must have been easier programming in go. My question was on resource efficiency. I doubt anyone programs in C++ for fun anymore :-). The issue with toy problems you can write a vanilla python or perl program that processe
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by npalli 13y ago
"For each system that Google brings on-line with Go, even if it took a team of 10 6 months, they've likely saved themselves millions of dollars in new capex infrastructure acquisition" I thought the old systems were in c++. S
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by npalli 13y ago
Glad you liked it.
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Albert Camus: The Life of the Artist – A Mimodrama in Two Parts (1953)(newyorker.com)
57 points by npalli 13y ago|26 comments
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Is Elon Musk's Hyperloop a pipe dream?(newyorker.com)
3 points by npalli 13y ago|0 comments
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by npalli 13y ago
Yes, I should have said framework instead of language. However, MRI also happens to be one of the slowest languages. What are proposing as a good combination that people are using?
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by npalli 13y ago
I felt like I entered some time wrap, was this written in 2007/2008? Can't believe someone writing this in 2013 since so much of the arguments are from those days. That rails shops with more than 9 months of development are fester
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by npalli 13y ago
Previous discussion with 207 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3953434 Then, the original author wrote a follow-up which had another ton of comments on his blog and another 162 comments on HN. https:/&#x2F
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Your thoughts can release abilities beyond normal limits(scientificamerican.com)
1 points by npalli 13y ago|0 comments
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The end of books [1894](ebooks.adelaide.edu.au)
1 points by npalli 13y ago|0 comments
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by npalli 13y ago
One common thing you notice among highly creative people is how they completely lock down certain aspects of their life. It is as if they want to conserve all their mental energies for their creative efforts without wasting anything on misc
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Woody Allen: What I've learned(esquire.com)
135 points by npalli 13y ago|56 comments
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by npalli 13y ago
"Pitch the top line, not the bottom line ... Almost no products can cut costs by 5-10%". This is a very odd statement that is in odds with how most B2B software is positioned. I would wager if you go into any company and look at
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How things grow(blog.vivekhaldar.com)
1 points by npalli 13y ago|0 comments
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by npalli 13y ago
If you paraphrase most arguments here, we would end up with a conclusion that a YC-startup is no different from a random startup. There is huge struggle getting product/market fit, things are constantly in motion, rejection by VC'
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Hailing a cab with smartphone is not as popular as you think(fastcompany.com)
1 points by npalli 13y ago|0 comments
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Empirical Analysis of programming language adoption(eecs.berkeley.edu)
2 points by npalli 13y ago|0 comments
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Sprinters Falsify the Deliberate Practice Model of Expertise(papers.ssrn.com)
3 points by npalli 13y ago|1 comments
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by npalli 13y ago
Very true. I remember last year around this time, there was mass chaos in Bangalore due to some twitter images being sent around. Tens of thousands of people had to leave the city because of threats. All because rumors began to spread about
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by npalli 13y ago
That's not what he is doing though. He is actually manipulating the pixels, applying the filter will not give him any control over the pixels. He wants to do pointillism, not achieve a pointillism-like effect on a regular painting.
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by npalli 13y ago
Well, he is doing pointillism. How is that going to be better in Photoshop? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointillism
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Eating too much is why you are fat, despite the jogging(fastcoexist.com)
2 points by npalli 13y ago|1 comments
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Snowden: Dangerously naive or a liar(joshuafoust.com)
1 points by npalli 13y ago|1 comments
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We want privacy from the government, but we're an open book on social media(guardian.co.uk)
1 points by npalli 13y ago|0 comments
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by npalli 13y ago
It is a little disappointing that this doesn't directly address the issues with the original article's claims. Instead it continues focusing on CPU execution timings. Like many responses to the original article, the elephant in th
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Faux Outrage - Why is it such a scandal that a spy agency spies?(medium.com)
1 points by npalli 13y ago|0 comments
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by npalli 13y ago
Does anyone have more info on "cpoll-cppsp"? Hearing about it for the first time, it seems to be smoking all the other frameworks.
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by npalli 13y ago
He started with $1000 and grew to $912 Million over 43 years. That's compounding annually at 38% percent. I was surprised that after 43 years it is still under a billion. Just goes to show how big a billion dollars is :-). He must also
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by npalli 13y ago
reddit effect. All snowden and such anti-govt stories are being heavily moderated out in reddit so that crowd is flowing in here. This site has completely changed character (in a very negative way) in the past month. So sad and frustrating.
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by npalli 13y ago
Yeah, for instance the biggest overhaul of the healthcare system (Obamacare) happened without really trying. Imagine what he would have done if he was in office not playing golf. Also, looks like you are a time traveller from October 2012.

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