ozataman

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by ozataman 14y ago
Right, that's a better wat to put what I intended to convey implicitly.
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by ozataman 14y ago
Somehow titling Minecraft, Diablo, BG as "Startup"s or "Startup-like" things feels wrong to me. Minecraft was one guy (probably) enjoying himself while putting together something creative. It then exploded. Did he really target 10% growth p
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by ozataman 14y ago
Yeah, there is something about this startup model I don't quite like. To be upfront, I am not arguing what the word startup means - the society is free to assign to it any meaning it wants and what Paul describes here is a clear, specific m
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by ozataman 14y ago
I'm not sure if Cassandra and Bigtable are "document" databases in the same vein as MongoDB. These guys are more like turbo-charged key-value stores - which is quite different. They trade in the ability to manipulate data for an ability to
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by ozataman 14y ago
Nice article. On the other hand, in a slightly joking manner, I really wonder how some people can live with 8-space tabs with 8+ levels of indentation!
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by ozataman 14y ago
Fantastic. Thanks for sharing!
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by ozataman 14y ago
Sorry, but lol. You had to implement locking on top of a job queueing system to make it work? That's the whole point of a queueing system!!! You probably didn't realize you had to extend the lock peeiodically.
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by ozataman 14y ago
.. and that makes up a pretty hefty hit on the bottom line. A 2.25% drop in revenue could very well cause a >10% drop in profits, even with Apple's large margins.
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by ozataman 14y ago
I won't claim any level of tooling/IDE parity, but FPs are quickly getting up there. As an example, Haskell has a very helpful community, lots of stimulating content (yes, some are math heavy but many/most are not), over 3000 packages on Ha
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by ozataman 14y ago
This is absolutely hilarious. Come up with some !@#% that doesn't make any sense and watch the hordes make it the most important news since the invention of agriculture!
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by ozataman 14y ago
Wow, this is a really big lapse of judgement on Quora's part. I'm contemplating if I should delete my account altogether. In any case, thank you for posting it here - at least people can take the precautions. Edit: That yes/no button is not
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by ozataman 14y ago
Not that I'm against compatibility or that I'm in love with Github, but what about having one place where you track most/all of your OSS project of interest? Integrated issue tracker? Ability to collaboratively work with people across the p
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by ozataman 14y ago
The design looks quite nice, but having to share my private and work emails with yet another cloud provider was a no-deal for me.
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by ozataman 14y ago
What a boring, presumptuous article ridden with hyperbole. I'm getting tired of these popular magazines picking up a cool-sounding subject, a recent mishap and selling the whole thing as if it will completely obliterate the old ways. Oh and
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by ozataman 14y ago
Did I understand correctly that the "other business he is growing" is an analytics platform for Facebook ads? Here's the link I got from the post: http://pagelever.com/ If so, so much for impartiality.
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by ozataman 14y ago
Sure. What I meant is that while python does have first-class functions, you don't make much use of it in idiomatic style. Much of the logic is still encapsulated in bloated, less flexible classes and/or imperative style variables you creat
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by ozataman 14y ago
That wouldn't work for me. I've been lucky enough to almost always work on things I've been interested in, and it has served me well in my career so far. I doubt I could even perform at 50% efficiency when using tools that don't excite me.
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by ozataman 14y ago
Not at all. In fact about 95% of all Haskell I write - and I write quite a bit - is for commercial stuff, ranging all the way across large-ish (not quite google-scale, yet) scale computation, distributed systems, machine learning, modeling/
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by ozataman 14y ago
I've tried giving Go a try a bunch of times now. My primary choice of language is Haskell and I just can't seem to get excited about Go.
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by ozataman 14y ago
This is not true for me. I'm happy for the Sparrow team, but I got upset because I feel when I purchased their product, I got into an implicit, unspoken contract with the developers that while the current version of the product was good, th
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by ozataman 14y ago
Google, please realize Sparrow has a set of unique values the web app can't and likely won't ever provide, and continue its development.
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by ozataman 14y ago
Agreed. Sparrow had finally evolved enough to be a really good, fast and practical email client. I was waiting eagerly to see what else they would add to the product to make it better. This is really quite frustrating. At least spin off the
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by ozataman 14y ago
I have to say, I'm not very fond of hyperbole-laden posts such as this one. People who devote the time and enthusiasm learn the details and hopefully enlighten themselves. People who lack that kind of enthusiasm will likely be confused thro
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by ozataman 14y ago
IMHO, his Haskell style is a little weird and not really the typical (or the best). The dailyCost function is a particularly ghastly example of bad layout and visual code organization. Then there are things like map (\(x,y) -> x) reserv
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by ozataman 14y ago
This is great, but the Github literate Haskell code looks so much better (cleaner, syntax highlighting, etc.) than your blog formatting - I found the code fragments impossible to read. The literate Haskell version on Github: https://github
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by ozataman 14y ago
Sorry to burst your bubble, but I wonder if your experience is clouded by the (past) inadequacy of your skill set and learning level. We use Haskell in production across a number of domains and it has produced solid results. So do a number
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by ozataman 14y ago
I believe this article is missing the point. When you're physically present at the office, you get plenty of opportunities to have conversations with different people and voice your opinion, revealing your thought patterns, values and abili
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by ozataman 14y ago
Well, this is my gripe with their "go fast and break things" mantra. It works as long as you have such a highly desirable product that your users just don't care if you're doing everything right. (Or maybe you're in a non-mission-critical b
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by ozataman 14y ago
Chrome says the SSL cert has expired... Should probably pay attention to these things if you're going for HN first page. Edit: I meant for the SwipeGood website - not sure if you don't care about that anymore.
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by ozataman 14y ago
Well, definitely real-world tasks with focus on usefulness and other practical concerns. Ideas would be: - Implement a parser for some protocol/data with testing, etc. - Implement a communication protocol/framework/driver/API - Implement a

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