pestaa

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   by pestaa 13y ago

   Actually the trade off is not between consistency and performance, but scalability and performance (CAP theorem). Although related, they are not the same concepts. My opinion is that you can have both performance and consistency, and work y
2. 572.▲
   by pestaa 13y ago

   This is exactly the problem. You do not know the message is not important. In fact, every message is important to someone.
3. 573.▲
   by pestaa 13y ago

   I must admit my comment was unneccessarily bitter, but my observation is completely different. Many friends and family members are now seeing data loss on Facebook weekly at least . I wouldn't call them tech savvy either, yet they can
4. 574.▲
   by pestaa 13y ago

   ... unless your users actually care about messages being delivered, whatever being reported as saved being truly saved, et cetera... There is a whole world out there where people want to rely on software to do what it says it does. I know F
5. 575.▲
   by pestaa 13y ago

   Care to elaborate? I tried to research why Usenet was superior to more recent communication channels, but my Google fu fails me every time.
6. 576.▲
   by pestaa 13y ago

   Fortunately we rarely seen headlines starting with "what if", though I'm sure such law would define the answer to be "nope".
7. 577.▲
   by pestaa 13y ago

   Consider adding contact info to your profile.
8. 578.▲
   by pestaa 13y ago

   To say it was heavily inspired by GitHub would be an understatement.
9. 579.▲
   by pestaa 13y ago

   Would love to look at some screenshots and judge usability.
10. 580.▲
    by pestaa 13y ago

    Repo was starred in a heartbeat.
11. 581.▲
    by pestaa 13y ago

    I'm not sure, but your comment suggests you might be involved with the project? Also, no drag & drop UI is substitute for design common sense and flexibility.
12. 582.▲
    by pestaa 13y ago

    Just tell them to press Ctrl+R to refresh.
13. 583.▲
    by pestaa 13y ago

    They will go away if the inertia drops to zero and the industry doesn't wake up that we need solid hardware, and not fingerprints on garbage.
14. 584.▲
    by pestaa 13y ago

    I disagree with #9. Maybe Bill was on vacation, broke his arm and stayed in hospital for a full month. Of course he's underperforming. The data is there for you to query. There should be pointers to begin with, but the software should
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    by pestaa 13y ago

    I'm certainly not qualified to make predictions even for next year, but one thing I believe and truly hope we'll see more in the gaming industry is Haskell. Any complex software like games, or at least core parts of them, can real
16. 586.▲
    by pestaa 13y ago

    But 3000 times more hits, so it's actually 500 times faster. :)
17. 587.▲
    by pestaa 13y ago

    I know this is a sarcastic take on HN's overall conservation, but you must admit Ajax has its place, and it's not necessarily on a search engine result page. Besides, it ruins much of my browser behavior, shortcuts for example don
18. 588.▲
    by pestaa 13y ago

    Not sure why you got downvoted -- lack of physical feedback does seem counterproductive in the target environment.
19. 589.▲
    by pestaa 13y ago

    And now I want to read a book titled Typefaces written by Jacob Rus.
20. 590.▲
    by pestaa 13y ago

    What plugins did you publish?
21. 591.▲
    by pestaa 13y ago

    The second link reads as http://maxcdn.com/ but actually points to http://higg.im/maxcdn/ which of course redirects to an affiliate link. If you're trying to earn some cash through y
22. 592.▲
    by pestaa 13y ago

    ... Haskell...?
23. 593.▲
    by pestaa 13y ago

    I usually see Data.Map to imported as M, Text.ByteString as BS, etc. If you need more than a couple of these, I'd say it is a red flag and that the code needs to be split up.
24. 594.▲
    by pestaa 13y ago

    This is a very fair criticism, and I believe lenses are the solution to this problem, although I'm not advanced enough in Haskell to provide a round counterargument.
25. 595.▲
    by pestaa 13y ago

    So you write `foo.bar` in Python and `O.bar foo` in Haskell, and you find the former satisfactory but the latter an ugly design mistake? Honestly it doesn't even look that much more typing; and (subjectively!) has a little better seman
26. 596.▲
    by pestaa 13y ago

    Names, unless namespaced, collide in every language.
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    by pestaa 13y ago

    Can you please tell me more about your experience with Haskell?
28. 598.▲
    by pestaa 13y ago

    I, for one, can't stand how all other distros do package management, especially package names. Ubuntu is the worst offender in this department in my opinion.
29. 599.▲
    by pestaa 13y ago

    My comment was just a little snarky sharing a feeling that I could use more time to produce more value. I'm not sure where you get the idea that I'm spending too much time on Hacker News; it's certainly not the case. Obviousl
30. 600.▲
    by pestaa 13y ago

    Please no! Even the default 24 hours is too little for spending time with my girlfriend, attending class, doing work, thinking about the side project, learning Haskell, planning my fiction book... And for one day my sleep deprivation is als