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Whatsapp is down
2 points by peteratt 13y ago|5 comments
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by peteratt 13y ago
Very surprised by that 1.2% of Haskell share, shame they didn't have data from previous years.
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Tech jobs in the US and international students(peteratt.com)
2 points by peteratt 13y ago|0 comments
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Hacker News Chicago meetup(meetup.com)
2 points by peteratt 13y ago|0 comments
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Hacking on the Ghost Blogging Platform(peteratt.com)
2 points by peteratt 13y ago|0 comments
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by peteratt 13y ago
Maybe a stupid question, but I am not clear on what happens if, in between you send a pull request and the code is merged with master, the master branch itself gets modified. In that case you couldn't rebase and you could have merge co
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by peteratt 13y ago
> Soylent will likely become a billion dollar global enterprise, and even "disrupt" the food industry. Have my doubts on this though. One of the things that contribute most to software startups being successful, and the cause f
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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For October 25th, 2013(highscalability.com)
2 points by peteratt 13y ago|0 comments
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by peteratt 13y ago
Totally agree with your point. Though it might seem that Rails has scaling problems and is regarded as slow and painful once the system matures, there are many many other applications to the language in itself. Plus, there's a lot to b
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by peteratt 13y ago
As a Spaniard living in Chicago, I can't stress enough how AWESOME it is to have the time zone we have in Spain and how much I HATE when Sun sets at 4:30 PM in Winter in Chicago, despite being at comparable latitudes. All my Spanish fr
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by peteratt 13y ago
Tech changes so fast that "specialists" in a language or platform can become jobless in a matter of a few years. It's an adapt to survive scheme. In the case of programming languages, the most important thing is to understand
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by peteratt 13y ago
I tend to think -- and I believe lots of HN people agree with me -- that sticking a Microsoft on anything "solid" but an XBox has been quite a failure. Good luck, Redmond!
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by peteratt 13y ago
> Although the business wasn’t sexy, it was profitable. To these guys at TC it seems that sexy is the priority. Glad to see that for pg and co. sexy = profitable too. That's what business is about, please remind crunchie folks.
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by peteratt 13y ago
Not implying that, but haven't seen something as similar and high-level before.
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by peteratt 13y ago
Damn, this is so simple yet so powerful I can't believe it's the first time anyone has thought about it.
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by peteratt 13y ago
I really like the point where the author praises Windows Phone 8. Many people seem to have the (in my opinion) wrong impression that Windows Phone has not evolved from that crappy thing it was a year and a half ago. The app gap is definitel
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Nokia, Please Keep Going(techcrunch.com)
2 points by peteratt 13y ago|1 comments
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by peteratt 13y ago
I would add a corollary: the lack of future reward is the root cause of the outright failure of socialism/communism. No matter what you do, in an utopian communism you'd get only what you need. The wealth you could create has no
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by peteratt 13y ago
It's really odd that Nokia is the main promoter of Windows Phone. There's no other option for them, so as there's no other option for Microsoft. Get your act together, Redmond people, or you will become the next IBM in 10 y
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Microsoft Needs to Get Coherent for Windows Phone to Survive(medium.com)
2 points by peteratt 13y ago|2 comments
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by peteratt 13y ago
Amazing tool. Next thing: XML support! Imagine merging nibs the easy way... Mouthwatering.