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by pgbovine 17y ago
agreed ... also i think the dynamically-typed nature of python (and similar languages) makes them very amenable to rapid prototyping and experimentation (code just runs without having to fight the type inferencer or checker). python lets
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by pgbovine 17y ago
agreed ... your blog post tried to convey a very simple and punchy idea, and you didn't make any pretenses about it being 'mathematically accurate' or whatever, so i'm astounded that people have nitpicked on your curves not being accurate o
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by pgbovine 17y ago
cool, dude. best of luck to you!
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by pgbovine 17y ago
sorry to sound snarky (i think scheme is awesome as well), but you probably shouldn't advertise this as a "scheme game", since your potential audience probably doesn't care what technologies you use to write the game. i'd suggest to focus
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by pgbovine 17y ago
yup, i hope this encourages other universities to invest in opening up their resources too. it doesn't at all dilute their 'brand', and it helps spread free education to people across the world who can't afford to attend in person
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by pgbovine 17y ago
perhaps he could make more money, but maybe he enjoys the freedom and control of running this business more than programming/IT
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by pgbovine 17y ago
out of curiosity, what part of my comment made it sound like aiming to grow rapidly to scale was disreputable? i don't mean to pass value judgments on either small businesses or growth-oriented startups
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by pgbovine 17y ago
totally agree with you. i hope you didn't interpret my comment as implying that scaling is something that everyone should aspire to.
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by pgbovine 17y ago
my personal definition of a 'startup' is a business that aims to grow rapidly, acquire venture funding, and hire more employees. this seems like a (successful) small business, not a 'tech startup'. the author's hope is not to become the n
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by pgbovine 17y ago
wait, is @tailcall part of the Python standard library? or just something the author made-up for illustrative purposes?
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by pgbovine 17y ago
good article about the journey of a CS project from a university research lab to a profit-making company product
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by pgbovine 17y ago
hi everyone: this is the author here. i'm pleasantly surprised to see this pop up on HN. please reply to my comment if you have any suggestions for improving this article. thanks!
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by pgbovine 17y ago
not as a web 3.0 designer, though ;)
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by pgbovine 17y ago
ha yeah back in 1998 that would've rocked everyone's 486 CPU
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by pgbovine 17y ago
that style of webpage is fairly typical for a grad student or researcher to display their publications and other academic works. even today lots of academic webpages i peruse look like that :) it's what happens when you write pure HTML wi
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by pgbovine 17y ago
good concept, but the domain name implies that it's the wives who are workaholics, not that they are married to workaholics.
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by pgbovine 17y ago
i think the real value in doing js implementations is hooking them up to js visualization libraries so that you can do online demos within the webpage; could be great for education. otherwise i don't see the benefit of coding this up in js
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by pgbovine 17y ago
i would start with the abstract to one of your papers, then keep iterating over it and simplifying it until you think your target audience can comprehend it, then say that sentence to him/her that way, you stand a chance of preserving at le
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by pgbovine 17y ago
I think it would be really interesting to get into his mind occasionally. actually he just tweeted about a blog he started documenting what he's learned through his foundation work: http://www.thegatesnotes.com/
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by pgbovine 17y ago
good point, but if they are trying to show a relative (percentage) difference, then their restricted axes make sense, right? perhaps they should be labeled with percentage differences as well as absolute diffs
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by pgbovine 17y ago
in general, okcupid is known more for casual hookups and flings than finding a serious marriage partner, so i think the results are pretty insightful for their target demographic
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by pgbovine 17y ago
i think these videos are targeted mainly towards a much less technically-savvy audience than the folks here on HN. I watched some of these lectures - they're excellent, but a bit too hand-wavy. sure, but what more can you expect from 10 m
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by pgbovine 17y ago
would there be a way to try out a new hire for a 'trial period', maybe on like a 3-month starter project paired with someone more senior? then after the new hire has proven him/herself over those months, a formal offer could be made.
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by pgbovine 17y ago
isn't your event-driven loop an example of a callback function? i'm no expert on continuations, but i thought they involved somehow packaging up the 'rest of the computation' in some structure and then running it. your example seems to be
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by pgbovine 17y ago
awesome! i really hope projects like this gain traction and are actually used by hackers. staunch supporters of statically-typed languages often criticize the lack of IDE/static analysis tool support for dynamic languages like python/js/rub
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by pgbovine 17y ago
Firefox is implemented in JavaScript i'm pretty sure that much of the performance-critical core is in C++; javascript is th UI/extensions layer, to the best of my knowledge
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by pgbovine 17y ago
anything that's not the default will have a tiny chance of actually being noticed or used :(
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by pgbovine 17y ago
i think that all such blog posts operate under the assumption that you're a reasonably-educated middle-class person who doesn't have to work extreme hours or in poor conditions just to survive and put food on the table. i think if you're
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by pgbovine 17y ago
cool! i'd be interested in performance numbers compared to Unladen Swallow ... perhaps this is faster since it compiles to pure C++, but Unladen Swallow is probably much more robust and handles many more edge cases in Python's dark corners
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by pgbovine 17y ago
Go for depth. Go for breadth. agreed! what's to prevent you from going into depth in 1 (or maybe 2-3) things, and then going for breadth on a dozen more, getting decently at good at them as hobbies but not becoming world-class? seems li

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