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by ralph 20y ago
More stats on the leaders page please. Karma breakdown by submissions and comments. Number of submissions and comments. Mean, mode, median? A means of entering a username and seeing the table +/- 15 around it.
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by ralph 20y ago
A post by Shanti Braford, news.yc user sbraford, saying niche network news sites are on the rise and giving "entrepreneur, Lisp hacker, and best-selling author/essayist, Paul Graham"'s news.yc as an example.
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by ralph 20y ago
This is not Startup News-worthy. Startup News is not Slashdot.
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by ralph 20y ago
This is a dupe. Someone else pointed us to his ACM award paper, Reflections on Trusting Trust . And it isn't Startup News, or anything related to their technology. I can go and dig out a hundred interesting but irrelevant URLs, but refrai
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by ralph 20y ago
What other languages do you think don't rise to this level?
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by ralph 20y ago
What extra data is in the closure for "reply" that means it isn't a simple URL? Is it just what to do after the reply is complete, i.e. what post to return to viewing? Is there a reason this isn't taken from the Referer instead? I guess t
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by ralph 20y ago
Sorry, but what's the connection to Startup News?
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by ralph 20y ago
I don't think it's knowing Lisp in particular that's valuable, but understanding different paradigms. Lisp's paradigm is sufficiently different from the normal imperative languages, e.g. C or Python, that grokking Lisp means you understand
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by ralph 20y ago
Yes, I find it too short and the end result is annoying but passable for the audience here. Non-technical users wouldn't be so understanding I suspect. How are hash keys deleted? Age? Or are just the last N generated ones kept?
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by ralph 20y ago
It wouldn't. But many people prefer to think up something new rather than compete with someone who's already in the market. And the others tend to be dissatisfied with an existing product and therefore implement an improvement on it rathe
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by ralph 20y ago
I asked this question elsewhere too. Can we have a "known bugs" page that has what you consider bugs on there together with whether you intend to fix them or not. I think spam posts being counted is a bug but it isn't clear if you do. A k
732.
by ralph 20y ago
Another interesting post from SmugMug, but this isn't news. It was posted back in January.
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by ralph 20y ago
Would the landlord want such publicity? If he is only interested in attracting tenants who are technology start-ups, then perhaps so. Or maybe he prefers quiet tenants who keep their heads down and don't disturb other tenants? The latter
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by ralph 20y ago
At least three tenants complained about the large number of people coming and going at all hours and the filming of tenants and common areas without permission, according to documents Bornstein sent to Justin.tv. I'd be miffed if the natu
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by ralph 20y ago
An interesting article from smugmug but they wrote it back in November 2006.
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by ralph 20y ago
Process patents won't help if someone who is in a sane country where such daft ideas aren't countenanced wants to copy the idea.
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by ralph 20y ago
To paraphrase Rob Pike, if you want Slashdot, you know where to find it.
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by ralph 20y ago
As I said on the feature request thread, "The HTML header's title should have more page context in it so the browser's Back menu isn't a list of identical titles making selection difficult." So if I'm viewing a comment, e.g. http://news.yc
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by ralph 20y ago
And I also made the request nine days ago. http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=13273 We need more feedback in that feature request thread really. Perhaps the problem is due to the code starting to emit HTML very early on, before it
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by ralph 20y ago
Is "disqus" good? I'd try to avoid any name where the spelling has to be given, "It's disqus.com, spelt...". That said, it's very hard to come up with a good, available, .com these days. Before I went off and found out the site's purpose
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by ralph 20y ago
I think you miss my point. I'm saying that in order to explain some of these things it's better to use a language like C that's close to the hardware and doesn't offer them natively in order that their implementation must be exposed. Using
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by ralph 20y ago
Agreed. Hence all the "how to write a blog" and "how to write a wiki" in each and every web framework.
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by ralph 20y ago
Worth reading if you're new to FP. It's a shame the author used Java for explanations instead of C which is closer to the bare metal and would expose more of the internal workings.
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by ralph 20y ago
Looks like you could be right. That's a bug then, I guess. If it's any use to me knowing how many comments there are, it should be how many non-spam ones, ones that I can see.
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by ralph 20y ago
Explain.
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by ralph 20y ago
Seconded, please explain. I don't have a view but was wondering about using Berkeley DB, including its replication, to have the web server running on each machine, with the BDB library linked in. Each machine would be a web server but als
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by ralph 20y ago
This http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=15227 page says "12 points by Sam_Odio 11 hours ago | 3 comments" yet there are only two, before I post this one. http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=15416 http://news.ycombinator.com/co
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by ralph 20y ago
Oh, you said earlier "I just switched my most intensive app to only use the database for backing up the data to disk and reloading from on startup" so I thought you meant you only read data from the database on start-up, hence all data fitt
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by ralph 20y ago
I think Django is meant to have cut out a lot of the magic a little while ago now.
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by ralph 20y ago
Dates from 2002. More questions than answers.

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