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by rlander 14y ago
Good catch. It is probably Kala Pathar (the most accessible point to view Mt. Everest from base camp to peak, according to Wikipedia [0]) since the photo was taken from Pumori. [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kala_Patthar
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by rlander 14y ago
Here's another trick that's helped me a lot over the years: open up your favorite library on Github, go back to the very first commit and start reading, commit by commit. If you don't understand something, just copy the difficult section, l
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Clojure in a Bank: The Sixty-Million-Dollar Mistake
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by rlander 14y ago
> I'd much rather see catching up with regard to ORM/SQL efficiency improvements, cache infrastructure usefulness I hope you're talking about Sequel and not that namespace-polluting, memory-consuming, bloated beast called ActiveRecord.
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by rlander 14y ago
Wow, very clean UI, great work. On a related note, if anybody is looking for a mature source but with a substantially worse UI, I've been referencing the Library of Free Data Models [1] for years. [1] http://www.databaseanswers.org/data_mo
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by rlander 14y ago
Absolutely. Were an alien to pick up this thread it would think that programming was some God-appointed job. Jeff, congrats from another (ashamed for the moment) programmer.
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by rlander 14y ago
Here's my 1-item Admin Whishlist: - Separate it from Django and put it on Github, so that it is not subject to the framework's release cycle. Most of the requests here would be done by the end of the year.
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Why time appears to speed up with age(everything2.com)
250 points by rlander 14y ago|100 comments
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by rlander 14y ago
You remark shows that you didn't even bother to read the entire article. They're not a credit card company, but a provider of employee benefits (hence they don't even touch the money). They just happen to use small rectangular plastic cards
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by rlander 14y ago
Very ingenious, that box has just been updated...
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by rlander 14y ago
It should be clear on the homepage which cities are currently being served. I signed up, hoping to see a list of locations, but the only option is to edit/cancel my account? Definitely not ready for launch...
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Erlang on Xen, low latency VM for zero footprint clouds
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Which performance can you expect from Python and Javascript?(epx.com.br)
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by rlander 14y ago
As someone who used to be CISSP certified (way back in 2003), here's my advice: don't bother. The only reason I got it in the first place was because, honestly, I had more free time than actual experience. Otherwise it's a great way to bull
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Casting SPELs with Clojure(lisperati.com)
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by rlander 14y ago
I downvoted you. Here's why: I've deployed SQLite to a large number of production software, from embedded systems to web servers handling thousands of daily vistors. In fact, SQLite is my tool of choice when it comes to a small/medium relat
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by rlander 14y ago
You can split hairs all you like, Dan, but you're still missing the point: scalability is only an issue for a fraction of the entrepreneurs/engineers who worry about it.
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by rlander 14y ago
Hetzner[1]. I never said "in the US", but even in the US you can get a pretty good deal: 16GB for $79/month[2]. [1] http://www.hetzner.de/en/hosting/produkte_rootserver/ex4s [2] http://www.honelive.com/xml/#new-york-city-dedicated-server
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by rlander 14y ago
Scaling will only become a problem when/if you achieve product/market fit. What percentage of startups on HN have achieved product/market fit, are past a 128GB commodity box AND have no dedicated engineering team for scaling issues?
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by rlander 14y ago
This fetishism with scaling... to me it's just procrastination. It feels like work because you're doing something technical but, in the end, you're adding very little to your product. Yesterday I had a meeting with a potential customer and
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by rlander 14y ago
> And it is mostly eager not lazy, but is growing more laziness/fusion features. What? Eager sequence functions are the exception, not the rule; most are lazy.
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by rlander 14y ago
I'm not very familiar with CLU, but isn't that what Elixir's protocols are for (separate the interface from the representation)?
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by rlander 14y ago
> Thanks for the feedback and for following Elixir all this time! I've been closely following Elixir since it was announced and I should've made it clear that I still think Elixir is a fantastic project At first I though it would be my
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by rlander 14y ago
I used to be very excited about Elixir, not because I hate Erlang's syntax (I actually quite like it), but because I saw in it the opportunity for a mainstream, general purpose language with macros on top of the excellent Erlang runtime. Ho
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by rlander 14y ago
There are benchmarks around [1], though I consider them valuable only for the entertainment value. The great thing about uWSGI/Nginx over Gunicorn/Nginx is that Nginx speaks the uwsi protocol natively[2], whereas with Gunicorn Nginx acts as
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by rlander 14y ago
Chad, us South American Erlangers are few and far between. =) I could not believe that your (Inaka's) posts on Riak and scaling Erlang had not yet been submitted to HN. Very useful stuff! I also really enjoyed the edis preso, that's what go
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My Year of Riak(inaka.net)
59 points by rlander 14y ago|15 comments
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Scaling Erlang(inaka.net)
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Really Using Redis to Build Fast Real Time Web Apps(clemesha.org)
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by rlander 15y ago
I started using Clojure roughly around the same time as the OP and have mostly abandoned Python as my general programming language in favor of Clojure. Here's why: 1. Simplicity. No more thinking about objects and their weird/complex intera

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