rudiger

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by rudiger 12y ago
Erlang, despite its fusty syntax, already feels like the future for anyone using it.
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by rudiger 12y ago
Not just Erlang/BEAM optimization, but the team's background in high performance, C-based systems on FreeBSD enabled them to achieve massive scale.
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by rudiger 13y ago
Sorry, but any good programmer will know the conventional data structures and algorithms, regardless of whether they write programs in Erlang, C or some other language.
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by rudiger 13y ago
You should take a look at Chicago Boss[1], the Rails-like Web framework for Erlang. [1]: http://www.chicagoboss.org/
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by rudiger 13y ago
How does Ubuntu with LXDE compare with Xubuntu (another lightweight desktop environment)?
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by rudiger 13y ago
Can't you just store it in a regular 64-bit integer and know it's a datetime from your application's logic? What do you gain with a native, high-resolution datatime type?
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by rudiger 13y ago
Wow, I had no idea that Scala is already ten years old.
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by rudiger 14y ago
Erlang with OTP also does pretty well on that test; I've deployed non-trivial programs that weighed in at a couple hundred lines of code. I agree though — Go looks awesome.
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by rudiger 14y ago
OTP isn't just powerful, it's essential. You need to think in terms of what OTP provides you to program in Erlang effectively.
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by rudiger 14y ago
I'd recommend Pelican over Hyde. It's Python, has great documentation and is actively developed. http://getpelican.com/ https://github.com/getpelican/pelican
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by rudiger 14y ago
Do you realize the irony of telling others what to think or say?
42.
by rudiger 14y ago
Programming Google Glass to play blackjack (basic strategy or a card-counting system) seems like a much more tractable problem. Watch the table, count the cards and recommend the optimal play. I believe these sorts of wearable computing dev
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by rudiger 14y ago
Microsoft reveals the shroud of x.
44.
by rudiger 14y ago
It's the people who worry about the flavor of the week (the early followers, if you will) who take the language from "sexy, trendy, and unstable" to "productive, stable, serious, and pragmatic."
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by rudiger 14y ago
Can you name one transit app for New York City that's 1) free and 2) nearly as good or better than Google Maps?
46.
by rudiger 14y ago
How does this compare to using Spring application development framework (with Maven, of course)? My understanding is that the Spring framework is how you're "supposed to do it" in Java, and it certainly is very popular. http://www.springso
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by rudiger 14y ago
Off-topic: Anyone else noticing the proliferation of Svbtle[1] blogs on the front page of Hacker News today? I counted three in the top ten links just now. [1] - http://svbtle.com
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by rudiger 14y ago
Clickable: http://conweets.com
49.
by rudiger 14y ago
I'm reminded of AOL vs. Time Warner, Steve Case vs. Ted Turner.
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by rudiger 14y ago
Will there be a free tier?
51.
by rudiger 14y ago
DRIFT is a new image "discovery engine" I discovered here recently. http://drift.io
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by rudiger 14y ago
Will there be a free tier?
53.
by rudiger 14y ago
- It takes the right approach to memory management. Realizes that garbage collectors are abominations, and that managing memory is really the job of either the developer or the compiler. Please elaborate why Objective-C's approach to memo
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by rudiger 14y ago
Interesting perspective: Sacks, who lives in San Francisco, says he doesn't have any hobbies. "I feel like hobbies are for people who don't like their jobs," he said.
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by rudiger 14y ago
Relevant passage: But with a groupware product, nobody would ever work on it unless they were getting paid to, because it's just fundamentally not interesting to individuals. So I said, narrow the focus. Your "use case" should be, there's
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by rudiger 14y ago
Interestingly, aQuantive (formerly Avenue A Media) was founded by Nick Hanauer, one of the people profiled in GQ's recent article[1] on income inequality. He was also one of the first investors in Jeff Bezos and Amazon. [1] - http://news.y
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by rudiger 14y ago
If you need a new name, Pando (Latin for "I spread") is the name of the largest and possibly oldest single organism on Earth. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pando_(tree)
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by rudiger 14y ago
What if you don't represent a populist movement and your views don't cater to the masses?
59.
by rudiger 14y ago
Interesting! Where can I find out more about this more efficient market exchange design?
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by rudiger 14y ago
And parents need to learn to deal with things like their kids complaining.

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