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by sah 19y ago
I'm working on http://codepad.org/
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by sah 19y ago
I find it kind of upsetting that none of the various disagreements with pg's essay that I've read have been in reaction to what I felt was the core of the essay. As far as I'm concerned, the centerpiece of the essay is this interesting obs
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Comcast Teams Up With BitTorrent and Promises Net Neutrality(torrentfreak.com)
1 points by sah 19y ago|0 comments
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by sah 19y ago
For me, the biggest step in resolving the reliability issues would be for Amazon to provide load balancing in the API. With a static IP, I could run my own LVS-based load balancer, but I might screw it up. If Amazon provided load balancin
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by sah 19y ago
This paper discusses some related reasons why traditional relational databases are poorly suited to some modern applications: http://www.vldb.org/conf/2007/papers/industrial/p1150-stoneb...
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by sah 19y ago
I think it's fair to look at language features as benefits and drawbacks in languages, as long as you're aware of what those features have to offer, and what the costs are. It makes sense to want a way to judge languages not on the presence
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by sah 19y ago
The author seems to want to say that language features are invalid criteria on which to judge the quality of a language (instead, he suggests that you should look at the quality of the documentation, the libraries, the community, and perh
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by sah 19y ago
Can anyone who has both used Wine and run Windows under virtualization on Linux comment on the trade-offs between those approaches? It seems like virtualization works more reliably, and with at least reasonable performance.
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by sah 19y ago
My argument, in part by example, was that a large number of short, similar comments explaining why another comment should be downmodded would be annoying. Since the purpose of downmodding is to call less attention to lower-quality comments
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by sah 19y ago
Unlike P2P, which selects random peers to share with [...] This is misleading. BitTorrent, for example, starts with a random set of peers, but then prefers peers that deliver better bandwidth (that's what "tit for tat" is all about).
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by sah 19y ago
Concurrency doesn't have to mean threading. I've used greenlet-based coroutines ( http://pypi.python.org/pypi/greenlet ) for concurrency in large projects. They work with the GIL, and I find it easier to write correct coroutine-based prog
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by sah 19y ago
I've done threaded comments with adjacency lists like this in MySQL in the past, and it worked well. Note also that it's compatible with scores moving siblings around relative to one another -- just calculate sibling position based on both
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by sah 19y ago
I disagree. I did make an argument.
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by sah 19y ago
I disagree. Short comments like this one would get annoying.
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People know what to do with native widgets. Use them. Don’t make your users think. This excellent quote summarizes the article nicely, and explains why good graphic design is so often at odds with good user experience design.
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Tree Lists as a Default List Data Structure(hackerdashery.com)
13 points by sah 19y ago|0 comments
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by sah 19y ago
This is a very out-of-fashion confusing concept on which to write tutorials in your blog! Monads are the new continuations. Try to keep up.
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by sah 19y ago
Great, so the semantic web is going to work as well as <meta name="keywords">?
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I feel like there is a focus on what I would call trivial details built into the assumption that a good candidate should be able to explain how all of these things work in an interview. There's a huge difference between not knowing why y
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by sah 19y ago
I mix tables and divs in my layout. I use whichever is easiest and works best on the most browsers. In general, I regard HTML/CSS as bytecode for browsers, not a programming language that I should write readable code in, and web standard
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by sah 19y ago
Everything else I've mentioned you should know cold [...] You have a lot of warming up to do. Real-world work makes you rusty. Those quotes make it sound like Google's interview process is biased toward people who know a lot of basic-CS
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by sah 19y ago
The aphorism you quoted isn't the advice. Feynman's advice was not to be ashamed to work on problems that you feel you can make progress on, however "humble" they are, because those are the kind where your work matters. I think that's muc
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by sah 19y ago
In my experience it's best to just get something out there as soon as it's interesting to play with. It'll get content into your system, it'll point out problems and possibilities that haven't occurred to you, and there's nothing like real
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by sah 19y ago
It seems like maybe traditional incubators are closer than VCs to competing in the same niche as YC. Is there any reason why it would be misleading to look at YC as an innovation in startup incubation -- namely to move the model a little b
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Scaling at 2am with EC2(hackerdashery.com)
45 points by sah 19y ago|6 comments
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by sah 19y ago
My favorite people to work with fall into neither category. The most productive, creative people I know are passionate enough about their work to put in tremendous numbers of hours when it matters, or when they're getting good work done --
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by sah 19y ago
The bit about finding the area of a triangle was great -- a quick, simple example of what math is and why anyone would enjoy it. K-12 public school math education burned me so bad that I didn't realize how much I love math until my mid-20s.
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by sah 19y ago
You're doing it wrong: C: http://codepad.org/6vIUD7fk C++: http://codepad.org/QEuJE8LX
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by sah 19y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Javascript-based_... EditArea has a lot of features and works well, if it displays properly in your browser: http://www.cdolivet.net/editarea/ CodePress does pretty well in FireFox: http://cod
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by sah 19y ago
The really interesting part of this is the python-to-javascript conversion, which appears to be based on this: http://davidf.sjsoft.com/files/py2js

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