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by schleyfox 15y ago
We're working on it! Our current plan is to get new cities up every week or two. We perform a lot of curation and research on top of raw data sources to get the cities in. Any places you'd like to see in particular?
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by schleyfox 15y ago
Shameless plug, but should you decide to follow the article and move to New York, my startup can help you figure out where to live and hang out: http://nabewise.com/nyc . We also cover many other places that engineers might want to live.
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by schleyfox 15y ago
While that is more accurate and I think that programmers should understand how computers work, as well as C calling conventions, in this case the analogy helps. People who know what the stack is (other than something that can be overflowed
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by schleyfox 15y ago
The example shows that the author really doesn't understand what concurrency is for Erlang. A concurrent data structure in Java may be more convenient and have lower overhead and complexity for one OS process on one box. Erlang isn't desi
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by schleyfox 15y ago
Actually, I tend to think "Rails is a Ghetto" is one of his most beneficial works. It was angry and juvenile at times, but I think it did help make rails grow up. It also called out a lot of the fanboy-ism in the community and helped peop
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by schleyfox 15y ago
When I'm programming, I like to call race conditions "dramatic irony."
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by schleyfox 15y ago
I'm growing increasingly convinced that the first iphone tracker desktop app reduced precision not so much to "protect privacy", but to cover up exactly how off the data was. I think selling it as though it were your location rather than t
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by schleyfox 16y ago
BASIC - Got me started, taught me how to think like a programmer C++ - Fun in a perverse sort of way, especially when using templates C - Fast, simple, elegant, perfect Java - Great keyboarding practice. I touch type because of it PHP - I d
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Show HN: Announcing Nsync - Git based database synchronization(github.com)
2 points by schleyfox 16y ago|0 comments
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by schleyfox 16y ago
As a UVA student, all I have to say is that it gets better with time. Losing to an FCS team is never easy, but eventually you will be able to laugh again. At least it was only once. We're making losing to Duke a yearly tradition.
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by schleyfox 16y ago
Go, but don't pick a super specialized school. The valuable aspects of college aren't so much in what you learn in the classroom, but in what you learn about life. It is 4 years where you can pretty much dick around and find out what inte
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by schleyfox 16y ago
yeah, it was a bit choppy at first, but it has been smooth sailing for the last several months. Overall, it's pretty solid in production
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by schleyfox 16y ago
We're using http://github.com/cstar/erldis . It's a very thin wrapper over the raw commands and does what I want well (well after we hunted down a weird bug in response handling under load, but that's a separate story)
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by schleyfox 16y ago
Rails, distributed erlang with a BERTRPC endpoint, memcache, redis, thin/sinatra/eventmachine. The key is the less work you have to do in the request response cycle and the more you can offload to better suited environments/servers, the ea
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by schleyfox 16y ago
It's invite only. It is more useful than the others because of its high SNR. It's useful for members of the Silicon Valley echo chamber because it's entirely populated by members of the Silicon Valley echo chamber. They seem to also have
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The End of the Best Friend.(nytimes.com)
20 points by schleyfox 16y ago|15 comments
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Ask HN: Rate My App: NabeWise, Neighborhoods Revealed(nabewise.com)
1 points by schleyfox 17y ago|0 comments
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by schleyfox 17y ago
With due respect, I am offended by your assumption of heteronormativity. By assuming that "get people laid" refers to a traditional dominate male submissive female sexual dynamic, you clearly reveal your own sexism.
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by schleyfox 17y ago
http://bigthink.com/pwsinger/pw-singer-on-video-games-and-wa... indeed.
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by schleyfox 17y ago
Java's problems are far worse than just typing. I consider lack of lambdas to be much more limiting. Types contribute greatly to the verbosity and line noise of Java. They also are a big part of the reason design patterns and complex hier
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by schleyfox 17y ago
Fair enough (and the last point certainly is true). My use of "dynamic languages" was a lazy way of referring to several less strict, highly expressive languages. I used it in the sense that Yegge used it in his talk that I link to. Whil
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by schleyfox 17y ago
I entirely agree, OCaml is a particularly fun one for me. I suppose my word choice should have been better, but "dynamic language" was a fairly lazy and easy choice to contrast against big, bad Java.
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Why Dynamic Languages are a Startup's Secret Weapon(pixelmachine.org)
29 points by schleyfox 17y ago|30 comments
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Did Steve Jobs steal your liver?(bigthink.com)
7 points by schleyfox 17y ago|4 comments
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Avner Ronen (Boxee CEO): Entrepreneurs should not worry about viability.(bigthink.com)
5 points by schleyfox 17y ago|0 comments
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Boxee CEO Explains why Open Source is Good for Business(bigthink.com)
2 points by schleyfox 17y ago|0 comments
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by schleyfox 17y ago
> Never being described as a "hot guy" first and a competent professional second. Oh Really? http://www.flickr.com/photos/46457493@N00/230535210/ > Having potential romantic partners assume from your career that you're smart and w
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by schleyfox 17y ago
As a student who is in that dataset, I think it makes sense. Basically, UVa is a pretty preppy school and Macs are really trendy right now. From my friends and what I see on grounds, I'm surprised that the Mac ownership is not numerically
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by schleyfox 18y ago
BA CS, Class of 2012
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by schleyfox 18y ago
Sounds like someone has a chip on their shoulder. > "McGrattan boasts that 70% to 80% of the time, she can look at a chunk of computer code and tell if it was written by a man or a woman." ... > "because only about 20% of the engin

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