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by seiji 11y ago
I stick to vanilla Erlang. Erlang + optional type annotations + optional dialyzer verification is perfection.
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by seiji 11y ago
Yeah, ets is the solution when you need cross-process "global variables" in Erlang.
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by seiji 11y ago
Background checks should only happen after you accept the employment offer and full compensation package. Then it doesn't matter if they discover you made $24,000 last year but now they hired you for $250,000 per year this year. The
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by seiji 11y ago
Why not go earlier and just steal babies from parents, figure out which ones are Destined For Greatness, then throw away the rest? After all, you've either got it or you don't. (Imagine if you could genetically test people for F
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by seiji 11y ago
That's why startups exist, right? Startups start as small, focused, nimble entities moving faster than old established things. But, eventually the small, focused, nimble startup becomes successful and itself grows into an oversized s
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by seiji 11y ago
Where do the trillions of dollars for medical coverage come from? Either increased taxes for everybody or increased insurance payments for everybody. Monetary security. What about lost productivity due to self-induced health issues? Econ
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by seiji 11y ago
It's really easy to see online too. Just browse online dating profiles for large cities versus suburbs (or walkable/transit cities versus car-only cities). People go from looking like actual people to looking like comical balloo
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by seiji 11y ago
Android prototype You can't start a startup on Android because you've got to purchase 500 devices for validation. server-less backend that will scale once we gain traction. You can't use peer-to-peer on Android because of
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by seiji 11y ago
Let's not forget the most important content addressable storage: your brain. You remember things by contents, then all the contents are interconnected. Brains don't have primary-key based lookup tables.
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by seiji 11y ago
BitCoin is $3.7 billion. That's about 1/14th of an Uber. It's literally nothing on a global scale. The value of all "bitcoin companies" is larger than the value of all bitcoins themselves. there are very few eco
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by seiji 11y ago
With the above examples: imgur has raised $40 million and can barely keep one website running. GitHub has raised $350 million and can't seem to add new features or fix existing features. 37signals did fake funding just to get connect
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by seiji 11y ago
Maybe math from a larger site is more insightful too. Just because the HN algorithm is wrapped in parens doesn't make it overly special. https://github.com/reddit/reddit/blob/master/r2/r2&#x2F
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by seiji 11y ago
Edit to add: Adding nodes isn't that hard? Adding nodes isn't hard, but try restoring a mnesia table from service@node1 to service@node2. You have to do something like http://stackoverflow.com/questions/463
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by seiji 11y ago
There's usually more than one knob to twist too. salary + equity + benefits + time off + freedom. You can say 0.8x salary + 1.5x equity or 1.2x salary + 1.1x equity, etc. That's where the range comes in. Not a range of salary, b
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by seiji 11y ago
mnesia is great in isolation with bounded datasets. erlang is great for operational observability of both the data flow and your application. they go great together, sometimes, if you know all your requirements up front. It's always
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by seiji 11y ago
heh, until
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by seiji 11y ago
How did whatsapp's investors get a return? Sure, they had some income, but not enough to "pay back" investors. But, lo and behold, sugar daddy comes along and drops some of that high fructose acquisition syrup on their head
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by seiji 11y ago
"independent" in these contents tends to mean "works alone" which also implies "has limited resources, both personal and monetary." If you work alone and you have a few million dollars of fun money to burn, t
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by seiji 11y ago
Also see http://www.headlinesmasher.com
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by seiji 11y ago
Also: the movie is real time across three scenes and those three scenes are just behind the curtain at "pivotal" keynotes. It's not a life story. It's not an epic tale. It's three set pieces each operating in
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by seiji 11y ago
If every poster here had their net worth attached to their username, you'd probably cry. We all realize founders maintain "a lot more" equity than employees, but it's almost like our brains aren't wired to recognize
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by seiji 11y ago
The axe grinding machine is in another castle.
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by seiji 11y ago
It's not just acceptable, it's encouraged. It's the goal. It's startup nirvana. Quoth your startup god king: Hoffman travels three or four times a year to China, LinkedIn’s fastest-growing market, and he is impressed
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by seiji 11y ago
Creating an electronic currency capable of "coloring" money by its origin is much more interesting than anything the bitcoin camp can ever promise. Though, it does become a giant money laundering problem. When Russian oligarchs w
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by seiji 11y ago
All good points. "software engineering" is how we take raw code and turn it into reliable systems. The worst code you'll ever see written is by computer science PhDs who just have to get something done for their research p
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by seiji 11y ago
"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it."
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by seiji 11y ago
Very few other languages give a comparable sense of playfulness There's an argument that modern software used in production environments shouldn't be imbued with a sense of playfulness just because it's fun. If your choice
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by seiji 11y ago
but is the first myth really true? Does anybody take into account more modern business practices of putting tens of thousands of smart people in a small geographic area? That leads to smart people breeding with smart people which seems t
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by seiji 11y ago
As usual, erlang does it better: http://www.erlang.org/doc/man/erlang.html#system_info_cpu_to... and http://www.erlang.org/doc/man/erlang.html#logical_processors
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by seiji 11y ago
I think you just agreed in a slightly angry way with plenty of citations. Internet company valuations are also driven up by a small group of very rich people who all collude to drive up valuations anyway and promote their own rich people ag

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