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by sharmajai 15y ago
Snarky as this sentence might be, it is also my biggest takeaway from the thread, his relentless emphasis on practicality and not on ideas might be one of the reason he gets things done. I wish I was this practical.
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by sharmajai 15y ago
http://qconlondon.com/dl/qcon-london-2011/slides/GregoryColl... is about this exactly. He explains why Haskell's green threads are better than Node's callback driven model.
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Know Your Engines - How to Make Your JavaScript Fast [pdf](people.mozilla.com)
44 points by sharmajai 15y ago|6 comments
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by sharmajai 15y ago
Another trouble is that human beings are innately probabilistic when it comes to language. A sentence written/spoken by humans does not have to be gramatically correct, to convey it's meaning, and does not always follow the strict rules tha
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by sharmajai 15y ago
I recently discovered 'bc'. It stands for 'basic calculator' or more precisely from the man page - 'arbitrary precision arithmetic language'. It is all but a basic calculator, with better floating point precision capabilities than Java/Pyt
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by sharmajai 15y ago
I took my application programming baby steps in VB6, even though I knew C at that time, but for windows programming it was a lot easier to start in VB than the horrifying C windows sdk(this was before the (CLR and C#). I was amazed at the r
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by sharmajai 16y ago
I think the biggest reason that draws people to the board is the anonymity of the response.
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by sharmajai 16y ago
As somebody who has experienced the education system both in India (Bachelors in CE from a decent, but non-reputed school) and US (Masters in CS from a very good school), here are my thoughts on the article: First off 24/7 is a terrible, te
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Tell HN: Android Developer Console now equipped with analytics
12 points by sharmajai 16y ago|2 comments
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by sharmajai 16y ago
Yes, but nobody was talking about Javascript and Performance in the same breath. And V8 or even its creator, didn't even exist.
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by sharmajai 16y ago
I read 'Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman' few years back. I can recall bits and pieces of this prose, but after two not-so-popular android apps - made in part time, the ideas for the next app were drying out, partially due to the fear of f
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by sharmajai 16y ago
Ok, I get it there is no place for humor here. Xkcd can do it, I can't. Well I have a great respect for google as a company, that's the company I have always dreamt of working for, and my real feelings about this are that I feel great respe
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by sharmajai 16y ago
Ahh so the all the recalled priuses were actually alpha versions of google's self driving cars. I see.
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by sharmajai 16y ago
You forgot one requisite. The motive to be Batman: some life altering tragedy.
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by sharmajai 16y ago
I have a free android live wallpaper, based on them: https://market.android.com/details?id=info.jaisharma.antsliv... . You can create/delete ants, the patterns they draw is always interesting specially since multiple ants affect each othe
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Watson Dominates ‘Jeopardy’ but Stumbles Over Geography(artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com)
2 points by sharmajai 16y ago|0 comments
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by sharmajai 16y ago
Capt. Ed Murphy was a smart man.
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by sharmajai 16y ago
Yes there is, this is a comparison to Snap, while a comparison of Snap to other frameworks including node.js is here: http://snapframework.com/blog/2010/11/17/snap-0.3-benchmarks
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by sharmajai 16y ago
But those features cost them time and money to put them in place originally. A piece of foam didn't.
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by sharmajai 16y ago
Because that's inNOvaTion.
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by sharmajai 16y ago
BTW, for those of who don't know, that natetrue guy she mentions is the same dude from cre.ations.net who built tap tap revolution for the iphone first unofficially and then officially.
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by sharmajai 16y ago
We should take a breath and mark this day as when Google fully jumped into the mobile app business. Apart from giving Android apps the visibility they deserve, this site will be a great boon for the in-market app rankings, since Google can
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by sharmajai 16y ago
May be I wasn't clear earlier, what I meant was not freewheeling but gravity pulling the PERSON forward which makes him/her lean forward and hence the segway style acceleration.
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by sharmajai 16y ago
While never having ridden any of these things. It seems to me they have an obvious design fault while riding on a decline, where gravity pulls you forward which leads to the snowball effect of increasing your speed indefinitely.