simpleenigma

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by simpleenigma 19y ago
I'm not sure that we will ever find the one silver bullet. IMO, you need to choose the right tool for the job and sometimes that means leaving your favorite programming language behind for a project or two. Speaking as an Erlang advocate it
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by simpleenigma 19y ago
Maybe we need to start a national start-up writing month :-) I have several freind who do NaNoWriMo every year and say it is simply wonderful.
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by simpleenigma 19y ago
I just got back from xobni. The product looks great and the they guys were great to talk to. I can't wait till it gets released and IC an use it on my own PC at home :-)
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by simpleenigma 19y ago
Just this morning I wrote and email to the 3 other people involved in the project I was working on explaining why I was leaving and what I felt the correct split up was. I had been doing the majority of the work and the rest of the team was
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by simpleenigma 19y ago
Are you looking for zip code accuracy or just country accuracy? or something in between? If all you want is what country the IP is from then go to http://www.ip2location.com/ and look through the forums. You can find out how to do it your
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by simpleenigma 19y ago
LOL ... If they did I might actually go there ... forget that I might try to get a job there ... no forget that too ... I'll just make my Erlang project good enough to buy his :-)
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by simpleenigma 19y ago
Watch the synde comments while Erlang fans are around :-)
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by simpleenigma 19y ago
It might surprise you but drink more water. Not soda, or coffee; drink water. Half the time my eyes hurt it is more about being dehydrated then staring too long ...
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by simpleenigma 19y ago
Great article, but it seems to point out the flaws in some languages and how to avoid or go back and fix them ... Isn't it better to start with a language that naturally helps you avoid those problems and reduces the need for re-factoring i
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by simpleenigma 19y ago
Armstrong's book is the single best source for documentation about Erlang I have found so far. I consider it a must read for anyone who is going to be looking into using Erlang. I had a beta copy of it about two months before it was publish
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by simpleenigma 19y ago
Several years ago I decided that I wanted to find a language that was more powerful and elegant then anything I had worked with before. Having read much about the benefits of Lisp from Paul Graham, I obviously wanted to give it a try. I per
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by simpleenigma 19y ago
I'd hope that an uber-programmer wrote 10 times fewer lines of code.
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by simpleenigma 19y ago
This is the point where great content recommendation comes into play. Read the information about the NetFlix prize that has been on the front page or just go over to http://netflixprize.com for more info. This is one of the aspects I've b
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by simpleenigma 19y ago
I've been working with a programming language called Erlang for about two years now, and their RAM based database called Mnesia almost forces you into this 'sharding' style. In Erlang you also get the ability to have the same database on mu
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by simpleenigma 19y ago
Great article and speaking a someone who is actively working with the Netflix prize data on a daily basis the summarize some of the more bizarre quirks of the dataset pretty well. The other problem that he didn't really get into is the shee
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by simpleenigma 19y ago
I've been trying different things on the Internet since about 1995. Back then I was trying to create online storage, which turned out to host more adult files then anything else. Finally gave that one up due to bandwidth costs. After that I
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by simpleenigma 19y ago
Personally I think that products that help people mange information overload while providing them a social experience are going to take off in the year or so. Basically finding ways to tailor information towards the individual instead of ju
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by simpleenigma 19y ago
While I'm a firm beleiver that LOC are not a good measure of anything anymore ... The YC as this question: "If you've already started working on it, how long have you been working and how many lines of code (if applicable) have you written?
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by simpleenigma 19y ago
I agree, this story is completely disheartening. The fact that ego's can get in the way or a better more elegant design is basic human behaviour. I'd hope to think that anyone who is designing a product for their end user would be Abel to r
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by simpleenigma 19y ago
I have seen the 'control issue' play out first hand. I was the outside computer consultant for an accounting firm that merged with a larger firm, I was assured from day one that I was going to stay in my position. Five days after the integr
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by simpleenigma 19y ago
The only thing I can think of is to create a way to try to get the user to the page they were requesting as quickly as possible. Or at least make sure you keep them on your site instead of them wandering off somewhere else.
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by simpleenigma 19y ago
I completely agree, they do need to get that pioneering spirit back into the product line. Although I think the movie studios are a bigger hurdle to digital delivery then almost any company can overcome. The sheer amount of DRM that they wi
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by simpleenigma 19y ago
Being an hourly consultant at the moment I will attest to the fact that it is much harder then it sounds at first. My only saving grace for being self-employed for the past 10 years is that my client like me and they tell their friends abou
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by simpleenigma 19y ago
Great article and it is actually making me rethink parts of the design of my own start-up, which would have lots of network value, but it needs some sort of personal value as well. Now that I have a language to wrap around the problem it wi
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by simpleenigma 19y ago
I'm not sure that Netflix will be able to compete with the convenience of dropping off movies at a blockbuster store simply with a price cut. I'm a loyal Netflix customer and I walk past a BlockBuster 3 or 4 times a week with my Netflix env