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by smanek 17y ago
I buy the 'grow rapidly' part - but what does venture funding and hiring part have to do with it? Take 37Signals (your own example) as an obvious counter example. I'd argue that 'scalability' is an important component of a startup though. I
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by smanek 17y ago
I'll stick with tradition and wait a few more weeks then ;-)
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by smanek 17y ago
Hmm, would anyone object to another 'who's hiring' thread right now? It's been about 2.5 months since the last one ...
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by smanek 17y ago
Yep! There are a lot of exciting things happening with Postabon in the last few weeks (on both the business and tech sides) that I can't talk about publicly yet :-D But let's talk if you're interested in some details and think you might be
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by smanek 17y ago
I'm willing to hire an intern (or, ideally, recent grad/dropout). We're doing all sorts of cool stuff, from Machine Learning in Lisp, to a JS heavy website, to iPhone, Android, etc apps. Incidentally, we're also looking for a marketing inte
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by smanek 17y ago
I don't count the startup time for any of the languages (Java included). And the runtime for Java was over 2 minutes.
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by smanek 17y ago
Yes ... but I don't know how to. If you care to do so, I'll be happy to include the results.
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by smanek 17y ago
My understanding is that you have to rewrite your code to take advantage of NumPy. Unfortunately, I've never used NumPy before, so I don't know how to do so. However, if you'd like to modify my code to do so I'd be happy to rerun the test a
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by smanek 17y ago
Very impressive! I haven't used Shedskin before, but I hope it continues to grow and improve.
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by smanek 17y ago
I'm actually a mathematician by training ;-) I ran all tests 5 times each, and averaged the results. Each of the results for each of the tests were within 2% of each other, and the machine wasn't used for anything else while the tests were
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by smanek 17y ago
I don't know, but it's much slower than I expected. It's the latest Java installable by apt on Debian (all these tests are run in Debian running under VMWare). $ java -version java version "1.6.0_0" OpenJDK Runtime Environment (bui
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by smanek 17y ago
I'm glad you asked ;-) http://blog.postabon.com/a-simple-lisp-webapp-for-beginners
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by smanek 17y ago
I think you can do that - although I'm not entirely certain how much overhead a struct (defstruct) has. Array allocation has no overhead, to the best of my knowledge (if you specify the element-type, etc). I usually don't code at that low l
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by smanek 17y ago
Yeah, I find it an odd criticism too - but you'd be surprised how many people still bring it up. I think most people played with Scheme/Lisp in one class in college in the 90's and have been soured on it ever since.
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by smanek 17y ago
There is no source data. I just iterate through each latitude from -90 to 90 and each longitude from -180 to 180 in increments of 2.5 (for both the start and end). Check out the source code for any of the 5 examples (included in the post).
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by smanek 17y ago
You're absolutely right - in my experience the pythagorean theorem has less than ~50 meters difference from the Haversine formula for distances less than 20 miles or so. In the actual code I use a simple heuristic to decide when to use whic
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Make Lisp 15x faster than Python or 4x faster than Java(blog.postabon.com)
113 points by smanek 17y ago|94 comments
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by smanek 17y ago
I agree, it sounds ridiculous. But Jason has a pretty good reputation - and I've met him before, and he didn't seem like the sort of guy who'd make this sort of thing up.
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by smanek 17y ago
One more new one, that seems pretty interesting: Apple tablet games are sick. Basically nintendo wii-level innovation. Custom farmville app is insane. Mark pincus is demoing with steve tmmr
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by smanek 17y ago
In case it gets taken down, the relevant tweets are: Apple tablet's 2 cameras is sick feature for video conferencing: u shoot what's in front of you + yourself. Augmented video conferncing! Yes, apple tablet is oled + back has solar pad for
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Tech Details on the Apple Tablet from Jason Calacanis(twitter.com)
7 points by smanek 17y ago|5 comments
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by smanek 17y ago
Yes, but I also bet that the people who read is blog are almost exclusively a subset of the people who know about the 'brouhaha.' It seems perfectly reasonable for him to assume people reading his blog know about it.
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by smanek 17y ago
There are lots of examples of techniques that won their inventors Nobels in Econ (and sometimes even sciences) going on to being used to make lots of money in finance. A famous example being the Black Scholes model for option pricing, which
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by smanek 17y ago
hmm, this brings up the interesting idea of A/B testing literature ...
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NoSQL: The Dawn of Polyglot Persistence(codemonkeyism.com)
1 points by smanek 17y ago|1 comments
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Postabon (NYC, lisp-based, startup) is hiring a front-end dev
6 points by smanek 17y ago|0 comments
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by smanek 17y ago
Congrats Patrick! For entirely selfish reasons, I hope you start consulting for AdWords/marketing/optimization stuff :-D (If you do, please contact me! (email in profile)). BCC seems like a great way for you to have learned a lot, but I hop
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by smanek 17y ago
As a first couple of notes: 1. You can gzip strings before storing them in a DB But many modern Databases/Filesystems have the built in ability to achieve the same effect - but faster and more transparently. 2. Verify an email’s host add
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by smanek 17y ago
I strongly disagree with Zed on this one (at least part of his diatribe - he makes some good points about sample size/ramp-up/etc). I don't care what your mean or standard deviation are. If your performance isn't symmetrically distributed a
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by smanek 17y ago
Most of it was just messing with APL's REPL to build up the less than 3 lines that actually mattered. That's why I like languages with REPL-like functionality (Lisp, Python, Haskell, etc) so much. It makes for much faster debugging/developm

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