smanek

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JQuery Code Smells(james.padolsey.com)
13 points by smanek 17y ago|26 comments
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by smanek 17y ago
In the States you don't have to submit much unless you're public/really-big. I'd be very surprised if the UK had reporting requirements that stringent for every corporation ... Do you have a source on that claim?
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by smanek 17y ago
People (including investors) aren't purely rational. After I already like you, think good things about you, etc. it's easier for me to explain away or disregard negative things. I'm sure you've heard about the 'halo effect' or 'post purchas
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by smanek 17y ago
Why were threads inadequate? (There's no GIL in most implementations, IIRC).
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by smanek 17y ago
At least we both beat out Google Wave (but Voice made the list) ;-)
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Sites That Will Matter in 2010 (including Postabon and Justin.tv)(pcworld.com)
10 points by smanek 17y ago|3 comments
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by smanek 17y ago
I suspect there are a few issues at play. First, with BDB I have to deserialize the entire object to get the UID - while I tell MySQL I'm only interested in 1 column. Second, with the simple query I'm literaly just traversing a b-tree - whi
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by smanek 17y ago
Hello! Part 3 of a series of articles I've been writing about the technology behind http://postabon.com . This is about the persistence layer (Elephant) I'm using - but I tried to make it a little more general so it could help non-Lisp pro
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Why Key-Value stores are like C, and why you might want to use one anyways(blog.postabon.com)
28 points by smanek 17y ago|14 comments
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by smanek 17y ago
Hi guys, When I posted about why I chose Lisp for http://postabon.com a few weeks back ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=972248 ), I got a few people who were interested in a 'best practices' guide of how to write a Lisp Webapp. This
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How to write and deploy a Lisp Webapp(blog.postabon.com)
101 points by smanek 17y ago|7 comments
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Rapid Iteration and the Effect of Network Effects(blog.postabon.com)
3 points by smanek 17y ago|0 comments
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by smanek 17y ago
Clearly they are providing value. If not, the clients wouldn't be paying them.
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by smanek 17y ago
The 15 pg thesis (from 1899): http://arxiv.org/pdf/0803.3787v1
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by smanek 17y ago
I would guess that almost all functional programmers know OO programming, but very few OO programmers know functional programming. I think this is just because of pedagogic issues. Every introductory book/class introduces OO, but most under
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by smanek 17y ago
I know HAppS advocated an approach of using static HTML with Javascript for content/dom stuff. From http://happs.org/ : HAppS does not come with a server-side templating system. We prefer the pattern of developing static web pages and usi
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by smanek 17y ago
Yeah, there is a reason Elephant is nearly an order of magnitude faster when run on Berkeley DB.
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by smanek 17y ago
I'm a little unclear about what your proposing but, at first interpretation, I don't think so ... What exactly are you suggesting you should use 'freeze' to do? As a rule of thumb, you can never trust anything the client sends you - just as
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by smanek 17y ago
What's the problem with HTML5 and CSS (assuming you're referring to CSS3 ...)?
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by smanek 17y ago
It's only been launched for 8 months - but looks really amazing. As a complete philistine, I really like the search feature ( http://www.zatista.com/search ). It's powerful, without being overwhelming.
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by smanek 17y ago
What's the alternative? Even if it encrypts the password before storing them on disk, the encryption/decryption key are necessarily on disk anyways, no?
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by smanek 17y ago
I would be interested in hearing cperciva's take (since he's the author of bsdiff ...)
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by smanek 17y ago
Exxon's R&D budget isn't going into global warming research - it mostly goes into research into how to find and tap oil (geology, physics, mathematical modeling, etc). A substantial portion (20-30% - from what I can gather) goes into gr
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by smanek 17y ago
It really depends on you (and I say this as someone who just chose to write a huge CL webapp). If you have experience with Java - I'd probably go with Clojure. If you have a lot of background with Lisp (i.e., Slime/ASDF don't scare you) I'd
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by smanek 17y ago
Ah, that makes sense - thanks.
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by smanek 17y ago
You have to admit that your example is pretty contrived though - usually setting priors isn't so clean. How do you 'properly' set the prior probability that someone really has E.S.P.? That a researcher is secretly colluding with a test subj
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by smanek 17y ago
Israel is made up of a lot of different religion - but it's about 75% Jewish. Of those, the clear majority are what I'd consider religious (i.e., attend Temple, practice religious rituals, believe in God) according to http://www.jcpa.org/d
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by smanek 17y ago
Well, the nation certainly doesn't act secularly since they treat people differently based on their religion (the law of return, as an obvious example). And you're flat out wrong that most Jewish Israeli's live 'secular lives.' It's a commo
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by smanek 17y ago
To my (limited) understanding, Bayesian statistics are just as subjective. If you and I start with different priors, and are then are fed the same evidence, we can end up with vastly different conclusions. Since priors are defined as a func
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by smanek 17y ago
The US government spends most of its money (roughly in order) on: -Wall Street Bailout -Military Spending (which, in large part, means pre-emptively attacking sovereign nations we don't like) -Inefficient entitlement programs -Interest on o

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