smanek

40 ms·

361.
by smanek 17y ago
If you're using Firefox, we can scan the Wifi access points around you - and compare them to some dbs for ridiculously accurate geolocation. In NYC it's almost always better than smart phone GPS. See https://developer.mozilla.org/en/using_
362.
by smanek 17y ago
Thanks for the heads up - I'll investigate. I hadn't tested properly with Chrome before.
363.
by smanek 17y ago
Well - that's enough for me. I'll write up some real blog posts on architecture in the coming days. But the short version is nginx reverse proxy into hunchentoot, with elephant (and a BerkeleyDB datastore). Edi Weitz's html-template for htm
364.
by smanek 17y ago
You're a sharp one ;-) The lack of real persistence in Redis (up until recently, of course) prevented me from using it. If I were to go with something else - Cassandra seems really interesting (I think I saw a cl-thrift somewhere ...). But,
365.
by smanek 17y ago
Yeah - I'm sorry about that. We're only useful where we have content - and we only have content in NYC for now. How would you prefer we degrade if there is no content in your area?
366.
by smanek 17y ago
Hey guys, I've been working on Postabon for the last few months (full time for approximately the last 2). We've been beta testing in NYC for the last few weeks - and feel we have enough content there to launch now. Any feedback (especially
367.
Ask HN: Review My (Common Lisp backed) Startup(postabon.com)
59 points by smanek 17y ago|59 comments
368.
by smanek 17y ago
The AP exam has never been scheme. It was: Pascal since at least 1990 (probably earlier?), C++ since 1998, and Java since 2003. Note: years are from memory, and may be off by a bit, but the general idea is right.
369.
by smanek 17y ago
How is Google is wasting your bandwidth? They are just wasting (a tiny bit) of their own bandwidth. I have no idea what he's getting so worked up about - a free CDN doesn't work exactly as he expects? But still works - and offloads some wor
370.
by smanek 17y ago
right you are - I should have said software.
371.
by smanek 17y ago
Outside of tech, you can't really do much for $20K. Any sort of retail/manufacture/biotech/cleantech/etc startup requires far more capital to get off the ground.
372.
by smanek 17y ago
Excellent, thanks. Overall, a great product that I'm happy with (and have been recommending to my friends).
373.
by smanek 17y ago
I love tarsnap (I'm using it in production now). But, I wish it were a little easier to use ... For example, each of my servers creates a backup named something of the form 'machineName-epochTime' every night. I wish there was some built in
374.
by smanek 17y ago
For what it's worth - I'm a professional lisp dev who greatly admires the ML family and its ilk (Haskell, Miranda, etc). I'm not very good with them (yet), but I can appreciate the safety guarantees of a good type system (as long as it has
375.
by smanek 17y ago
I can confirm that Microsoft still started at 80K last year. I've heard Google is a bit higher, but still under a 100K. A trader at a top tier firm, on the other hand, might have a $150K+ base first year out of school. Adding on bonuses, it
376.
by smanek 17y ago
Thanks, I'm currently messing with converting my (Common Lisp) webapp's CSS to SASS. This suggested it was time for me to use something a little beyond my ad-hoc conglomeration of Bash scripts I'm currently using. I was actually just invest
377.
Facebook IPO Forthcoming?(slashdot.org)
1 points by smanek 17y ago|0 comments
378.
by smanek 17y ago
It is fast - but not significantly more than Haskell, C#, OCaml, etc. Java is a terrible language though. For example: -The syntax for doing anything remotely functionalish (anonymous classes, function currying, etc) is completely unwieldly
379.
by smanek 17y ago
For non-Java heads, (int) Math.random() generates a random double from [0,1) which is then cast as an integer (which means that it is always truncated to 0). They probably wanted something like (int) (Math.random()*2) which will give you 0
380.
The best explanation of Monads I've ever seen(developers.slashdot.org)
1 points by smanek 17y ago|0 comments
381.
by smanek 17y ago
Uhm ... does he mean equilateral triangle everywhere he says triangle?
382.
by smanek 17y ago
If it can't install off macports, it's broken to most people. SBCL is in the same position. I can (and did) compile/install it manually - but that doesn't change the fact that it's "broken."
383.
by smanek 17y ago
How do you know it isn't a Map<Object, Object>? ;-) It's kind of trivial in your example, but with complex objects that implement a lot of interfaces it isn't as obvious what the programmer means.
384.
by smanek 17y ago
Why won't you ever register? They are spending resources (time, money, etc) to create content. In exchange for access to their content they ask you to spend 30 seconds registering. Sometimes, the content in question isn't worth the 30 se
385.
by smanek 17y ago
That wasn't very interesting (for me at least ...). It spends two pages talking about the new bug tracking and project visualization/UML features (but not comparing them to any of the dozen existing tools in the space). And not even a menti
386.
by smanek 17y ago
Arguably, 'syntax' is the set of rules to transform code into an Abstract Syntax Tree. Lisp's code directly represnts the AST so you could say there is no syntax (to be a little more precise I might say Lisp is homoiconic, though).
387.
by smanek 17y ago
Don't bother. D.E. Shaw, Renaissance Tech, Goldman Sachs, etc. have already hired hundreds (if not thousands) of people smarter than you to do exactly this. They have more Math, Physics, Econ, CS PhDs than you can count/
388.
by smanek 17y ago
Why? If you can't come up with a hard-and-fast rule, then the interpretation/selective-enforcement is just going to open the door to patronage and corruption.
389.
by smanek 17y ago
Because it isn't a computation (in the 'transform data' or 'answer question' sense).
390.
by smanek 17y ago
I'm 23, and my two co-founders are 27 and 31, respectively. It works because we bring different skills, points of view, etc to the table. The biggest problem is money. I can live on 1500 a month but one of my co-founders has a mortgage, the

More ›