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by smg 10y ago
The emacs ipython notebook is indeed a very impressive piece of software. Kudos to John for maintaining this after the original creator stopped enhancing it.
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by smg 10y ago
The way stripe does the idempotency keys has always reminded me of two phase commit but I know that the two things are quite different. I wonder what in the distributed systems literature inspired this technique.
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Announcing Remacs: Porting Emacs to Rust(wilfred.me.uk)
206 points by smg 10y ago|89 comments
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by smg 10y ago
I am interested in Roslyn's support for Javascript. Is the JS support open source? If so which repo should I be looking at?
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by smg 11y ago
I am trying to understand why the new merge method needed to be tested online via experiment. Both correctness and performance of the new merge method could have been tested offline working with snapshots (backups) of repos. Could a github
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Refactoring the Mirrortocracy(carlos.bueno.org)
9 points by smg 12y ago|2 comments
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by smg 13y ago
I am not sure if either of us can accurately say what is the point "they" are trying to make. The point I was trying to make is that a large number of developers who look at 37signals for technical leadership could be dangerously misled int
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by smg 13y ago
I am not sure if average page load times are a good way of measuring site performance. I wish they published numbers like median, 75th percentile and 95 percentile load times. Please see here for why average is not a good metric. http://ze
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by smg 14y ago
How do you deal with the github enterprise version of your software? Does it have a separate QA cycle? How often do you ship new releases of that? I am hoping that Github could shed more light on the how they ship an enterprise version alon
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by smg 14y ago
It would be interesting if some kind of client (javascript)instrumentation - recording hover times, focus times could reveal the WTF results. Crowdsourcing is effective for top/most common queries, detecting WTF in the long tail of queries
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by smg 14y ago
The Fluent demo is very cool. I wish it was easier to try this service out. Is there a plan to open source any of the WebSockets work and/or contribute it back to Jetty?
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Ask HN: How frequently is the search index on hacker news updated?
1 points by smg 14y ago|2 comments
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by smg 15y ago
If you are interested in joining a learning group in SF around this class please see here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3672184
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SF NLP class learning group
1 points by smg 15y ago|0 comments
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Building Search Auto completion Systems(sudarshan.org)
1 points by smg 15y ago|1 comments
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Most Creative Way To Find A Job Using Twitter(bitrebels.com)
1 points by smg 15y ago|0 comments
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by smg 15y ago
A few years ago there were a large number of Indian startup trying to become the youtube or facebook of India. Because almost all the internet users in India are also English savy, they found that the youtube of India is youtube unlike say
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by smg 15y ago
Look around you and you will find that most American companies hire lots of Indians as programmers. Do you think that the guys who ended up coming to America suddenly transmogrified in to competent programmers during their flight across the
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User Interface Design Meetup at Yelp(eventbrite.com)
1 points by smg 16y ago|0 comments
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by smg 16y ago
Could you please elaborate more on the "narrow sweet spot".? I would love to know which applications fit this sweet spot.
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by smg 16y ago
The original Ed Witten New York Times article referred to by Weisbort is here http://www.nytimes.com/1987/10/18/magazine/a-theory-of-every...
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by smg 16y ago
Does any one have access to the original New York Times Ed Witten article?
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Ask HN: Video feed of startup school 2010 talks?
12 points by smg 16y ago|2 comments
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by smg 16y ago
Are there any plans to livestream the event?
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by smg 17y ago
move
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How to Find and Hire Amazing People, Part 2(blog.adamsmith.cc)
5 points by smg 17y ago|0 comments
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by smg 17y ago
Many startups eg justin.tv use programming problems to screen applications. Do you think this is a good idea? Why does Xobni not use something like that to prevent the avalanche of resumes that greets every job posting?
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by smg 17y ago
Do you find working for google better preparation for your next startup?
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Ask HN: Using Kindle DX to read large pdf text books
4 points by smg 17y ago|4 comments
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by smg 18y ago
Not about code/software/hacking. Dont check this unless you want to waste some time

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