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by tav 16y ago
It's pretty much impossible to saturate even a LAN connection with a single TCP connection. The are a number of issues at play here — RTT (Round Trip Time, i.e. ping/latency), window sizes, packet loss and initcwnd (TCP's initial window). T
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by tav 16y ago
Having bet my entire startup on Go, I am really thankful for the steady, but measured, improvements to the language. It's been a real pleasure to work with. It may not be as beautiful as CoffeeScript (which we also use), as rich as Python,
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by tav 16y ago
For non-redditers, TIL stands for "Today I Learned". http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/
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JQuery for LaTeX in HTML(groups.google.com)
5 points by tav 16y ago|1 comments
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by tav 16y ago
Got a link for the tech cluster going through murder mile statement? I only saw mentions of "East London" and "Olympic Park". Also, having lived in murder mile, I don't really see how it's unsafe nowadays. Definitely sucked with regards tra
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by tav 16y ago
Sawzall Language spec: http://szl.googlecode.com/svn/doc/sawzall-spec.html You might also want to take a look at Cascalog. It offers a much nicer API — just list the various predicates and it'll take care of the rest for you, e.g. to find
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by tav 16y ago
It's worth noting that you can trace parts of Google Go's lineage to Sawzall.
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by tav 16y ago
Listing the APIs before having to sign up would have been useful though. Here's the current set: * Buzz * Custom Search * Diacritize * Feed * Latitude * Moderator * Prediction * Translate It's nice to have a dashboard,
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by tav 16y ago
What is the 25% a reference to? Obviously missing some kind of in-joke... ? And for those of you like me who might wonder what an "accept rate" is, it's the percentage of accepted answers to questions asked by a given user on Stack Overflow
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by tav 16y ago
Thanks for the post Thomas, I just re-submitted an XSRF bug I'd initially reported back in 2008. And seeing as they still hadn't fixed it, getting $500 seems like decent payback.
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by tav 16y ago
It's worth noting that the video/talk also provides a fairly good crash course on Clojure.
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by tav 16y ago
Well, there's an idea for a startup — burn-up charts featuring a "Death Clock/Countdown". Could be useful for small teams getting started — and the site could gradually expand into other related services. P.S. burnupcharts.com is still free
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by tav 16y ago
Please crop the number "11" out of the title. Thanks! http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by tav 16y ago
Hey Wes. As I understand it, they've now setup a "test" hosted service for anyone to use... the wordpress.com equivalent i guess
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by tav 16y ago
Nice article. I would argue that JSON is suited for a structured web though. Imagine even something like RSS turned into a JSON structure — if everyone would simply publish open JSON feeds we could have a lot of interesting client-side appl
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by tav 16y ago
And what about the time and money spent by people developing skills for the Apple ecosystem — Objective-C, XCode, iTunes partnerships, etc? There's a network effect in play here and the more territories that Apple dominates, the easier it b
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by tav 16y ago
Empires rise and fall. The same could have been said of Microsoft only 10 years ago. Every platform provider faces this issue of responsibility and power — whether it be Facebook, Google, Apple or even Twitter. The really interesting, and p
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Appleseed, a Diaspora alternative, goes public(twitter.com)
7 points by tav 16y ago|2 comments
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Ask HN: Have the HN downvoting rules changed recently?
3 points by tav 16y ago|1 comments
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by tav 16y ago
We're experts on collective action failure — so not sure how much traction it would gain on the grounds of privacy/health. However, "celebrity nude scans" could be lucrative for TSA agents looking to make a quick buck. The ensuing controver
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by tav 16y ago
http://github.com/downloads/tav/ampify/distfile.openssl-0.9.... ^ Patched version of OpenSSL for the various optimisations...
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by tav 16y ago
Please edit the title from "Jon Potel" -> "Jon Postel".
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by tav 16y ago
Though the presentation can be improved, I think it's good enough as it is. The real reason why it's not so useful is because those who turn off Javascript tend to be power users who know how to turn it back on...
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by tav 16y ago
While I agree that they're often misused in forms, I'm not a 100% convinced that killing the cancel button is the right way to go. They're increasingly used as a web equivalent of the "close" button and in that context, they do function qui
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by tav 16y ago
Slitaz < http://www.slitaz.org/en/&#62 ; is also well worth taking a look at.
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by tav 16y ago
He has also made some significant contributions to computer science — linda/tuple spaces in particular have been extremely influential in distributed computing. Not to mention his sci-fi works.
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by tav 16y ago
Or your datastore can take care of doing that for you, c.f. BigTable. This is one of my main gripes with most of the current set of NoSQL offerings — they leave too many decisions in the hands of developers. Whilst it would definitely be ad
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Ask HN: Is anyone still excited by Diaspora?
21 points by tav 16y ago|33 comments
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by tav 16y ago
Thanks for the endorsement. Is there a public link for their API documentation? Also, any chance you could elaborate on, or perhaps email me tav@espians.com on the general pricing?
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by tav 16y ago
As far as I can tell, you can only use Chargify in the UK if you have an account with Barclays. And, on top, you still need to get hold of costly payment gateways and merchant accounts...

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