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by thurn 16y ago
No indication that apps are running? That's an interesting choice. Granted, it will make apps seem to start incredibly fast, but I can't help but fear that I'm going to leave Eclipse and Photoshop running and murder my battery life...
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by thurn 16y ago
I found that the AppEngine 1.4 SDK addressed many of these concerns. Personally, I've managed 50 requests per second on my blog without trouble, and with minimal CPU overhead. That's probably because everything is in memcache, so the databa
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by thurn 16y ago
How is it possible to replace TRIM at the hardware level? I wasn't aware there was any way for the drive to know what files the filesystem considers deleted. Unless the hardware module somehow detects what file system you're using...
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by thurn 16y ago
Looks awesome. Wish there was a way to host a free app with it, Google App Engine style.
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by thurn 16y ago
If you need Eclipse-level tools to be productive, you probably shouldn't be trying new programming languages. It takes hundreds or thousands of man-years of effort to replicate those features for a new language. Python and Ruby only really
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by thurn 16y ago
I'd really love a feature where people could submit exercise solutions for books that don't include them. I find exercises a lot more useful if I have a solution to compare against.
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by thurn 16y ago
Many of the design choices in Clojure are aimed at resolving precisely these concerns. Quoted lists and literal lists are of course usually written '(f x) in most dialects, and Clojure uses [f x] for function arguments and binding lists. Th
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by thurn 16y ago
An interesting algorithm, and an engaging presentation. If only more academic writing was this accessible!
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by thurn 16y ago
I was more trying to say that XML is better for heterogenous trees because XML's default is a tree structure. XML parsers default to a tree representation of your data (we use python's ElementTree, for example), JSON parsers don't. XPath is
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by thurn 16y ago
I recently built a simple site on this library (my experiences described here: http://www.thurn.ca/version_10_of_the_ackbar_blog_engine ) and found it quite pleasant to work with, although there were a few Google API problems. GCV was also
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Mac OSX Applications I couldn't live without(thurn.ca)
29 points by thurn 16y ago|44 comments
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by thurn 16y ago
What's the story on using the Unlicense with libraries under other licenses? I'd love to use it, but I depend on libraries that are under Apache and LGPL licenses. Is it compatible?
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by thurn 16y ago
Or, perhaps, if it gets you nicer syntax. The classic macro example "unless" could be written with a function, but then you'd need to write (unless (< 1 2) #(println "hi")) every time.
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Ask HN: Would you rather work at Google or Facebook right now?
3 points by thurn 16y ago|6 comments
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by thurn 16y ago
My understanding is that the Navier-Stokes problem has to do with showing that smooth solutions always exist for the three dimensional system of equations, so a counter-example would be a set of initial conditions for which no smooth soluti
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by thurn 17y ago
Yep, dynamic and functional languages will never succeed because of their complex syntax and features. That explains why nobody writes software in C++.