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by va_coder 17y ago
Important lesson: Debt markets can do a better job predicting problems than stock markets.
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by va_coder 17y ago
Oracle Weblogic Suite 11g, Identity Management 11g, Webcenter Suite 11g, JDeveloper, Fusion Middleware, Business Intelligence Suite Enterprise Edition and SOA Cloud Sucking all the joy out of the cloud experience(TM)
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by va_coder 17y ago
I admire Rich Hickey and Stuart Halloway and I've been reading the prag programmer book on Clojure, but I still haven't been able to wrap my head around why I should replace my preferred language - Ruby - with Clojure. I understand that if
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by va_coder 17y ago
REPL
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Ask HN: Why aren't any of the new datastores written in Scala or Clojure?
2 points by va_coder 17y ago|1 comments
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Polyglot Programming with Groovy (docs.codehaus.org)
1 points by va_coder 17y ago|1 comments
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European Commission objects to Sun-Oracle deal (reuters.com)
7 points by va_coder 17y ago|2 comments
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by va_coder 17y ago
It seems MongoDB and CouchDB have better documentation. This article talks about configuring things like the gossip protocol. Does anyone know of a good article on Riak that shows how to store and retrieve data for something like a blog?
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by va_coder 17y ago
It would be more accurate to call them a one party state. In contrast, America is a two party state.
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by va_coder 17y ago
I love systems76.com new thin Lemur laptop with Ubuntu forget Dell
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by va_coder 17y ago
People have been saying techies are a dime a dozen for years. Do you try to put yourself in your customer's shoes and help solve problems? Does your customer know you do this? If the answer is yes, you're not a commodity.
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Ask HN: Why do websites for health care providers stink
2 points by va_coder 17y ago|0 comments
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by va_coder 17y ago
It's funny how our standards change. I've seen a lot of internal-to-the-organization hosting providers be down for days and not seem to care much. It's good that we demand more, but in retrospect the service we have today is pretty good an
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by va_coder 17y ago
I agree Java is verbose and old and should rarely be used on new projects. But this thing about smart people makes me cynical. You ever debug a terse Perl program written by a really "smart" person? What about maintenance? What about the d
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by va_coder 17y ago
I predict the new data stores like Redis, CouchDb and MongoDb will soon replace MySql as the default standard for new development. Once people start downloading and getting comfortable with these data stores, there will be no turning back.
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by va_coder 17y ago
Here's the startup equivalent: 1) The creation of Federal Startup 2) Federal Startup's job is to ensure we have a stable, vibrant startup culture 3) Federal Startup loans money to startups using money it prints 4) Goldman Cloud company, a s
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by va_coder 17y ago
I highly recommend the Pragmatic Programmer's book on Clojure. For me, the concepts are new and interesting and may even be applicable to what I'm working on today, and will most certainly be applicable in the multi-core future.
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by va_coder 17y ago
Fear tactics on HN suprise me as well. Neither you or I know what would have happened if we didn't create massive amounts of debt. But to solve a problem that was largely caused by massive amounts of debt by creating more massive amounts
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by va_coder 17y ago
No it's not an apples to apples. But it makes you question whether our priorities are right. Our we spending money on the right things?
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by va_coder 17y ago
I think he's including: * Securities and IOU's bought by the Fed * Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and AIG bailouts * Bank failures and the future bailout of the FDIC * Interest spent on IOU's * probably others as well
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by va_coder 17y ago
"Distinguishing between a line of credit and a "gift" is pretty important" I agree. But it's an interesting rant, as someone said below.
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HenrySchein, a 5B tech healthcare co., has no love for Ubuntu/Firefox
1 points by va_coder 17y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Does MySql/Postgresql + Ruby/Python/Groovy solve 80% of IT problems?
2 points by va_coder 17y ago|3 comments
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by va_coder 17y ago
Is Java dead? No Will controversial headlines often get undeserved interest? Yes
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by va_coder 17y ago
>>Which makes it trivial for the Fed to shrink the money supply It will be very hard politically. >>and they are still taking collateral for them. Real estate that has collapsed in value >>The policy response is pret
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by va_coder 17y ago
Bernanke and crew said the financial problems were limited to Subprime loans. They were very wrong. Now they are saying they will be able to manage inflation by soaking up all that new money when the economy gets better. Do you believe the
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by va_coder 17y ago
This looks awesome on the iphone
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by va_coder 17y ago
The Federal Reserve was created by the wealthy class to keep money in the hands of the few. Read 'The Creature from Jekyll Island'. The Fed is a sham. It is neither federal (the shareholders are the banks themselves) nor has it any reserv
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by va_coder 17y ago
If you were going around selling a business model of a new bank, as soon as you mentioned a 2.99 iphone app you would be shown the door.
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by va_coder 17y ago
This is a very interesting topic, but I feel he really doesn't understand banking for a number of reasons and this is one of them. The banks mine tons of data and use it to make profit off of you and I in more ways than you could imagine. I

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