wasdfan

5 ms·

1.
by wasdfan 10y ago
You're engaging in base rate neglect: the pool of PHP programmers was vastly larger than the pool of LISP programmers when Facebook was founded.
2.
by wasdfan 10y ago
Consider Assembly as a counter-example.
3.
by wasdfan 10y ago
This is base rate neglect: the percentage of people who are using elite tier languages (LISP, etc) are tiny in comparison to the number of people slinging Ruby/Python/etc. All that needs to be shown is that, per capita, LISP users
4.
by wasdfan 10y ago
This is base rate neglect. The percentage of people who are competent enough (or crazy enough) to know a LISP well enough to build a product out of it AND be interested in a startup AND applying to YC is quite small in comparison to the num
5.
by wasdfan 10y ago
I can only speak from anecdotal memory, but I'm pretty sure Wit.AI primarily used clojure (arguably one of the most expressive lisps of all time) to go from 0 to acquisition in 18(!) months for what was essentially a pure software prod
6.
by wasdfan 11y ago
Does anybody know of any good articles that discuss the actual performance merits of using npm addons? Aside from raw computation heavy functions (whereby dropping down to C++ would seem to be a good idea a priori), are there are other scen
7.
by wasdfan 11y ago
Swig is amazing at quickly converting simple functions (i.e., functions that return an int and other simple types). But if you want to make a C++ function that returns an array or something like a JS object, SWIG doesn't seem to be abl
8.
by wasdfan 11y ago
This is eerily timely (recently have been dealing with npm addons). Glad to see a good article about this, and am looking forward to the author's ebook. Question on the book (if author sees this): will the book cover the npm V8 wrapper
9.
by wasdfan 11y ago
Is there anything comparable to this in the node.js or clojure world?