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by why-el 11y ago
I am actually familiar with Lisp and was wondering what to do to bring people over, not try it myself. I doubt the parentheses is a huge problem, because like you said, it can be trivially automated using your favorite tool. I think what th
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by why-el 11y ago
Ha, this actually happened to me just yesterday believe it or not. :D I looked up something and turns out it's 21 years old me who asked it in Stackoverflow four years ago.
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by why-el 11y ago
Can you elaborate further on the efforts needed to close up the mismatch? Perhaps something concrete to work on today? ;)
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by why-el 11y ago
Any idea who Reflux plays with a non-javascript backend such as Rails or Django?
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by why-el 11y ago
Hum, interesting. I guess I always thought it was his because he actually developed very similar ideas in his essay "In Praise of Idleness"[1]. [1] http://www.zpub.com/notes/idle.html
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by why-el 11y ago
Well in this case are you really procrastinating? Clearly your brain is making relatively solid decisions, considering how your career is moving (upward). In this situation I'd like to recall Bertrand Russel's great dictum: "
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by why-el 11y ago
There is a timeless quote by _why (of Ruby fame) that goes something like this: "You need to create, because otherwise you are defined by your taste in things." (my terrible paraphrasing).
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by why-el 11y ago
Why language-specific?
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by why-el 11y ago
Another thing that would be interesting to learn more about is their Front end structure. From what I can gather they keep things extremely simple (jQuery, mostly) and make extensive use of pjax and server generated javascript that gets eva
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by why-el 11y ago
I highly doubt they think that way when qualifying numbers for PR purposes. Regardless of how they connected to Facebook it is still Facebook Inc and it is still hell of a number.
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by why-el 11y ago
Yep, I had the same problem multiple times, all by accident. However chances of this (Ask HN) making it to a GitHub employee are slim. Let's hope for the best. Perhaps try Twitter next?
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Ask HN: If you are a job seeker, whats your ideal software to manage the search?
1 points by why-el 11y ago|1 comments
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Againt all odds, Syrian incubator Afkar launches(wamda.com)
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by why-el 11y ago
Honestly for this one I do not remember since it was two years ago, but I'd start over at http://arxiv.org/ , which is a treasure. Granted most are research papers, but even those will link to overview papers, of which
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by why-el 11y ago
Good write up. Another excellent resource straight out of the UC Berkeley Database Group that I keep close by is "Architecture of a Database System"[1] by three researchers in the field. It is very readable. [1] http://
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by why-el 11y ago
Happy 60th birthday then. :)
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by why-el 11y ago
iTunes is absolutely terrible. I did several updates for my girlfriend and friends, and none of them figured out iTunes. Most of them downgraded.
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by why-el 11y ago
> symmetric is sufficient for nation-state security Is that a verifiable assertion? Would love to read more about it.
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by why-el 11y ago
Yep, I actually just learned that a minute ago. Thanks for the tip. :)
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by why-el 11y ago
I tried NoScript for a bit. Obviously most social networks stopped working, but I liked how NYT became free again (since they track you by a cookie) and obviously HN remained solid. Essentially NoScript just means no online socializing, whi
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by why-el 11y ago
I was actually curious about parent's friend's idea. To be fair all these apps haven't yet figured out the whole market, so perhaps instead of genius we can call them 'implementable'.
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by why-el 11y ago
Is your application just a jar? In the yes case your conclusion is correct. Throw in a database, a cache server, couple of versioned libraries your jar file needs, and more developers, and suddenly a reproducible image with all this package
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Chief Keef Hologram Concert Shut Down by Police(chicagotribune.com)
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by why-el 11y ago
Since we are talking about genius ideas, where is the idea now? (Apologies if this was supposed to be obvious and I did not get it).
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by why-el 11y ago
Are we sure what is being simulated here is cognitive? It seems to me merely mechanical. Not to deride the achievement of course.
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by why-el 11y ago
Splendid work, truly. The documentation is pure class and the whole library is extremely well prepared for actual use. Kudos to the developer.
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by why-el 11y ago
Any link to a discussion on these Ruby stat calls? We might look into them as well.
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by why-el 11y ago
There is a qualitative difference between this and other on-demand services such as Uber in that you will never see the "here is my phone number" phenomenon in Uber.
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by why-el 11y ago
Yeah I have been thinking about this as well. I guess it depends on how wide the difference is (when I said 512MB, I really meant it. People are still comparing that to their dev machines). Somewhat related: How has your experience been se
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by why-el 11y ago
> but usually virtualization is a mostly unnecessary step in achieving production-like behavior. Mostly, we just need to make sure we're running the Rails server in production mode. Isn't this assuming your development mode has

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