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by yariv 18y ago
The JVM had them a long time ago. They're gone, and it will be very hard to bring them back.
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by yariv 18y ago
Scala's actor library emulates a subset of Erlang's message passing capabilities, but it's far from what Erlang has to offer. Scala's actors are not distributed, they don't have their own heaps (Erlang processes do, to minimize garbage coll
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by yariv 18y ago
You can call Java (or Python, Ruby, C etc) libraries from Erlang if you really have to. I'd bet Erlang's libraries would be quite sufficient for a wide range of apps, though. Where did you run into pain trying to use Erlang outside of telco
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by yariv 18y ago
How is BitTorrent's allegedly poor QoS an engineering issue? BitTorrent's QoS is a function of reachable peers who have the content you want and their bandwidth. This applies to all P2P networks.
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by yariv 18y ago
I'm sure a big number of these servers is used for data crunching/warehousing and ad serving -- not just for rendering pages.
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by yariv 18y ago
I think it's a positive sign that some of Google's initiatives don't make much money (yet?). It shows that Google is taking risks.
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by yariv 18y ago
"Caching does not work if the data is different for everyone." I think caching can work, but at a different level of granularity. Rather than cache a person's full timeline, which is composed of multiple sub-feeds (each of which requires a
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by yariv 18y ago
I don't see the point of comparing Facebook to Google. Even if Facebook's advertising is less targeted than Google's, so what? Facebook's revenues = pageviews / 1000 * cpm. Nothing about the effectiveness of Adsense says Facebook can't be a
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by yariv 18y ago
I really like Xobni too. I use it at work and it does make Outlook much better -- primary because of the better search and threaded conversations (the social networking and analytics features are less useful for me, though). However, I thin
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by yariv 18y ago
In addition, after it ships, it will take years for the new version to be deployed to a significant portion of existing users.
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by yariv 18y ago
Facebook doesn't "know" that concert ads are better for me (although it can tell from my profile what music I like, where I live, and maybe even what concerts my friends attend, etc), but it can try different ads and see what works because
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by yariv 18y ago
Knowing someone's intent is a sufficient, but not necessary condition for effective advertising. I may have no intention to attend a concert this weekend, but if I saw an ad for a nearby concert by an artist I like I would be likely to clic
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by yariv 18y ago
"Blogs used to be just that: a personal diary of what's going on. And silly things like "Rails Blog" or "Java Blog" just don't make sense: why would someone keep a blog like that - nothing is happening in their life besides Rails or Java?"
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by yariv 18y ago
Twitter isn't a messaging application in the traditional sense (as in IM or phone networks) because it doesn't involve real-time synchronous communications. All communications in Twitter are asynchronous as in most database-backed webapps a
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by yariv 18y ago
You make a good point that I haven't considered. I would define "success" or "failure" as the ultimate outcome of the efforts of the group of founders who worked together on one or more products, regardless any part/full time jobs they had.
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by yariv 18y ago
I didn't mean to suggest that I'll wait for this kind of study to come out before deciding which path to take, just that very few data points aren't enough to make a strong case that "avoid VC money" is the best advice to give entrepreneurs
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by yariv 18y ago
The problem when entrepreneurs who created companies like DropSend and 37signals tell us to follow their "stay small/independent" model because it worked for them is that they represent the small pool of entrepreneurs who succeeded doing it
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by yariv 18y ago
Persistent connections to the server from Javascript.
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by yariv 18y ago
The article makes some good points on the effects of funding on startup success, but it doesn't mention one the "other" reasons there aren't more Googles (or Microsofts, or Ebays): huge markets that startups can disrupt so successfully are
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by yariv 18y ago
I think that syntax and semantics are largely orthogonal. When you code in Erlang you just don't think about how the syntax resembles Prolog's. Also, if you prefer to use Lisp syntax in Erlang you can use LFE ( http://groups.google.com/grou
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by yariv 19y ago
Maybe a better title would have been "If you want to be a phone company, you can't go dead without being restarted by your supervisor" ;)
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by yariv 19y ago
I think the key issue isn't whether apps are worth using, but whether many people actually use them. The answer is a pretty clear "yes."
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by yariv 19y ago
I think that when Facebook introduces a transactions API to their platform to enable frictionless micro-transactions in apps it will start raking in a lot of money by taking a cut of each transaction. How successful it can be is pure specul
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by yariv 19y ago
Strictly speaking, Erlang processes have a type of shared memory -- ets tables -- but the semantics are somewhat different from other languages that use traditional shared memory. However, when you need synchronization, you just use Mnesia
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by yariv 19y ago
Indeed it's often impossible to know if a new idea could lead to a profitable business (or how profitable that business would be), but at least you can have a good hunch that the idea would be something people want. The original Yahoo idea
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by yariv 19y ago
I don't think this is always the case. I think that many good ideas are obviously good regardless of their origin and even in the absence of external evidence. You can tell those ideas are good because they solve real problems in people's l
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by yariv 19y ago
An open source search engine written in Erlang.
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by yariv 19y ago
The good old BASIC days :)
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by yariv 19y ago
I've been enjoying this capability with Erlang too.
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by yariv 19y ago
Apparently, I should have been more sensitive to the way people would interpret this challenge and picked my words differently. A few other languages, including Scala and Stackless Python, have lightweight concurrency capabilities. AFAIK th

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