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by zaph0d 17y ago
"Too many people building db backed websites - clones of successful western products. Not much hardcore tech." Isn't Twitter a DB backed website? What about Facebook? Try to understand that there is a need for various types of web-apps in t
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by zaph0d 17y ago
Seems to be a very competent IDE for Haskell.
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by zaph0d 17y ago
Jeff Bridges kicks other actors' ass!
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Is it just me, or is Etacts really dog-slow?
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Will you ship to India?
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True, but that means we will have to stick to Java even though we are Lisp, Python, Erlang guys here. That also means that we will have to muck around with JavaEE crap even though we can build the same thing much faster using something else
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I agree, but not everyone can sell a company to Yahoo! They probably didn't care about re-writing the app in PHP. They did it for del.icio.us too. What about selling to companies which that not so technically competent but would still like
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Ask HN: Should one avoid using niche technologies for a startup?
13 points by zaph0d 17y ago|10 comments
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by zaph0d 17y ago
Good work! Thumbs up.
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by zaph0d 17y ago
Don't sweat over it. It's all because of an attitude which is typical to Indian pseudo-VCs. They think they are doing startup-ists[sic] a big favour by investing in them. So @Chirag is not too queer if he thinks that he can pull off a YC in
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by zaph0d 17y ago
Why Lisp and Clojure, of all the things?
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I agree with you completely. Unfortunately we are in a country where getting such kind of people is next to impossible. Engineers here are bred to work for services companies.
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by zaph0d 17y ago
Thanks for the tip. I will look into the various agile methodologies. Yeah, we use Git, Basecamp etc. but I was looking for some practical tips about managing devs. I know they don't want to be managed as such, thus the question.
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Ask HN: What is the role of an Engineering Manager?
2 points by zaph0d 17y ago|5 comments
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by zaph0d 17y ago
I installed it on Ubuntu and the menu/tool bar was missing.
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by zaph0d 17y ago
I am sorry, I didn't understand. What do you mean when you say that the text is "right-justified". AFAICT it is not. If you seriously believe it's right justified, then patches are welcome :)
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by zaph0d 17y ago
In that case, one should have a separate feed for items tagged 'clojure'. That's the way almost all planets work. Keyword based filtering is not fool proof.
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Those are obviously fake commits! Those were added by the Go language team as a joke. We must applaud their sense of humour :)
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I don't think that's necessary. Some knowledge of Scheme/Haskell/Erlang might help though.
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[...]Hardy contacted the Indian Office to plan for Ramanujan's trip to Cambridge. Secretary Arthur Davies of the Advisory Committee for Indian Students met with Ramanujan to discuss the overseas trip. In accordance with his Brahmin upbringi
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by zaph0d 17y ago
Not at all, for Google Apps, Google doesn't set any Sender header in emails. We use it in our startup, try it out - http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/group/index.html
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by zaph0d 17y ago
I think you can still make him a co-founder without giving him a 50% stake. Give him 10% and make him a Director of your company (or whatever works).
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b.ghose@gwave.com
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Dear HN readers: What according to you could be one way of architecting the storage so as to avoid similar AWS EBS outages in the future?
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by zaph0d 17y ago
Why are Indians so obsessed with the IITs? What's the point of addressing someone as IIT-ian? Do we call Obama the "Harvard-ian Obama"? Honestly, who cares which college you went to? There are tonnes of people who have graduated from the II
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Clojure, of course :)
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I think Rich Hickey is all set to become one of the most influential figures of Computer Science. The process has already started :)
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He did have a reasonable salary, so compensation is not a problem.
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Haha! Now that was really funny. By the way, we never treated him as a slave. He was also promised a fair amount of equity.
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Okay, thanks everyone for the wonderful advice. I have decided to tell him in person when he comes to the office again. I will not judge him and I will clearly tell him that he has not performed to my expectations. And no, I don't think it'

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