JoelPM

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ES6 and Beyond(codinginadtech.com)
2 points by JoelPM 11y ago|0 comments
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by JoelPM 14y ago
I also work as an engineer for an ad related company (openx) and I similarly believe we do none of the above. On the engineering side we mostly write code that gets called billions of times a day and has to provide responses in a few hundre
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by JoelPM 15y ago
I took CS-373 with Prof Erickson ten years ago. It was hard. But he was also possibly the best lecturer I had while in school.
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by JoelPM 15y ago
I thought they did something similar three years ago, but it didn't get traction and they sunset it. It makes a lot of sense, maybe the market is ready for it now.
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by JoelPM 15y ago
We're OpenX, located in Pasadena, CA. We're willing to relocate, and the internship length is flexible. The internships are paid. We wrote an ad server and have our own ad exchange. We also wrote our own time-series datastore (Erlang and C)
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by JoelPM 15y ago
Yes! As an 'old' programmer with a family, I thought long and hard before leaving a stable job and joining a startup. In the end I decided that it was worth it even if I had to find a new job in two years and ended up somewhere that just 'p
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by JoelPM 15y ago
Cool, thanks for the response. I'm enjoying the service. Good luck.
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by JoelPM 15y ago
If anyone from earbits happens to be reading - would you please provide an alternative to FB for login? I don't have an FB account and I won't get one just to sign up for your service. FWIW, I've paid for my music for the last ten years and
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by JoelPM 15y ago
Generally, I think: "Great, you implemented a feature and registered a domain for it."
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by JoelPM 15y ago
I like what you said, and it mirrors my experience. It comes down to what your priorities are. In my case it's family, work, then other stuff. It's a lie to believe that you can have/do it all, but it's generally true that you can have/do t
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by JoelPM 16y ago
Only 15 minutes for lunch with your girlfriend? I'll give you some feedback: if you'd like this relationship to last, she's going to need a little more time than that. =)
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by JoelPM 16y ago
Have kids. Surprisingly effective. Also encourages development of other positive character traits.
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by JoelPM 16y ago
Excellent book! I'm enjoying my copy and find it a great complement to the other two. riak_kv uses gen_fsm, so people looking for a real world use case could check out their usage: https://github.com/basho/riak_kv/blob/master/src/riak_kv_g
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by JoelPM 16y ago
Angry Birds Privacy policy: http://www.rovio.com/index.php?page=angry-birds---frequently... I was pissed until I read the FAQ and discovered when they're using data and what they're using it for. Basically: If you've registered with Cryst
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by JoelPM 16y ago
Thanks! Worked for me. A colleague just recommended this book last week.
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by JoelPM 16y ago
Thanks! I thought perhaps the numbers were so low for those languages that they didn't merit inclusion, but that seems not to be the case (certainly not for Lisp).
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by JoelPM 16y ago
Interesting to see that Erlang and Lisp are missing. Whenever possible I'm doing new development in Erlang (with C linked-in drivers where needed for performance). Personally, I'm moving away from Java and languages that target the JVM. I f
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The Languages of Hacker News(redmonk.com)
21 points by JoelPM 16y ago|23 comments
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by JoelPM 16y ago
This is a problem with the downloadable version, which is written for the LAMP stack and grew over something like 10 years as an open-source effort. Not surprisingly, YMMV (as with all OS software). The hosted version (called OnRamp) would
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by JoelPM 16y ago
I launched a service to production last week that uses riak_core to distribute load/storage to 8 nodes. Documentation is a little sparse, but I was impressed by how easy it was to take my single-node service and distribute it using riak_cor
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by JoelPM 16y ago
Interesting, you're defining "worth" as "the difficulty with which something is obtained." I agree, it is a neat thought exercise. I was defining worth as "the value that something confers" which may (or may not) be tied to the difficulty w
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by JoelPM 16y ago
The other day I came across a comment on HN from one of the creators of Erlang. His karma is 31. I just checked the profiles of the top ten people on the leader-board and while I'm sure they are great people who have really contributed a lo
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by JoelPM 16y ago
And, by implication, Perl is not the hottest girl in the room? (which I'd certainly agree with)
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by JoelPM 16y ago
See my comment above - OpenX is being DDOS'ed. The upgrade didn't bring it down, though it's likely that the DDOS is intended to keep people from upgrading.
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by JoelPM 16y ago
OpenX is being DDOS'ed, that's why the site is down.
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by JoelPM 16y ago
Consider it a reverse screening function. The worthwhile employers won't give much weight to what you know[1], they'll be more concerned about your ability to think and learn. I've gotten several jobs at places using a language/platform I d
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by JoelPM 16y ago
I don't have a Facebook account (and I refuse to get one), so in the unlikely event that people like me are the sole target group of your application/website, yes - requiring FB connect will kill your startup =) But like I said, it's unlike
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by JoelPM 16y ago
subtitle: "And I'll gladly take some of his page views."
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by JoelPM 16y ago
Thanks for the explanation - very cool!
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by JoelPM 16y ago
As a long time Java programmer I recommend these two: http://www.amazon.com/ERLANG-Programming-Francesco-Cesarini/... http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Erlang-Software-Concurrent... Okay, just kidding. =) On a serious note, Effective Ja

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