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by Spyro7 14y ago
I really do think that, as time wears on, we will see more of these incidents of people switching from Node to another, more familiar development environment. It seems to me that a lot of people started using Node simply because of the amou
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by Spyro7 14y ago
My apologies. I never intended anyone to take the Discovery Institute paper as anything more than just a casual study of the subject (by a biased party). I certainly did not want to present it as academically rigorous on any level or as an
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by Spyro7 14y ago
"I understand that sheltering them from the real world is not your motivation for this opinion, but it is the reality of what will happen. Your kids will miss out on a huge period of personal growth and a large expansion of their experience
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by Spyro7 14y ago
Every day, I start up a computer running OS X. Then, I proceed to fire up virtual machines for two Linux distributions, Windows XP, and Windows 7. I occasionally play around with a headless system that I have running FreeBSD. Then I may pow
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by Spyro7 15y ago
This graph is completely useless. It is looking at relative Google search query volume. Of course Node.js search queries are rising. There is a lot of noise being made about the platform, the platform is relatively recent, and people are cu
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by Spyro7 15y ago
I have to apologize. I fat-fingered the down vote when I originally meant to up vote your original comment. I think that my mistaken down vote was the one that initially sent your comment into the gray. This was unfortunate as yours was a r
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by Spyro7 15y ago
Maybe I'm just weird, but all of this drama around a database does not make much sense to me. To me, it is simple. Do your research: * Go to https://jira.mongodb.org/ and look at the issues * Read the documentation at http://www.mongodb.
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by Spyro7 15y ago
At the risk of losing karma, I have to say that I think this entire thread has really gone way too far. Guys, this is HACKER NEWS. I thought we were supposed to hold ourselves to a higher standard of conversation over here? Could I just pos
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by Spyro7 15y ago
Overpopulation is a hard problem. There are complex socioeconomic reasons for why some countries have higher fertility rates than others. This is a heavily studied topic in health economics, but I am unwell right now and do not feel like di
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by Spyro7 15y ago
It's gotta be a slow day on hacker news when this is at the top page. (Or, is this being upvoted because it is Cringely.) An entire article about web development past, present, and future without a single mention of PHP.... All snark aside,
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by Spyro7 15y ago
The link in the parent is https, try this regular http link if you can't read the article: http://lkml.org/lkml/2011/10/6/317
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by Spyro7 15y ago
Am I the only one that considers all of this ranting about Nodejs to be a little bit strange? I would have never expected a post that was obviously a troll to prompt this much of a reaction on both sides of an issue. That so many of these r
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by Spyro7 15y ago
This is a good presentation. It is a good demonstration that there is no magic bullet for database scalability problems. I love NoSQL as much as the next person, but turning straight to NoSQL when you are faced with scalability problems in
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by Spyro7 15y ago
I started with Drupal around the time version 4.7 came out, and I always thought that the project would have done better for itself by focusing more on its potential as a framework rather than a CMS. Drupal has always seemed to have somethi
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by Spyro7 15y ago
Since this is Hacker News, and there are a lot of really smart, numbers-oriented people here, I just thought I'd provide a link to a dataset that looks at income distributions within the US from 1913 to 2008: http://www.econ.berkeley.edu/~
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by Spyro7 15y ago
The problem the USPS is having is not about prefunding pensions and pension plans. Their problem is that they are required to fund future employee health care benefits. No other company in America - public or private - is required to do thi
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by Spyro7 15y ago
> "means that they're the only govt institution that isn't a timebomb of future obligations" This was the spirit in which the requirement was enacted. I completely agree with the idea. My problem with this line of reasoning is this: W
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by Spyro7 15y ago
If you enjoyed reading that, then perhaps you would enjoy reading a book that has come to occupy a treasured space on my shelf: http://www.amazon.com/Science-Technology-World-History-Intro... The authors provide an overview of world histo
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by Spyro7 15y ago
Why is this being upvoted? This article begins with a questionable premise and then descends straight into misinformation. The problems in the USPS did not begin with email. They began with a highly questionable requirement that the USPS fu
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by Spyro7 15y ago
"Then go check the SEC filings." Which ones? There are quite a few companies in the finance industry. If we are going to paint them as good guys and bad guys, then it is important to note that those are subjective criteria. "This is prec
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by Spyro7 15y ago
"Who gets to decide what the right outcomes are and whether they are efficient?" Whether or not an outcome is "right" is subjective, and is more in the field of law and philosophy than economics. Whether or not an outcome is efficient for
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by Spyro7 15y ago
The techniques in mobile web development are still young. A general knowledge of how to build a site for mobile interfaces has not come around yet. For now, it is understandable that you will see some imitation of successful "app" design pa
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by Spyro7 15y ago
I appreciate your thoughtful reply. While I am making the transition to a web developer at the moment, I have a graduate degree in Economics and I have spent some time working in the investment industry (Main St, not Wall St). I would just
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by Spyro7 15y ago
And this is why more web developers need to be aware of and use things like jQuery Mobile: http://jquerymobile.com/ If you look at the platforms list on that page, you will see that you can actually use this framework to build a mobile si
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by Spyro7 15y ago
Dr. Taleb's book, Black Swan, was a truly interesting treatment of long-tail statistical events and how humans perceive said events. It is unfortunate to see him indulging in so much hand waving in this article. "For banks that have filing
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by Spyro7 15y ago
"There is a concentration of tech startups in SV because the internet lets them sell to the rest of the country without issue." I don't think so. If the Internet was all that was needed to explain this concentration, then that would not b
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by Spyro7 15y ago
This is a fantastic post. It is well written, and I agree with many of the authors points. Far from being angry, I think that the majority of people reading here on HN actually appreciate this type of critical analysis, and I think that i
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by Spyro7 15y ago
I am a recent coffeescript convert. When I first heard about coffeescript I dismissed it offhand as a pointless abstraction over javascript, which I judged to already be a high level language. (In retrospect, I am ashamed to say it, but I t
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by Spyro7 15y ago
"I'd say it's because if you're finding functional programming incredibly difficult, you maybe shouldn't be lecturing on what it is." Thank you for your thoughtful reply. I really do appreciate it. It isn't the programming that is the hard
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by Spyro7 15y ago
"Functional programming is just the general notion of using more functions, and less computer-architectury things, to express your ideas." Umm, no, that is not what functional programming is. Functional programming is, basically, programmin

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