charrington

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A man who decides when and where your next flight will be going(cnn.com)
2 points by charrington 5mo ago|0 comments
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by charrington 5y ago
This is pretty much my routine as well. I find morning and evening prayer / reflection very useful to help me make small, continuous improvements.
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by charrington 5y ago
Well played...
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ICFP Programming Contest has started(icfpcontest2020.github.io)
3 points by charrington 6y ago|0 comments
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by charrington 6y ago
Sorry for the delay in getting back to this... The wind-down cost was very small in comparison to the price Oracle paid.
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by charrington 6y ago
Sorry for the delay in getting back to this... All the engineers went to work for Oracle and were given large incentives to stay for 2 years. Most stayed and got their incentive payouts, though they all eventually left later on. I think the
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by charrington 6y ago
I was a Sherwood Partners client in 2010. Oracle bought our startup, DataScaler. However, they bought the core assets of the company, not the corporate entity. That's a fairly common strategy for acquiring early-stage companies. The bu
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by charrington 7y ago
https://www.servocity.com/actobotics
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ICFP Programming Contest Has Started(icfpcontest2018.github.io)
3 points by charrington 8y ago|0 comments
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Ions – AWS Lambdas in Datomic Cloud(docs.datomic.com)
15 points by charrington 8y ago|0 comments
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by charrington 9y ago
The new "clj" CLI tool is not a javascript tool. It is for Clojure, not Clojurescript.
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by charrington 12y ago
I am also a happy UTOPIA user. I have a full symmetric gigabit pipe to my house for less than $100 per month. There are huge benefits to open choice networks.
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Acunu (stratified B-tree) Beta is out(acunu.com)
3 points by charrington 15y ago|1 comments
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by charrington 16y ago
I think that at the rates Twitter is writing counter data (Many TBs per day denormalized, ~0.5TB normalized), a RAM-based solution like VoltDB would be prohibitively expensive. Rainbird allows Twitter to use cheap disk-based storage but st
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by charrington 16y ago
Salesforce.com was "The End of Software."
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How IBM's Jeopardy-playing Watson computer was built(stanford.edu)
6 points by charrington 16y ago|0 comments
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by charrington 16y ago
How about just going with the disk-based line if the candidate goes there? On-disk data structures is a rich area for exploration. I think you're getting people a little riled up here because you seem to want to discuss Bloom filters no m
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by charrington 16y ago
hard really is backwards reading
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How Don Knuth's computer skills helped his college basketball team(adafruit.com)
46 points by charrington 16y ago|14 comments
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New $139 Kindle Released(crunchgear.com)
2 points by charrington 16y ago|0 comments
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by charrington 16y ago
N7LQX
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ICFP Programming Contest task is posted(icfpcontest.org)
7 points by charrington 16y ago|0 comments
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by charrington 16y ago
I enjoy home improvement. I head over to Home Depot most Saturdays. My daughters (8 & 10) go with me and we talk about the various interesting things we pass in the store. After we get home, they often like to help out with my home i
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by charrington 17y ago
This is Trevor Blackwell we're talking about. Perhaps you should be careful before casting aspersions. http://tlb.org/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trevor_Blackwell Ad-hominem attacks are not the kind of thing Hacker News is about.
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by charrington 17y ago
I used Aquamacs for 2-3 years but never really learned emacs until I swapped Aquamacs for Carbon Emacs and learned the real thing. Training wheels is a good analogy. You aren't really riding a bike if you use training wheels and they slow
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by charrington 17y ago
I have been learning Clojure casually for a few weeks now. I have been wanting to learn Lisp for years, based on pg's essays. Clojure finally gave me an approachable, useful way to do that. Pluses so far: + Concise code; no ceremony. + Bes
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by charrington 17y ago
Henry Ford?
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by charrington 17y ago
I totally agree that my new iPhone is basically an iPod touch. I get no AT&T signal at my house and marginal signal elsewhere. And it looks like I don't even get voicemails reliably. I should cancel my AT&T contract (there is a 3
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by charrington 17y ago
I am learning Clojure because I know lots of "traditional" languages and want to stretch my brain in new ways. I am also interested in new ways to write parallel programs, which is becoming a bigger and bigger issue. Clojure scores well o
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by charrington 17y ago
Wow! This is crazy. A similar thing happened to my friend Matt Harrison a while back. Here are the relevant links: - http://panela.blog-city.com/burninated_by_google.htm - http://panela.blog-city.com/back_in_google.htm - http://pane

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