cmallen

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by cmallen 17y ago
NYC here, and I am really sick of hearing about this. I just don't care anymore.
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by cmallen 17y ago
>In the unlikely case I end up working a day-job for the rest of my life Statistically, that's an incorrect statement despite the best wishes of all present. You also failed to present anything remotely resembling a sane value equation.
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by cmallen 17y ago
Please breed. A lot.
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by cmallen 17y ago
The lack of good debugging tools continually stymies me.
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by cmallen 17y ago
We don't do a lot of flashy animations or anything like that at my place of employment, so generally it's a, "get it working, get it working reliably" priority order. Server-side js is something I'd like to do more of, but I rarely have an
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by cmallen 17y ago
I'm a back-end programmer by day who dreams of doing embedded work. Hacking the DOM in js is not my specialty. That said, I've hacked around with node.js.
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Ask YC: Javascript and server-side programming, which is harder for you?
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by cmallen 17y ago
I continue to get better, and I'm almost to the 4 year mark. I've improved more in the last year than I did in my second year. (First year programming professionally remains the largest leap, although perhaps the least significant.) As to h
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by cmallen 17y ago
Actually, I talked to him about librelist and Lamson in an email exchange awhile back. Cool guy. I don't totally grasp his reasons for moving from rails to python other than culture, but I don't really care.
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by cmallen 17y ago
Neither, I just take lumps and work out of them. There's no real trend.
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by cmallen 17y ago
COOL. Too bad I work in Python at home and work. Balls. :| Rubyists always get the pretty toys.
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by cmallen 17y ago
Given enough human effort and turing completeness you can make anything with anything. Everything is feasibility and pain.
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by cmallen 17y ago
They're didn't really write a web app framework in brainfuck, they just plugged a PHP interpreter of brainfuck into a module for apache. I mean, yeah, you can make web pages, but that hardly justifies the nomenclature "framework".
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by cmallen 17y ago
Am I the only one tired of mathematical tests? I'd rather see a test comparing the relative speed and scalability of various web app implementations. And don't give me that line about scaling not mattering, I have to cope with a cantankerou
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by cmallen 17y ago
We aren't really trying to get YCNews embroiled in environmental politics are we? Come now. I'd rather read about A/B testing on Erlang.
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by cmallen 17y ago
An encrypted tunnel that isn't initiated at the database level should work fine. Addendum: I'm more than a little puzzled that someone would be aware that a particular nosql database didn't support encryption natively and yet wasn't aware h
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by cmallen 17y ago
This is marketing trash. Life is too short, don't watch.
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by cmallen 17y ago
>Maverick, haha, I'm far from it. Just tired of the restrictions on computing devices I buy. Me too, I dream of computers that are designed from the ground up to be accessible to the curious (in the vein of the PCs from the 80s). I am h
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by cmallen 17y ago
This faux disgruntled move from Apple to Android trend is kind of sad. They're showing it off and blogging it like it makes them a 'maverick' when in fact it's just a "Grass Greener" situation. There are advantages and disadvantages to eith
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by cmallen 17y ago
Could someone please explain this (joke?) to me?
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by cmallen 17y ago
It would certainly make sense to do compression while it's stored server-side in RAM if they're RAM capacity limited.
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by cmallen 17y ago
Well, I guess for their scale, CPU-limiting factors would make compression not worthwhile. That said, for more common scaling issues, I think compression would be a huge win, especially with Redis-style backends.
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by cmallen 17y ago
Am I the only one wondering why facebook hasn't implemented a compression backend into memcache much like Reiser4 and ZFS has done? They've made it very clear that they're RAM limited (in particular with respect to capacity), so why not jus
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by cmallen 17y ago
>preverbal proverbial
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by cmallen 17y ago
Am I the only person in NYC rolling their eyes at this continual barrage of "IN NYC IT RAINS MANNA FROM THE SKY!" ?
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by cmallen 17y ago
When we run out, we've struck upon post-scarcity and you'll have no needs that won't be attended to. Wants? I'm not so sure about that part. Edit: You may however, be forced out of your comfort zone as more problem space gets explored. Don'
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by cmallen 17y ago
This is potentially the most adorable thing I've ever seen on this site.
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by cmallen 17y ago
That's what I did, initially. I don't know how long ago he's talking though.
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by cmallen 17y ago
It took me about ~2 months to get to an OS that could boot from an MBR, get into a raw kernel that only used memory space (no filesystem or persistence, this was intentional), and had a basic prompt running in kernel mode. What I really wan
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by cmallen 17y ago
>Pointers are absolutely part of the average Haskell and Python work environment -- it's impossible to get reasonable performance without them. I think that making calls to functions implemented in C via the FFI would be more productive

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