dima

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   by dima 19y ago

   Why wait for Python to reinvent itself? Just use Erlang and call Python libraries from Erlang if you really need them.
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   by dima 19y ago

   Why not use Erlang and make it concurrent? :) [spawn(fun() -> print("'I will not throw paper airplanes in class.'") end) || N <- lists:seq(1, 500)]
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   by dima 19y ago

   Great idea, great product.
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   by dima 19y ago

   How does Loopt make money?
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   by dima 19y ago

   Erlang.
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   by dima 19y ago

   With SimpleDB (combined with EC2), building and scaling a service like AppJet just got a whole lot easier.
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   by dima 19y ago

   What do you mean by "everything is turning into software"? Also, while I agree that there's effectively infinite demand for new software (I can't imagine a day where all software companies and open source projects stop writing code), it d
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   by dima 19y ago

   Erlang ended up outperforming Ruby by many orders of magnitude in the same benchmark. Read the final article.
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   by dima 19y ago

   Erlang was designed for building scalable, highly available distributed systems. If it's not good at building other things, e.g. first person shooters, that's not a meaningful disadvantage.