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by ecolak 7y ago
As the author of the Android app, it's pretty interesting and exciting to see an article on this. The project was an attempt to save or at least document this language which might go extinct soon, as many others in the region did. If a
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by ecolak 10y ago
Thanks for these, but I'd still say "Don't forget Guava".
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by ecolak 10y ago
"Many developers look at NoSQL engines—such as MongoDB, Cassandra, Redis, or Hadoop" Noone uses Hadoop as a database. On the other hand, HBase which uses HDFS as underlying storage is a great NoSQL database that we use in producti
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by ecolak 10y ago
Nothing new here. As the article mentions, it's the Babelfish from the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. I've wanted to build one myself since I read the book, but the fundamental problem of machines translating languages is
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by ecolak 10y ago
I like the write-up, but I disagree with the reasoning to avoid STM. It sounds a lot like "avoid ConcurrentHashMap in Java". It's true that web applications mostly persist their data in a database or some other persistent str
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by ecolak 10y ago
I like the fact that you tied the Watson api and the Telegram api together in a simple app, but it's a bit far-fetched to claim that "building intelligent bots is not too hard" based on this example.
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by ecolak 11y ago
What's a homocide?
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Challenge Proposal for IBM Watson: Coming up with Lorenzo's Oil
2 points by ecolak 11y ago|0 comments
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by ecolak 11y ago
Loved reading the book.
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by ecolak 11y ago
Examples look great with Java 8. Very excited to try version 3.
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by ecolak 11y ago
No lander?? :-(
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by ecolak 11y ago
Appreciate the article and the similarities that you point out between Rust and Clojure but I would not say syntax is one of them.
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by ecolak 13y ago
Impala, imitating Google's Dremel, is specifically designed for OLAP scenarios with its columnar storage structure and the compression algorithms that go along with it. This is not a fair comparison. Try doing OLTP with Impala and you&
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by ecolak 13y ago
Java 8
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by ecolak 13y ago
Out of the ones you listed, Haskell would be the most difficult for sure. For quick prototyping though, like others mentioned, the tools around the language would make a bigger impact than the language itself. So RoR or Django would make a
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From Code to Cure - Engineering Genomics(wired.com)
1 points by ecolak 13y ago|0 comments
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by ecolak 13y ago
"Haskell and LISP both have minimal syntax compared to C++, C# and Java". I agree that LISP does but I can't really say the same thing for Haskell, especially when you get into the whole monad stuff...
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by ecolak 14y ago
23AndMe doesn't tell you much about your DNA actually, they can only tell you some things about already known variations. If you really wanna know everything about your DNA, you should look at whole genome sequencing (WGS). WGS is usually d
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by ecolak 14y ago
This is not news, this is something very basic related to direct navigation traffic vs. paid traffic. If 50% of traffic is through direct navigation (ppl typing www.yourcompany.com on their browser to land on your site), and Google ads can
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by ecolak 14y ago
This guy also wrote great articles about Haskell and Erlang on defmacro.org. I wonder why they don't use any of that in RethinkDB.
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by ecolak 14y ago
The whole "protecting intellectual property" thing could work if it was possible to issue patents in an unbiased and consistent way but patent examiners are human beings and they do some research on the issue, read the arguments from the pa
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by ecolak 14y ago
Yea, the people who actually build this stuff should have a greater say in whether it should be patented or not I think.
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by ecolak 14y ago
I don't think their big contract with Lockheed Martin should be a good indicator of actual quantum computing. What they built is probably optimized for some of the problems that Lockheed Martin is trying to solve...
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by ecolak 14y ago
It sure is important but who is to say C-style syntax is better than Lisp-style syntax and vice versa. Obviously the NBL should have a sensible and consistent syntax but it has to have a lot more than that to be the NBL. C-style syntax is d
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by ecolak 14y ago
It's a pity that we are still talking about things like syntax in the context of a next big language. Programs are still full of bugs, especially concurrent programs, lots of time and effort is still spent on testing. At this day and age, t
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by ecolak 14y ago
When Einstein heard about Quantum Mechanics and the idea that everything is a probability, he said: "God doesn't roll dice". He meant that even though Quantum Mechanics does give us many answers about the world of the tiny, it doesn't truly
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by ecolak 14y ago
They used to get it from Craigslist. The listings were directly linked to Craigslist listings. I see that they don't do click-outs any more so I'm curious as to where they are getting them from too. By the way, I had done the same thing abo
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by ecolak 14y ago
The author is not arguing whether there can be a server-side framework using a dynamic language like Javascript. Obviously there can, just like there is RoR, Django and others. His point is that the Node community came to such a point where
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by ecolak 14y ago
It's great that you seem to have settled on Clojure after 2 complete rewrites which apparently you have the time and money for but that also sounds like you might end up rewriting the whole thing once you don't like something about Clojure.