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by gdp 14y ago
Could be useful for some things. I feel like it's a missed opportunity to employ somethings like session types, given the existence of a quasi-typed human-readable "schema" definition. It seems like one could (and should!) go further and
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by gdp 14y ago
So go learn something. Either you listen to advice or you don't.
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by gdp 14y ago
Consistent with the complaint leveled against my previous comment, I should think that this is really consistent with the DBMS syntax of the Opa language</pedantry>
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by gdp 14y ago
You're quite right. I think my complaint was that it reduces the definition of "database" to "anything that is used to store data", rather than the database being the json file(s) themselves, at which point we have degenerated to about the
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by gdp 14y ago
It seems rather generous to call this a database. It's files on a filesystem. The lack of any kind of transactional consistency guarantees (Dropbox is notoriously awful at this), and the lack of any sane mechanism for querying this "datab
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by gdp 14y ago
There are many complex issues here, but here's a simple strategy: Don't accept less money for the next job than you accepted for the last one. If you keep doing this, you will find that progress occurs naturally, or you reach a point where
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by gdp 14y ago
Or we could question whether attempting to come up with problems to solve in order to create a business is a good idea at all. Perhaps we should build businesses because that's the best context in which to execute a solution to an actual p
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by gdp 14y ago
Handy!
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by gdp 14y ago
Look out for my new series: "Why link bait will end up on HN?"
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by gdp 14y ago
Breaking news: Companies attempt to maximise profit and charge for perceived value, not direct cost incurred. More news at 10.
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by gdp 14y ago
Makes a fairly interesting point that seems obvious once you've read it, but which we actually don't have embedded as an assumption - that the level of user trust placed in us as developers is not matched by the level of care and responsibi
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by gdp 14y ago
The advantage of any programming language, framework, or library is that you know it already and it allows you to achieve things. I wouldn't personally advocate learning PHP today, but the idea that any language has intrinsic value divorce
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by gdp 14y ago
A curious value proposition. Is it for encrypted communications between people who know about encryption? Why not then just use encrypted email through pre-established trust mechanisms? Or is it for non-technical users who are paranoid ab
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by gdp 15y ago
Genuinely good advice, but the prose wrapped around it is tedious and over-wrought. I think a lot of people will tl;dr this, so (spoiler alert!) the advice is basically to use Twitter to validate ideas by seeing if you get a follow-back ra
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by gdp 15y ago
Makes me a little nervous with respect to software patents, but best of luck to you ;)
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by gdp 15y ago
I see. There's an interesting claim in the footer - "soon to be patented". Is there IP here that is patentable?
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by gdp 15y ago
Seems like a neat platform. How has the uptake been?
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by gdp 15y ago
In fact, having re-read my own post from 2 years ago and found myself still agreeing with it, I find myself wanting to travel back in time to paste that link to the author of the linked article before he wrote it.
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by gdp 15y ago
I'm sure many have tried, but language comparisons actually devolve into uselessness very quickly, because the things we can quantitatively measure and compare about languages are mostly not the things that people care about in practice. F
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by gdp 15y ago
I feel like this is what would happen if you took every language under the sun and asked people who had never used them to offer commentary. It's just full of strange gaps and claims about differences between languages that just aren't even
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by gdp 15y ago
This feels like something that belongs in a bug report rather than HN.
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by gdp 15y ago
Possibly also of interest in this context: * http://www.smlserver.org/smltojs/ - SML to Javascript * http://ocsigen.org/js_of_ocaml/manual/ - OCaml to Javascript
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by gdp 15y ago
Succeeds in being content-free whilst simultaneously being an insulting transparent ad for a particular unit-testing product.
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by gdp 15y ago
"Man with life-threatening health problems looks ill in photos. More news at 10".
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by gdp 15y ago
OK, so I went back and re-read that paragraph twice more. I'm not sure if the claim is about abstract interpretation, model checking, or the particular problem domain, but I'm quite certain that Microsoft's tool can't claim novelty in impl
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by gdp 15y ago
... is this implying that Microsoft invented model checking, or did I misunderstand the point being made?
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by gdp 15y ago
Just post something complimentary to a YC company, then they will release you from the silent jail.
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by gdp 15y ago
Also, 9/11 was an inside job and there was a second shooter on the grassy knoll.
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by gdp 15y ago
Upvoted! I was reading those bullets and mentally ticking them off against Ur/Web as well.
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by gdp 15y ago
Seems like you need to switch your motivation to building businesses because you have ideas that can only be executed properly in that context?

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