ixmatus

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by ixmatus 12y ago
The advice to just get an LLC going first then convert to a C corp is fine for their stage, I won't argue against it. However, what you're saying in opposition to forming a C corp early doesn't feel very rigorous. From my lim
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by ixmatus 12y ago
Getting into an accelerator or incubator (even if it's one that's not popular) can really help with the legal stuff since you'll be able to get more advice and they will always have those boilerplate docs for you. Form a C co
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by ixmatus 12y ago
The point went over your head, in any failed dynamic there are always mistakes made on both sides. I'm trying to encourage her to think deeper (not write) about it beyond not catching the "warning signs" which places her in
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by ixmatus 12y ago
It's glossed over because it requires more than a single party to represent the "story" in a fair light and it would unprofessional for her to write about her biased emotional experience. I think she is 100% in the clear for
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by ixmatus 12y ago
I experienced a co-founder split not too long ago and I can definitely tell you from my personal introspection that you may need to look deeper than "it was my fault for not seeing the warning signs". It always takes two to tango
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by ixmatus 12y ago
It's funny, strong type systems are really about explicit documentation. I'm sure the comments are good but translating a spec into Haskell types is a form of strong and explicit documentation that is also functional.
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by ixmatus 12y ago
"Raise your rates" is excellent advice and, OP, you may or may not understand that it's actually more about psychology. Higher rates help filter out demanding clients and also make it "worth it" when you do get a de
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by ixmatus 12y ago
Once you've learned Haskell, actually, you can be far more productive in it than most other languages. The only piece of your statement that I'll agree with is that Haskell doesn't really have any great numerical or scientifi
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by ixmatus 12y ago
Well, that project, Q just doesn't even share the same thesis of Haxl. At all. Two completely different projects, Q couldn't be used for what Haxl is intended. If you had posted the link asking for a comparison, that would've
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by ixmatus 12y ago
Which bodes extremely well for them. They may quickly become the PayPal of bitcoin for providing a solid service allowing businesses to interface with BTC; as PayPal did for giving businesses and individuals a solid service to transact usin
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by ixmatus 12y ago
You can do "kind of" dependent types in Haskell too but it's an ugly mess (like trying to do it in Scala). Idris handles it really well for general programming tasks.
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by ixmatus 12y ago
To each his own. I rarely hear fluent Haskellers say they don't care for the syntax though; if you haven't really gotten far enough to write production code in Haskell that leverages Haskell's powerful abstraction features, t
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by ixmatus 12y ago
You obviously don't understand what Haxl is for.
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by ixmatus 12y ago
Yeah, in the future don't delete your comment unless you've been convinced that you really were being a troll or asshole. Stimulating discussion is what makes this site great and don't let the wannabe hackers that don't
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by ixmatus 12y ago
It's really amusing to me that FreeBSD Jails have existed for quite some time already. I think the novelty though is "shared configurations" and shareable environments that are not VMs. Right now "cloud" stuff is
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by ixmatus 12y ago
Yeah I'm aware of Chicago Boss and have used it, but like most "frameworks" websockets are bolted on and you have to write special handlers for them. I have yet to see frameworks offer routing coming in from the websocket con
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by ixmatus 12y ago
So, it's a web framework that receives route requests and sends responses over a WebSocket / Comet connection? I've had a similar idea for something in Haskell and it's cool to see someone doing this.
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by ixmatus 12y ago
Not wasting but you'll think you're a functional programmer, hit Haskell, then realize you were barely a functional programmer. I used to feel as you did, until I started thinking more mathematically; the idea behind composition a
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by ixmatus 12y ago
Someone told me this: with Haskell you end up reading a lot more up-front than you do "playing around" up-front. The reason for this is the type system which can feel like a straight jacket at first unless you understand it well.
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by ixmatus 12y ago
I'll second FPComplete - a lot of people seem to glom really well onto their web-based IDE.
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by ixmatus 12y ago
Hipchat runs smoother than XChat for you? That's a first. Hipchat isn't bad but I vastly prefer IRC, particularly with a good IRC bot.
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by ixmatus 12y ago
Yeah, if you ever get a chance to build something for production in Haskell / Scala / OCaml you'll realize how little even Go (which is better than Python and Ruby!) does for you. The funny thing is, I believe (from real-worl
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by ixmatus 12y ago
I do not consider Go to have a strong type system. It's static though. Strong typing allows you to do a lot and it also solves the problem we fallible humans bring to the table. Humans are pretty good at being creative but extremely
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by ixmatus 12y ago
It's the difference between Eclipse and Emacs. Haskell actually encourages "internalization" of abstractions through terser syntax. Emacs is like that, you internalize the editor which makes you 5x more productive than you ar
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by ixmatus 12y ago
I'm undoubtedly a Haskell convert (from Erlang / Scheme / Python) with little experience in Go. The investment is pretty big, yes, but I also believe it is great from a commercial perspective because it really improves the re
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by ixmatus 12y ago
Awesome change, results are much improved too, using it as my default.
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by ixmatus 12y ago
I know this is an answer most people don't want to hear, but why not build your own Ansible / provisioning workflow and use that to do everything these services do? I have one built in Ansible for our Python webapp and the entire
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by ixmatus 12y ago
This is a case of "priming" the consumer, in some cases you don't need to prime them but those low-hanging fruit are rarely not served already and it's usually juicier and only slightly more time consuming to drive your
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by ixmatus 12y ago
Lol at the downvoters. I'm sure you can build a lifestyle business around a CMS that spits out a static site but honestly, unless your audience is Hacker News, people don't care whether it's static or dynamic and often times
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by ixmatus 12y ago
Here's the deal though, because I've wrestled with this myself and after being a founder of three startups this is my conclusion: being a good hacker is not enough - who ultimately is the recipient of a hacker's output? Alway

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