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by rontr 19y ago
Only if you first answer it.
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by rontr 19y ago
If Symbol#to_proc is so great, I'd like to see how it can elegantly express something that can't be hidden behind a simple library function. In any decent language the programmer would write "sum(1,100)". Even if the function's implementati
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by rontr 19y ago
A&F: revenue - $2 billion a year, valuation - $5 bil Facebook: revenue - $150 mil, valuation - $15 bil
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by rontr 19y ago
At least for me, Google is the Google of personal information. Xobni makes Outlook search less painful, but my Outlook only has my boring work emails. Gmail and Google Docs (and Facebook) is where I keep my personal information. Also, don
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by rontr 19y ago
Ugh. The Diebold bot is voting me down.
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by rontr 19y ago
I think that it's impossible to state firmly (especially in a forum called hacker news :) ) that George Bush Jr beat either Gore or Kerry. This is because electronic voting machines were used to count many of the votes. Electronic voting
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by rontr 19y ago
http://www.nabble.com/Erlang-concurrency-to14747956.html#a14...
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by rontr 19y ago
What makes you think it's written to stdout?
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by rontr 19y ago
People believe in weird things. This could succeed.
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by rontr 19y ago
I think a lot of people like those apps.
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by rontr 19y ago
Slide is on MySpace too, and they probably make more money there than on Facebook. It's easy for us YC news hackers to forget about MySpace because we probably all use Facebook but MySpace is where most users are. Let's also not forget that
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by rontr 19y ago
I don't think running your own software on EC2 qualifies as building a CDN.
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by rontr 19y ago
The cool kids won't move on to Scala for a number of reasons, the primary of which is that Scala's actors are not as powerful as Erlang processes. See Virding's First Rule of Programming ( http://www.nabble.com/Erlang-concurrency-to14747956
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by rontr 19y ago
Javascript is simpler - but more importantly, much more popular than Objective-C. It's also garbage collected, a feature that Objective-C may also have these days, but not when I last used it a couple of years ago.
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by rontr 19y ago
That's true to a degree. However, Google also follows the mantra, "what's good for the Internet is good for Google." For example, they provide the monetization system (ads) to ask.com, which is a direct competitor. Why not also provide comp
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by rontr 19y ago
"This is cute, but doesn't really do anything which isn't already possible with EC2 and S3." EC2 doesn't give you durability, and S3 doesn't give you speed. SimpleDB gives you both.
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Ask YC: Will there really always be room for more successful web startups?
44 points by rontr 19y ago|58 comments
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by rontr 19y ago
Baysian filters requires quite a lot of training to start working effectively. People don't want to rate hundreds of articles before they start getting good content.
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by rontr 19y ago
Problem is Google penalizes pages with duplicate content by lowering their PageRank. If comments are duplicated on your blog as well as on discus.com, your blog could pay a price.
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by rontr 19y ago
Having the source code wouldn't be much of an assurance. How do you know that this code is really the code that is deployed on the machine during the elections? How do you know that the memory cards that store the votes are not tampered wit
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by rontr 19y ago
I actually think she's creating something very different from drones. It sounds like she's pushing kids to do extraordinary things that they wouldn't think of doing by themselves, but as long as those are the things about which the kids are
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by rontr 19y ago
It's just about speed as much as how much abuse your server can take before it stops serving.
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by rontr 19y ago
Ugh. I tried to order one but couldn't get past the 'enter desired serial number' page due to a Javascript bug. I hope it doesn't take another 2 years of research to find the forumula for a correct implementation of a Javascript event handl
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by rontr 19y ago
Lots of parentheses?
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by rontr 19y ago
When I moved from reddit to hacker news, I was hoping Coding Horror wouldn't follow.
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by rontr 19y ago
It would be much more compelling to say, "Joe Schmoe picked up this language in a weekend and used it to create a dating site that got 3mil users in a year" than "a few superstar genius programmers who built things you'll never ever build s
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by rontr 19y ago
I have the same impression. Plus, I think poor usability will kill it. I can't imagine my mom (the mom test is always important) clicking on objects in a video to see "relevant" offers. And the frustration level will be very high once a use
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by rontr 19y ago
I don't see what's game-changing about Ooyala. Can you please elaborate?
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by rontr 19y ago
Some people get too excited by micro benchmarks.
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by rontr 19y ago
I wish the author said why programming in Ruby makes him feel good. His statements could be made about any language. Many people program in language X because they like language X, and that doesn't apply just to Ruby. "I program in Ruby b

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