shankys

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by shankys 14y ago
I'd be really interested in hearing more details about your experience.
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by shankys 17y ago
Support for mixed Scala/Java projects improved a lot in Scala 2.7.2, which was released in late 2008, so there aren't problems mixing Scala/Java anymore. Here's a description of what was added since this article was written: "The compiler c
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by shankys 18y ago
I don't know Tony personally, but I'm very familiar with his work. He's a brilliant programmer. HN is the only reason I learned about Tony's suicidal message on IRC within an hour of it being sent. Hopefully someone who personally knows hi
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by shankys 18y ago
Being able to write a "hello, world" in Haskell certainly doesn't make you a good programmer. However, I would say that anyone who has already written a sizable Haskell program (5K+ LOC) is almost certainly a good programmer. The reason is
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Alexis Ohanian at Business of Software 2008 [video](network.businessofsoftware.org)
18 points by shankys 18y ago|2 comments
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by shankys 18y ago
I think you meant "not over 40".
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by shankys 18y ago
Version control is indeed always a good idea. However, I'd strongly advise choosing Git over SVN. SVN's branching capability is a joke compared to Git, and you'll wonder how you ever lived without easy branching once you get used to having
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by shankys 18y ago
I know both Lisp and Haskell, and I'm pretty sure that Haskell for most people is much harder to learn. The two biggest stumbling blocks people encounter when learning Haskell are monads and the (powerful but complex) type system.
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by shankys 18y ago
In my experience, Solaris zones and VMWare's virtualization offerings are the most solid and reliable virtualization solutions available (VMWare is quite pricey though). Zones are the best game in town when you need OS level virtualization
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by shankys 18y ago
Zones, ZFS, and DTrace are the main differentiating technical advantages for Solaris.
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by shankys 18y ago
What are the major flaws in Buzzword? I find it vastly superior to all its competitors.
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The Long Strange Trip to Java(blinkenlights.com)
17 points by shankys 18y ago|10 comments
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by shankys 19y ago
I'm now very curious -- what is Facebook using Erlang for?
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by shankys 19y ago
Scala has some very nice features for making Java's libraries much nicer to deal with. The most useful are probably implicit definitions and parameters, operators (any method may be used as an infix or postfix operator), and target typing.
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Facebook Offers $85 Million To Acquire Chinese Social Networking Site Zhanzuo.com(techcrunch.com)
3 points by shankys 19y ago|0 comments
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by shankys 19y ago
Interestingly enough, we actually live off something very similar for our startup. However, what we do requires less work than pg's setup for the lazy ones among you. Buy a rice cooker and large quantities of white rice. Then buy 6-packs o
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by shankys 19y ago
I didn't know Reddit switched away from web.py. Do you know what they switched to?
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by shankys 19y ago
Assembly, Bash, C, Dylan, Emacs Lisp, F#, Groovy, Haskell, Icon, Java, K, Lua, Mathematica, Nemerle, Oz, Perl, Qi, R, Scheme, Tcl, UnrealScript, VRML, Whitespace, XQuery, Yorick, Z++ (I tried to pick different PLs than russ if I could think
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by shankys 19y ago
See http://www.paulgraham.com/inequality.html
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by shankys 19y ago
Are they using Seaside or rolling their own framework (I'm assuming they're doing a webapp)?
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CS290F at UCSB: Scaling Ruby on Rails on Amazon EC2(courses.voneicken.com)
5 points by shankys 19y ago|0 comments
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Sun cofounders talk about what founding Sun was like [video](sun.com)
2 points by shankys 20y ago|0 comments
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Startup Success 2006 [video] - Panel moderated by Guy Kawasaki featuring Reid Hoffman (LinkedIn), Joe Kraus (Excite, Jotspot), and others(veotag.com)
17 points by shankys 20y ago|1 comments