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Re:Building a Startup on Clojure on Friday October 07, 2022 @12:36AM (#33117493)
Are you familiar with Carp [1]?

[1] https://github.com/carp-lang/Carp

Re:The Codeless CTO (2019) on Thursday October 28, 2021 @01:10AM (#29022597)
The "Developing Leadership" podcast [1] by Jason Werner (ex Github CTO) and Eiso Kant (founder Athenian) just did a three-part podcast series where this was also discussed. Can recommend.

[1]: https://developingleadership.co

Re:Dropbox Could Have One of 2017’s Most Interesting IPOs on Thursday January 05, 2017 @08:46AM (#13327032)
I'm using Waltr[0] for this, works great.

[0]: https://softorino.com/w2

A lot of businesses are still forcing its employees to use IE.
Would buy it! Just picking up Erlang and loving it so far. Would love to learn more on performance as well.
Re:The Science of Interstellar [video] on Sunday November 09, 2014 @08:28AM (#8579850)
The book is only 10 bucks if you buy the Kindle version on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Science-Interstellar-Kip-Thorne-ebook/...
Re:Show HN: Gibbon – peer-to-peer learning, now also on the iPad on Wednesday September 17, 2014 @11:42AM (#8330535)
iPhone app is coming soon! We developed it as an universal app, only need to redesign some of the screens.
Re:Cargo, Rust's Package Manager on Tuesday June 24, 2014 @05:30AM (#7936830)
This was how I installed it (Mac):

  1) Install latest version of Rust found here: http://www.rust-lang.org
  2) git clone --recursive [email protected]:rust-lang/cargo.git
  3) make
  4) make install (could be that sudo is needed for you)
Re:Cargo, Rust's Package Manager on Tuesday June 24, 2014 @03:47AM (#7936601)
And here is the announcement from Yehuda Katz:

https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/rust-dev/2014-June/010569...

Re:Reasons to use protocol buffers instead of JSON on Thursday June 05, 2014 @03:39PM (#7853838)
Or, another alternative is Cap'n Proto [1] from the primary author of Protocol Buffers v2. It smooths some of the bumps of protocol buffers.

[1]: http://kentonv.github.io/capnproto/

Re:Django Vanilla Views 1.0 released. on Monday September 23, 2013 @10:59AM (#6431384)
> In my opinion, Django's CBV's are polarizing [..] I feel like inheritance is a poor way of modeling views and reusing code.

I share your opinion on CBV. Personally I like the old function-based views because everything happens in that little block of code and I know exactly the order in which something happens. CBV quickly get me lost in the chain of method calls across classes.

I love my Thinkpad X1 Carbon with Arch Linux. I think I have a pretty optimized work environment thanks to the following software: Emacs (Editor, Email, IRC, Org-mode), XMonad (Window manager) and Conkeror (Browser).

You can find all my dotfiles online: https://github.com/wunki/wunki-dotfiles

Re:Why functional programming? Why Haskell? on Saturday August 10, 2013 @03:04AM (#6190312)
The power of Haskell is that it acknowledges the fact that it's a messy world and deals with it with the help of Monads.

You could turn it around and say that non-haskell programs live in an ivory tower and ignore the messy world below :)

Great work. Could you elaborate why you didn't pick the route of using one of the mentioned libraries, Clang or Acute?
Re:Salt: Like Puppet, Except It Doesn’t Suck on Monday June 24, 2013 @10:01AM (#5932896)
I just released a open-source package which enables you to create a Django centric stack on Vagrant with the help of Salt. It was indeed very easy to write. You can check it out here:

https://github.com/wunki/django-salted

Re:Poll: Do you have a 3d printer? on Thursday May 02, 2013 @11:01AM (#5644888)
Friends of mine are solving this exact problem by supplying a platform where 3D printer owners can earn some money by letting others use their printer. Check them out at 3D Hubs [1].

[1]: http://www.3dhubs.com/

No! It's of no interest to the sender when somebody has read their message. When building our invitation application we also had a feature that showed when somebody opened your invitation. But we quickly noticed that it was annoying because when you knew the sender would be notified, you wouldn't open the invitation to read it if you weren't sure you had the time to respond. It's the same with WhatsApp, the "social" pressure to respond because the other person knows you have read the message.
Yes, cold emails, keeping it short and personal. Also a lot of contact was made through Twitter.
Dutch we contacted in Dutch, others in English. Not tried to contact anyone in Asia yet, but I can recommend Brazil. Think that's also a good market.
Yes, mostly outside of the US. We got picked up by majority of the Dutch blogs (we are a dutch company) and some German blogs. We also found that when you are on a blog, other blogs tend to read those and then they contact you.

We also tried connecting with old media, but there was almost no spin off from that.

Re:Ask HN: What to learn to create amazing sites on Friday May 04, 2012 @04:29PM (#3930203)
I would pick a framework Django (Python) and or Ruby on Rails (Ruby). Not because they are better, but because there is lots of documentation and howto's and and it's relative easy to get something on the screen. That keeps you motivated and you will pick up on the language along the way.

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