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They're all working on Go : http://www.golang.org

I've been using Redis for data storage in a couple facebook apps. It's worked pretty well, and the speed is remarkable.

I don't know why we have to assume men and women should have the same roles at startups. I'm not saying they don't play an equally important role, it's just not the same.

It seems that men are more inclined, for whatever reason, to start companies. It could be a combination of many factors. However, I don't think we should assume something is wrong just because the numbers aren't the same.

Yeah, the moment I saw "Prauxmote yourself", i closed the window. I don't know if it's supposed to be cute or clever, but it made me feel uneasy.

I don't know if that's a good excuse because most of the competitors are students.

But yeah, programming competitions are not a high priority for US universities.

It seems like a business plan competition, except with a very ambiguous payoff and you're pitching to a bunch of random guys. I'm not saying it isn't legit, but I'd think twice before applying to this.

Yeah this is one of my all-time favorite papers on distributed systems

It's probably a good thing for Google that Schmidt doesn't have the final say in these decisions. He seems to have a misguided product sense. There was a Charlie Rose interview where Schmidt he was convinced that Adwords was going to be a flop, and tried to kill it. He didn't really want Chrome or Android. It's too soon to tell whether or not this China move is a good one though..

I wouldn't do it, because living in the bay area, it's not too difficult to find people that have gone through the fundraising process and ask them for advice.

That being said there are a lot of desperate people out there that are willing to pay for this kind of information. You'll probably get the same kind of people who are willing to pay lots of money to pitch to investors.

This is the github page:

http://github.com/JohnLangford/vowpal_wabbit

I completely agree. Youtube serves so much video, they wouldn't even notice the hosting overhead from a small site like totlol. Plus there are a number of ways to circumvent the TOS.

I can think of other big problems with the totlol idea, but none of them are related to the TOS..

Yeah, I agree it isn't the most elegant way to do it, but the alternative is to keep a copy of go's http package in the gocouch repo, which isn't too elegant either.

My guess is that within a couple months Go will have a new http client that's fully-featured (keep-alive requests, authentication, and support for generic requests). Until then, if people have a burning need to use gocouch, they'll have to add that small method to the http package. Plus, people are used to compiling the go source code because it's the only way to install it (no binary packages yet)

The http package can't send delete, head, or put requests. Couchdb uses all of these methods, not just post and get.

I filed an issue a few weeks ago for this: http://code.google.com/p/go/issues/detail?id=155

Yes you're right :) this assumes that only one user is using the app at a time. web.go doesn't have per-session storage yet

Make sure you're running the latest parser code; do an 'hg sync' on the go tree.

Or you can read the relevant mailing list thread:

http://groups.google.com/group/golang-nuts/browse_thread/thr...

One problem with this is that it enforces certain styles upon the programmer. For instance, this function won't compile in go:

    func main() 
    {
        println("hello world")
    }

Instead, if you run gofmt -w on the above code, you get this:

    func main()     { println("hello world!") }

This compiles fine, but it looks ugly.

Not sure if there's one in erlang, but go has a websocket server built into the standard library:

http://golang.org/pkg/websocket/

I thought the blocks were pretty good visuals of what the article is trying to say. I guess you didn't understand that.

Yeah I get this feeling a lot. If you're working with formats like json and yaml, there really isn't an adequate way to represent those formats in Go (something as natural as python dictionaries or ruby hashes)

Something I'd like to know is what languages they've used in the past few years. When Pike answered the question, he mentioned a bunch of dead research languages. He said that Ken Thompson was influenced by B, but I highly doubt that he's written any B code in the past 30 years.

Go's overarching principle is "to reduce the amount of typing" and "reduce clutter and complexity", but if you switch from something like python or ruby to go, you'll quickly notice there's a lot more typing and complexity for programs. Especially when it comes to stuff like type declarations and error handling.

I used to be a huge user and advocate of ocaml, but the language is heavily constrained by the standard library, and the maintainers come from a pure research background so they aren't inclined to make it more practical.

For instance, there's no packages for http, json, or xml in the standard library.

Something that slightly bothered me: Pike was asked if go would have something like rubygems, and he said he had no idea what ruby gems are and how ruby handles third party packages.

This is troubling because I've written a couple libraries for go, and it would be awesome to have something similar to rubygems or pypi to distribute them.

This is really weird. It sounds like indentured servitude.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indentured_servant

But some actions are inherently masculine or feminine, and there shouldn't be anything wrong that. A lot of these things are innate.

Why are boys more likely to play with firetrucks and police cars? Why are auto mechanics overwhelmingly male? Men see a flat tire. It's a problem with a clear outcome. So they take action and solve it.

I'm not saying that women can't do it. But I can see why it's something men are more inclined to do.

What's even more insane is that the leader, Neil Wu, is 16 years old.

http://www.topcoder.com/tc?module=MemberProfile&cr=22663...

While I think it would be a great idea for this guy to start approaching and talking to women, I don't think that seeking validation from women should be his highest priority. He's in a fucked up emotional state and should overcome that first. Once that's done he'll be much more relaxed and emotionally consistent when he does start talking to girls.

This seems like a strange acquisition. VMWare makes money from selling virtualization and VM management software; spring is just a set of popular java frameworks. maybe they're trying to enter a completely different market?

I've lived in SF for about 10 months, and it isn't as hopeless as the article states. I've met quite a few girls and went on plenty of dates, but you may have to be a little more aggressive than other places.

For instance, it's common for bars to have a higher ratio of guys; I know a lot of 'nice' guys who will give up in this situation. You might have to step out of your comfort zone to interact with girls, but it's doable.

SF is a massive, dynamic city and it can't be modeled in such a simple way.

This is a good set of items to include:

http://www.sequoiacap.com/ideas/

Why would I bother using this site when I could go to any of the other dating sites on the web, many of which have thousands of females in my local region?

From the about page of your site, it seems like you're an introvert programmer married for 15 years and three children. When was the last time you've been on a date or tried to romantically connect with other women? I don't mean to plow on the haterade but it's a serious question. Do you understand the dynamics of meeting women (i.e how attraction works, what women look for), or is this site a projection of what you think dating should be?