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rudiger··on CL21: An experimental project redesigning Common Lisp
Erlang, despite its fusty syntax, already feels like the future for anyone using it.
rudiger··on Rick Reed – WhatsApp: Half a billion unsuspecting FreeBSD users [video]
Not just Erlang/BEAM optimization, but the team's background in high performance, C-based systems on FreeBSD enabled them to achieve massive scale.
rudiger··on Scaling to millions of simultaneous connections (2012) [pdf]
Sorry, but any good programmer will know the conventional data structures and algorithms, regardless of whether they write programs in Erlang, C or some other language.
rudiger··on Zotonic - A High Performance Web Framework in Erlang
You should take a look at Chicago Boss[1], the Rails-like Web framework for Erlang.

[1]: http://www.chicagoboss.org/

rudiger··on Ubuntu 13.10 (Saucy Salamander)
How does Ubuntu with LXDE compare with Xubuntu (another lightweight desktop environment)?
rudiger··on MongoDB Raises $150 Million at $1.2 Billion Valuation
Can't you just store it in a regular 64-bit integer and know it's a datetime from your application's logic?

What do you gain with a native, high-resolution datatime type?

rudiger··on Java to Scala converter
Wow, I had no idea that Scala is already ten years old.
rudiger··on Bandwidth needs halved by new compression written in Go
Erlang with OTP also does pretty well on that test; I've deployed non-trivial programs that weighed in at a couple hundred lines of code.

I agree though — Go looks awesome.

rudiger··on Erlang OTP Tutorial For Beginners
OTP isn't just powerful, it's essential. You need to think in terms of what OTP provides you to program in Erlang effectively.
rudiger··on Tom Preston-Werner: Development of Jekyll to be revived in 2013
I'd recommend Pelican over Hyde. It's Python, has great documentation and is actively developed.

http://getpelican.com/

https://github.com/getpelican/pelican

rudiger··on Dolphins deserve same rights as humans, say scientists
Do you realize the irony of telling others what to think or say?
rudiger··on Could Google Glass be banned in the casinos?
Programming Google Glass to play blackjack (basic strategy or a card-counting system) seems like a much more tractable problem. Watch the table, count the cards and recommend the optimal play.

I believe these sorts of wearable computing devices are already banned in most casinos.

rudiger··on The Case for Abolishing Patents (Yes, All of Them)
Microsoft reveals the shroud of x.
rudiger··on Python is doing just fine
It's the people who worry about the flavor of the week (the early followers, if you will) who take the language from "sexy, trendy, and unstable" to "productive, stable, serious, and pragmatic."
rudiger··on Has Apple Peaked?
Can you name one transit app for New York City that's 1) free and 2) nearly as good or better than Google Maps?
rudiger··on Comparing Go and Java, Part 2 – Performance
How does this compare to using Spring application development framework (with Maven, of course)? My understanding is that the Spring framework is how you're "supposed to do it" in Java, and it certainly is very popular.

http://www.springsource.org/

rudiger··on Dalton Caldwell, you should move to New York and re-rethink app.net
Off-topic: Anyone else noticing the proliferation of Svbtle[1] blogs on the front page of Hacker News today? I counted three in the top ten links just now.

[1] - http://svbtle.com

rudiger··on Ask HN: Review my startup, http://conweets.com
Clickable: http://conweets.com
rudiger··on Goldman Sachs and the $580 Million Black Hole
I'm reminded of AOL vs. Time Warner, Steve Case vs. Ted Turner.
rudiger··on App.net is crowdfunding their realtime feed platform
Will there be a free tier?
rudiger··on Ask HN: Who is building a new kind of search engine?
DRIFT is a new image "discovery engine" I discovered here recently.

http://drift.io

rudiger··on Dalton Caldwell: Announcing an audacious proposal
Will there be a free tier?
rudiger··on The eero programming language - a dialect of Objective-C
- It takes the right approach to memory management. Realizes that garbage collectors are abominations, and that managing memory is really the job of either the developer or the compiler.

Please elaborate why Objective-C's approach to memory management is Right, and why GC is Wrong.

rudiger··on Profile: Yammer CEO David Sacks - latimes.com
Interesting perspective:

Sacks, who lives in San Francisco, says he doesn't have any hobbies. "I feel like hobbies are for people who don't like their jobs," he said.

rudiger··on Show HN: VA kids love drinking, hate paying. Step 1. Thoughts?
Relevant passage:

But with a groupware product, nobody would ever work on it unless they were getting paid to, because it's just fundamentally not interesting to individuals.

So I said, narrow the focus. Your "use case" should be, there's a 22 year old college student living in the dorms. How will this software get him laid?

That got me a look like I had just sprouted a third head, but bear with me, because I think that it's not only crude but insightful. "How will this software get my users laid" should be on the minds of anyone writing social software (and these days, almost all software is social software).

"Social software" is about making it easy for people to do other things that make them happy: meeting, communicating, and hooking up.

rudiger··on Microsoft Writing Off Nearly All of the $6.3 Billion it Paid For aQuantive
Interestingly, aQuantive (formerly Avenue A Media) was founded by Nick Hanauer, one of the people profiled in GQ's recent article[1] on income inequality. He was also one of the first investors in Jeff Bezos and Amazon.

[1] - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4181382

rudiger··on Show HN: pan.do/ra - a free, open source platform for video archives
If you need a new name, Pando (Latin for "I spread") is the name of the largest and possibly oldest single organism on Earth.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pando_(tree)

rudiger··on Anonymous Publishing is Dead
What if you don't represent a populist movement and your views don't cater to the masses?
rudiger··on Mark Cuban: High-Frequency Traders Are the Ultimate Hackers
Interesting! Where can I find out more about this more efficient market exchange design?
rudiger··on Why Are American Kids So Spoiled?
And parents need to learn to deal with things like their kids complaining.
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