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Round Robbin is certainly not equivalent to random, and is much much better for most applications. If all the requests take about the same amount of time, then round Robbin will give the request to the one that hasnt received a request in the longest amount of time, which is clearly the best choice in this situation. Randomized has a 1/n chance of handing the request to this less busy node, which is why the problem becomes worse as you scale.

I can learn a new language well enough to be productive faster than I can become comfortable with a new codebase or with all the tooling built around it. I think this is true of many developers.

Besides what others said about him not always being rich, there is more to risk than money. Doing something crazy on TV or coming out with an album nobody likes could make hundreds of millions of people think differently of him, say he is going downhill, whatever. That is pretty risky as far as I'm concerned.

I've never seen %x() but good to know. I prefer backticks though.

Google Glass.

> So any lurkers out there, I encourage you to stop lurking and join the community.

Yes! If anybody is reading this without an account, make one! It took me far too long to start commenting.

> We spent over two days recently getting angular.js and rails wired up for a brand new project, that comes out to 12-16 hours spent on configuration instead of writing actual code to build an app that does something the customer wants

Am I the only one who was confused by this? There is no "wiring up" rails and angular js. Just include the source js in your application, or use the google CDN. One line of code.

How does this handle security? Sending data directly into a database from the browser with no application layer sounds a bit scary.

It's amazing how much we have done, yet how horrible even the best commenting systems are.

If you hate JS hacks and web apps and that's what your current job is doing, quit and go work on some database internals or a large distributed system or something. There are lots of jobs that aren't working on CRUD apps out there.

This looks awesome at first glance. I might try it out for my next JS game.

In my experience, it took essentially zero time to understand and be able to write simple CoffeeScript. Yeah, it will take some minor effort, but I see it as as parallel to templating languages in terms of your argument. It is faster and cleaner to write, and makes my life easier. I have hardly (I think never) needed to look at the output for debugging, but when I have looked out of curiosity it seemed reasonable, just with strange variable names.

Does anybody have examples of some CS code that only differs from JS in terms of syntax (eg. not defining a class or something) but compiles to something weird?

Is there any kind of ratelimit on https://sigil.cupcake.io?

And the second guy still presented after the first got that reaction? Wow.

> import calendar as usual

so good

I liked the painting and found that it added to the feeling the post was going for.

Seems easier to just use a regex. Every programmer should know them already, so this is just another API to remember. Still kinda cool though, but prob not so useful.

I rarely spend money on the app store, but if I get a card I'll buy many more apps and games than I otherwise would have.

I saw the title earlier today and didn't read it, but then when it later had so many comments I figured it was important. I was pretty shocked when I recognized the picture and github username. I'm really glad that you did write it, and I'm glad that I could make it worthwhile for you :)

Safe travels,

Ryder

Hey chimeracoder,

I went to school with you and saw you at some ADI events and hackathons from time to time. Even if I dont know you more than in passing, hearing something like this about somebody I know hits much closer to home than hearing it on the news. There isn't much I can say that hasn't already been said here, and you probably won't read through these hundreds and hundreds of comments, but if you read this, I just want to say that I'm so sorry. This is disgusting, and I hope that you never have to deal with a clear violation of rights like this again.

> We would like to acknowledge Narendra Bhati (R00t Sh3ll The Untraceable) of Cyber Octet Pvt.Ltd for reporting this issue.

hah, some of these are entertaining.

Hey, I guess I was in your class. Nice so see people from CU on here : )

It is strange that they haven't done any real demos (that I've come across), but an awesome idea nonetheless. Hopefully they release something more substantive soon.

I thought that this list was pretty great. I don't write much js, but http://adamschwartz.co/log/ looks awesome.

It's pretty annoying to make somebody 1) give an email address to find more info then 2) dont give them the info that you just promised. I guess you mean signup for our mailing list so you can get info later, but that wasn't clear.

I feel like people complain about this too much. Yeah, there are some bad/exaggerated comments, but overall I find mostly intelligent tech related conversation here. There will always be people who want to put down others for some selfish reason, but I don't think that defines HN. I've certainly learned a lot from the comments.

It's an SDK, not for the general public, so what's wrong with saying that?

Meron (founder) came to my computer vision class the other day to talk to us about Meta. He took the same class at my uni and has since hired some professors. Seemed like a great guy and a great product. I hope this takes off and isn't eaten by Google.

Yeah, that 20% should have a cap.

Odd that they tested against consumer hardware, not a supercomputer, given that is what this is really competing against.

Wow, glad I've never been interviewed by you.