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An alternative is an option type. In scala, you have the abstract type Option[T], which has implementations Some[T](value: T) and None[T]. Alternately, you have Either[A, B], with …

> That said, how can that old game be more fun that TF2? EMP Grenades.

Actors had a memory leak when a lot of the formative Twitter Scala stuff happened. This lead to more usage of java concurrency primitives, which snowballed within the culture. Ther…

"It's as expressive as Ruby, but runs much faster and is easier to refactor."

This whole thing is a bit disingenuous, because the type signature argued over is an alternate signature which no one uses, because it provides custom concatenation of Traversables…

I spent about a year as a maintainer of FlockDB, Twitter's social graph store. If you don't know, it's basically a sharded MySQL setup. One of the key pain points was optimizing th…

Many internal tools use it.

The economy could certainly find use for them, but perhaps not at a price above minimum wage.

Indeed. I have over a hundred repos, and I'm useless ;)

People are afraid of planes because if the power goes out, you die. On the ground, if the power goes out on your driverless car, you cruise to a stop.

You can't run a Solr server because (1) present limits are 300MB RAM hard, and (2) disk is transient. There's a solr addon though.

It drives pageviews?

If two people independently invent something at about the same time, does that mean it's obvious to someone skilled in the art? In those scenarios, I'd like to see both patents thr…

Also, I don't know if I really want to hear about Enya from Bakersfield any more. Please do something about ad fatigue and/or inventory.

Ironically, the guys who maintain rubygems also wrote http://rubyhitsquad.com/ , in which they vocally slam another mainstream Ruby project.

Quit trolling, that's a technicality.

Somehow, the comment threads get flooded instead.

This advice is potentially terrible for many/most people. > Skip college, you can always go back. It's much harder to get into and succeed in college later in life. You'll also be …

Why be jealous? He has no traction. Copy it and do it slightly better.

Too bad it doesn't work.

You can log to mongodb capped collections. You get a semi-structured ring buffer with fast writes. I'm not a huge mongo fanboi, but this is one situation I've seen it excel in.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/irony 5. an outcome of events contrary to what was, or might have been, expected. 6. the incongruity of this. Seems fine to me.

Love the irony: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2303854

Can't be a religion without a good ol'fashioned resurrection.