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so much for pg's "high res" web market

clojure has a cool syntax but i'm not sure it gets the performance boost on multicore that haskell would. in the end, clojure just makes .class files. its the jvm that must perform…

this is where the men (large scale data analysis) and boys (webmonkeys) will be separated. the webmonkeys will note that processors like the intel i7 coupled with huge outbound con…

what can ocaml do that haskell can't? indeed these days its the other way around. the volume of submissions on hackage is far in excess of anything you see in ocaml land. on a lang…

Haskell code to do I/O (i.e., Monads) isn't a pretty or elegant as purely functional Haskell code are you using "do" notation? ITS JUST SUGAR. you can use >>=, >>, return etc direc…

??? the entire point of Monads is to put stateful, side-effect oriented code on the same level as pure functional code. so actually none of the "haskellish beauty" goes out the win…

You can be a two people startup serving a huge user base you live in fantasy land. at the very least you will need N customer care agents to every M customers. sorry, people will e…

this is almost 100% wrong. the more frictionless a market is, the more it will consolidate to a winner-take-all scenario. in ten years, five companies will control 95% of web traff…

there goes ning. not that it was ever "there"

cliff notes version: twenty people writing technically trivial code and making no money

I still think that projects are more valuable on a resume (or, I'd look at them more if it was up to me) yeah, maybe if you are a core contributor to the linux kernel, apache daemo…

yes it costs you nothing but chances are it will earn you nothing. thats the entire point of my attributions of the web being frictionless and winner-take-all.

Why are grades that important? They show that you can do things after a professor tells you how to do it, and that you're good at busywork why are you telling me this? just drop th…

blogsalot != knowsalot

she can be airbrushed to resemble a real woman, thats why she was on the cover of mit tech review, another toilet paper mag for the psuedo-intellectual crowd

ditch college and build your project guess what, there are two things you can't do in a "startup" that you can do in college....smoke a bowl at the dorm and get laid by women out o…

Worst comes to worst, I leave college for a year or two and chances are, like most dropouts, you won't return. then you won't have a viable website business or a degree. four years…

only if your company is trucking in low-iq monkey work...which covers 99% of the "startups" today

and I've got a cofounder good god please bury this term, the yc fanboys have turned the "startup" lexicon into such a shallow cliche that its almost at the point of parody. you don…

what companies have you built and sold? "built and sold"????? do you think these people "cashed out"??? i would be shocked if any member of the team was premiumed more than 50k...w…

I'm not an experienced coder myself, and I'm also working on a start-up. stop wasting the precious hours of your life

shutdowns like this are going to be common. 90% of existing websites have no viable chance of being self-sustaining by ads or subscriptions...but this shouldn't surprise anyone, at…

co2stats is just a greenwashing tool, and its utility will die as fast as greenwashing dies. by greenwashing, i mean the suggestion that users choose products based on their adopti…

matching ips to locales is not new.