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Could be useful for some things. I feel like it's a missed opportunity to employ somethings like session types, given the existence of a quasi-typed human-readable "schema" definit…

So go learn something. Either you listen to advice or you don't.

Consistent with the complaint leveled against my previous comment, I should think that this is really consistent with the DBMS syntax of the Opa language

You're quite right. I think my complaint was that it reduces the definition of "database" to "anything that is used to store data", rather than the database being the json file(s) …

It seems rather generous to call this a database. It's files on a filesystem. The lack of any kind of transactional consistency guarantees (Dropbox is notoriously awful at this), a…

There are many complex issues here, but here's a simple strategy: Don't accept less money for the next job than you accepted for the last one. If you keep doing this, you will find…

Or we could question whether attempting to come up with problems to solve in order to create a business is a good idea at all. Perhaps we should build businesses because that's the…

Handy!

Look out for my new series: "Why link bait will end up on HN?"

Breaking news: Companies attempt to maximise profit and charge for perceived value, not direct cost incurred. More news at 10.

Makes a fairly interesting point that seems obvious once you've read it, but which we actually don't have embedded as an assumption - that the level of user trust placed in us as d…

The advantage of any programming language, framework, or library is that you know it already and it allows you to achieve things. I wouldn't personally advocate learning PHP today,…

A curious value proposition. Is it for encrypted communications between people who know about encryption? Why not then just use encrypted email through pre-established trust mechan…

Genuinely good advice, but the prose wrapped around it is tedious and over-wrought. I think a lot of people will tl;dr this, so (spoiler alert!) the advice is basically to use Twit…

Makes me a little nervous with respect to software patents, but best of luck to you ;)

I see. There's an interesting claim in the footer - "soon to be patented". Is there IP here that is patentable?

Seems like a neat platform. How has the uptake been?

In fact, having re-read my own post from 2 years ago and found myself still agreeing with it, I find myself wanting to travel back in time to paste that link to the author of the l…

I'm sure many have tried, but language comparisons actually devolve into uselessness very quickly, because the things we can quantitatively measure and compare about languages are …

I feel like this is what would happen if you took every language under the sun and asked people who had never used them to offer commentary. It's just full of strange gaps and clai…

This feels like something that belongs in a bug report rather than HN.

Possibly also of interest in this context: * http://www.smlserver.org/smltojs/ - SML to Javascript * http://ocsigen.org/js_of_ocaml/manual/ - OCaml to Javascript

Succeeds in being content-free whilst simultaneously being an insulting transparent ad for a particular unit-testing product.

"Man with life-threatening health problems looks ill in photos. More news at 10".

OK, so I went back and re-read that paragraph twice more. I'm not sure if the claim is about abstract interpretation, model checking, or the particular problem domain, but I'm quit…