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I still think Whisper has the biggest Phoenix deployment in terms of traffic. It's a huge part of what makes our web development easy because our backend is all Erlang. Thanks Chri…

We just bought a SAAS business via FE International last month ( http://talentdesk.com ). Process was incredibly smooth. I'm happy to answer questions privately if anyone has any o…

"If you’re in a car, you see watches outside the car go slower. They only go a little slower, so you wouldn’t notice it in your normal life; it takes the best watches in the world …

I have been asked that by a police officer and I find the best way to answer is "that's a good question!"

I've built dozens of Erlang apps and used ETS in every one. I've used Mnesia once, and it was not a pleasant experience. Most Erlang dev teams use ETS directly. It's possible to us…

Rosetta Stone's DVD based revenue model is crumbling.

This type of use of H1-Bs is really frustrating for people that legitimately have developers who have a true need for the visa. I've hosted FWD.us events, and I've applied for a nu…

I didn't say it wasn't complicated. What I said was most lift is due to angle of attack. The fact is that the percentage of lift that is attributable to angle of attack is far grea…

most lift is not generated above the wing but due to angle of attack which is the angle of the wing relative to the flight path.

anyone who has ever cloned the repo will have a full copy though.

If you don't want to build your own, the green egg is a really solid ceramic smoker/oven. expensive but the results are consistently good.

This is similar to http://wrttn.in , which a HN member created.

people still cook over an open fire. we call those people "campers".

One summer in France while I was a kid (from the states, visiting for 6 weeks), I wrote a spell checker in 6502 assembly in a notebook...as I had no access to a computer and my fre…

it's really easy to train someone on Erlang. And there are an increasing number of Erlang devs these days.

That's tough because purchasing is often difficult. It took me dozens of tries to get a flight booked to Cypress once, through 4 cities. I ended up deciding the onerous itinerary w…

Totally not need-based. A buddy and I just bought them and we decided to just make a weekend of it, went to a few good restaurants, saw a show.

Those were all-in. The $0 Air Canada one they actually called me and said that technically there was no contract of carriage because there was no money exchanged, but they let me h…

I've flown from SEA-NYC for $1.86. I flew from YYV to Romania, and onto Turkey, for $200. I flew with my family of 5 in first class from SEA-YTO (Toronto) for $0, on Air Canada. To…

Whisper (Venice Beach, CA) - iOS/Android/DevOps. We have a very very small team of client devs and we're looking to grow our team. The beach is one block away. You can surf in the …