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I'd be really interested in hearing more details about your experience.

Support for mixed Scala/Java projects improved a lot in Scala 2.7.2, which was released in late 2008, so there aren't problems mixing Scala/Java anymore. Here's a description of wh…

I don't know Tony personally, but I'm very familiar with his work. He's a brilliant programmer. HN is the only reason I learned about Tony's suicidal message on IRC within an hour …

Being able to write a "hello, world" in Haskell certainly doesn't make you a good programmer. However, I would say that anyone who has already written a sizable Haskell program (5K…

I think you meant "not over 40".

Version control is indeed always a good idea. However, I'd strongly advise choosing Git over SVN. SVN's branching capability is a joke compared to Git, and you'll wonder how you ev…

I know both Lisp and Haskell, and I'm pretty sure that Haskell for most people is much harder to learn. The two biggest stumbling blocks people encounter when learning Haskell are …

In my experience, Solaris zones and VMWare's virtualization offerings are the most solid and reliable virtualization solutions available (VMWare is quite pricey though). Zones are …

Zones, ZFS, and DTrace are the main differentiating technical advantages for Solaris.

What are the major flaws in Buzzword? I find it vastly superior to all its competitors.

I'm now very curious -- what is Facebook using Erlang for?

Scala has some very nice features for making Java's libraries much nicer to deal with. The most useful are probably implicit definitions and parameters, operators (any method may b…

Interestingly enough, we actually live off something very similar for our startup. However, what we do requires less work than pg's setup for the lazy ones among you. Buy a rice co…

I didn't know Reddit switched away from web.py. Do you know what they switched to?

Assembly, Bash, C, Dylan, Emacs Lisp, F#, Groovy, Haskell, Icon, Java, K, Lua, Mathematica, Nemerle, Oz, Perl, Qi, R, Scheme, Tcl, UnrealScript, VRML, Whitespace, XQuery, Yorick, Z…

See http://www.paulgraham.com/inequality.html

Are they using Seaside or rolling their own framework (I'm assuming they're doing a webapp)?