I'm working on initialization scripts for my VPS: automatically taking it from newborn to installed infrastructure and security settings.
And a glass of bourbon.
Ask HN: What are you working on tonight?
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#22Putting the finishing touches on the app I wrote this week, a co-founder finder.
I also got a Droid this afternoon, so I've been having a hard time avoiding the distracting shiny, shiny new toy.
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#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
how many users are we up to?
11492 accounts, many of them inactive of course. There are more users than that, because many users lurk for a while before creating accounts. We now get around 45k unique visitors on weekdays.
awesome, out of curiosity, what kind of server is HN running on?
edit: guy below me who maxed out the thread, server not language
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#24Got an email from Microsoft -- I discovered a new bug in their F# compiler that breaks my startup app. I'm the first to find this fairly significant bug. I should be so proud. So now I'm deciding how best to hack up my code to get around the bug. Can't say I'm very happy about where I am, but I'll get it fixed soon enough. It's very cool being on the cutting edge, as long as you don't bleed too much!
ooh... what bug? and are you doing f# for web or just f#?
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#25Playing Starcraft with my wife, exploring a new tactic, inspired by the discussion at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1150669
And taking care of my 2-month-old.
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#26Deploying a tiny, tiny app onto a public server...
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#27the same thing we do every night, pinky... plotting to take over the world... this time with a shivaplug.
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#28Trying to figure out how to query the UMLS metathesaurus's WebService (Soap 1.2) API using Ruby. Not having much luck :(
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on tonight?
#29Got an email from Microsoft -- I discovered a new bug in their F# compiler that breaks my startup app. I'm the first to find this fairly significant bug. I should be so proud. So now I'm deciding how best to hack up my code to get around the bug. Can't say I'm very happy about where I am, but I'll get it fixed soon enough. It's very cool being on the cutting edge, as long as you don't bleed too much!
ooh... what bug? and are you doing f# for web or just f#?
I was going to blog about it tomorrow (never ruin a good chance to blog)
Basically for some reason F# barfs on large types, say types with 500 fields in them. I think the breaking point is 300 or so. There's also another bug that I'll save for the blog entry.
Microsoft was responsive as hell -- I had an email response within minutes and the engineer and I were emailing back and forth all afternoon. I was very impressed. The F# dev guys rock, even though I'm not happy at all with having a broken app.
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#30Trying to get the video done for our YC app. We're seriously bad at saying anything cool or interesting on camera... all we can do so far is laugh at each other. :)
Give yourself a 15 minute deadline. Take whatever video is the best when 15 minutes are up.