YC News Unavailable...
I've been getting increasing loss of news yc availability in the last few days. Is it just me, or is the server getting overloaded? (This was espeically a bummer as I was filling out the YC application)
http://www.welton.it/articles/programming_language_economics...
One of the reasons we try and convince other people to use our tools.
I wouldn't call Erlang and Python Blubs.
Probably a lot of them, if they tried. Because Ruby is so poorly specified, I frequently read the interpreter source code to figure out how things are supposed to behave. CRuby is really well-written in some ways and really poorly-written in others. It's poorly written in the sense that it's a painfully slow line-by-line interpreter. It's well written in the sense that the code is very clean and well-organized: I can usually find answers in the source faster than I can find answers in the pick-axe book.
Source? With the bashing Python is getting because of the GIL, it surprises me that someone would switch to Python from elsewhere for any reasons related to threading.
Straight from PG:
"Incidentally, the last straw, I've been told, was some bug in CMUCL threads that kept making the system crash."
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/msg/574d19d5e7...
From Reddit: http://blog.reddit.com/2005/12/on-lisp.html
Paul Graham is so good, he does just simply walk into Mordor. And then he checks into a hotel.
Paul Graham is so good, it's hard to defun him.
Paul Graham's so smart that inside his brain is another brain.
Paul Graham once matched /(x+x+)+y/ in logarithmic time.
Paul Graham named his fists: "(" and ")"
Paul Graham can be written in ten lines using macros.
Paul Graham can make NaN finally equal itself.
Paul Graham will resurrect Usenet on Judgment Day.
Paul Graham is the World Champion in Ambition.
(I am agnostic. I googled for this biblical verse... uncannily, it is from the book of John.)
Paul Graham can find Waldo. Always.
I just map all values to 0.
By the way, I just noticed that there is no way to recover a password if you lost it?
There is no god but Paul Graham, and Paul Graham is His prophet.
Creationists are baffled by the question: "Who created Paul Graham?"
Chuck Norris wanted to be like Paul Graham, and tried to learn tail recursion. The best he could do was a roundhouse kick.
Paul Graham is so good, his DNA has an implementation of Lisp.
So there's really hope for Arc to be finished in his life time, now!
Strangely, response time is still very good, so don't think it is due to server load..
It's interesting the server responds to pings, but the webserver seems to be shot when it's down.