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codelion··on Stream Processing with a Spreadsheet
http://hirzels.com/martin/papers/ecoop14-activesheets.pdf - direct link to the paper
codelion··on How to succeed at parsing without really trying
Also, recursive descent parsing can be used to generate extensible parsers using frameworks like Campl4. http://www.reddit.com/r/ocaml/comments/1gx71p/building_exten...
codelion··on Our web development workflow is completely broken
You can use the Google Cache version if the server is down http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:G2FK1vS...
codelion··on Twitter API returning results that do not respect the arrow of time
Some more information about the arrow of time as used in physics... http://asankhaya.blogspot.sg/2012/05/time-travel-arrow-of-ti...
codelion··on Why we f*ck
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:JzeKMKe... Cached link
codelion··on A confirmed security vulnerability in 30 web sites
http://white-hackers.blogspot.sg/2013/03/how-to-hack-30-high... Other link found by searching on google
codelion··on Paying for What Was Free: Lessons from the New York Times Paywall
Full article can be found at the following link (pdf) http://online.liebertpub.com/doi/pdf/10.1089/cyber.2012.0251
codelion··on Australian Bank Anonymizes and Releases Billions of Records
If we go by the history of such anonymization attempts (AOL, Netflix) it is only a matter of time that someone figures out how to get PII from this data.
codelion··on Ask HN: Why are posts related to Obama being deleted from front page?
Is it still a repost if it is from a different website ? I remember when steve jobs died the front page was all covered with "reposts"
codelion··on NBC calls it for Barack Obama
why are posts being pulled off the front page ?
codelion··on Barack Obama, 44th President of the United States
Why are posts related to Obama being removed from front page ?
codelion··on Google Search is only 18% Search
> when in study after study, at least on Adwords and SEM, paid results often boost relevance vs. a page only of organic results.

Can you point to some of those studies ?

codelion··on What Successful People Do With The First Hour Of Their Work Day
The article doesn't say that we should never check our email/twitter/Facebook. It is about structuring and scheduling your day right from the start.
codelion··on [dead]
Since it is limited to Dubai you should try to focus on Dubai based internet users and target them. I am not sure it is a large enough market though.
codelion··on The Unintended Effects of Driverless Cars
The post is misleading, people do not have multiple cars because they cannot drive, it is because they have to use it for multiple things at the same time. Morning going to work, dropping kids etc. will happen all at the same time. Peak car usage will not be affected by self driving cars.
codelion··on Scala Feels like EJB 2
Odersky says Scala is PlayFramework not EJB2 https://twitter.com/#!/odersky/status/138950022703222784
codelion··on Over time, Linux package dependencies show predator/prey relationship
No I am not able to edit the link, am I missing something ?
codelion··on Scala Feels like EJB 2
The list of features were meant to just illustrate that Scala is not some programming fad, it is strictly more expressive than Java and based on solid programming language principles.

Although,I agree the code may not be easy to understand for everyone in the beginning but with effort and training I believe every programmer can learn enough of it to be more productive.

codelion··on Over time, Linux package dependencies show predator/prey relationship
I linked to the comments by mistake, the link for the post is at http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2011/11/over-time-linux-...
codelion··on Scala Feels like EJB 2
Most of the comments here talk about how whatever useful can be done in Scala can be done in some other language. That is not the point, Scala is a good language because

- Compatible with JVM

- Strong type system

  - Linear Typing

  - Substructal Types

  - Local Type inference
- Concurrency constructs built in as actors (Akka)

- Integration of OO and functional paradigms

- Supports Higher Order Programming

- defn-site Variance based Parametric Polymorphism

- Mixin Class Composition for finer grain reuse

- Traits provide stackable behaviors (aspect-oriented style)

- Embedded Polymorphic Domain Specific Language (DSL) using dependent path types

Every language design is a trade off, but Scala is more expressive and concise than Java. Sometimes that may look to you as code which is unreadable. Other languages like clojure make some other trade offs. But Scala tries to bring some of the benefits of functional programming (in say Haskell) to Java.

codelion··on "No matter what price we choose, we always make the same revenue"
Only in certain cases, and he mentions that they do not understand it well enough so they are still experimenting.
codelion··on "No matter what price we choose, we always make the same revenue"
Where did you hear that from ? On the contrary. http://www.geekwire.com/2011/experiments-video-game-economic... "What we saw was that pricing was perfectly elastic. In other words, our gross revenue would remain constant."
codelion··on Who Killed Prolog?
This is a dupe. Original -> http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1648711
codelion··on Unemployment Beats Having A Lousy Job
Ahem, How the hell are you supposed to feed yourself ? Not everyone has enough savings, some have family responsibilities as well.
codelion··on A year of non-Latin script domain names
I don't think they would let . be part of beginning or ending of the domain name.
codelion··on Mac OS X Lion Can Run in Chrome OS-Like Browser Only Mode
I agree, may be there is room for such use cases, large display screens, kiosks etc where it may be configured to be used in an os-like mode.
codelion··on Microsoft to buy Skype for $7 billion
Hmm, I got lost in the comment nesting. Never mind.
codelion··on Microsoft to buy Skype for $7 billion
http://ignorethecode.net/blog/2011/03/30/skype_5/
codelion··on Microsoft to buy Skype for $7 billion
Surely, you are not aware what is a better user experience.
codelion··on Why there are so many engineers in India
"Firstly, anyone who has had experience with off-shoring to India is probably convinced that the whole country is just minutes from falling apart through shoddy engineering. "

Untrue, Uncalled for, Unsupported by any facts, and plain wrong.

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