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ballard
·12 years ago·discuss
Cool. Looking forward to it.
ballard
·12 years ago·discuss
The last mover advantage of waiting for other people to do the heavy lifting for them and then swoop in for the win.
ballard
·12 years ago·discuss
I think people want high SNR value before a clever triple entendre, but accomplishing both is far better. Failing that, expressing a clear, reasoned sentiment is also another tact.
ballard
·12 years ago·discuss
Signals FTW.
ballard
·12 years ago·discuss
Yup. It's not a geopolitics IRC chat. Only the tech aspects of evading censorship would qualify but only if they were novel.
ballard
·12 years ago·discuss
"Hide" after "link" would be handy.
ballard
·12 years ago·discuss
"Highly biased" probably isn't fair. Thomas goes looking for heated discussions, but what's the point if HN we can't have a good thesis defense every now and again. :)
ballard
·12 years ago·discuss
Possibly. But I think people shouldn't be able to up or down vote on threads they're in, it's a conflict of interest. (If they did vote, give it back to be fair.)
ballard
·12 years ago·discuss
It would be cool if HN opened up a read API so that folks could build alternate frontends / scoring algos.
ballard
·12 years ago·discuss
Definitely gotta give you guys a standing ovation for yeomen's work.
ballard
·15 years ago·discuss
Node.js is often used because it is cool, new and easier for front-end developers to develop a functioning backend.

For more traditional uses that want something less hackish, erlang for example, crashes only a single thread not the entire vm. Functional programming languages in general like haskell and erlang are interesting for backend core services.
ballard
·15 years ago·discuss
Node.js is often used because it is cool, new and easier for front-end developers to develop a functioning backend.

For more traditional uses that want something less hackish, erlang for example, crashes only a single thread not the entire vm. Functional programming languages in general like haskell and erlang are interesting for backend core services.