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bozho | 10 years ago | on: In Defence of Monoliths

that is true in some very rare cases. CPU-intensive bits of the application should definitely be separated, so that they can scale independently. But that's not the main point of microservices.

bozho | 11 years ago | on: I Am Not Allowed to Post My Content on Reddit

my reasoning of whether something is spam or not does not change other people's reasonong whether something is spam or not, but to claim something is objectively spam is a bit too much. Apparently the notion of "spam" differs.

Twitter is constant self-promotion - you constantly share your thoughts and views. And somehow that's fine and you get followers. Is tweeting spamming? Besides, see the other comment with the chart attached.

bozho | 11 years ago | on: Java for Everything

facebook is using php compiled to C++, and that's only for their frontend. Mind your anecdotal evidence :)

bozho | 11 years ago | on: Java for Everything

Counting keystrokes in programming is like counting letters in a novel - the amount of time put to think of something, to discuss it, takes the vast majority of time. Keystrokes used to write something is irrelevant (especially if you type with more than 2 fingers)

And if the whole arguments boils down to Java not having a var/val keyword - yes, that would be handy; but you would then still need tools to figure out what is the type of val foo = calculateSomething();

bozho | 11 years ago | on: Scala – The good, the bad and the very ugly

There is a point in my presentation that says that some of these annoyances are easy to overcome in a real project. But some of them aren't.

As for the misunderstandings - the "bad" parts are ..bad. The ugly parts may not be bad, but are ugly (which is subjective, and I think it's implied it's subjective)

bozho | 12 years ago | on: Unified EU electronic identity card

Unfortunately, there are too few countries. Portugal, Spain, Estonia, Finland, Belgium, India and a few more. Everyone solves the problem in their own way, sometimes incompatible with the others, and not taking into account all privacy concerns. Hence my suggestion for a standard, interoperable solution

bozho | 12 years ago

what does it mean?

bozho | 12 years ago | on: Ideas Aren't Worthless

Some ideas are worthless. Not all of them, and the hard task is to distinguish. And an idea is not simply "hey' let's have this". An idea includes specifics :)

bozho | 13 years ago | on: Twice on the front page of HN, but no journalist is interested. What to do?

Hello,

I'm contacting you, because I read an article of yours about computers and music ([article title]), and thought that you might be interested in my project as well - http://computoser.com

It provides a very simple web interface to a (practically) unlimited set of music tracks, generated without any human input. And although it is not the first algorithm to generate music, I think it's the first web-based, user-friendly interface to such an algorithm.

When I first released the project, I submitted the story to HackerNews to gather initial feedback from fellow "hackers", and the it was very positive - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4819269, which inspired me to make some improvements.

The improvements are already in place, and although the algorithm is not perfect, I think it's worth taking a look at. I'd be happy to get your feedback, or in a best-case scenario - get it covered.

bozho | 13 years ago | on: Wave your phone around randomly and influence algorithmic music generation

To answer the inevitable question - the ways music gets influenced are:

- speed - the faster you wave the phone, the faster the piece is

- variation - the bigger the standard deviation in the values from the accelerometer is, the more variation in the melody there is.

- light - if it's dark around, the scale is minor, if it's light - it's major.

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