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knv | 16 years ago | on: CouchDB Book Now Available from O'Reilly

Judging by online version calling this book a definitive guide is somehow misleading. There are still many crucial details about CouchDB that you cannot find in this book and you have to search for them in mailing lists/blogs/wikis. I think a title like Starting Couchdb with Couchapp fits better for this book.

knv | 16 years ago | on: SourceForge Blocks Syria, Sudan, Iran, N. Korea & Cuba

What if those handful people had started/contributed to some open source project? Now they don't have access to their own code.

knv | 16 years ago | on: Gordon: An open source Flash runtime written in pure JavaScript

All three of them crashed my Chrome 4.0 tab.

knv | 16 years ago | on: State Department Makes Statement on Google Operations in China

Haven't read it but given the context of your question should be interesting. Thanks for the pointer.

knv | 16 years ago | on: A new approach to China

> When a "glastnost" comes to China

I think it's more accurate to say: If a "glastnost" comes to China. There's no rule of thumb that something like that is going to happen in every undemocratic country.

knv | 16 years ago | on: Ex-Bell Labs AI researcher unveils first life-size AI-driven sex robot

I am a little perplexed here. His friend died and then as a way to restore his personality he created a female sex robot?!

knv | 16 years ago | on: Mongodb vs couchdb

I'm all for map/reduce chaining.

knv | 16 years ago | on: Ask HN: Great books you read in 2009?

Anathem, by Neal Stephenson

Consider Phlebas, by Iain M. Banks

Selfish Gene, by Richard Dawkins

Business Stripped Bare, by Richard Branson

Programming Collective Intelligence, by Toby Segaran

Zen and Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, by Robert Pirsig

knv | 16 years ago | on: Ask HN: How did you get started in hacking/programming?

>start with a specific goal/project in mind and find out what steps are required to get it done.

Best advice you can get especially when you start learning to program.

knv | 16 years ago | on: Programming languages worth checking out

It's so good nothing useful has ever been written in it.

Care to elaborate a little bit?

knv | 16 years ago | on: Virgin Galactic unveils commercial spaceship

I think it's more like:

Land Travel -> Sea Travel -> Air Travel -> Space Travel

knv | 16 years ago | on: Erjang is a virtual machine for Erlang, which runs on Java

Previous discussion on this matter: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=544755

knv | 16 years ago | on: Erlang for Skeptics

Why code listings are empty?

knv | 16 years ago | on: How Reliable Is the M-16 Rifle?

I can confirm that. I have heard the same logic from War Veterans (Iran/Iraq). During the war Iran had 2 kinds of rifles AK-47 for IRGC and HK G-3 for Army. G-3 was notorious for its ability to kill in 1 shot in torso which removed one enemy soldier from battlefield while AK-47 only caused injuries which in turn made a bigger tax on enemy manpower and logistics during an operation.

knv | 16 years ago | on: Someone who is like Data in real life

Haven't seen something this intriguing on web since the guy who claimed that he has travel back in time from 2038 to obtain a 70's IBM portable computer.

knv | 16 years ago | on: Ask HN: Your favorite Startup School moments?

Evan Williams: "Trust your instincts - except when they're wrong."

It's more like a Zen proverb/koan.

knv | 16 years ago | on: Ask HN: Are there any very long term genetic programming experiments?

The whole thing with genetic programming is to have the population converge onto some optimal solution... I think what you are referring to is "Genetic Algorithms".

knv | 16 years ago | on: Ask HN: Please name two of your most favorite books.

+1 for Shogun. It's one hell of a book.

knv | 16 years ago | on: Ask HN: Please name two of your most favorite books.

Quantum Psychology, Robert Anton Wilson Selfish Gene, Richard Dawkins

knv | 16 years ago | on: Spaces or Tabs?

4 spaces in python otherwise tab