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socksandsandals | 17 years ago | on: How Alan Greenspan Tricked America

I wish someone would give me a column even though I don't know what the fuck I'm talking about. Greenspan had a role in the current financial crisis, but he was not the sole engineer, nor even the biggest one. For actual, sound info on this subject, check out the EconTalk podcast/blog.

socksandsandals | 17 years ago | on: Clojure could be to Concurrency-Oriented Programming what Java was to OOP

Clojure is neat and all, but I can't see it being anything but a proving ground for some more esoteric technologies or methods. Lisp has been around too long to get mainstream acceptance and the "power vaccum" of which PG is fond of mentioning is marginal these days due to Ruby, Python, etc. Clojure has the attractiveness of running people's existing infrastructure (i.e. the JVM) but its nowhere near being alone in that regard. Its neat but don't look for it to be a world-changer.

socksandsandals | 17 years ago | on: Ask HN: How to monetize a play for fun poker site?

Joel, this will be an attempt to prove out your OpenPoker infrastructure to either a) sell licences to OpenPoker, or b) sell the rights to it outright, correct? Given that, the site does not need to be super-popular in and of itself. You will probably only need about 100,000 active players to prove how much more efficient and scalable your software is. My thoughts on making money are MochiAds and private tables; they seem about as good as any. But if the goal is to sell OpenPoker, then you just need a proofpoint, not a successful site in and of itself (in fact, a popular site would make it harder to sell off the rights to OpenPoker altogether, as it would raise the cost to a potential acquirer).

socksandsandals | 17 years ago | on: Google will aquire GitHub.com (prediction)

Google won't acquire GitHub because a) they're not for sale just now, and b) Google has a history of avoiding companies that don't share at least some of their underlying technologies. GitHub's Rails/EngineYard combo is probably enough to put GOOG's technical M&A team off the track. Plus, they would have no interest in Git internally, having built a ton of cool tools around their version of Perforce.

socksandsandals | 17 years ago | on: Zeromq: Fast Messaging

You should have probably read more closely before writin this diatribe: they specifically note in several places that they do not use TCP and can also max out on 4x Infiniband as well as 10GigE. They use UDP as their transport for ZeroMQ messages.

socksandsandals | 17 years ago | on: See Twitter's SQL.

I dimed this out and had it disabled. Twitter doesn't need people poking through its' SQL. Imagine what we'd find if we were poking through yours...

socksandsandals | 18 years ago | on: OLAP app

You could try Pentaho, they are RDBMS-agnostic: http://pentaho.org. I've evaluated them in the past and though I've never used them, they seem good for certain types of OLAP.

socksandsandals | 18 years ago | on: Hey Twitter I Have A Few Questions Too

He's clearly too over-reliant on Twitter and feels emotional about its outages. Now that he's created a personal war between himself and Blaine Cook, don't expect anything from him or the rest of the Gillmor cronies to be anywhere near objective regarding Twitter.

I move to petition pg to institute a Hacker News-wide delete filter be placed on TechCrunch posts for a period of one year. Who's with me?

(I know I can filter them with Greasemonkey but my point is that they are almost always just linkbait and the rest of the HN community could easily skip them with no adverse effects)

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