CamTin

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by CamTin 8y ago
More importantly, "what is convenient for users" will frequently change and be expressed only vaguely by those users in natural language bug reports or feature requests. Converting that natural language into something machine-read
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by CamTin 8y ago
The fart-under-the-blankets thing is called a "dutch oven" by analogy to the cast iron cookware. IOW if you don't know about the cookware, you haven't gotten the joke.
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by CamTin 8y ago
Sounds like this is against your beliefs, but I'd pay to read your newsletter.
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by CamTin 8y ago
Wealth isn't just about purchasing power, but about control. A small class of people controlling most of the wealth means that they can manipulate/buy the government and make our lives worse in ways that "quality of life&quot
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by CamTin 8y ago
Shepherd should run on Hurd, since Guile does, but it was created as part of the GNU system, which is in reality usually run on the Linux kernel.
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by CamTin 8y ago
In most of the developed world, literally all of our necessities (housing, healthcare, even food) require interaction with the money economy, which is the opposite of what is described here, so probably not. Even the Amish have to interact
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by CamTin 8y ago
The point of Bell Labs was to save the Bell System money. That's why they developed the transistor, Unix, and all the rest: because the cost to run Bell Labs was less than the cost-savings of the inventions it produced when amortized o
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by CamTin 8y ago
This is pretty cool. Lays the guts even more bare than Perl OO.
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This is awesome!
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I highly recommend playing with CLOS (or one of the Scheme flavored knockoffs like GOOPS in Guile or Swindle in Racket) for anyone who hasn't but works in OO languages (probably most working programmers). You probably spend all day dea
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by CamTin 8y ago
I was actually trying to say something more than that workers should be considered investors, because Uber drivers and AirBnB hosts are more than just workers: they literally supply the main working capital of their respective concerns. The
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Either scheme ("one worker, one vote" or "some workers are are more equal than others") has downsides, but they're both probably preferable (to labor) than the status quo arrangement where labor gets no say at all i
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by CamTin 8y ago
I meant to imply that Uber and AirBnB have other investors which aren't really treated as such by the legal system: the drivers and hosts who have invested their time and capital driving, hosting guests, buying cars, and renting or buy
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by CamTin 8y ago
Do you mean "Should a driver still have a vote/share in the co-op if they quit driving for 6 months?" If so, then there are various ways to handle it. I'm not an expert but in agricultural co-ops like Oceanspray, the pro
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by CamTin 8y ago
In general, I don't think that most people will choose to live "on the dole" forever. As you've identified, we are driven by status, and having to move into state housing will probably be looked down on, and seen as a &q
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by CamTin 8y ago
I know this is probably impossible because the "actual" investors wouldn't be able to cash out, but it would seem to make sense to me for companies like AirBnB and Uber to be organized as host/driver co-ops, with the &qu
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by CamTin 8y ago
S-expressions are just the lowest common denominator of programming language syntax and more generally trees (aka lists of atoms and lists). The idea is that all program listings are essentially just lists of things, including other lists:
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by CamTin 8y ago
In my opinion, the most reasonable path to a productive CRM for most businesses is to build your own. This is the central tool that non-programmer users need in your organization, and there's no reasonable way to make a one-size-fits-a
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by CamTin 8y ago
One thing that this list of prescriptions would probably contain if this were written today is: write tests. This lets you make a lot of classes of change without actually having to hold the whole thing in your head. You can make an educate
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by CamTin 8y ago
If you want a better home than other people, take a job and buy a better one. If you want better food, take a job and buy better food. If your employer at that job pressures you to do something that makes you uncomfortable or is immoral, yo
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by CamTin 8y ago
Directly, democratically provisioning (aka decommodifying) the essentials of life (healthcare, a home, food to eat, education) while letting markets continue to exist for everything else. Then we won't need to have stockholm symdrome a
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by CamTin 8y ago
This looks great. Thank you.
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Yes, that's the point. It's a messed up system and writing hagiographies of the "good ones" doesn't do anything to change the fact that employment is an arrangement where people with capital extort labor out of thos
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by CamTin 8y ago
Yep I'm tearing through "Learning Perl" and "Intermediate Perl" (aka the "llama book" and "alpaca book") while also trying to do some "practical" projects in Mojolicious ( https:/&
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by CamTin 8y ago
Just recently trying to get into Perl (trying to bone up for a specific position that requires it) and Mojolicious has been an incredible discovery: the "lightweight" Rails/Django replacement (somewhere between Rails and Sina
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by CamTin 8y ago
What funds are required to "improve the community interaction"?
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Here's my entire .screenrc: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ## Control-^ (usually Control-Shift-6) is traditionally the only key chord not used by emacs escape ^^^^ ## disable all the 19
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These are all ostensibly people with high-upper-quintile incomes at minimum. Is it really out of line to just have everybody pay their own lunch check?
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I happen to believe that we should at least try, rather than just hope moneyed interests provide for us by accident while pursuing their own orthogonal interests.
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by CamTin 8y ago
Out of curiosity, why do you frequently need to know your altitude? I don't think I've ever known my altitude except when driving past those "Welcome to Springdalevale, pop. 781. alt. 2,003 ft" signs you see when driving

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