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by djm 15y ago
Hi, I'm getting a db connection error when trying to view the article so I'm not sure what it's all about yet. I'm aware of your work with racket (read your paper from a few years ago about deploying the web server in a uni environment). Is
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by djm 15y ago
I'd love it if you told your story with respects to sealand. I was fascinated with it when I first heard about it many years ago, especially to learn that the UK govt seemed to have allowed it to exist without shutting them down. For others
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by djm 15y ago
I'm starting to think that these unfortunate incidents may actually provide airbnb with the future of it's business model. Right now they are just hooking people up and handling payments. They could go from that to learning how to put in pl
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by djm 15y ago
I figured PG needs to hear both sides of this story Oh, wow. I don't think you could be more wrong. From her point of view, PG is a going to come accross as a concerned airbnb investor . She is already upset about brian chesky complainin
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by djm 15y ago
It's amazing to see that guy still going. I remember seeing a PDF of his first book which was, if I remember correctly, largely a bunch of pasted unix man pages for various security tools and bits and pieces of guidebooks from the linux doc
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by djm 15y ago
Hi, thanks for your reply. It's good to know you're trying to provide a comprehensive service. I'm still pretty sceptical however because I think you will encounter a lot of cases that are difficult to diagnose just by looking at a persons
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by djm 15y ago
Thanks for your reply. I've seen many of the problems you mention in the UK too (except for 3 which is totally evil). I'm surprised the US doesn't have a charity offering a similar service to what we do in the UK; over here debt advice is a
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by djm 15y ago
I'd be curious to know if this service is limited to helping people set up payment plans? I'd be pretty concerned if this is the case - I used to work in this field for a charity providing debt advice in the UK and pretty much rule number #
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by djm 15y ago
I spent ~4 years working for a UK charity that provided a free debt advice service and I assure you that it's perfectly possible to get free high quality debt advice from somebody who is not going to derive a financial gain from the advice
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by djm 15y ago
That's right, we are both using the same technique. It's interesting to note though that the difference between this and a data structure is not that great. I haven't looked into it but I'm certain I've read somewhere that data structures a
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by djm 15y ago
You don't even need the data structure since you can simulate that with functions too in order to make a basic object system. Consider a simple example like this: (define (init-counter) (local ((define counter 0) (
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by djm 15y ago
It's interesting you mention that. The US (& most other places) may have something to learn from Israel here. It is my understanding that they make people waiting in airport lines to remain in small groups and arrange them in such a way
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by djm 15y ago
I think this says as much about twitters user base as it goes about g+.
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by djm 15y ago
It looks good. I've seen a few startups trying to use restaurant kitchens like this for home delivery meals and I had wondered whether the economics would really work out for them since they would be requiring restaurants to make small deli
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by djm 15y ago
In the long-term, as machines become able to do more jobs better than humans, people will simply not be willing to pay any price for an error-prone human to do a worse job than a cheap machine Actually I think they would. Being an employe
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by djm 15y ago
I've been thinking about this space a little too & seeing your site reminded me of a tv clip I saw some time ago that compared the western and eastern approaches to social networking. The western approach was described as bringing your
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by djm 15y ago
It's not you, I get the same error.
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by djm 15y ago
this is for writing scheme and compiling to js for running client-side. Cloud9ide seems to be an ide for writing directly in js or php/ruby etc.
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by djm 15y ago
OK, couldn't wait. require doesn't seem to work but that's as expected since they don't know what I might load. moby documentation: http://planet.racket-lang.org/package-source/dyoo/moby.plt/3... World: http://world.cs.brown.edu/1/htdw-v
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by djm 15y ago
I haven't had a chance to look at this properly yet but maybe somebody can clarify a few things. This lets me do scheme->js in the browser using moby, which is implemented in racket. So my code gets converted to js on the server hosting
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by djm 15y ago
There are probably quite a few regulars at Bistro Elan who could buy the building and become their new landlord PG: Have you considered buying it yourself? I'm assuming that you are one of those regulars and can probably afford it. You sa
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by djm 15y ago
This woman is awesome; be sure to have a look at her various other videos as well: http://vihart.com/doodling/ http://vihart.com/videos/
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by djm 15y ago
If it happens I'll watch it, but only because of my william gibson fanboy loyalty. My first thought when I saw the headline was how bad the Dune movie turned out.
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by djm 15y ago
Every few days or so I have a look through the new submissions to http://longreads.com . It lists longer articles from other places on the web and is a welcome change to the short contentless articles I come accross everywhere else.
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Net Impact: One man’s cyber-crusade against Russian corruption.(newyorker.com)
3 points by djm 16y ago|0 comments
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by djm 16y ago
Those who enjoy reading John Taylor Gatto may also like to read a great little book called "The teenage liberation handbook" by grace Llewellyn. It's that book you read as an adult and wish you'd read as a teenager.
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by djm 16y ago
It's interesting to see that since Jacques left HN his articles seem to dominate the front page whenever he writes one (which I'm quite happy with since I like reading them). Maybe we're subconsciously trying to make him come back by floodi
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by djm 16y ago
well said. Starting a startup is a marathon not a sprint; pace yourself or you'll regret it later. Everyone starting out seems to think it'll be all over in a year and they'll be rich. It's more likely to be a couple of years and few people
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by djm 16y ago
I think we can expect much more of this sort of thing. Technology always removes humans from the work force and we now have the right set of resources - reliable, cheap computers and a large enough pool of skilled programmers - to do to off
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by djm 16y ago
FYI, there is currently ongoing work on HTDP2 -> http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/matthias/HtDP2e/

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