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by mr_luc 17y ago
Heh. Well. I realize that I am going to immediately accrue a massively un-hackerly stigma by posting this, but what the heck, it's true: I'm a missionary for a small and fairly unpopular religion. The what to do part is the most persona
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by mr_luc 17y ago
That's tough. Javascript is powerful, but you don't get exposed to its power unless you want to, and it's not on the server, so most people don't have the opportunity to really get into it. That means you'll probably be learning the most po
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by mr_luc 17y ago
I just read that, and laughed. I live in South America, doing volunteer work nearly full-time, with a group of expat friends and a much larger extended family of local friends ... I come back to the states to work for 3 months out of the ye
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by mr_luc 17y ago
Thank you! Yes! It seems insane to me. I mean, I can see how it would cause all kinds of money-laundering headaches to regulators, but that had better not be the reason. Because money launderers can already operate with near-absolute impuni
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by mr_luc 17y ago
I mean I'd like to give a user of an application money -- preferably, transfer it directly into their bank account. Or not even a user. If we can't, that's stupid. I mean, if the customer had a merchant account and a web interface for it,
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Ask HN: I want to pay people, not just accept payment. What are my options?
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by mr_luc 19y ago
That's what I asked for, all right. Sorry for asking obtuse questions obtusely. Let me try this way: How much would codetree need to change to accept a function or macro as input instead of a file, and produce output that is similarly meani
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by mr_luc 19y ago
Hmmm. I guess I could also ask "What does readall do?" and go on speculating to myself, but the stuff above is what I really want to know. Once I've defined something (macro, function), what does it look like in Arc? Is its structure, eithe
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by mr_luc 19y ago
Stupid questions alert. ____________________________ In On Lisp, you mentioned that implementing continuations with closures via transformation to CPS could be accomplished by writing a code walker, but that this would be a "serious undert
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by mr_luc 19y ago
See, THIS is the only reason I come to news.yc. I love the idea of startups, but I've got the wanderlust. During the part of the year where I have net access, I watch ycombinator closely, and I'm not really hoping to see startup news.
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by mr_luc 19y ago
First, the stem of the cherry was intended to be the L, but it's acknowledged that it doesn't look that way. Secondly, "Googe" doesn't connote anything, unflattering or otherwise. When I say fake, I mean that people try to invent new words
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by mr_luc 19y ago
Is this a troll, or did the author not realize that urbandictionary isn't exactly a reliable resource? The entry in urbandictionary for "googe" tries to be funny but is clearly fake. I suppose it's technically possible for someone to name t
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by mr_luc 19y ago
I'm still not aware of that. Ask away. This is a far more convenient place to ask stupid questions than, say, Startup School. (That's what I did. At the first startup school, I asked almost every founder I could get my hands on: "So, what w
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by mr_luc 19y ago
Users with lots of friends (traffic) can be courted by sponsors automatically, and include the advertiser's widgets on their page. These sites are potentially a goldmine because of the contextual information available, but for the sake of a
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by mr_luc 19y ago
I was just going to mention that. Instead, I'll mention that he's clearly eating his own dogfood: press coverage of the iPhone has been mostly glowing, and he expects success (readership) through his divergent opinion. I guess it worked. I
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by mr_luc 19y ago
I'm always a little wary of self-help topics like this. Particularly if they have titles like "The Power of Yes." But I want to mention that extemporaneous speaking is, certainly, a remarkable confidence-builder. There is one greater, howev