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SearchMe results were too spammy. A flashy interface for a messy back end does not work it seems.


Not sure billboards is effective "marketing" these days especially for Web services.


Probably recruitment


No, it isn't. On the other hand there is no reason to blindly believe that the Web will make us communicate better than in real life. This guy hasn't been in flame war yet I guess.


This is not an analysis, just a polemic full of words and expressions like "hysterical", "luddites", "hogwash".


Justice is not revenge.


Exactly. People are being executed to please the community, make them feel safe, prove the system works, give the relatives solace. Injustice is increasing.

People are getting away with murder or more, thus causing innocent executions and perhaps continuing their crime.

As far as I'm concerned, when an innocent black man or anyone else is thrown into the execution chamber for the aforementioned motives, that's murder in the guise of justice: relatives want revenge, any revenge to ease the grief, to hell with justice! Prosecutors want a string of successes.

Innocents end up as scapegoats. Case closed. Everyone moves on. Go read some of those last statements. Some could be lying, but others are there as a result of a judicial system used and abused for anything but justice.


Yeah. I'll consider Drupal as well for blogging. Are there some good themes for Drupal and does it support pingback?


It's a penis!


I have to say the shot of him in his Hawaiian shirt with the huge phallic turgidity of the engine held erect against him does look rather like an example from a Freudian textbook.


So you agree that it's a penis? ;-)


You know, sometimes a jet engine is just a jet engine


"There ought to be limits to freedom."*

*George W. Bush 1999

I don't agree though. Now that you can do everything you want it's time to devote yourself to a good cause.


What is news.arc?


The arc source distribution. HN is built on a dialect of scheme that Paul Graham came up with.

Arc is a pretty ambitious project, a language for 'the next hundred years' (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arc_(programming_language) ).

Not sure about how many people actually use it though, HN is the only application that I'm aware of that uses it.


Not sure about how many people actually use it though, HN is the only application that I'm aware of that uses it.

NewMogul

http://www.newmogul.com/

also uses the same software to run its site.


Sorry for not being more clear, I meant anything else written in arc. There are plenty of sites that use the arc code to serve up forums with a thin layer of css changes to make it look a little different.

But this was about the language, not about the news.arc implementation.

Presumably you could write anything that you want in arc, if the language stands as an individual piece of code then 'HN' is sort of an example of what arc can do. So then the question is: has anybody written any other application using arc. And I'm not aware that that has happened.

edit:

So, after some digging I found this:

http://docs.google.com/View?id=dgjgbnzn_123dcb5g9hc

http://arclanguage.org/forum


My Arc REPL online uses Arc on the backend, see http://dabuttonfactory.com:8080 (the code is linked there), but it's just a tiny project.

But yes, there are not so many projects using it to my Arc-forum-user knowledge too.


Where can I download the software? I like it a lot. Maybe YCombinator should sell it ;-)


http://ycombinator.com/arc/arc3.1.tar, it includes news.arc, the code running HN/NewMogul/etc and a "how-to-run-news" text file.

You need MzScheme 4 to run Arc.

See also http://arclanguage.org/install (installation instructions, but a bit out-of-date, it's for Arc 3.0) and http://arclanguage.org/item?id=10254 (Arc 3.1 announcement).


"Before it is too late you must master the art of knowing when and how to be bad - using deception, manipulation, and outright force at the appropriate moments."

When is the appropriate moment to use outright force? Like in "Get rich or die trying"? Should you be able to shoot your competitors?


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