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Edited to say I'm a Basho employee and did a lot of the development work on CRDTs in Riak. Also, Hi! You can use any CRDT implementation you want from the client. You can roll your…

Only last-write-wins registers use last-write-wins to resolve conflicts. Maps and Sets and Flags use an Add-Wins/Observed-Remove semantic based on fine grained causality tracking m…

Saying that, I signed up anyway (to add to the feature list :D) I really like it. It needs traction to make it useful but it is fun and could be sociable. The idea is trivial, but …

First Hacker News project listed here that I have clicked around and enjoyed for ages. Really nicely executed. With a lot of play it may well become very useful for making snap dec…

From http://www.jwz.org/doc/groupware.html > So I said, narrow the focus. Your "use case" should be, there's a 22 year old college student living in the dorms. How will this softwa…

I've been hacking away in Erlang for 2 years and thoroughly enjoy it. I'm a Java contractor by day and an Erlanger at night and the weekend (and days off, and lunch time). Having d…

William S. Burroughs

My theory on this is that it is a market for lemons. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Market_for_Lemons Solve that problem to solve this one.

> there are only 24 hours in a day Per person. Trade on your name? You are an A+ player. You must be turning work away. Take on more work than you can handle and farm it out to A-/…

1. Reading on the toilet 2. Getting rid of the TV 3. Exercise 4. Sleep 5. Org mode

Ordered, thanks.

That order is really very helpful, thank you. That order plus the Khan academy is what I am going to base my study on for now.

I've been working as a developer for years but all the interesting works seems to require a greater knowledge of computer science than I have. I'm self taught and I am always tryin…

Big Trak, Lego Mindstorms, any programmable robot type toy.

The lack of picture is the only thing that stopped me trying it.

Isn't this just Cormac McCarthy's 'The Road'?

My bottom line is that, as a publicly, tax funded organisation this is a total waste of time (and money). Other, open source frameworks are, at the very least, good enough. Hiding …

Firstly, don't feel bad because you feel this way. It is pretty typical for a bright kid to feel this way, often. The thing that is getting you down is the over-analysis and intros…

>I can't take a cut of the pot or ante as that will convert me into a gambling site, of the type that are illegal in the US. Ah. I wasn't aware of the legal implications in the US.…

Hi Joel, Don't want to sound like a stalker or sound too fulsome so don't get the wrong idea but I follow you in twitter and read your posts on the erlang list and find you inspira…

Jumping the gun I know since there is no verification but this, if true, is totally world changing, isn't it?

http://rimuhosting.com now have a datacentre presence in the UK (London). I find them very useful but best of all they have very, very good support. They are NZ based.

Contract java monkey. Currently doing VoD. Would rather be working on erlang/python/openlaszlo web fun for my kids. Educational software is uniformly poor in this country.