Making our e-commerce platform http://www.enstore.com available to everyone. With a nice frontend built in Cappuccino/Atlas.
Building that Cappuccino/Atlas frontend
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#233Trying to find ways to attract more US-based mappers to OpenStreetMap. First stop: support my buddy Lars' map rendering to get this beautiful map http://toposm.com/ma/ to cover the entire United States. Anyone out there have some spare CPU cycles and/or memory to donate for the next couple weeks?
Wow, that's gorgeous. Something I'd been thinking of working on was a tool to produce really beautiful printed maps from the OSM data. The existing OSM renderers are screen-oriented and fairly utilitarian, and their output isn't nearly as pretty (or as high-resolution) as a good paper map. But the data is all there; it's just a matter of rendering it better. This is definitely in the direction that I was thinking of.
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#234Backup software that just works http://www.haystacksoftware.com/arq/
This looks really nice!
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#235http://www.headup.com - connecting users with great content as they browse.
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#236Working on the house I just bought with my wife. It's the grandest hack I've ever had to do. From crazy 22ft walls of glass that need replaced, a kitchen from the 50's that needs a remodel to the shoddy wiring throughout the house. There's tons to do, and little time to do it in. This year I start a new position at the company I work for. Hopefully it'll bring more visibility and access to the people who make decisio…
Are you the HN member behind http://big-old-house.blogspot.com ? I've been enjoying lurking and following that site since it was mentioned here.
Can't say that's me, but it's a good idea. I'll have to bug my wife about getting a blog up.
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#237http://www.snailpad.com - snail mail for small business and freelancers. I'm hoping to find a way to meet someone from MailChimp, Aweber or other places to see if they'd be interested in integrating.
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#238Earlier quoted context omitted.
They're not infected with spyware. Some of the computing power comes from the users of freeware applications, who are asked _during install_ if they want to enable the grid system that powers us.
The article I read was about one of these freeware applications (something starting with "G", and a green Logo or mascot I think, I can not remember unfortunately), which installs the spyware if the users does "Express Install". Buried in the TOS is "we may use your computing power". It was by a third company, which in turn is supposed to be used by 80legs. Perhaps 80legs is not even aware of the shady practices of t…
You're talking about Digsby. If you managed to follow the story to its conclusion, you'll see that they dramatically changed the install process to follow Plura's (our sister company) affiliate agreement.
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#239Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you don't mind me asking, what do you do once you've invented new data structure? I think I have recently, too, but (besides thoroughly documenting it and posting a library based on it, soon), I'm kind of at a loss. I'm not in academia, so publishing in an academic journal isn't the clear choice. I've been trying to find prior art, but thus far haven't found anything similar. My e-mail address is in my profile.
To be blunt, I'm not sure. I've spoken with the head of computing at my nearest university and he seems quite excited by it. We may publish a joint paper - not least it will give him an Erdos Number of 3. Failing publication, I'll just write it up, put it on my web site, and announce it in a few place. What ever happens, I will announce it here for sure.
Ok, thanks, and good luck with yours.
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#240Started yesterday: Lark, a toy Arc-like language implemented on top of Python instead of Scheme. ([link redacted]) I've never implemented a Lisp or used it for anything serious, and I've been trying to figure out for myself whether there really is anything to macros or if they're just fancy compiler hacks, so I decided to write Lark as a way of learning what precisely pg is so excited about. It's a direct, lazy trans…
what about http://www.picolisp.org ?
fuck compilation.
fuck lexical scoping.
do something for real in lisp, like
* entity relationships over a graph db
* webframework
* flightsimulator