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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it awesome? Please include URL

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I sold my internet marketing company in December last year to work fulltime on a community for farmers. I made the website http://www.tractorfan.nl as a hobby, 8 years ago and I need to modernize the website or accept that it's going to die by a thousand cuts. I started working an a new version that's rebuilt from the ground up. 2 more weeks before it's released for a focus group of passionate users. My goal is to ma…

Good luck with that, I really like your motives behind it.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it awesome? Please include URL

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The Work Explorer - http://theworkexplorer.com/ It's a personal photojournalism project to learn more about different occupations and the people who work in them. "We spend about 30% of our waking adult lives working. During that time, many of us experience only a small fraction of the available varieties of work. We may have some understanding of the occupations held by our friends, family, and coworkers. Outside of…

Cool! I've had this book on my to-read: "Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do" ( http://www.amazon.com/dp/1565843428/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pd_nS_ttl... )

Cool, I'll have to check that out. Thanks for sharing!

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it awesome? Please include URL

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I'm working on a programming language which will allow fully automatic distributed computing by having everyone using the language participate in a SETI@HOME-style p2p network. I'm under no illusions about it being fast, but it's certainly fun. Not really ready to share the URL yet, things are still coming together.

Are you targeting networks with or without malicious actors? I spend a lot of time thinking about the latter.

Very delayed response: I'm focused on first building it assuming the trustworthiness of the actors on the network; extending to trustless distributed computing is an even bigger tangle than I've already gotten myself into. Have you written about it anywhere? I'm always interested to hear how other people think about these things.
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