Ask HN: Can we have another Erlang Day?

I'm getting tired of the politics on HN lately. TSA talk is everywhere. I can't get away from it, and it certainly doesn't help that I've been in an airport six times this month. Admittedly, I've fueled the fire on HN with my own submissions/comments, and I'm sorry about that.

That being said: I have no idea how Erlang Days happen, or if they're even asked for, but now seems like a good time to have one.

So, hows about it? Erlang Day?

Btw wtf is with TSA, mean how did it make its way here? What's hackish in it?

It's a common practice that if you have some hot social topic you come to the pub to talk it over. Not to spam every possible internet place with what's actually the buzz in your country.

I'm not normally one to argue in favor of HN as a political venue, but I'm not up for Erlang Day. Changing the subject is exactly what the police state wants.

They institute some bogus rule. We grumble. They hold firm until a shiny object comes along to distract everyone. Then the bogus rule becomes the new normal. Nine years and a few dozen iterations later, here we are.

So you can try to change the subject, yet again, if you want. But don't expect help from me. I'm fed up. I'm done with my apolitical pose on this issue.

There is going to have to be a continuous, consistent effort to turn back the police-state tide. Civil disobedience, letters to people in power, and an unrelenting focus on getting things changed. It will be uncomfortable, it will be boring, it will be quite tedious, it will probably come through on HN no matter what anyone does, and it will be better than the alternative.

But if the greater HN community decides to retreat into Erlang and pretend it will all go away by itself, well, enjoy that. I'll go somewhere else for a while. Big internet out there.

Scheme on the iPad!

http://www.speakipad.com/ipad-apps/pixie-scheme-iii-educatio...

actually installed that earlier, little annoyed that it doesn't work as a repl. At the same time I kind of dig the "smalltalk" "inspect/do it" approach. Probably a good compromise though for working on larger functions considering you can't really save/load files (though you can save the "world" as a whole just not "save as" to have many different worlds.)