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Show HN: Coinspotting - A Hacker News For Bitcoins and Other Cryptocurrencies

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Re: Show HN: Coinspotting - A Hacker News For Bitcoins and Other Cryptocurrencies

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Post by pacohn »

TrainedMonkey wrote: post #25

Ok, can we stop now? They reason I prefer HN instead of say Reddit is precisely because all the news are in one place. The new trend "Hacker News for X" basically means hey guys let's make Reddit, without all the good stuff.

Hacker News + tags: http://hubski.com/tag?id=bitcoin

Re: Show HN: Coinspotting - A Hacker News For Bitcoins and Other Cryptocurrencies

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Post by pmcpinto »

This is an interesting debate. During the last weeks I've been working in a concept like this, but is not ready yet.

I'm a big fan of Hacker News, and I'm trying to create something that isn't an exact copy of HN, so if someone is interested feel free to sign up to the "The Currency" mailing list in http://thecurrency.io/ or send me an e-mail to hi@thecurrency.io. I count to have some news in the next weeks.

PS: and I also appreciate to have some feedback about the landing page: brand, value proposition, etc.

Thanks.

Re: Show HN: Coinspotting - A Hacker News For Bitcoins and Other Cryptocurrencies

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Post by krapp »

bennyg wrote: post #49
krapp wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

well, to be fair, if this is any indication of how deeply integrated markup, data and code are in an Arc application, making any kind of changes to the rendered document would be potentially horribly painful: https://github.com/wting/hackernews/blob/master/html.arc (sorry... I'm sure people think this is awesome because zomg Lisp but in any other language it would be derided as "spaghetti code")

Wow, Lisp is pretty gross. There just doesn't look like a whole lot of order there, and it looks pretty annoying to write.

I do wonder if there's such a thing as a web framework in a Lisp, Arc or what have you, with templating and a url router and all that. Or if that's even possible. Or if the Lisp community would recoil in horror at the very thought.

I mean I know (as far as I know) this was pg's pet project and it's taken off like nothing i've written ever has, but I can't see it selling a blub like me on the language. Nothing makes me want to touch a Lisp less than seeing it.

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