jbr
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Comment · 15 years ago
IA Ventures is looking for an unpaid VC intern in NYC. I'm not affiliated with them, but I thought it was a cool opportunity.
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Comment · 16 years ago
It's not exactly the same, but we're building something similar at http://newsbasis.com
Comment · 16 years ago
This looks like a really cool project/language. How do I build it? Does it build on OS X?
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I'd love to "watch" the project on github, but alas it's stranded on the island of google code. Check out this [1] basho blog entry on why they chose github over bitbucket — most of the reasoning applies to google code as well. I'm not affiliated with github, by the way, just a happy user.
For a project like this, the concept of "watchers" isn't a vanity metric. I've been working on a lisp->javascript language and have found github watchers to be surprisingly motivating and encouraging.
[1] http://blog.basho.com/2010/11/11/a-few-more-details-on-why-w...
Comment · 16 years ago
I'm most impressed with how progressively "upmarket" they become. You could charge multiples more for the minimal version in a different context.
As muji [1] is to a department store, the appropriate store for these would be to a supermarket.
I'm also reminded of the quote "Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication" (da vinci?)
[1] http://muji.us
Comment · 16 years ago
Thanks, Evan! I actually disagree about production use, with similar reasoning to Travis Swicegood's answer about coffeescript in production [1]. Since sibilant is just a source-to-source compiler, it's as production-ready as Node.js or client-side javascript is. The output javascript from sibilant is fairly plain and readable and encourages a particular subset of javascript's features. The language is under active development, but Node's API is also changing. I've been hacking on sibilant since late June and believe it to be sufficiently expressive, although it can always get better.
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[1] http://www.quora.com/Should-I-use-CoffeeScript-for-more-than... .
Comment · 16 years ago
Pivotal labs does this by offering everyone free catered breakfast at the start of the day. As I understand it, the motivation was to synchronize everyone's lunch hunger so half of a pair-programming team wasn't hungry earlier because they hadn't eaten lunch but their pair had. It also served to mitigate mid-afternoon food-coma somewhat.
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