ComNik

Software Engineer / Wantrepreneur.

Playing games, wondering how a game gets on the CD. Even though I loved it, a few years in game programming seemed like it was not "useful" enough. Transitioned to general software-, especially web-development. Started studying CS when the time came.

It's been almost 9 years since the first line of code and for now it seems like this will be the thing I do for some time.

Really really nice. Enjoyed playing around with it. The resulting images are very appealing to me.

Really like the design, especially the search/menu box. It would be very nice to add proper support for tabs, especially when inserting larger blocks of code.

I was thinking the exact same thing when I first read about DRF's Serializers. Also I don't quite get why serialization is always expected to work automatically, at least not in the context of mapping a business layer to an API layer (e.g. for JSON consumption), as those domains don't have to map directly onto each other.

Therefore, for an ongoing project I've implemented something along the lines of your idea (if I got that correctly), by describing API-Layer models in terms of properties, which are just named sets of pure lambdas. The most general property only requires a single one to compute the property value from an input business-model.

This allows for some very nice things, especially with regards to API-level functionality like support for nested ?expand=, ?only=, and such niceties.

Happy to hear that :) Going to get my copy as well.

Old like 1994 old? Thanks for the recommendation.

Would you pay for that? In something like a GitHub Enterprise setting, closed source but self-hosted?

Something like FB-Groups for organizations of all kind fell out as a byproduct of our startup and we are toying with the idea of trying to sell that part in isolation. Basically you get your own, hosted / self-hosted FB-Groups, plus a bit more flexibility regarding permissions and group management. For example you could introduce someone external into a sub-topic in one of your groups, without exposing him to the rest of the group (not sure if that is possible with FB groups).

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Thanks for clearing that up, makes a lot of sense to me. I too would prefer the single transactor model.

Could you elaborate on that?

Having only read the abstract: Am I correct assuming this could be used as the core piece of implementing something like Datomic?

I have been thinking a bit about how amazingly useful a generic, distributed B-Tree would be, thanks to it's applicability with immutable data structures.

Is finding Clojure people that hard (honest question)?

The Clojure + ClojureScript approach has many more batteries included. You get all the benefits of reusing the codebase on both sides of the fence while the language is solving the "Transactional Store", efficient dirty checks, nice server-side concurrency primitives and many unrelated problems for you.

Is there a distributed, ZFS-like filesystem usable in clustered production environments today?

I'm intrigued by the idea of Git-like filesystems, but am not aware of any great clustered filesystems at all.

Would also recommend Christopher Alexander's "Notes on the Synthesis of Form".

Is Zero to One worth the read?

Reading: Jaron Lanier - "Who Owns the Future?"

Read: Jessica Livingston - "Founders at Work"

Maybe you're talking about the about page which this submission links to. The real landing page is quite focused on the acutal stories :)

~100$ / year from an Amazon Price Tracker (http://www.rankique.com/) I wrote a long while ago.

It's 100% passive and is free to run, although some SEO should increase that, which frankly I neither have the time nor the expertise to do.

Because I didn't want to add so many layers at once, I just implemented Stores -> ControllerView -> View -> direct Store call.

As far as my understanding goes that should be fine for most use-cases. The only reason that really requires a Dispatcher would be synchronization of the incoming Store mutations.

Thank you :) This was my first real web-project, so I had no idea what to expect. I wanted to get 1000 uniques / month and hoped they would generate around $100+ / month. I'm currently at a tenth of that, so the general ratio was achieved :)

I'm not sure about the hn-profile :/ just send me a mail to me@nikolasgoebel.com :)

Thanks for the bug, I'll look into that. And yes, I still don't know what I was thinking when choosing the name...

That is an interesting idea, although, IIRC, there was something about Kindle content with the affiliate program...

Thank you :) Jep, Amazon Affiliates.

http://www.rankique.com/ is a price-tracking site for Amazon. It would probably need a renaming and some SEO-love, as it's currently generating about 5$/month (with zero time spent on it). Was once supposed to evolve into a better product search engine, but I've lost interest a while ago (except for personal use, it really can save a lot of money).

I learned web-development while making a little price-tracking/wishlist app: http://www.rankique.com/ (and a german version, pretty much for myself to use..: http://www.rankique.de/)

Together they make about 30-50€/month. I'm working on a couple of new features and I'm searching for a new name, but currently school takes up most of my time.

I think it's interesting, but start with writing a blogpost about it. Even though I did'nt fully understand how your system works, but I'd like to read more.

Yes, good point. I often find myself ignoring the "pause" notification. I use it more as a take-off.

Great point as well. But I'm not quite sure what you mean by "Freeform task management". Could you elaborate on that?

A bit off-topic, procrastination vs. focus is a very different problem (imo), but try the "Strict Pomodoro" Chrome Extension, has helped me improve quite a bit.

Yep, this is true.

Now that j2bax provided a nice solution for the "on hold" problem, you could really just show one task at a time.

Yes, I think this would'nt work without some kind of honesty. This hold-state sounds like a good idea!