What's the commercial thinking behind the giveaway?
How do these guys make money?
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How do these guys make money?
I think the answer may be... nothing.
Personally my approach is to do the bulk of the webev yourself and outsource stuff like graphic design, research, maybe some simple press release writing.
http://groups.google.com/group/HAppS/browse_thread/thread/cf...
Basically it was a lazy io issue in haskell, fix was using a strict version of readFile for templates.
Hope it stays up now!
Meanwhile I restarted the server and it's running again.
The OP was a history major if I recall correctly.
It's not really a "minor detail."
There's a "getting organized" thread on the happs googlegroup about this at the moment, and I really hope it bears fruit.
This should be done via haddock of course, but haddock won't build HAppS documentation at the moment because it doesn't work with template haskell (as discussed in the googlegroup). Optimistically, this should be working again after ghc 6.10.2, which also targets a haddock fix.
Even without working haddock though, the api should be better documented in the source. If haddock suddenly started working there still would be a lot of undocumented functions.
There are new chapters on various macid topics, utf8 gotchas, cookies, and various improvements all over.
Please continue to report errors and inconsistencies as they come up.
This version is "close to final". At least for my purposes, it has boilerplate that covers nearly all the important important use cases for a web 2.0 app. OK I missed a few -- eg, there's still no email confirmation with registration -- but there's a hell of a lot.
So... don't use ruby for your next web 2.0 app -- use haskell!
thomas.
Tommyknockers, which he wrote when going through one of the worst addictive periods, is horrible in my opinion. I suspect it's better if you're snorting.
Obviously though, other stuff from the early years is universally regarded (by fans I mean!) as quite good.
He writes a lot about the effect of being a junkie on art during the semi-autobiographical parts of the last volumes in the dark tower series.
I like both stevie kings, but I'm glad he sobered up, or the king we have now might have ceased to be with us long ago.
pretty straightforward.
There's lots of other contractors there too that will bid on your project.
It is a little weird to use these contracting websites the first time, but only the first time :)
The obvious thing is to get good at ruby.
But I would say, have a look at haskell, and happstutorial.com.
hanging out in haskell cafe, a certain amount of CS is likely to just rub off on you.
maybe you should do a long-distance course in CS.
fern uni hagen has one that I considered.
I'm using a homebrew haskell framework now, happs with StringTemplate for the view.
A bet that google will still be around in 100 years, or will buy insurance to guarantee long term storage via some foundation if they do go out of businesss, seems reasonable to me.
GFS does CRC and multiple copies to guard against data corruption right?
2) I quit to write software.
3) I would have been overjoyed had my students made the kind of grammar mistake (student's) I made in my off the cuff remark. In fact, my experience doing this has made me incredibly forgiving for this kind of thing, I guess in my own writing as well as that of others. Basically, if the meaning is clear and obvious I don't really consider it a mistake, just being a pedantic snob. The problem you get with people who really don't know how to write is the meaning isn't clear, I mean really not clear. You get, like, word salad, metaphors so brutally mixed that who knows what point was trying to be made, a level of incoherence that truly impedes what is trying to be communicated -- it can range from severe annoyance to total incomprehension. Grammar is for pedeants, get your point across and I'm your friend. Unfortunately many people can't.
I, too, taught "literature" to people that could barely read. It sucked.
If you can't read, you should learn the mechanics of how to read before dealing with things like "foreshadowing" "theme" "denouement."
Just, basic stuff.Otherwise, it's just ridiculous.
That's what these colleges should be doing, if they're taking student's money. Not raping them in their vulnerability, naivete, and ability to get a loan.
And there's hostility towards tax havens? They get cut off from wires, and you have to smuggle in cash / diamonds in suitcases, and it's a total pain in the ass and you become a social pariah?
Not saying that should happen, but it could happen.
Dumb article.
There are a lot of smart people there, but also many people with advanced degrees that are more book smart than street smart. So they sell book-smart snake oil, or help others do that indirectly via a stable of credentialed eggheads. (Cf Nassim Taleb on derivatives shenanigans.)
Street smart is a lot more important than book smart on wall street.
Too bad I'm so book smart :)
don't.
If you're very poor, but smart, america probably offers more opportunities than most euro places. Elite Unis heavily subsidize in this case.
The more common case though, is somewhat poor (single mom, 3 siblings, $40,000 a year), and somewhat smart but not national merit level. Many people in this situation seem to wind up getting aid packages with low interest, but huge principal, managing to get their degree but graduating with a lot of debt. This may be changing with even the shift to free tuition by some elite unis, but haven't seen really big changes yet.
In your last sentence, you seem to make the same point, only for med care rather than education.
So perhaps we agree that the american system is harshest on people who are poor but not "poverty level."
That is a bad way to be though. Because what happens when you are poverety level, and work your ass off to get up to the "just poor" level? You lose all that subsidy! And back to poverty level, for many.