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levicampbellon Ask HN: Would the web be a better place with a CLR or JVM in the browser?

Just out of curiosity, what's wrong with tools that compile to javascript? (i.e. CoffeScript, ClojureScript, pyjamas, and the like.)

levicampbellon Review my startup idea: Re-thinking the inbox

I do not, unfortunately. Development is going well, and I hope to have a prototype within the week.

levicampbellon Poll: What are your prime hacking hours?

Midnight to 6 AM for me.

levicampbellon Ask HN: What free tools or websites do you donate to?

I donate monthly to Ubuntu and the python software foundation.

levicampbellon Ask HN looking for a co-founder

Yes, I'm mainly looking for someone with marketing skills.

levicampbellon Ask HN: Whats the best way to keep track of your "to-do's" w/ your co-founder?

keep a tiddlywiki in a shared dropbox folder.

levicampbellon Ask HN: Review my startup idea.

Thank you for your input, and I think I'm going to build a school for tech-based entrepreneurs, possibly walking the students from concept to launch, and teaching programming, system administration, and more as needed.

I need to get some sleep or I'll lose myself in this idea. :)

levicampbellon which technologies you using for your startup or project?

Backend: Haskell, Yesod, Arch Linux. Frontend: HTML5, Javascript, and CSS (Provided by Hamlet, Lucius, and Cassius respectivly.)

levicampbellon Ask HN: Rails for Django developers?

Very neat. Did you purchase the PDF or the screencasts or did you read it online?

levicampbellon Ask HN: C++ lexer/parser generator

Try Boost.Spirit, http://boost-spirit.com/home/

levicampbellon Ask HN: What's public transportation like in the San Fransico bay area?

Maybe I need to just move to the metro-Denver area instead, seeing as I know my way around their public transportation really well.

levicampbellon Ask HN: What's public transportation like in the San Fransico bay area?

excelent, thank you! Now to get my code done.

levicampbellon Steve Jobs' first dream for an Apple headquarters: Coyote Valley, San Jose

Very interesting. although I can't help but wonder, other than possibly starting silicon valley sooner, what would have changed if apple had been located in San Jose?

levicampbellon Common Lisp - Myths and Legends

I had honestly considered writing my website in common lisp, but discarded that idea because I couldn't find good documentation for the RESTAS web framework.

levicampbellon Ask HN: Best place to host a prototype?

PageKite looks like it might work, thanks.

levicampbellon Ask HN: What do you use?

Hardeware: HP Pavilion ze5300 laptop, 2GHz P4, 512MB RAM, 40GB disk.

Software: Ubuntu 10.10, emacs (with haskell-mode, python-mode, yasnippet.), Ubuntu One, the haskell platform (http://www.haskell.org/platform), Gens/GS (Sega Genesis emulator.).