Re: [racket] FYI: A new Racket-powered startup

2014-02-07 Thread Daniel Prager
Hi Gustavo I'll do a fuller "YouPatch story (tech Geek edition)" hopefully soon, but would prefer to submit to Hacker News a little bit down the track when the site has evolved a bit more, and there's more stuff of general interest for the HN audience. I actually think the most interesting parts o

Re: [racket] FYI: A new Racket-powered startup

2014-02-05 Thread Daniel Prager
Sean wrote: > On-topic, congratulations on using a superior language in the real world. Thanks Sean! Looking forward to the international version of the oath. ;-) Dan Racket Users list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/users

Re: [racket] FYI: A new Racket-powered startup

2014-02-05 Thread Sean Kanaley
On-topic, congratulations on using a superior language in the real world. On-latest-topic, maybe indoctrination is the answer: I pledge allegiance...to functional programming And the open source coders of America And to the recursion...for which it stands One function, under lambda, immutable Wit

Re: [racket] FYI: A new Racket-powered startup

2014-02-05 Thread Justin Zamora
On Feb 5, 2014 10:02 AM, "Pierpaolo Bernardi" wrote: > > Can you make an example of something that's worse than C? > Perl Justin Racket Users list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/users

Re: [racket] FYI: A new Racket-powered startup

2014-02-05 Thread Pierpaolo Bernardi
On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 12:38 AM, Gustavo Massaccesi wrote: > Why are you using Racket, and why it's "better" than C? Can you make an example of something that's worse than C? Racket Users list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/users

Re: [racket] FYI: A new Racket-powered startup

2014-02-05 Thread Matthias Felleisen
On Feb 4, 2014, at 6:38 PM, Gustavo Massaccesi wrote: > Why are you using Racket, and why it's "better" than C? Do you hate > the ugly syntax? [[ With all due respect, the phrase 'ugly syntax' is trademarked (by me) and refers to languages that insist on { . } -> . TAB : & * ^ % $ # @ and va

Re: [racket] FYI: A new Racket-powered startup

2014-02-05 Thread Daniel Prager
Hi Janos Thank-you for the kind words. Yes: To the outside world it looks like nginx, Django, and Python, but the deep back-end is Racket, as was all the prototyping. Kind regards Dan On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 7:53 PM, Janos Tobias Locsei wrote: > Daniel, > > Congratulations on the launch! I h

Re: [racket] FYI: A new Racket-powered startup

2014-02-05 Thread Janos Tobias Locsei
Daniel, Congratulations on the launch! I had a play with the site and it's seems very slick. Like Gustavo, I'm curious about the technology stack you used. I had a look on builtwith (http://builtwith.com/youpatch.com) and saw that you're using nginx and django in conjunction with racket? Tobias

Re: [racket] FYI: A new Racket-powered startup

2014-02-04 Thread Gustavo Massaccesi
I looked in your site for a technology stack page. I understand that it's not very useful for most of your users, but I wanted to submit it to Hacker News. I think that a more technical post would be better received. (Or perhaps it will get only 2 upvotes and disappear after an hour.) I'd like to

Re: [racket] FYI: A new Racket-powered startup

2014-02-04 Thread Stephen Chang
Congrats on the launch! On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 8:56 PM, Daniel Prager wrote: > And we're launched! > > www.youpatch.com > > > Feedback welcome: please tell your crafty friends! > > > Cheers & thanks > > Dan > > >> [racket] FYI: A new Racket-powered startup > > >> >> Daniel Prager Mon, 02 Dec 2013

Re: [racket] FYI: A new Racket-powered startup

2014-02-03 Thread Daniel Prager
A fun example: One of the suggestions from a Racketeer was to pixelate John McCarthy: https://www.youpatch.com/gallery/271/ YouPatch takes the original image and allows the user to create a pixelated version, but more significantly generates a PDF with a shopping list of fabrics, plus the diagr

Re: [racket] FYI: A new Racket-powered startup

2013-12-02 Thread Daniel Prager
On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 3:51 AM, Matthias Felleisen wrote: > > Congrats, looks neat! Thank-you! > Getting a scribbled pdf from a web site is something different. Have you > considered displaying it as HTML for account holders? Downloading a pdf fits for the craft-making audience as we underst

Re: [racket] FYI: A new Racket-powered startup

2013-12-02 Thread Matthias Felleisen
Congrats, looks neat! Getting a scribbled pdf from a web site is something different. Have you considered displaying it as HTML for account holders? On Dec 2, 2013, at 7:01 AM, Daniel Prager wrote: > A few hours ago my new start-up -- www.youpatch.com -- came out of stealth > mode. > >