Hi akkartik, thanks for the update. I'm not using cygwin, but raw racket for windows, sublime and terminals. But I've not run Arc since a while - december or so. Actually, I growing more and more interested by poker. It's kind of the perfect answer to the frustration I got in software - mostly due to my struggle to find a job with great programmers and also my struggle to find great co-hackers. In poker, I win money when the others are wrong; guess how I like that this days...
Programming is my life. I like to think I'm a master of it. But I'm completely alone. Also I hate my jobs, I hate big companies, I hate bullshit, I hate TDD, I hate code reviews, I hate estimations; it's a pain man.
Poker, while definitely not as deep as software, is the exact opposite. They do TDD? I take money. They do code reviews? I take money. bullshit? a fountain of money...
But there is Arc. The most beautiful language I've ever used. I could build so much with it. Wow it could be so awesome. But, let's be honest, it's now or never.
Btw, I think I have an idea to fix email. What's missing is a delivery date (of the task / answer / content) set by the sender or the receiver, which would allow to sort emails. Anyway, I'm throwing a bottle in the ocean. If you have a project you want to do using arc (or another language that would fit the task better), let me know.
I was quite addicted to poker (no-limit hold 'em) for a couple of years (2005-2008) until it became hard to play online in the US. Now I just play with play money on some mobile app every few months :) It's not true that when people play badly they always lose money. It took me a while to realize that my compass of how well I was playing had to come from within. Otherwise the worst thing that could happen to me was to play badly and win a hand. I'd then be giving away money for a long time, going on tilt, etc. But yeah you're right that in the long run the better player wins, particularly in cash games. Tournaments seem like more of a lottery (maybe I'm just not very good).
I'm constantly looking for people to hack with as well. Some ideas:
a) We could work on anarki. For example, try out the latest version sometime when you have time and let me know if mktemp broke again on Windows. Help kinnard and me expand the install instructions for Anarki to Windows. Neither of us knows how to run Arc there, so this would be very valuable. These small-ish ideas might be the start of a larger project.
