Curt Doolittle

Form: Project Update

  • Status of “The Book”: Natural Law

    ON THE ‘BOOK’ OR BOOKS OF NATURAL LAW (PROPERTARIANISM) Anne (All), You know, I can actually write a short book, “The Law of Nature”, with help from a few others in this group of ours. Although I still need a little help from the “Occultists” etc to color it a bit.

    Even a few months ago I thought I couldn’t do it yet. But I’ve realized over the past few weeks that I can. I can make a very short, very small book. In fact, I am getting close to thinking that I can write something as small as a pamphlet or paper. That’s the value of taking so long. I get better at ‘simplificating and adding brevity’. But you know, I’ve put more than a million dollars of my own money, and not insignificant amounts of my friends money, in to our product and I need to get it to commercial-quality done. That is my moral imperative. And honestly, evidence is that the longer I take, the more demand goes up, the better I get at saying it in fewer words. Our (my advisors and I) original plan still holds: 1 – put out enough of a skeleton on the web site that I can attract early adopters and good criticism from ‘near neighbors’ in the community. 2 – put out a booklet or pamphlet, or ‘paper’ that contains the full argument but without all the narrative and all the historical content and examples. 3 – put out ‘the bible of western civilization’ which will forever serve as the legal, moral, and religious basis of western peoples – and all peoples who wish to transcend. If it was easy someone else would have figured it out. But you know, christianity put an evil dent in our people. The defeat of roman civilization put an evil dent in our people. The muslim conquest put an evil dent in humanity. and unfortunately, and quite counter-intuitively, Mathematical reasoning put an evil dent in the greek philosophers. The basis of western civlization was always there: the cult of sovereignty: the initiatic brotherhood of warriors. “I shall speak the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth even if it brings me death. I will take nothing not paid for. And I will cause no other to bear cost by my words or deeds. And if I break this oath I ask you my brothers to kill me for it.” If you practice this oath of initiation on a civilizational scale (and regardless of gender), with near-kin, then you will get western civlization because one cannot both keep that oath and do anything other than construct western civlization: sovereignty, truth, and markets in everything. All I am doing is making even an argument against this oath prosecutable to the point of death. Curt Doolittle The Cult of Non Submission The Philosophy of Aristocracy The Natural Law of Sovereign Men The Propertarian Institute, Kiev, Ukraine

  • Status of “The Book”: Natural Law

    ON THE ‘BOOK’ OR BOOKS OF NATURAL LAW (PROPERTARIANISM) Anne (All), You know, I can actually write a short book, “The Law of Nature”, with help from a few others in this group of ours. Although I still need a little help from the “Occultists” etc to color it a bit.

    Even a few months ago I thought I couldn’t do it yet. But I’ve realized over the past few weeks that I can. I can make a very short, very small book. In fact, I am getting close to thinking that I can write something as small as a pamphlet or paper. That’s the value of taking so long. I get better at ‘simplificating and adding brevity’. But you know, I’ve put more than a million dollars of my own money, and not insignificant amounts of my friends money, in to our product and I need to get it to commercial-quality done. That is my moral imperative. And honestly, evidence is that the longer I take, the more demand goes up, the better I get at saying it in fewer words. Our (my advisors and I) original plan still holds: 1 – put out enough of a skeleton on the web site that I can attract early adopters and good criticism from ‘near neighbors’ in the community. 2 – put out a booklet or pamphlet, or ‘paper’ that contains the full argument but without all the narrative and all the historical content and examples. 3 – put out ‘the bible of western civilization’ which will forever serve as the legal, moral, and religious basis of western peoples – and all peoples who wish to transcend. If it was easy someone else would have figured it out. But you know, christianity put an evil dent in our people. The defeat of roman civilization put an evil dent in our people. The muslim conquest put an evil dent in humanity. and unfortunately, and quite counter-intuitively, Mathematical reasoning put an evil dent in the greek philosophers. The basis of western civlization was always there: the cult of sovereignty: the initiatic brotherhood of warriors. “I shall speak the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth even if it brings me death. I will take nothing not paid for. And I will cause no other to bear cost by my words or deeds. And if I break this oath I ask you my brothers to kill me for it.” If you practice this oath of initiation on a civilizational scale (and regardless of gender), with near-kin, then you will get western civlization because one cannot both keep that oath and do anything other than construct western civlization: sovereignty, truth, and markets in everything. All I am doing is making even an argument against this oath prosecutable to the point of death. Curt Doolittle The Cult of Non Submission The Philosophy of Aristocracy The Natural Law of Sovereign Men The Propertarian Institute, Kiev, Ukraine

  • OVERSING UPDATE I’m pretty much working around the clock. I write a little in th

    OVERSING UPDATE

    I’m pretty much working around the clock. I write a little in the morning and then respond a few times during the day, but largely I”m working on the software from waking until sleeping.

    It took me most of October and part of November to get my health back, but I spend the down time doing a lot of research and planning the effort. Lets keep in mind that I was pretty out of my head at the time, but work is work and I got it done.

    What we discovered during the summer is that the app was too hard for us to update and maintain. This was somewhat intentional because I was trying to get to beta before the investment market cooled in the fall of ’15. But what we heard from investors is that we needed 50k of revenue before they would take on an enterprise product of this scale. What we also heard from Analysts is that to dominate the market we needed the accounting features that I had cut. What we heard from early beta sites was that it was still in late alpha stage. (which is true). But what I discovered when going through the code for my customer, was that it was overly dependent upon a series of factors: the speed of jquery/ractive (even if it was very well coded), mixing front and back end code, a terribly overdependence upon google datatables, a terribly unmaintainable use of callbacks to construct response objects, some serious abuses of memory, and a problematic implementation of accounting transactions.

    Now you might think this is serious but as someone who worked on Microsoft commercial products, and as someone who has worked almost exclusively with enterprise scale software (oh…. and games of course), I just view this as the normal shaking out of a rapidly prototyped and iteratively developed beta product.

    Now the fault here is mine because I had engineered my life to allow me to work on philosophy and the product at the same time, and to slowly hand over responsibility to the ukrainian development team so that I could return to the states, and start building the company from there. But these technical issues were larger than i’d planned for, and the team was frankly not as strong as i had thought (they led me to believe), and so I had not kept my nose in the code.

    My view was that it would take me 90 days to fix the existing code, or it would take me an unknown number of months to do some substantial upgrading. But that if I wanted to take the product to market at low cost and get 50K of initial business, and attract the investors that I want (and I do know who they are), I had the opportunity to stay in the states and get that done, and nearly eliminate my cash burn.

    So, during November I moved the back end to the most recent Laravel version just because if I was going to do a substantial change, I felt it was better to get it over with. Then I added the backend features that we needed to simplify what I’d found in our beta customers this summer. These are things that make debugging, adding or changing features easier.

    Then I spent (far too long) traveling to Seattle to settle some affairs, and returning in time for christmas. Then Starting the week after christmas I began spikes for the front end. And since then I’ve been converting the front end to much, much, simpler code, that is much much faster. i’m also using the design we came up with this summer so that I get a little higher contrast experience with the default theme.

    When I’ve finished that work – which I really don’t know how long it will take me, i’ll connect the functionality one service at a time. This reduces our backend to a pure API, without any UI services. The real reason this app is hard to debug is that lack of separation.

    The resulting apis will be:

    0) oversing.com (marketing site)

    1) app.oversing.com, (application)

    2) api.oversing.com, (data api)

    3) search.api.oversing.com (full text/file repo api)

    And then I just have a few new entities to add that complete the accounting system.

    Now I am not sure what this sounds like to everyone, but what it means is that I don’t have to do much application logic other than the modifications to permissions and the accounting system. So most of the work is what you’d normally do when upgrading an enterprise application to a new major release.

    And honestly, I love doing it.

    We’ll get there. Probably about the time the investment market adapts to the shock of the past two years.

    Curt

    Source date (UTC): 2017-02-19 14:59:00 UTC

  • (oversing update)(diary) This whole React.js stack is pretty amazing. Took me a

    (oversing update)(diary)

    This whole React.js stack is pretty amazing. Took me a while to get everything up and running. And I hope like hell it doesn’t bite me when I scale up the app. But damn. great stuff.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-01-04 17:54:00 UTC

  • MORE ON OVERSING UPDATE: Well, I think I posted that I had the database and the

    MORE ON OVERSING UPDATE:

    Well, I think I posted that I had the database and the models (code that controls them finished), and that I’d ‘fixed’ the various architectural issues that were bothering me(permissions, appointments, accounting). And now I’m working on fixing the front end which uses React/Flux instead of jquery Ractive. Why? I cannot debug this enormous thing and unit test it without separating the UI from the API – and they are far too intermingled. And really, once you understand that the app is a few facebook pages, and the workspace, and that most of the controls are reused over and over again, it’s really not that hard to change the code base. thankfully, while the presentation layer is killing me, an awful lot of the middleware just needs code cleanup, and ‘curt levels’ of comments and documentation (and I write a lot of comments and documentation).

    I don’t see the investment market opening up until February so I figure I have at least until then to make the changes I want to.

    Iain has had family problems and has been offline for almost six months, but he’s back at work and getting our end of year reporting done finally. Although I suspect he’s workign at the same pace I am.

    I should have done this over a year ago, but I’m still happy that we’re making progress. the app is a joy. And it’s going to be even better.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-11-19 13:18:00 UTC

  • (PROGRESS: I’m working on the book when I have the mind for it and the software

    (PROGRESS: I’m working on the book when I have the mind for it and the software when I don’t. Programming is relaxing and much easier. Right now I’m extremely inspired and writing most of the time. Prior to the election I was working mostly on software. And it seems like this is the right balance for me. I do not feel ‘better’ but it’s pretty obvious that the courses of antibiotics have made a profound difference in curing me of whatever this horrible antagonist to my asthma has been for the past (near) year. I have been struggling to get out the first chapter – setting the stage- but its finally coming together with both the argument and voice I am looking for. And honestly it’s the hardest part of the book for me – other than maybe the challenge it will be writing down the formal methodology in Part 6. That’s possibly going to make me a bit crazier than usual. But it’s more like writing an instruction manual than telling a story so hopefully I can work through it a bit at a time. But Part 1 – that’s the overall narrative. And I finally feel like I know how to tell the story. And Im in the process of telling it. Will it matter to those of you who have followed me? I don’t know. In my view the problem of the information age and incrementally suppressing falsehood, is pretty simple now. The explanation of history as the battle between eugenic truth and dysgenic lies is pretty easy. And the suggestion that we can complete the indo-european project if we return to rule-for-fun-and-profit is even more interesting. But I suppose what most people want is a collection of all those little arguments that we must construct along the way. And I think the book will do that – very thoroughly. Assuming I have the juice to finish it now.)

    Source date (UTC): 2016-11-19 13:09:00 UTC

  • i have an important piece rolling around in my head about education and the prob

    i have an important piece rolling around in my head about education and the problem of teaching ‘ages’. it’s a parable of the 17 lies. but I’m too tired tonight to write it. so hopefully tomorrow.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-11-11 23:43:00 UTC

  • OVERSING UPDATE Spent most of this week researching, designing, and rewriting th

    OVERSING UPDATE

    Spent most of this week researching, designing, and rewriting the underlying accounting system and services. Thrilled with the result.

    Gonna take me a huge chunk of time to finish it. But now it’s ‘done right’.

    But have you ever tried to spend a Saturday morning writing accounting code? No? Good for you. lol

    I would rather trash talk philosophy and politics on a Saturday morning. But … I manage to fit a little work in now and then.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-11-05 14:19:00 UTC

  • OVERSING UPDATE (Thinking that the best use of time is converting, slowly and pa

    OVERSING UPDATE

    (Thinking that the best use of time is converting, slowly and painfully to the most recent version of Laravel, which has far better integration with the services we make use of (Queues and Redis). It would also allow me to better isolate the UI, and dramatically reduce the amount of information sent to the client. There are also three issues I want to improve in order to simplify completion: 1) the class structure of the tasks, 2) the class structure of the ACL, 3) the way the datatable config is spread all over the place. 4) the overuse of closures. 5) hard coded values that should be data driven. All of these things hurt maintainability and debugging.)

    Source date (UTC): 2016-10-19 10:26:00 UTC

  • OVERSING UPDATE Small stuff so far, but important stuff, and it’s only noon. +Fi

    OVERSING UPDATE

    Small stuff so far, but important stuff, and it’s only noon.

    +Fixed the issue (hack) in the environment configuration so that only one copy of the db connection info is necessary.

    +Fixed the pathing information (bug) so that Artisan commands will run correctly from the command line interface. … Yes, it’s true, you can’t call on configuration options until after they’re loaded. I know that’s hard to imagine… sigh. Anyway. That’s a big one. Now I’m off to fix the rest of the commands while I’m at it.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-10-17 12:21:00 UTC