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by cemerick 16y ago
Bollocks. We AOT-compile and then obfuscate closed-source clojure code shipped to commercial customers.
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by cemerick 16y ago
I'll second the github suggestion. clj-peg looks very interesting.
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by cemerick 16y ago
DocuHarvest is a web application for extracting valuable data from documents (just PDFs for now): https://docuharvest.com Short reason: JVM perf/libs + persistent data structures + lisp goodness (macros etc.) is a helluva package deal.
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by cemerick 16y ago
Twitter logins I don't mind, but I dislike FB enough to avoid logging in there or maintaining my account there (beyond specifying in my bio that I don't really use FB). I've never used FB connect for anything. shrug
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by cemerick 16y ago
This sort of thing is absolutely on the drawing board. There's a lot of unknowns here for us: in particular, which OCR package to use -- none I've used are satisfactory IMO -- as well as figuring out the paper problem, which we don't want t
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by cemerick 16y ago
I'm guessing you didn't read the first sentence in my text opening the thread. :-) DocuHarvest is for those that don't know what open source is, or those that don't want to pay for someone to monkey with it enough to make it work in their o
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by cemerick 16y ago
Good point, no one reads documentation / site messages. :-) Cutting off content halfway through with a message at the end would work well for text extraction and other long-format sorts of data, but what about form data extraction and such?
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by cemerick 16y ago
Yup, they've got a variety of solutions. Of course, the point is that that's a pretty huge up-front cost compared to (for example) $10 to get the data from those 100 PDF forms you've got in a folder somewhere. The vast majority of the func
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by cemerick 16y ago
Thanks for the feedback -- maybe I should just show the demo straight off? I felt like some background was necessary, but I certainly don't want to bore anyone away! :-)
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by cemerick 16y ago
Yeah, I've struggled with the "job" terminology quite a bit, having used "run", "batch", and "task" in prior iterations. (Whoa, think I'm a backend dev or something? ;-) I'll mull over the "Harvest" idea. Seems like a good way to provide a
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by cemerick 16y ago
Thanks for the kind words. Indeed, I put a lot into the "first visit experience", and hopefully it's a reasonable first stab for this Tufte-reading programmer. :-) As for competition: (a) Nonconsumption (as the 37signals guys like to say).
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Ask HN / Review my startup: DocuHarvest
34 points by cemerick 16y ago|20 comments
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by cemerick 16y ago
Regardless of Stallman's preferences, it doesn't seem like that's panning out very well. Fortunes are made every day by people and companies using OSS, but so rare is the open-source millionaire (or even sole operator eeking out a living)
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by cemerick 16y ago
I wasn't saying that idiomatic web development in Clojure will change, just that whatever pieces are necessary to support deep integration with existing web frameworks and tools will continue to emerge. This is a domain-specific problem, no
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by cemerick 16y ago
Brian (the post's author) cited a year before he was proficient in emacs. I spent two months with it myself once, with nothing but frustration to show for it, so I can believe him on that front. That's a huge opportunity cost, when I k
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by cemerick 16y ago
Commodities are worth consideration, just not maximal optimization when there are switching costs involved. My core point was, editing code isn't the bottleneck in building quality software efficiently, so optimizing that process beyond a c
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by cemerick 16y ago
The language I use to build software with is precious to me. It's capabilities are often key to what I can do, how I can express myself. The editor I use to write code is a commodity. Will switching to emacs help me write better software
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by cemerick 16y ago
Both enclojure (for NetBeans) and counterclockwise (Eclipse) are solid environments that are being used full-time by a bunch of people. I've used the former for a long time, and am on the bleeding edge most of the time. Check 'em out. :-)
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by cemerick 16y ago
Scala is discussed frequently in Clojure circles, both positively and negatively. The former isn't fanboyism, and the latter isn't trashing -- it's talking about tradeoffs, experiences, and opinions. These things happen on the internet. T
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by cemerick 16y ago
I was only referring to the number of respondents, not the overall methodology. But again, I disavow any expertise or sense when it comes to actual polling. :-)
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by cemerick 16y ago
Most of the work in Clojure web dev so far (that is also publicized, that is) is also oriented towards green-field projects, and not integrating with existing web frameworks. That will change, at which point Clojure will come to embrace Ja
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by cemerick 16y ago
Not sure how you get that. Check out the original data; 13 people responded "I remember when #clojure had 6 people in it" (which seems exactly right, taking timezones into account).
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by cemerick 16y ago
Should be only a momentary lapse. The poor thing is only on an m1.small. :-)
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Results from the State of Clojure, Summer 2010 Survey(muckandbrass.com)
76 points by cemerick 16y ago|25 comments
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by cemerick 16y ago
Um, yeah. If you're not handing over money to someone, you're not a customer -- you're a user . An important population, but customers will almost always trump users if there's differing interests.
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by cemerick 16y ago
This guy sounds like the LoperOS fellow talking about Clojure, but after a margarita. http://www.loper-os.org/?p=42
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by cemerick 16y ago
I submitted it because stories like this are common, but the underlying issues and misunderstandings aren't often aired out as they have been nicely here. Lots of people don't understand what they are and are not getting with "cloud" provi
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"Amazon EBS sucks. I just lost all my data"(developer.amazonwebservices.com)
111 points by cemerick 16y ago|66 comments
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by cemerick 16y ago
Looks like an experiment, someone attempting to innovate. From Rémi Forax's announcement on the JVM Languages Group ( http://groups.google.com/group/jvm-languages/browse_frm/thre... ): It's as far as I know the first reboot of an existing
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Reboot PHP: keep the philosophy, improve the syntax (PHP on the JVM)(code.google.com)
71 points by cemerick 16y ago|53 comments

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