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by cemerick 17y ago
Absolutely. It is their tools platform for Java, Glassfish, JavaFx, etc. Besides, it's featured in the second position on sun.com (with only Java ahead of it).
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by cemerick 17y ago
Sure, but that's not what you'd like to have happen in the end (though it works in a pinch). I mentioned it because it was one of the issues that is insurmountable from userland right now.
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by cemerick 17y ago
I suppose I don't care that much about whether clojure is really, honestly FP, but you brought it up... Again, it sounds like you think any given scheme code isn't functional programming, either, it not being lazy by default, etc. Small
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by cemerick 17y ago
The ongoing work of making clojure self-hosting will make the CLR port easier, and make things like a Obj-C, LLVM, etc., port possible.
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by cemerick 17y ago
I'm so glad that someone is keeping it real when it comes to functional programming. sigh You don't mention where you saw all the "global variables", but I'll bet that what you saw were actually vars used in conjunction with binding. A
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by cemerick 17y ago
I'm pretty sure I wasn't trying to pitch anything. I just thought I'd share a (sadly) typical story, one of which happened to prompt me to write the light-on-content post to begin with.
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by cemerick 17y ago
Yeah, I'm positive there are better examples...the 'fable' I described is just a recurring theme for us, only because we're often called when things have run off the rails. Presumably, if we thought more about why we're doing something and
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by cemerick 17y ago
Not dead, just resting. The server that hosts that blog only has 2mbit up at the moment. That'll change soon. Check back in a bit? :-)
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by cemerick 17y ago
Even worse is that the slant about being able to use that money to do good in the world (e.g. fund journalism, etc) is almost certainly a swipe from Spolsky's recent craigslist rant on stackoverflow. I guess they might have had the same
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by cemerick 17y ago
Oh, sure, and I've got no axe to grind with YC, pg, or anyone else there. I was more irritated by the reaction in the Boston area than anything else.
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by cemerick 17y ago
Uh, right, because talented people only ever live in Silicon Valley (or the largest 20 cities, or whatever). Every startup's prospects relate to their geography uniquely, and the herd has nothing to do with where any particular startup sho
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by cemerick 17y ago
Yeah, we just moved our blog stuff around today -- funny to see this old post making the rounds again.
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by cemerick 17y ago
Yeah, we'll be using the levelator from now on. I hadn't figured out that wiretap pro could export AIFF when I cut the file for episode #0.