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23-year-old Steve Jobs' first (nervous) TV appearance(bits.blogs.nytimes.com)
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by cemerick 16y ago
The disaffection of ex-Java-devs towards these newer JVM languages is only really surprising if you were expecting any other language to overtake Java for Java developers. I used to think that would come to pass, but I've been convinced ot
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by cemerick 16y ago
I guess my response would be, "So?". The question is whether the JVM is a reasonable, safe, and reliable platform to build upon. While Oracle's actions vis à vis various projects haven't been what many would have preferred, AFAIK they've
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by cemerick 16y ago
I've never quite followed why unrelated actions are thought to be somehow indicative of how Oracle is or is going to manage the JVM. Assuming you were going to be using their implementation anyway, extracurriculars like this Hudson drama s
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by cemerick 16y ago
Sounds like the respective sides reached agreement on all of the really substantive issues, but flopped on the most trivial yet most symbolic one. Oracle could gain a fair bit of goodwill (or perhaps reclaim some of what they've lost due t
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by cemerick 16y ago
Sounds like you object to a variety of particulars that you just happen to disagree with. A fair bit shy of falling short of some kind of essential "spirit". The OpenJDK CA process was put in place a long time ago by Sun, generally well-li
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by cemerick 16y ago
> How many other OSS projects have an exhaustive list on their website of everyone who is allowed to make contributions? That is a way of thanking contributors. If the question is, "How many other OSS projects require filing a CA before
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by cemerick 16y ago
You'd be surprised by how many people read only comments unless/until they're motivated to read TFA. shrug
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by cemerick 16y ago
tl;dr: Rich is no longer accepting donations from individuals, but businesses (and presumably not-for-profits as well?) are still encouraged to contribute to the development effort. There are a bunch of corporate sponsors of Clojure, and th
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by cemerick 16y ago
FWIW, there's lots of stuff to be done in nREPL proper as well. Anyone interested should definitely ping me. I'll hopefully get the outstanding issues into the new JIRA in the next couple of weeks, along with a migration of the various
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by cemerick 16y ago
This post pissed me off a bit. My comment here, for those that only read comments on HN: I can imagine that the people that are and have been working hard on Clojure would be dismayed by this odd chunk of unfortunate FUD. As someone that
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by cemerick 16y ago
The character of Lisp communities is all over the map, since each particular implementation has its own. It's not as if someone that picks up Racket is going to waltz into #clojure looking for help, advice, or reinforcement. So, of course
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by cemerick 16y ago
Super-ultra-secrets has nothing to do with it (though if you're a small shop, pointing the finger at github if/when confidential stuff flies the coop isn't going to go over well with certain clients). My code (and other assets) are importan
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by cemerick 16y ago
Except, their pricing starts at $2,500 per year for 10 devs. Holy shit. I'll bet they sell scads of it to companies with more money than they know what to do with, but that seems crazy to me. As wonderful as github is, it's still just
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Scheme in One (Java) Class [using JSR292, by John Rose](blogs.sun.com)
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by cemerick 16y ago
The only think I know about Michigan towns is what I read on Wikipedia and see on Google, so you have me at a distinct disadvantage. Totally FWIW though, a stupidly quick googling ( http://www.google.com/search?q=software+ann+arbor ) revea
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by cemerick 16y ago
A P.S. (to counter the acerbity of my comment in reply to tptacek): It's a really, really big world, filled with really bright people. They can't all be in SV/NYC/Bos/Chi/Aus/whatever…and if they were, the world would be worse off for it
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by cemerick 16y ago
Well, fine, let's all move to a major metro area then; what's the population threshold it needs to be above in order for it to be worth considering? Sheesh. I'm in no position at this point to debate the macroeconomic benefits or handicaps
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by cemerick 16y ago
So, one can get a good software development job in the midwest only if one is in Chicago? I think you missed the point of the post.
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by cemerick 16y ago
Many thanks for those. I obviously haven't digested them yet, but I will.
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by cemerick 16y ago
That was perhaps a little harsh in the phrasing; I wasn't really implying any of those things. I think I am saying that this appears to have been a blind spot on the part of the web standardization crowd and the browser makers. Maybe I'm
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by cemerick 16y ago
Javascript is a bad language with poor libraries, and I'm forced to use it. I've said before: if it weren't for its distribution, it simply wouldn't be used. If given other choices (emphasis on the plural there), not one developer woul
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by cemerick 16y ago
Presumably, that's what Orto did (a post about which I linked to in the original post), and apparently with reasonable performance results for the examples they provided at the time (circa 2008). Javascript runtimes are becoming absurdly f
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by cemerick 16y ago
I'm hardly an Oracle (née Sun in this context) booster; i.e. as a Clojure partisan, I'm all too aware of the benign neglect that comes with using the JVM but not Java, and with vaporware (JWebPane, anyone?). All that said, I'm happy enough
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by cemerick 16y ago
Javascript's absolutely ubiquitous distribution characteristics have resulted in all sorts of irrational behaviour. If the W3C or the browser makers collectively had put some thought into making it possible for other languages to be linked
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by cemerick 16y ago
Where is that from? That's not in my post, and not in the podcast transcript…
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by cemerick 16y ago
If we're talking about a JVM impl (rather than a source-to-source compiler á la GWT), being able to use better languages like Clojure, Python (via Jython), Ruby (via JRuby), et al. would be a huge reason.
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by cemerick 16y ago
dougmartin on irc is dugmartin here. Make fun of him for the digg reference! ;-)
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by cemerick 16y ago
When you're a solo founder, the weighting of the same issues would appear to be significantly different -- or, at least that's my impression when talking to partnered founders. There's also the sometimes-existential question of being solo,
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by cemerick 16y ago
Capability trumps everything else. If AWS sucked, or was merely a typical collection of services, then details about its API design might matter. Of course, AWS isn't typical – it's exceptional. Thus, its API could require the use of car

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