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by elangoc 11y ago
In the last week, I've done this 2 or 3 times: I've opened some Clojure/CLJS file of mine in a text editor, did a search-and-replace of all open- and close-parens to a single space. Then I ask if they've seen Python befo
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by elangoc 11y ago
Thanks, Phil! Your post about Logo ( http://technomancy.us/167 ) was definitely an inspiration for this project. I hope that something in Clojure can be made to be as effective as DrRacket has been for you.
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by elangoc 11y ago
I love the jslogo site!
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by elangoc 11y ago
As far as the Quil window with graphics, I'm not sure if it's because an Applet is being used, but on Mac OS X, the window pops up for me behind my other windows and without focus. I have to hide all of the other windows on top o
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by elangoc 11y ago
Hi everyone, author here! I'm really excited about the possibilities that this library opens up! I intend to write a blog post soon to explain in detail the ideas I have and to put them in context. Until then, here's the high-l
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by elangoc 11y ago
Whoa! ISICP looks really cool! You know, the exercise sections of ISICP remind me a lot of the interactive Clojure exercises at 4Clojure.com. 4Clojure.com has a link to the github repo of the software used to create the site.
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by elangoc 11y ago
I love it! The target audience is people with prior programming experience. It's important to know the target audience, either as a writer or reviewer. The tutorial webpage is simple and effective with a gradual progression in concept
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by elangoc 11y ago
To add on to that... Even though, I haven't been involved in the contributing process for Clojure, but I thought it was interesting that Brian Goetz's keynote at the Conj 6 months ago was about stewardship, in particular, stewards
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by elangoc 12y ago
The n-word is the modern legacy of a history of 400 years of racism and enslavement. Its modern usage originates from using the word to reinforce the same economic and social oppression. That context exists for the n-word beyond your &#x2
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by elangoc 12y ago
Interesting. I could also imagine that the inverse of that point is also true: if one of the suppliers is really good and reliably so, if Apple depends on them more than the others, the cash inflow will help that one supplier more than the
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by elangoc 13y ago
I attended the Clojure/West conference about 3 weeks ago, and the sentiments are valid. But also, the Clojure community is starting to focus on the beginner learning curve aspects. Right now, there's a ClojureBridge effort (based
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by elangoc 13y ago
Yes, it's about time! But I don't understand the cDNA-is-patentable portion of the ruling -- if I isolate human RNA (finally declared to be a work of nature), and make cDNA off of it using RNA transcriptase (did I get that right?
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by elangoc 13y ago
The problem is a structural one. There's more demand and no increasing supply of housing in SF: http://www.theatlanticcities.com/housing/2013/10/san-francis... The debate about whether ___Group X/Y
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by elangoc 13y ago
This sort of topic has come up before, and to put it gently, blog posts like these have been lacking in context and substance. See a previous HN post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4154755 Also see a previous HN pos
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by elangoc 13y ago
a blog post of mine: http://www.elangocheran.com/blog/2012/03/the-newbies-guide-l... and a workshop that I did: https://github.com/echeran/intro-clj-pres
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by elangoc 13y ago
I'm genuinely interested to know whether garlic can be safe and effective replacement. I ask in all seriousness since garlic is said to have antibacterial properties (and was used topically as an antiseptic for wounds in WW 1 & WW
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by elangoc 13y ago
The frequency of the trains will be increased once the trains are moved from diesel to electricity (will take 2 more yrs?), since the operating costs will decrease. Whether the Caltrain schedule matches the highway 17 bus's schedule is
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by elangoc 13y ago
Maybe the comment was more about the agricultural economy. Most farmers have been and continue to be small-scale farmers (a few acres?), and since there are a lot more people in Asia, I'd expect a lot more farmers. I'm guessing
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by elangoc 13y ago
you're right, and Clojure extends the power/flexibility of certain constructs in OOP world, like making dynamic dispatch based on arbitrary types (not just the name of a concrete subclass of a polymorphic superclass)
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by elangoc 13y ago
Clojure doesn't lend itself to doing that. Perhaps the easiest (albeit simplistic) way to describe the difference between Clojure and Scala -- Scala supports OOP and FP, and Clojure supports FP only as part of a holistic (and refreshi
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by elangoc 13y ago
I love discovery- & puzzle-based exploratory story games. Grim Fandango was another one, which I adore. It came out a few years after Myst, and I really wished that they would make another Grim Fandango (or at least make it playable o
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by elangoc 13y ago
You lost me at "only solution". How about we humans stop overfishing the oceans? We eat way too much meat in an unnecessary, gluttonous way, and seafood is included. The terrestrial manifestation is lower quality food, poorer d
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by elangoc 13y ago
This is an important article for HN readers, if this somewhat recent article from the East Bay Express is anything to go by: http://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/the-bacon-wrapped-econ... The gist is that 20-something
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by elangoc 13y ago
Yeah, the Liberal types like their social programs, and the Conservative types like their lower taxes, and no one has actually tried to reconcile those two opposing pulls. I don't know why that obvious contradiction was never tackled.
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by elangoc 13y ago
He didn't delve much into the proliferation of JVM-based languages, which is significant, even if Java (the language) doesn't have the same 'excitement'. What I expected to hear, but didn't in so many words: The tre
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by elangoc 13y ago
The point that suxnoll is making, though, is that the cost is not nearly high to begin with, b/c the data is dedup'ed and compressed. You're justifying an issue that doesn't quite exist. The query that suxnoll responded to supposed that yo
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by elangoc 13y ago
I agree. The comments here make me think that the commenters don't know all of the extra ideas that Clojure brings besides a "different syntax" to Lisp. Even just for the immutable, persistent data structures that support value semantics
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by elangoc 13y ago
What you're not realizing, though, is that each time you use the string "like" as a key for a map/dictionary, you're allocating a new object on the heap. So what if you have many keys, and they're all strings? What if you have many maps t
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by elangoc 13y ago
Well, lactose intolerance and gluten intolerance aren't dieting fads. I silently sneered at those labels, until I realized 6 years ago that I might have been lactose intolerant for the prior 10 years. (Now I know so.) And I felt the same
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by elangoc 13y ago
These points are interrelated. > Which means nothing to the people who don't have it So in the case of lactose intolerance, what's interesting, in fact, is the environmental impact of the fact that the people in the Western world are la

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