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by gw 9y ago
Your comments belie a pretty strong ignorance of American gun culture. This isn't a numbers game; there is a large portion of the population that would not comply with a confiscation program, and would resist using (you guessed it) fir
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by gw 9y ago
I really doubt you will leave, at least for this particular reason. Maybe you'll find a job elsewhere, or find another good reason, but I think you understand intuitively that the chance of being shot, even in the US, is lower than the
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by gw 9y ago
In case it helps, my app actually bundles an entire Clojure environment (including the JRE) so you don't need anything else installed: https://sekao.net/lightmod/
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by gw 9y ago
As with many things in life, it's a tradeoff, not a replacement :) Specs don't run at compile-time (except for macros), but they are more flexible than static types. Apart from runtime instrumentation, they can be used to validate
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How Clojure's documentation can leapfrog other languages(gist.github.com)
4 points by gw 9y ago|0 comments
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by gw 9y ago
Just so yall know I open sourced this project recently! https://github.com/oakes/Nightcoders.net My server is not the best so if you get out of memory errors in your projects just wait until this falls off the front pa
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Show HN: Dynadoc, dynamic docs for Clojure(Script)(github.com)
3 points by gw 9y ago|0 comments
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by gw 9y ago
Against my better judgement I did a reverse image search and found the post that you found that screenshot from [1]. The post is full of people having exactly the sort of problems you would expect from an automatic software updater, along w
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by gw 9y ago
You're showing a pretty serious case of cognitive dissonance here. What previously was a theoretical problem was actualized with a real world example with actual affected users, and you've shifted to an entirely subjective argumen
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by gw 9y ago
> No, mobile scrolling wasn't "broken" for them, scrolling via their "timeline" feature was broken. So, mobile scrolling is broken, but not all the time. Is that really the distinction you want to make right now?
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by gw 9y ago
> The church down your street was extremely unlikely to even be impacted by this change Why do you say that? Let's say, for example, that they use Discourse [1] to provide a web forum for churchgoers on their website. Oops! Mobile s
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by gw 9y ago
This is a really paternalistic attitude. The local presbyterian church down my street can't afford a full-time web developer to update their website every time Google decides to break it. The idea that sacrificing actual functionality
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Show HN: Lightmod, an all-in-one tool for full stack Clojure(sekao.net)
7 points by gw 9y ago|2 comments
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by gw 9y ago
I met Chad when I lived in Pittsburgh and we had great times regularly hacking on Gratipay in a coffee shop. Chad would teach regulars how to code by making them do small pull requests on the project. Even when Patreon swooped up the market
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by gw 9y ago
People have tried, and failed, countless times to create thick abstractions over runtimes in order to allow code to easily port across them. They always fail, normally because they become too slow due to the added indirection and lost oppor
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by gw 9y ago
I must emphasize that any time we "maintain programs, add features later on, rewrite/refactor parts of the program", we are doing so with a REPL. We don't just use the REPL for one-off scripts.
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by gw 9y ago
> I admit dynamically typed languages are nice for interactive exploration in the REPL but that's about it. For Clojure programmers, "interactive exploration in the REPL" is the primary way we write programs. So, if one ad
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by gw 9y ago
Yes, I mentioned javapackager in the comment.
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by gw 9y ago
In my project, the jar file itself is 20MB, and the resulting files generated by javapackager are: 55MB (.exe), 90MB (.dmg), and 67MB (.deb), all of which include the jar file inside them. These are not the total file size after installatio
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by gw 9y ago
I wrote an IDE using JavaFX: https://sekao.net/nightcode/ My experiences have been mostly great. As the author mentioned, the JDK comes with a nifty tool called javapackager that will generate a dmg, exe, deb, and othe
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by gw 9y ago
That is a valid point -- I had to get quite used to git rebase while making the initial gitorials =) If all you need to modify is the commit messages, this tool apparently is a nice option: https://bokub.github.io/git-histor
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Show HN: Gitorials – Tutorials as Git Repos(gitorials.com)
147 points by gw 9y ago|25 comments
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by gw 10y ago
I'm at FOSDEM where this talk was just given. Francesc was hilarious.
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by gw 10y ago
I've been using the externs inference feature for a little while, and it works great. Writing externs was the last truly ugly and error-prone part of ClojureScript development. For my game library [1], I can finally use advanced compil
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ClojureScript is the most-used functional language that compiles to JavaScript(sekao.net)
216 points by gw 10y ago|80 comments
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by gw 10y ago
Hash maps wouldn't work for bindings because they don't guarantee order, whereas the order of the bindings is very important.
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by gw 10y ago
Yeah the server's a bit bombarded right now, I'll have to upgrade the memory when I get a chance.
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Learn ClojureScript in a Cloud IDE(sekao.net)
101 points by gw 10y ago|25 comments
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Show HN: Nightcoders.net, a cloud IDE for ClojureScript(nightcoders.net)
7 points by gw 10y ago|1 comments
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by gw 10y ago
Everything is a remix ;) Light table certainly was my inspiration for the instaREPL. DrRacket inspired the notion of running code in the same process as the editor. The code completion system comes straight from CIDER. I could go on and on.

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