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by ibdknox 13y ago
because I wanted to use html/css as the UI toolkit and utilizing JS gives me a bunch of stuff for "free." I looked into using javafx and various other java-y things that embed webkit but they are painfully slow, to the poin
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It's something I was going to work on for 0.5. I do a fair number of things to make lazy seqs not blow everything up and pprinting will force lazy seqs to be realized causing all sorts of nastiness. There may be some decent middle grou
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There are places where it'd be useful, no doubt about that. Mainly it will be really useful in the cases where you want to ask a client something "synchronously". For example it'll make doing things like asking a languag
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I can't do any kind of IO in a webworker, which means things like indexing the filesystem are impossible there. The vast majority of cases where I need to do background work I also need access to the host. EDIT: I should note that I di
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by ibdknox 13y ago
Here's a video of the coolest new feature, "watches": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8-b6QEN-rk I'm also really excited about the behaviors stuff. It means that the entirety of LT's functionality
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After $42M in investment, yeah.
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VC's won't invest in competitors - how would you give advice/counsel? It would cause all sorts of weird dynamics in the firm (e.g. partners competing) that are likely to be pretty detrimental. In terms of why YC can get away
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The building is pretty plain in an off-the-beaten-path location that you could easily miss. I think "nondescript" is a pretty good adjective for it.
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> Why doesn't Paul Graham start this mythical founders first VC firm? My question is why would he? I can only come up with two reasons: 1) more money 2) a sense of altruism (we have to help startups succeed even more!) In terms of t
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Or stated even more precisely, the mean and median are very different :)
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What is missing for you that makes it "incomplete"? We're always trying to make sure we have the necessities taken care of and I'm happy to say quite a lot of people are doing their work in LT these days - so if there&#x
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> aiming away from my requirements Out of curiosity, what are your requirements? It's hard for me to imagine that LT is really aiming away from anyone :) It's a platform for building whatever workflow you could want, integrated
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Out of curiosity, what was the name of your company?
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I guess you could make the million monkeys argument, but that's just playing with the law of large numbers. The original statement was intended to apply to a single person or at most a small number of individuals. Even beyond that though, I
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The word "formula" is very important in his statement - yes we have techniques for coming up with new ideas, but we do not have a formula for it. A formula produces a consistent and reproducible result. If we actually had such a thing it'd
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I apologize if my post implies I believe we're out curing cancer - we're not and that was not my intent. If you point out to me where I've somehow stated that, I'll be happy to fix it. That being said, I'm not sure I agree with your argumen
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I talk specifically about being a doctor only because that was my personal path. My argument was generally meant to apply to anyone with more direct influence over someone's well-being, so nurses, EMTs, hospital staff, pharmacists, research
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Light Table is pretty darn fast and that's using the regular old html/js/css we have now. :)
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I think Node uses it too and there's no way around that one I don't think.
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There's a bug for that one, https://github.com/Kodowa/Light-Table-Playground/issues/449 will get fixed tomorrow.
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by ibdknox 13y ago
What happened with Bicicleta? I love the premises I saw listed in response to Perlis. LT will be open source, just want it to get a bit more stable first.
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by ibdknox 13y ago
Thanks Zach, much appreciated.
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I was actually suggesting that I can't believe people still use CL when Clojure exists... I await my lynching. :D
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by ibdknox 13y ago
unforunately no. It's an issue carried over from node-webkit[1] and I'm not really a Linux guy :/ Someone could work on a fix for node-webkit, though and I'd pick it up in a heartbeat [1]: https://github.com/rogerwang/node-webkit
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by ibdknox 13y ago
it should eval it all for you the first time you open the file, but cmd/ctrl+shift+enter should eval the whole file. Though it won't return results for each individual thing. Alternatively you can also select the entire file and press cmd/c
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The big difference is that you lose state every time you do that, the main goal with the eval in LT is to prevent that :)
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It is indeed. Chromium + embedded NodeJS written in ClojureScript. FTW.
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You know, I looked into this briefly and based on the way go works, it's not clear to me how useful it would be. Go doesn't really have a good REPL, which is an indication. If there was a decent way to handle dynamic evaluation though, it c
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by ibdknox 13y ago
The plugin architecture is something we have to be deliberate about given that it allows you to do literally anything we can do. I talk a little bit about the plan moving forward at the bottom of the post, but gist is that there's going to
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Actually we haven't implemented replace yet. There's a few things like that that will either end up in 0.4.* releases or 0.5 at the latest.

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