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by kinleyd 14y ago
Thanks for the nice intro to j. I've bookmarked it, and have put it on my list of things to explore. Edit: Downloaded J and took a tour. It does look very compelling and I'm pretty sure I'll be back for more.
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by kinleyd 14y ago
It was hyperbole. Uncle Bob is opinionated but definitely isn't stupid.
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by kinleyd 14y ago
Stuart Halloway mentioned in one of his talks that SOAP, iirc, did way too much and that as a reaction to that, JSON went too far in the bare bones direction. Looks like edn is the balance Rich Hickey and associates have struck. From a Cloj
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by kinleyd 14y ago
I think Datomic is potentially disruptive and represents some great thinking on the part of an individual. Whether it will be disruptive will hinge on how well that thinking has subsumed the years of industry experience and practicalities,
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At a deeper level they are both pragmatic philosophers. They think at a high level but they are hands-on and have their feet firmly on ground realities. Inventing on principle is Bret Victor's contribution, but Rich Hickey surely lives it;
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by kinleyd 14y ago
Yeah, real awesome stuff, John Resig! Your follow through on Bret Victor's 'Inventing on principle' is mind blowing. I'm getting my kids on it right away. Thank you.
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by kinleyd 14y ago
Thanks, for me this was a great introduction to AngularJS. It looks good and pretty mature as well. I look forward to evaluating it in more depth.
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It's nice to know that this has been your experience. It's possible that paying users have generally become paying users only after more careful evaluation of a product, and hence are already pretty satisfied users. That would explain some
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by kinleyd 14y ago
Amen. That's the story of my life too. Nibbled around and played around for a long time, but not really getting into it. But boy, when I did get into it, did I get into it! It's been a lot of fun since.
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by kinleyd 14y ago
Very well put. And to complement your point, when we eventually meet extra-terrestrials who also subscribe to the illusion that space can be owned, and that it is theirs, we will have come full circle. Might will likely be the determinant o
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by kinleyd 14y ago
I see what you mean: the link to the download is buried way deep in the OP. Though I don't think anyone would feel it's blogspam if you'd linked to it (as it is clearly Donald Knuth's), directing them to the relevant link on the page is nea
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by kinleyd 14y ago
Agreed. The link should have taken us to a page describing what it's about, with the option to download.
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by kinleyd 14y ago
Yes, I liked that one too. It came out so casually, the contradiction. Good interview. I like his assessment of where he went wrong and the opportunities that were lost, in addition to his general inclination towards doing the right thing (
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by kinleyd 14y ago
I stand corrected. Please replace "revolutionary" with "great feature". :)
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Yes you did. As well as the automatic audit trail. I just wanted to emphasize the implications this has for the design of the Datomic engine. :)
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Also in the revolutionary category, all data is treated as immutable, and what we traditionally consider an update to a piece of stored data (with the change being made in-place of the original datum) is treated as a new fact with just the
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by kinleyd 14y ago
Probably the best way to get your mind around Datomic conceptually would be to watch these introductory videos[1] Rich and Stu put together when first introducing Datomic. It's pretty revolutionary, IMO. Edit: In response to those too press
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by kinleyd 14y ago
"My point was that HTML5 apps have proven not to be a full replacement for native apps." Taking an all html5 approach is an interesting one, and has the straight up advantage of harnessing existing html5 developer skills. But performance an
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by kinleyd 14y ago
Drawing a line on what kind of drugs to legalize will invariably highlight the damage hard drugs cause. The counter argument is the sheer number of deaths caused by the high profit margins of drug trading: 50,000 in 6 years in Mexico alone.
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by kinleyd 14y ago
The G+ mobile app is really nice to use. It surprises me that the G+ desktop team is lagging so much behind the mobile team.
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by kinleyd 14y ago
I have to agree with you: IMO G+ on the desktop is kludgy. For example it's use of the mouseover to highlight the option buttons on the left, as well the highlighted/unhighlighted color choice, are not intuitive or what we are used to, and
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by kinleyd 14y ago
"A lot of the online services you probably use are free. Gmail is free. Facebook is free. Yahoo News and NPR are free" Are these services really free? We may not pay cash to use these services but we certainly are paying something.
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by kinleyd 14y ago
Heh, this story was amusing in many ways. Storing passwords in a spreadsheet is eye brow raising, and I'd venture that the first lesson after losing a passwords file should have been to figure out a better backup strategy. Going to the clou
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by kinleyd 14y ago
"In fact, it's possible that people with certain psychological traits self-select for Wikipedia editorship." I'd say this is more often the case than not. The few times I've interacted with wikipedia editors I've found our differences to re
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by kinleyd 14y ago
Serendipity may be over rated sometimes, but that's more desirable than under rating it systematically. :)
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by kinleyd 14y ago
Amen. I bookmark a lot too, 'just in case'.
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by kinleyd 14y ago
You were absolutely right. I've got leiningen running in one swat (sudo apt-get install leiningen). Will mosey out to get clojure-swank running on emacs next. :)
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by kinleyd 14y ago
Thank you, I greatly appreciate your time and help. I will follow your suggestions which sound an awful lot more simple.
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It was some time ago (8 months or so). I remember googling around and finding different approaches to setting up the tool chain. The notes I kept on some of the steps I tried to get Clojure working on emacs included the following (not the w
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I've installed it for the very first time, and it is pretty cool! I've dabbled in Clojure before, and the mention of Leiningen in the context of Light Field worried me a bit (getting Clojure, Leiningen, etc working on my Linux system was qu

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