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by lgrapenthin 5y ago
Why do you say "free shot", while side-effects (short and long term) can't be ruled out on an individual basis.
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by lgrapenthin 5y ago
Its quite similar percentages to about a 10-15 difference of IQ points at end of the distribution curve. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:IQ_distribution.svg
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by lgrapenthin 5y ago
Just because it is expensive to learn Emacs doesn't meant that it isn't worth it. Fine, you aren't "going to put the time in". But what do you get then? A mess of programs and plugins that need to be replaced, rewri
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by lgrapenthin 5y ago
This is exactly the kind of closed thinking that is luckily absent from Clojure and the Clojure community and one of the reasons I'd prefer it over any lisp.
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by lgrapenthin 5y ago
I am also a 10+ year GNU Emacs user. I haven't customized it beyond font size and a few settings. I even use the default theme. Other users seem to go crazy and try to make it into a spaceship. Then they claim that it takes a lot of ti
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by lgrapenthin 5y ago
Not true, and they are more of a investor scam than anything else.
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by lgrapenthin 5y ago
Check out some of the videos on Youtube of the Genera Symbolics Lisp Machine platform.
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by lgrapenthin 5y ago
You can't inflate a coin by creating another coin. The markets for each coin aren't going to be identical, as each coin attracts a different set of buyers. In other words, there might be people who would buy ETH, but never BTC an
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by lgrapenthin 5y ago
"People with coin" in step 3 is way too broad. And indeed, ETH PoS has a consensus protocol to decide which "people with coin" get to validate, and that doesn't work by "because the blockchain says so".
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by lgrapenthin 6y ago
Why make Emacs another non-Emacs editor? Having mentored people (programming Clojure) who tried to learn Emacs via Spacemacs or some other "make it dumb" package, even after 6 months, they understood nothing about Emacs. They coul
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by lgrapenthin 7y ago
I was mainly concerned with teaching Clojure in this project as everyone had little or no experience prior, so nobody was blocked by learners. Those who were fired all had one thing in common: They refused to adopt Clojure beyond its syntax
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by lgrapenthin 7y ago
Instead of just measuring how many developers adopt Clojure and how difficult/easy that is, I'd also love a measure of how many developers Clojure "puts out of business". IME Clojure is quite aggressive on that front. In
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by lgrapenthin 8y ago
If this country was actually run like a business with that much debt, a good CEO would reduce it in size. IMO that is exactly whats happening.
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by lgrapenthin 8y ago
Jobs didn't focus on, at the time, non-existent features, like the mobile web, because they didn't exist. The authors interpretation is not well supported
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by lgrapenthin 8y ago
No. Whoever is leaving should have left without ranting is the only issue I'm having with this aggravating distraction. Chas knows very well how Clojure is authored. I suppose some people believe their contributions or community status
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by lgrapenthin 9y ago
Datomic uses distributed storage, writes are coordinated by a single instance (transactor). Reads don't block writers and immutability allows to query consistent snapshots. Does that address your concern?
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by lgrapenthin 9y ago
I don't care so much about optimized tight loops written in assembly, rather about the ability to scale nowadays. Datomic uses databases like you describe e.g. Postgres as its storage. So it would be foolish to say that it beats their
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by lgrapenthin 9y ago
The main advantage is that you can do time-consistent queries against any past database state across the entire database without any read locks. This frees resources and eliminates the necessity of timestamp tables. Then there is Datomics c
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by lgrapenthin 9y ago
If after three years you think so only "probably", you probably still aren't confident about your requirements. You don't say to your girlfriend "We had fun the last three years, but probably I'm better off wit
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by lgrapenthin 9y ago
Having built a variety of products with Datomic and performance requirements I can only disagree. Especially queries are insanely fast compared to other databases. I don't know what your data team was doing, but they must have done it
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by lgrapenthin 9y ago
I don't believe that Datomic is profitable for Cognitect or ever has been. Given how profitable it is for my customers that truly is a shame. I wish they'd open source it, primarily because reading Rich Hickeys code is always enl
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by lgrapenthin 9y ago
Sorry, but is there a better record on this issue? This article just tries to connect vaguely described events into a story. Very poor journalism, reading this is a waste of time. Was the vulnerability a dumb mistake or an unexpected explo
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by lgrapenthin 9y ago
Brian Beckman recently asked questions on the Clojure mailing list indicating that he is working on sth. related in Clojure.
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by lgrapenthin 10y ago
As I said, the GIGO approach is only used where costly runtime checks would be the alternative. Macros check their arguments at compile time a lot.
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by lgrapenthin 10y ago
If you look into the tickets you'll find that they aren't bugs but feature requests. Labeling them "show stopping bugs" is even more misleading than the now prominent clojure.set complaint.
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by lgrapenthin 10y ago
Thanks for this long and elaborate reply. Clojure tries to put as many user faults into "erroneous" as possible but in the OPs complaint it doesn't have the required information at compile time because it is typed dynamically
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by lgrapenthin 10y ago
Could you elaborate why? (Haven't done much C) - Is the point of view that it is the languages job to prevent the programmer from relying on uncertainties?
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by lgrapenthin 10y ago
As a dev programming in Clojure professionally day to day this complaint (core team not fixing/prioritizing bugs) seems absurd to me. The only example given for a bug is not even a bug but undefined behavior triggered by undocumented A
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by lgrapenthin 10y ago
This reminds me of Gabe Newell whose password was "gaben" when Hackers announced gold status of Half-Life 2 early.
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by lgrapenthin 11y ago
Excercise 1.5 needs fix, def form is is invalid

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