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There's a whole raft of "Rifts for Savage Worlds" products now ( https://www.peginc.com/product-category/rifts/ ), but really I think you need only the following two to get going: …

"That said I believe front and backend should work closely together. There is no reason that the frontend should be blocked because the API design can be figured out before the bac…

Mmm, I've never used Ruby or Rails professionally, so I can't really speak to that. Prior to Clojure, I mostly worked with C++, Java, C#, and Python. At its core, Clojure is basica…

IMHO, absolutely. There are many wins, but the 2 biggest for us have been: 1. Clojure's tools for making abstractions are orders of magnitude better than Java's, so our codebase is…

I vote that it's worthwhile as well. We've been using Clojure full-time at ReadyForZero for over 3 years now (for web-dev as well as other tasks), and are very happy with our choic…

Fascinating! We use Clojure heavily, but the JVM is sometimes a bit of a headache-inducer in our environment (especially w.r.t. its eager gobbling of memory), so I'm always excited…

If Clojure is acceptable, there is Incanter ( http://incanter.org/ ).

Not exactly a trivial task... Incanter uses several sizable Java libraries (such as Parallel Colt) under the hood, so a port would first need to either finding suitable replacement…

After using jaycfields' "expectations" Clojure testing library, I've become very very appreciative of libraries that expose an easy way to freeze time, for exactly the issues you d…

The article does provide some details about how the breach happened.

"Rainbows End" was indeed wonderful. Another great exploration of AR in speculative fiction (and my personal favorite) is Charles Stross' "Halting State".

As of Clojure 1.3, defrecord (and deftype) automatically define factory functions in the same namespace as the record itself. defrecord generates 2 such functions, one that takes p…

https://github.com/bitsai/lisp-in-clojure

Yes, that is a better way of making the point. Thank you.

Precisely. Clojure was my first Lisp, and I got spoiled by the "every collection is a seq" uniformity. In Clojure, functions like 'count' can operate on all collections, whereas in…

See this comment from MostAwesomeDude in a different thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3051142 Perhaps it would be interesting to see how it was done in Twisted: http://h…

I believe jashkenas' example defines both a pre-condition and a post-condition, specifying that f accepts only odd numbers and returns only even numbers ('!' here is the operator f…

It's a bit of a mystery what Rich will be talking about tonight. The only word from him is that "I'll be talking about something new!" Not much to go on, but thought I'd share the …