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Same here. I never understood why a paren on the left of a function name “looks like fingernail clippings” but to the right it’s “just how code works.”

Recently I’ve been reimplementing some sequencing patches using Scheme for Max and I can say it’s really a joy to use so far. Thank you Iain for making and releasing it. And docume…

I thought it was a well executed joke myself.

I've found s-expressions to be one of my favorite things about Clojure. I understand that many people dislike them, and that many people get used to them, but I loved the syntax fr…

> Being born poor is obviously not a personal choice, but actions taken along the way (having a child when young), taking the risk with illegal and highly addictive drugs, committi…

LWT's channels look more like filehandles. I think the GP was asking about channels in the CSP sense. It looks like LWT has that too in the form of streams.

If only the JVM could take advantage of this.

Exciting! I was looking for a ClojureScript monad library just last month. Can't wait to dig in to this one. I think there is a lot of potential to help with the complexities of as…

We tend to take an in-between approach, baking base AMIs as needed but configuring and installing code with Ansible at boot time. We've got scripts to cut tarballs with an Ansible …

This approach has been really helpful for us. We recently open-sourced our Clojure library[1] for running React on Nashorn (the Javascript engine in Java 8). Currently it consumes …

I've been dreaming of this since Datomic came out. I recommend it to our AWS account rep every chance I get.

Looks really promising. We're using HoneySQL now, but OJ might be even lighter.

Right, but to be clear: I don't believe that only masculine men deserve authority. I think our species' slow evolution from violence as the single source of authority is possibly t…

I have a pet theory that the reason that women (as well as non-traditionally-masculine men) are considered bossy, while other men are considered "go-getters" is due to a lack of th…

Exactly. I'm always confused when someone suggests that paying off a mortgage is stupid. Sure, 5% return on mortgage money borrowed at 3% is profitable. But there are many assumpti…

Because we live in a world that is not homogeneous and are all enriched as a result. Ending up as one's own version of Howard Hughes, locked in a room with a gun and a pile of mone…

Agreed. Over the past 9 years I've had to implement double, triple and end-of-the-month checking on PayPal to be sure that we have some reconciled idea of reality with respect to p…

We've had good luck with DynamoDB, but it could be that it just fits our use case very well. What sort of frustration were you running into? (Honestly interested to avoid trouble d…

I actually learned about confd via your post. Thanks for that. In our case, HTTPS isn't an issue but there are good arguments for using a tried-and-true proxy. I see Vulcan as a qu…

Yes, confd was on my radar and looks promising. In my case, we've already got a wad of perl duct-tape out there and adding etcd was a baby step. Using confd would have been a later…

What great timing! I was just about to roll my own using etcd, haproxy and a bunch of perl duct tape. Very excited to take a good look at vulcand.

It's not crazy, it's realistic. Nothing is free and this sort of pragmatism lets/forces users to act like grown ups. updated: grammar fix

> What's he want, more rent control? That's one option. > To put "the 1%" 'up against a wall'? That kind of hyperbole is unwarranted given the very reasonable tone of the article. …

> If you're raised by a pack of wolves in the woods, you'll probably be rock dumb by all measures, regardless of your DNA. Depends on how you define "dumb". I bet you'd be insanely…

Bill, I have the utmost respect for Braintree. But if this rumor is true, all I can say is "famous last words." PayPal have demonstrated an inability to operate competently. And we…