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Interesting. A similar feature built into Vim is `cursorcolumn`, which will highlight the background of whatever column the cursor is in. If you set `cursorline` as well, you get a…

Having read the betas, I can't recommend this book strongly enough to people wanting to master Clojure. The authors really know their stuff.

There are some similar horrors in the source code for Clojure. https://github.com/clojure/clojure/blob/master/src/jvm/cloju... Java is a harsh mistress. This is why dynamic languag…

A new version of oyako is coming soon-ish (within a week or two) with possible mysql support, but it will always focus primarily on postgresql. The next version will also feature a…

> I often have to navigate the project folder structure to look for stuff, I need to compare files, work with the source control and so on.. all of this I feel I can do pretty effi…

Thank you thank you thank you for linking to this. I also use both editors (daily), and Emacs' undo system is easily among its worst and most annoying features, while Vim's undo sy…

Many huge Java frameworks are painfully over-complex, but personally I make good use of a lot of "tiny" Java libraries. e.g. if I want to calculate an MD5 checksum or pluralize a w…

You can always exit via (System/exit 0), 0 being the return code. `java -cp clojure.jar clojure.main` is the preferred method of starting Clojure rather than using -jar, I think.

People cheat because they're immoral when no one's looking. I don't see that we need to try to justify it any further than that. Someone can get something valuable without working …

" If you feel that parenthesis stacking actually improves the readability of your code, by all means, feel free to do so! However, "everyone else is doing it" is not a good reason …

A perverse case of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAS_syndrome . Please forgive me.

My opinion today is largely the same, yes. I love Clojure and in my spare time I use it for everything. If I tried to do a web app in Common Lisp again, I'd probably have an easier…

I ran on MySQL for a few months without issues, but my code was disgusting. My choice was clean code + slow, or ugly code + fast. Today I have clean code + fast, thanks partly to b…

Why? Because it's a fun project to play with and a good way to learn. SQLite3 probably would work, yes. I agree, this post shouldn't influence anyone. Not sure why it was submitted…

I have a (bit of a) clue how to use a relational DB. But not from Clojure two years ago, when the only interface was a very thin layer over JDBC. As for why it's on the homepage, I…

I linked to other posts in that post, in which you can see some of the things I struggled with (written while I was struggling). For example: 1. Windows opening and closing seeming…

On a low level, Clojure exposes the underlying JVM, so you can instantiate and bang on Java objects all you want. It's "hybrid" in that sense, and always has been. That isn't chang…

I second this. If your shyness is bad enough that it seriously, negatively affects your life, consider talking to a psychologist. Speaking from personal experience, it can help. Th…

No, I wrote it this way because I do feel strongly about it. I used the word "devastated" as a play on the title of the other article. I'm not "devastated", but I do feel strongly …

I use hyperbole to emphasize a point. I don't cry myself to sleep when I see an ad, no. Sometimes I become mildly annoyed. Life is generally OK. Likewise, ad-blocking isn't really …

I am emotional about advertising in general, not those ads in particular. I am not frothing at the mouth over a single ad, no. Are you OK with a bunch of marketing guys sitting in …

I have no problem with a site denying content to people using ad-blockers. That's their right. If ad-viewing is mandatory to view their content, I'll abide (by not going back, or p…

Yes, it's my blog post. (I would hesitate to call it an article.) Advertising is unethical insofar as it's manipulative and dishonest and invasive. Even if not unethical, it's high…

The article starts off saying that ad-blocking is not unethical, but then goes on to strongly imply that it is. e.g. I think in some ways the Internet and its vast anonymity feeds …