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I don't disagree with anything you've said here, I just don't see how it applies to the situation. With `datomic.api/with`, you can apply new datoms and get back a new DB value. Re…

Wait, this statement seems way too strong. The linked article points out that Datomic doesn't support branching from the past . It absolutely does support branching, and I've built…

Ok, I like this game / question, but I daresay I'm confused about some of these (or have not even fathomed some of the implied pronunciations). `seq`, `Eq`, `prev` I pronounce like…

The exact semantics of the problem aren't clear (do we need to maintain order? Do we need to use the initial count? Why do we have counts on subsequent elements if we only add 1?),…

Emacs Lisp actually has threading macros natively (seemingly since at least 2016), but they're (IMHO) obnoxiously named `thread-first` and `thread-last`.

I specifically called out the tertiary operator in my text so as to be fair, but tried to keep things simple in my example. Perhaps too simple. Of course you can do that simple cas…

I actually agree with that entirely, and the point of my jest was just to say that we should look deeper for the important ideas, not refuse to read the book because we don't like …

I certainly don't fault you for having that reaction, but I would encourage you to look deeper and not dismiss one of the most interesting families of programming languages on the …

Agreed. This is why I don't do any math I can't do on my fingers. Parentheses are just too scary, and there's no way that parenthesis math junk actually has any useful ideas.

Very kind of you to say. Thank you.

Expanding on this a bit, Clojure, as a language, is fundamentally against the idea of ORMs in its design. Objects / classes are not so much the problem, per se—it's specifically th…

I struggle to see how this "doesn't matter" while also agreeing with you that it's a super cool property. Especially for someone coming from an alphabetic language background. Logo…

If that's the biggest problem, things must be going pretty well.

+1 That thing is gross. I'd edit so much more slowly if I had to go back to a messy, complex syntax. At least without a very clever / specialized editor effectively undoing the cha…

{{Citation needed}}

> If it were to just be "foo bar 1", you couldn't tell the difference between (C style again for clarity): foo(bar(1)) and foo(bar, 1). Or `foo(bar)(1)`.

We're discussing this a bit more on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Clojure/comments/3jjit5/what_does_s...

Good point. It exists but isn't necessary for applying adjectives to nouns. Mea culpa. Agreed RE "水好" being unnatural, but it's hardly incorrect.

Ah, that's a good point. I suppose the limited vocabulary swells the number of compounds, making for more opportunities for confusion in parsing them. Thanks!

Very cool. So dropping subject pronouns ("pro-drop") is formally acceptable?

Very cool. The grammatical basics seem a lot like Chinese, with similar word order, and a couple Japanese-esque particles thrown in (li ≈ が, e ≈ を). Lacking tense, conjugation / de…

I don’t find this to be an accurate description. Yes, quality (often) has this one bad apple spoils the whole bunch property. If we have to have a math metaphor we might say that q…

It does appear that he got that backwards.

Fine, I'll bite. How do you figure "it does not include army of unemployed people"? Census data should reflect members of the population regardless of employment status.