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>The book itself uses Java, not Clojure. Almost all of the code examples in the book are in JavaScript (not Java) though a significant feature of Sharvit's approach is that it deco…

I still have my cherished VT125 EDT rubber overlay from when I worked at DEC '82-'85. Great editor. And the amazing thing was that there could be 50 people time-sharing on a single…

I came here to mention this book also. I learned a lot. He explores a mind numbing number of properties which are potentially in the mix. They depend in turn on the properties of t…

Probably could have driven round trip for under $500!

Shout out to attendees of the Nov. 1996 MIT Kerberos Workshop! http://web.mit.edu/pbh/www/workshop.html http://web.mit.edu/pbh/www/krb-attendees.html

Very cool. Back in ancient times, shortly after Kerberos for GSS-API came out I was tasked with achieving interoperability between Hewlett-Packard's GSS-API implementation (based o…

True. I chose my neighborhood in Somerville with proximity to the T as a top priority because I assumed I'd be taking it to work in Kendall every day. Then I bought a bike and foun…

And free outbound from Logan! Though I must say, the last time I did this it was a bit of a nightmare. The SL1 was very late and we were packed in like sardines.

Rich Hickey (creator of Clojure) references Polya several times in his classic talk "Hammock Driven Development". Here's a transcript: https://github.com/matthiasn/talk-transcripts…

There is a viable path from (upper?)-middle class to early retirement that is built mostly out of hardcore discipline, willingness to delay gratification, and some luck. The idea i…

My long journey experience (perhaps not fully typical) was at odds with both of your "realizations". * I spent most of a year on the road, circled the U.S., about 18k miles in all …

Same. Took so long I moved on, and now I have an unopened and unused replacement unit. Wonder what it'll fetch on ebay..

One plausible explanation I've heard for this is that while men and women have the same average mental capabilities, men have a higher standard deviation than women. There there ar…

Clojure doesn't have TCO. Instead, there's loop/recur where the recur call won't compile except in tail position.

And Sia distributed storage network https://gitlab.com/NebulousLabs/Sia/-/blob/master/modules/er...

Well it’s not only on the JVM: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clojure#Other_Implementation...

Roam Research, one of the more famous Zettelkasten apps is written in Clojure.

I was 80% done with my taxes this year when TT suddenly demanded an additional $119 to list deductible expenses on income. That’s on top of $140 to file Federal plus 1 state. I’ve …

https://sicp.sourceacademy.org/ brings me to something called "Comparison Edition". I was looking for a straight JS version with editable/executable code, and found it at the link …

An easy solution to "what charities should I give to": https://www.givewell.org/

Yes, a favorite observation of Ray Kurzweil, expressed as the Law of Accelerating Returns: https://www.kurzweilai.net/the-law-of-accelerating-returns

>REPL-driven-development, or interactive-programming. Inspired by Clojure. But without having to leave your IDE to code in a console/prompt/terminal. You don't have to leave the ID…

Seconded. I also lost a fingertip to a mandoline when slicing potatoes. On Xmas eve, just as guests were arriving. And oh boy did it bleed! My fingertip took over 3 years to regain…

You eat 16 tons, whattaya get?

>A rolls one trip around circle B Without the diagram (which I didn't see until watching the video) this is ambiguous. In my visualization, the plane of the small circle (A) was pe…