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A friend built this service to solve the following problem: if you’ve ever built a voice agent or chatbot that needs to call into real phone systems, you know how painful testing c…

Location: San Francisco Remote: Open to Remote or Local Willing to relocate: most likely no Technologies: Clojure, ClojureScript, Node.js, Javascript Résumé/CV: https://drive.googl…

Importantly, both Awlaki and his teenage son who was later targeted in another drone strike, were both American citizens. You can argue as much as you like in favor of the joys of …

Cicada 3301 is fascinating. Taken at face value (and that's a huge assumption to make) it appears to be a self-styled "cypherpunk freemasonry" of sorts. Care to cite or summarize t…

I don't know why no one has answered this (it is brought up a few places in this thread) but if I had to guess why they didn't want to go this route I would say it's the trade-off …

> Adding data-structures to a Lisp ruins it. By this standard, Common Lisp is a "ruined" Lisp. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Lisp#Data_structures In Clojure the data …

Datomic is not the default (it's database agnostic-- you can use any data store or no data store).

This whole "I used the language for 2 weeks so now I am qualified to change it radically" attitude is well-established in the Lisp community (yes I know Steve Yegge is a veteran li…

"what constitutes a compilation unit, i.e., a pass over what?" So, how is this compilation unit different from all other compilation units?

I agree, JavaScript development can be maddening, even with (and because of!) helpful plug-ins like Firebug. Lispers spoiled by swank/slime in emacs may like https://github.com/iva…

The ebook is already free, but buy the book from No Starch to cut out the middleman.

It surprises me that important contributors like technomancy would not have some additional priority or clout. Without leiningen I doubt we would see one tenth of the explosion of …

This article is a couple years old. The author probably would have tried Clojure for his foray into Lisp had this been written today.

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This point was actually made in the book fwiw.

It's written in Java, so can be trivially ported to Clojure and made incrementally more Lispish, no? The kernel is still Linux but that could be fixed too, why not?

I predict the Lisp Machine will return, with Android OS Clojure hacking as its embryonic beginning of life.

However, in addition to the observation that the communication modes or skills differ, the author makes the claim that the development of one mode/skill will produce deficiencies i…

The power of editing and revising printed text with a keyboard is not something that can be easily duplicated using voice. Consider trying to write code in this way. It's easy to s…

I'm interested in both. I'm a fan of Common Lisp, but also of Clojure.