Steve Yegge's foreword to Joy of Clojure
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Steve Yegge's foreword to Joy of Clojure
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Re: Steve Yegge's foreword to Joy of Clojure
#2I think shoving an "hydrant up in the *" won't appear on the preface...
Re: Steve Yegge's foreword to Joy of Clojure
#3I think shoving an "hydrant up in the *" won't appear on the preface...
I just bought the ebook version and it appears as is on the preface.
Not that I bought the book for the preface...
Re: Steve Yegge's foreword to Joy of Clojure
#4Throwing down a challenge in the preface. That's a great way to sell a book to developers.
Re: Steve Yegge's foreword to Joy of Clojure
#5English is not my first language but:
"So nobody could be more surprised than I that a Lisp dialect ..."
shouldn't it be "than ME"
Re: Steve Yegge's foreword to Joy of Clojure
#6English is not my first language but: "So nobody could be more surprised than I that a Lisp dialect ..." shouldn't it be "than ME"
Re: Steve Yegge's foreword to Joy of Clojure
#7Just a word.. not that it is really relevant but I wanted to share this with fellow hackers. To encourage the Clojure community/language, I've pre-ordered the book Joy of Clojure on amazon. On the book's website, it is clearly stated that you also get a free pdf of the book before the release date. So, I was pretty enthusiastic about starting to read the book.
But then, I find out that you only get the pdf if you ordered from manning.. So, I email manning saying that had I know about the "order at manning instead of amazon", I really would have bought it there and that I'd be more then happy to blog about "Joy of Clojure" and give a link to manning's order web page.
So, then, I receive an email saying (summarized in my word): "Fu, it's your problem, next time buy it at manning, not amazon".
It really frustrated me.. I mean, isn't it the best way to demolish someone's best intention? I just feel like never ever buying anything from manning; never ever linking anything to their website, and spread the word about that story.
Am I over-reacting? What's your thought on that, fellow HN-users?
Re: Steve Yegge's foreword to Joy of Clojure
#8Just a word.. not that it is really relevant but I wanted to share this with fellow hackers. To encourage the Clojure community/language, I've pre-ordered the book Joy of Clojure on amazon. On the book's website, it is clearly stated that you also get a free pdf of the book before the release date . So, I was pretty enthusiastic about starting to read the book. But then, I find out that you only get the pdf if you or…
You gave a significant chunk of their profit to Amazon; it would be nice if they still gave you the PDF (which is the bonus for ordering directly from them), but not doing so is just "not nice", not rage-worthy. If you really wanted it, you could have cancelled your Amazon order and placed your order with manning...
Re: Steve Yegge's foreword to Joy of Clojure
#9Context: http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2007/02/next-big-language.ht... is/was reasonably well-known, and people have been speculating on which language he meant ever since [EDIT: see reply by dpritchett]. Steve Yegge doesn't quite come out and declare his preference, but...
Sadly, he's not written anything on his blog in a while.
Re: Steve Yegge's foreword to Joy of Clojure
#10Attn MEAPs: I was notified this morning of the following:
"We are pleased to announce that The Joy of Clojure is now complete! As a MEAP subscriber you can download your copy of the finished ebook right now! "
I was starting to wonder if I was going to ever get a final copy.