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It's Playtime - Light Table Playground released

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Re: It's Playtime - Light Table Playground released

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Are you running the jar with prod as an arg? java -jar lighttable-full.jar prod

Yes. I get the same result with or without the "prod" argument.

I was running it under JRE6... switching to JRE7 got past the error and it is working fine now.

Re: It's Playtime - Light Table Playground released

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My current hypothesis is that it's an individual moderator (perhaps showing off) running a script without official sanction, hence the silence from the admins. The way the post on the subject[0] was buried without official comment after over 500 upvotes suggests a certain amount of institutional blindness. [0] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4102013

I think PG did comment on a subsequent post asking why post on subject[0] was taken down. I am not sure if commenting on a soon-to-be-killed post constitutes an official comment though, perhaps it was decided there is no need since according to policy meta-concerns should be dealt with using email.

So instead of having a thread pop up to address meta-concerns, they have to be dealt with privately causing any front page title change to now have 10-20 comments at the top discussing the title change. All the actual discussion about the article is well beneath the fold now

Re: It's Playtime - Light Table Playground released

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So it's looking for Chrome, a closed source browser that I'd never use, instead of Chromium. Too bad.

Seems like you can use any browser you'd like by going to: http://localhost:8833/ once the server is up and running.

Thank you, that's cool! How can I kill the server, though?

Re: It's Playtime - Light Table Playground released

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So far the biggest annoyance is truncating results.. It's cute, but not very useful when exploring output.

For example: (.. System (getProperties)) produces a lot of output, and I'd like to look through it to find a property.

Maybe a way to expand the output (like chrome inspector's javascript objects) ?

That said, it's pretty cool, and really interesting.

Re: It's Playtime - Light Table Playground released

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This is great! I'm doing some stuff with SICP in Clojure, and this should be helpful for that.

Btw, I was wondering if Dr. Racket's style of automatic parens-closing by just repeatedly pressing ']' (regardless of '(','{','[') makes anyone else wish other editors supported that feature.

Re: It's Playtime - Light Table Playground released

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Java being required means this is a complete non-starter for me.

Do you have an ideological or practical opposition? Java is cross-platform enough for it not to be an issue. Are you memory-constrained?

Mostly due to the security risk. Especially on Windows. Even being a software developer (read: not your average computer user) and taking extra precautions (like click-to-run for java use in browsers) I've still gotten hit by malware that takes advantage of security holes in the Java runtime.
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