Rayne

I probably would have actually enjoyed the Ouya, but it had such terrible input lag that it was effectively unplayable. Couldn't find any way to fix it, so it just sits on a shelf in my apartment now.

Well, so would I. The spoon doesn't cure the symptoms.

Sure, but asserting that everyone should be using random password manager X isn't super constructive.

I've seen this used on IRC for approximately 7 years.

As a 19 year old software engineer who started writing code when he was 13 because it was fun, I don't think this quite hits the mark.

I didn't give up everything in life to be a programmer, but it was my passion (and it looks like it's this guy's passion as well). It is fun. I still played outside, had friends, and lived a childhood. What I got out of it are skills that are in demand, a head start on life, and adult, mature friends who kept me out of trouble and helped me build a fun, happy life for myself.

I owe everything to programming. I was a kid from a small town in Alabama and now I'm a happy software engineer in Los Angeles. I got to go to the first Clojure Conj conference when I was 16, speak at the second at 17, and get an internship that led to a job at around the same time. I met the best friends I could have ever met through it and have had more fun that I could have ever imagined having as a direct result of it.

That said, we're not entirely at odds. It is important to keep yourself healthy and such and not let it completely take over your life. I just felt it important to provide a different perspective on the matter.

core.async is a Clojure library and is built with no compiler support.

I specifically mean desktop. I'd be surprised to learn that VNC clients and such can manage it but something like this wouldn't, but I've been known to be wrong before.

This device is really appealing, but I am extremely disappointed that it can only mirror chrome tabs. I'd be much more interested in this device if they would throw out some native applications to mirror a whole screen like Apple's Airplay can.

As once a poor schmuck in not-even-that-rural Alabama, we never could and still cannot get decent anything there. Best I could come up with when I still lived there and what my mother still uses is mobile internet with a small cap.

Hey (long time no see, btw) there. I played it recently. You've definitely got to go into it expecting what it is to enjoy it. Exactly nothing happens in the game. You don't really interact with anything, you just walk around a beautiful set of landscapes on the island and listen to the story. The game is just short enough that it doesn't become too boring to play in my experience, and it's an excellent experience to relax to.

Hope you enjoy it!

Nailgun is not a good solution to the problem. If the JVM startup speed is a problem, your best option is to use something not on the JVM and not use hacks that make it feel faster.

The global package index meant (for me) that pretty much everything I installed broke something else I needed. Once they've got the sandbox stuff working (and when you can start a repl in that sandbox, imo it's nearly useless if you can't), it should be much better.

Sure, but I'd vote for doing things right to begin with rather than waiting for complaining users. But I guess we might disagree on what 'right' means in this context. :)

Under new libraries I see a reddit API lib listed. Why are they including things like this in Factor itself. Doesn't it kind of bloat things? Factor can strip this out if it isn't used of course, but can you really maintain all of these libraries? If you just add random things to Factor itself you're eventually going to end up with something that is impossible to maintain without a very large number of invested people.

I think we should really wait to hear from Linode until we completely dismiss them, at least.