bkirkbri

Same here. I never understood why a paren on the left of a function name “looks like fingernail clippings” but to the right it’s “just how code works.”

Recently I’ve been reimplementing some sequencing patches using Scheme for Max and I can say it’s really a joy to use so far. Thank you Iain for making and releasing it. And documenting it!

As someone that loves what Max and Max for Live can do, but prefers a more traditional programming language when implementing complex logic, it really is exactly what I’ve been hoping for. And it’s a Lisp!

I thought it was a well executed joke myself.

I've found s-expressions to be one of my favorite things about Clojure. I understand that many people dislike them, and that many people get used to them, but I loved the syntax from the get go.

> Being born poor is obviously not a personal choice, but actions taken along the way (having a child when young), taking the risk with illegal and highly addictive drugs, committing violent crime, are conscious acts that unsurprisingly make it harder to get out of poverty. The consequences of those actions is likely particularly known in lower income areas.

I was raised with the same belief, however I have learned through broader experience that people from varying backgrounds have vastly different ways of perceiving and evaluating the information in front of them. I do not mean this to indicate, for example, that people in poverty are inferior and incapable of logically assessing the consequences of a teen pregnancy.

Rather, I would suggest that you and I were likely privy to a myriad of small, incremental and beneficial teachings and experiences that led to our view of teen pregnancy. As a result I believe it unwise to judge others, who did not have the privilege of those same teachings, based on the assumption that they knew the "unsurprising" "consequences" of their actions.

LWT's channels look more like filehandles. I think the GP was asking about channels in the CSP sense. It looks like LWT has that too in the form of streams.

If only the JVM could take advantage of this.

Exciting! I was looking for a ClojureScript monad library just last month. Can't wait to dig in to this one.

I think there is a lot of potential to help with the complexities of asynchronous failures.

We tend to take an in-between approach, baking base AMIs as needed but configuring and installing code with Ansible at boot time. We've got scripts to cut tarballs with an Ansible playbook plus support files from any tag in our repo. Then it's just a matter of specifying the tag in user-data when starting an instance. We do that through CloudFormation.

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I've been dreaming of this since Datomic came out. I recommend it to our AWS account rep every chance I get.

Looks really promising. We're using HoneySQL now, but OJ might be even lighter.

Right, but to be clear: I don't believe that only masculine men deserve authority. I think our species' slow evolution from violence as the single source of authority is possibly the most hopeful development in our history.

I have a pet theory that the reason that women (as well as non-traditionally-masculine men) are considered bossy, while other men are considered "go-getters" is due to a lack of the threat of violence. Not that a type-A guy is going to assault you if you don't capitulate to their authority. More that there is a perceived or possible threat.

In contrast to women who would be considered bossy or abrasive because they don't "back up" their claims to authority. I suppose that there is often a feeling of resentment that society/culture/custom is taking the place of that threat.

Again, all supposition and musing on my part. Probably much better articulated by someone writing on the subject 50 years ago!

Exactly. I'm always confused when someone suggests that paying off a mortgage is stupid. Sure, 5% return on mortgage money borrowed at 3% is profitable. But there are many assumptions here: how sure is that spread? Can you pay your mortgage each month if the market tanks? How large is the spread when investment is no longer hypothetical and within some risk tolerance? How much tax are you paying on gains?

To be clear: I do not mean to imply that GP is making such a bold and unconsidered claim. Just that I've been hearing them a lot lately.