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P2P-sharing would be a really great solution to this from the malware developer's point of view. I don't harbor any ill-will towards malware devs, especially not when they're going after windoze machines :^)

But yeah, the curl website could really come up with a lot of data, so it seems like a very immature solution to what is really a critical component of the app to just blindly reach out for some predefined url. It'd be way smarter to run a CC machine somewhere and start pairing some peers. curl is somewhat small, right?

I think they'll probably just keep renaming the file for now, and updating the URL. It'll just be cat and mouse, and newer versions ship with it, so there's really no point for the curl maintainers to be wasting too much time on it since it's a limited-time issue that will more than likely sort itself out later.

I'm sure you can mind my own business for me, maybe I should even let you write my next comment?

Would you like to see my papers?

You are the type of person I was hoping not to encounter!

The kool-aid drinkers.

I don't like Clojure or ClojureScript. They are both awful by virtue of the platform they exist on. I would like very much if Clojure had a core lisp KLambda, because I could abstract Clojure onto a platform that wasn't terrible.

Rich is a guy who (whether consciously or otherwise) hated writing Java and decided that functional programming worked, and that Lisp did too. Clojure is a strange abomination from the points of view of those in the pure-functional family, and those from the paren-dimension, but I find that Clojure code reads easily, and comes off far more expressive than that of Python or Ruby or other so-called expressive languages.

When someone who uses the JVM tells me that something I know to be true is 'fundamentally flawed' I become fearful for myself, that I might drown in irony.

Q: Is Clojure bootstrapped on something other than JS or JVM or CLR?

A: No, and don't waste your time on this talk if you already have watched any of Rich Hickey's talks, this is an ego-stroke at best that introduces no new solutions to any problems. It's an hour and a half of 'Hey look what clojure can do', and 'Gee, our documentation isn't great'.

Maybe someday Clojure will have something like the Shen project has with KLambda. A tight, core language implementable in any language, and a language library built on top of that core language, agnostic of the implementation it's derived on.

If Clojure had gone this route, we could basically have Clojure on any platform capable of parsing and modifying S-Expressions.

Maybe someday!

You think a quarter-trillion dollary company hasn't thought about letting users freelance on top of the Amzn distribution model? Don't make me laugh! They want to play 'good guy' here because they can get easier data collection if they don't have to verify customers for reviews, and it allows for customer conversion if someone sees that the product is in fact what they want from reading the reviews. They want the identities for that very reason of removing who could be faking it, but I think you're absolutely right that they don't feel threatened by the reviews themselves.

Fiverr is the threat here, and that's a good thing. Either way, I'm buying from Jet from now on.