Interesting. A similar feature built into Vim is `cursorcolumn`, which will highlight the background of whatever column the cursor is in. If you set `cursorline` as well, you get a kind of cross-hairs around the cursor.…
Having read the betas, I can't recommend this book strongly enough to people wanting to master Clojure. The authors really know their stuff.
There are some similar horrors in the source code for Clojure. https://github.com/clojure/clojure/blob/master/src/jvm/cloju... Java is a harsh mistress. This is why dynamic languages on the JVM are nice, so I never have…
A new version of oyako is coming soon-ish (within a week or two) with possible mysql support, but it will always focus primarily on postgresql. The next version will also feature an SQL DSL similar to ClojureQL but less…
> I often have to navigate the project folder structure to look for stuff, I need to compare files, work with the source control and so on.. all of this I feel I can do pretty efficiently from within Eclipse. For…
Thank you thank you thank you for linking to this. I also use both editors (daily), and Emacs' undo system is easily among its worst and most annoying features, while Vim's undo system is among its best. The…
Many huge Java frameworks are painfully over-complex, but personally I make good use of a lot of "tiny" Java libraries. e.g. if I want to calculate an MD5 checksum or pluralize a word, there's usually a bit of Java out…
You can always exit via (System/exit 0), 0 being the return code. `java -cp clojure.jar clojure.main` is the preferred method of starting Clojure rather than using -jar, I think.
People cheat because they're immoral when no one's looking. I don't see that we need to try to justify it any further than that. Someone can get something valuable without working for it by lying/stealing, and they can…
"If you feel that parenthesis stacking actually improves the readability of your code, by all means, feel free to do so! However, "everyone else is doing it" is not a good reason to sacrifice the readability of your…
A perverse case of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAS_syndrome. Please forgive me.
My opinion today is largely the same, yes. I love Clojure and in my spare time I use it for everything. If I tried to do a web app in Common Lisp again, I'd probably have an easier time of it today than in 2008, because…
I ran on MySQL for a few months without issues, but my code was disgusting. My choice was clean code + slow, or ugly code + fast. Today I have clean code + fast, thanks partly to better library support in Clojure, so…
Why? Because it's a fun project to play with and a good way to learn. SQLite3 probably would work, yes. I agree, this post shouldn't influence anyone. Not sure why it was submitted to HN.
I have a (bit of a) clue how to use a relational DB. But not from Clojure two years ago, when the only interface was a very thin layer over JDBC. As for why it's on the homepage, I don't think it belongs here either.…
I linked to other posts in that post, in which you can see some of the things I struggled with (written while I was struggling). For example: 1. Windows opening and closing seemingly at random when using SLIME 2.…
On a low level, Clojure exposes the underlying JVM, so you can instantiate and bang on Java objects all you want. It's "hybrid" in that sense, and always has been. That isn't changing. But dipping into Java in Clojure…
I second this. If your shyness is bad enough that it seriously, negatively affects your life, consider talking to a psychologist. Speaking from personal experience, it can help. There's no shame in it. A psychologist…
No, I wrote it this way because I do feel strongly about it. I used the word "devastated" as a play on the title of the other article. I'm not "devastated", but I do feel strongly enough about this issue to alter my…
I use hyperbole to emphasize a point. I don't cry myself to sleep when I see an ad, no. Sometimes I become mildly annoyed. Life is generally OK. Likewise, ad-blocking isn't really "devastating" the internet, is it?
I am emotional about advertising in general, not those ads in particular. I am not frothing at the mouth over a single ad, no. Are you OK with a bunch of marketing guys sitting in an office thinking "How can we…
I have no problem with a site denying content to people using ad-blockers. That's their right. If ad-viewing is mandatory to view their content, I'll abide (by not going back, or paying real money if I think it's worth…
Yes, it's my blog post. (I would hesitate to call it an article.) Advertising is unethical insofar as it's manipulative and dishonest and invasive. Even if not unethical, it's highly annoying and aesthetically…
The article starts off saying that ad-blocking is not unethical, but then goes on to strongly imply that it is. e.g. I think in some ways the Internet and its vast anonymity feeds into a culture where many people do not…
I don't know about super-programs, but I use Clojure at work (doing things no one else would ever care about) and I use it at home to solve fun problems. I previously did the same things in PHP and Perl and Ruby and…
Interesting. A similar feature built into Vim is `cursorcolumn`, which will highlight the background of whatever column the cursor is in. If you set `cursorline` as well, you get a kind of cross-hairs around the cursor.…
Having read the betas, I can't recommend this book strongly enough to people wanting to master Clojure. The authors really know their stuff.
There are some similar horrors in the source code for Clojure. https://github.com/clojure/clojure/blob/master/src/jvm/cloju... Java is a harsh mistress. This is why dynamic languages on the JVM are nice, so I never have…
A new version of oyako is coming soon-ish (within a week or two) with possible mysql support, but it will always focus primarily on postgresql. The next version will also feature an SQL DSL similar to ClojureQL but less…
> I often have to navigate the project folder structure to look for stuff, I need to compare files, work with the source control and so on.. all of this I feel I can do pretty efficiently from within Eclipse. For…
Thank you thank you thank you for linking to this. I also use both editors (daily), and Emacs' undo system is easily among its worst and most annoying features, while Vim's undo system is among its best. The…
Many huge Java frameworks are painfully over-complex, but personally I make good use of a lot of "tiny" Java libraries. e.g. if I want to calculate an MD5 checksum or pluralize a word, there's usually a bit of Java out…
You can always exit via (System/exit 0), 0 being the return code. `java -cp clojure.jar clojure.main` is the preferred method of starting Clojure rather than using -jar, I think.
People cheat because they're immoral when no one's looking. I don't see that we need to try to justify it any further than that. Someone can get something valuable without working for it by lying/stealing, and they can…
"If you feel that parenthesis stacking actually improves the readability of your code, by all means, feel free to do so! However, "everyone else is doing it" is not a good reason to sacrifice the readability of your…
A perverse case of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAS_syndrome. Please forgive me.
My opinion today is largely the same, yes. I love Clojure and in my spare time I use it for everything. If I tried to do a web app in Common Lisp again, I'd probably have an easier time of it today than in 2008, because…
I ran on MySQL for a few months without issues, but my code was disgusting. My choice was clean code + slow, or ugly code + fast. Today I have clean code + fast, thanks partly to better library support in Clojure, so…
Why? Because it's a fun project to play with and a good way to learn. SQLite3 probably would work, yes. I agree, this post shouldn't influence anyone. Not sure why it was submitted to HN.
I have a (bit of a) clue how to use a relational DB. But not from Clojure two years ago, when the only interface was a very thin layer over JDBC. As for why it's on the homepage, I don't think it belongs here either.…
I linked to other posts in that post, in which you can see some of the things I struggled with (written while I was struggling). For example: 1. Windows opening and closing seemingly at random when using SLIME 2.…
On a low level, Clojure exposes the underlying JVM, so you can instantiate and bang on Java objects all you want. It's "hybrid" in that sense, and always has been. That isn't changing. But dipping into Java in Clojure…
I second this. If your shyness is bad enough that it seriously, negatively affects your life, consider talking to a psychologist. Speaking from personal experience, it can help. There's no shame in it. A psychologist…
No, I wrote it this way because I do feel strongly about it. I used the word "devastated" as a play on the title of the other article. I'm not "devastated", but I do feel strongly enough about this issue to alter my…
I use hyperbole to emphasize a point. I don't cry myself to sleep when I see an ad, no. Sometimes I become mildly annoyed. Life is generally OK. Likewise, ad-blocking isn't really "devastating" the internet, is it?
I am emotional about advertising in general, not those ads in particular. I am not frothing at the mouth over a single ad, no. Are you OK with a bunch of marketing guys sitting in an office thinking "How can we…
I have no problem with a site denying content to people using ad-blockers. That's their right. If ad-viewing is mandatory to view their content, I'll abide (by not going back, or paying real money if I think it's worth…
Yes, it's my blog post. (I would hesitate to call it an article.) Advertising is unethical insofar as it's manipulative and dishonest and invasive. Even if not unethical, it's highly annoying and aesthetically…
The article starts off saying that ad-blocking is not unethical, but then goes on to strongly imply that it is. e.g. I think in some ways the Internet and its vast anonymity feeds into a culture where many people do not…
I don't know about super-programs, but I use Clojure at work (doing things no one else would ever care about) and I use it at home to solve fun problems. I previously did the same things in PHP and Perl and Ruby and…