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I'm curious what you think about Clojurescript? leaving aside that it may be harder for teams to move to Clojurescript than to improve their JS codebase.

The reason for the question is that Clojurescript supports all the FP idioms of your slides more naturally and also has more FP features.

Looking at the table of contents from amazon, it looks like the book covers the basic data structures, but the book's website says the following:

"I assume the reader has completed the equivalent of a second programming course, typically titled Data Structures or Computer Science II."

So its confusing to know the target audience. To me it looks like someone with one language under his belt and some basic math(algebra/precalculus?) can do alright.

The Look Inside works for me on amazon.com, are you using a country specific amazon website?

I don't think a company like Google will tolerate the hyperbuggy software of xamarin, xamarin just pushes new features with ever fixing anything.

Are there any reliable VPS providers that offer FreeBSD?

you know what they say about Go being modern right?

When developing a web application for phone, tablet and desktop, is it a good principle to use the same HTML for the three and a separate CSS for each device?

If the support for osx and linux depends on xamarin, the future of .NET on those platforms is very dubious.

Why would you remap the left option key to ctrl when you already have two left ctrl keys (caps and original ctrl) ? I do set the right option key to ctrl but only in iterm and emacs.

That's why apple keyboards (macbooks, imacs) bother me, they don't have a right ctrl key. (I set the right option key to ctrl in both iterm2 and gui emacs.

That some google services were rewritten in golang doesn't really say much, in a video Rob Pike himself said that lots of services in google can't and shouldn't be rewritten in Go because of the GC, the video: http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Lang-NEXT/Lang-NEXT-2014/Pan... - At 31:20 Andrei starts talking about the problem of the GC with the scale of Facebook, you can start watching there.

nope, golang can't handle google either, it would be to expensive for them too.

I'm guessing that at facebook scale a GC would be expensive.

When you are developing a web application for phone, tablet and desktop, is it a good principle to use the same HTML for the three and a separate CSS for each device? is there a case where this would cause problems?

But Google is not pushing GWT anymore since a long time, they don't want more adoption of the framework, instead, they want you to start using Dart, so beware of GWT's future.

Of one drive, idrive and google drive I stick with dropbox because of its CLI linux client, are there any alternatives to dropbox for this?

Why is Bootstrap much more popular than Foundation? Is technically better for most tasks?

Not sure what you mean here, what country in south america doesn't have credit cards?

I'm not a KDE user, but from reading on the internetz I have this feeling that KDE in general is evaded by users, users don't see it as much of a option or as the last option, this commit also doesn't mention KDE.

Some say the problem with KDE is that you have to drink the whole koolaid, but not sure if that is really the reason.

From the project docs: "Generate simple readable Javascript" - isn't this more of a disadvantage than an advantage? the created Javascript code won't be high performance, which matters a lot in mobile today.

Don't know or have plans to use Elixir for now since I have always seen the Erlang VM as tackling only the problem domain of requiring high fault tolerance and distributed computing systems but no so much for general purpose programming as languages like ruby/python/js/clojure etc. For example: how may programmers are writing systems like Riak, Amazon's SimpleDB, CouchDB, RabbitMQ every day?

That said, from reading the article you forgot to mention Hex, the package manager.

Terrible bad, is an abomination compared to reading a PDF version on windows/osx.

I don't know if is the fault of the format(mobi) or they are really bad at formatting technical books.

Some people run their dev environments on remote linux machines (VPSs), it makes them OS agnostic, you just need a ssh client, while tramp is awesome, imo not using it gives you a faster and more streamline workflow.

I don't see how he is demonizing anyone by calling them adversaries, the word "adversary" doesn't imply any evil at all, you really are just talking from your personal ego.

very helpful, finally an excuse to start using my copy of Sketch ;)

From The Little Schemer - http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/matthias/BTLS/sample.pdf

That chapter made me grok the Y Combinator.

Do you use to the mba without an external monitor and keyboard? I can seem to adjust to developing all day on laptop, thus wanting a mac mini upgrade.

Who wants to see the mac mini revived? ;)

I thought we were talking about "programming" languages only.