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kinleydon Aaron Swartz: The Book That Changed My Life

From the Wikipedia article that you mention: The term wage slavery has been used to criticize economic exploitation and social stratification, with the former seen primarily as unequal bargaining power between labor and capital (particularly when workers are paid comparatively low wages, e.g. in sweatshops), and the latter as a lack of workers' self-management, fulfilling job choices and leisure in an economy. [1]

I think the article itself is quite clear. The notion of wage slavery does not imply everyone who accepts wages is a slave. Taken without the qualification of bargaining power and such, Chomsky would be MIT's slave. I don't think he subscribes to that view.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wage_slavery

kinleydon Aaron Swartz: The Book That Changed My Life

I can't count how many times I've looked up Chomsky's views over the years, and every single time I've looked them up, it's become immediately clear that he is completely dishonest.

It would be interesting if you gave us a few examples of where you looked up his views, and found him to be completely dishonest.

kinleydon Meet the Man Behind America’s Most Dangerous Mail-Order Kits

Heh. It must have been a blast to have you around. Upvoted.

kinleydon Clojure 2012 Year in Review

Thanks to Stuart Sierra for a great Clojure 2012 summary. Personally, I'm very pleased to have tracked close to 95% of what was mentioned as 2012 was a year of Clojure immersion for me. I had settled on Clojure after building a few toy projects in Arc, Ruby and Python. Yup, 2012 was a great year of programming. :)

kinleydon Learn Clojure with Clojure Koans

My initial reaction was to upvote @eccp, based on my experience with leiningen the first time round. Long story short: went around in circles following outdated (but seemingly comprehensive) guides that twisted my mind with hopeless combinations of Ant, Maven, Leiningen, emacs, slime and swank, among others. Basically gave up after a while, but was fortunate to get some encouragement here on HN, and went back in with just leiningen and emacs. I recall that was just the right mix, and as you say, lein repl pretty much brought the ocean to me.

kinleydon The Unofficial Guide to Rich Hickey's Brain

Just wanted to note that, if I'm not mistaken, your reference to "accidental complexity" should be "incidental complexity". Nice post. A Rich Hickey groupie here as well - like you I love his talks for their mind widening value.

kinleydon Google+ Is Growing at Facebook Speed

'It's true that G+ is driven more by "interest communities" than by "friends and family links".'

And that is one of the main reasons I prefer G+ over Facebook. Facebook is nice to keep in touch with ones family and friends (old and new), but G+ is where I can follow (and occasionally interact with) a number of luminaries, visionaries and tech leaders. God forbid my family and friends fill up my G+ stream!

If G+ never catches up with Facebook in terms of numbers, I'll be the happier for it.

kinleydon Marrying ClojureScript and JS Frameworks – Knockout Edition

Thanks swannodette, both for your work on ClojureScript and for the link to Conrad Barski's webfui. I had noted the dates for Clojure Conj 2012 and Conrad's talk but obviously time passed by swiftly. I look forward to the videos of Clojure Conj 2012 going up soon.

kinleydon Let’s Talk Your Data, Not Big Data

Nice anecdote. :)

kinleydon CyanogenMod 10.0 Release

cm > stock android, that's been my experience. When I got my Galaxy Nexus, I was on cm within 2 weeks.

kinleydon Panic Attack Leads to Hospital on Way to Golfer’s First Victory

An amazing story. I just wonder how many more victories Charlie Beljan will be able to endure. :)

kinleydon Detailed Breakdown of a Clojure Web App

I forgot to add to [x]: noir, lein-cljsbuild and clojurescript one; and to the ClojureScript side: jayq, fetch, waltz and crate.

kinleydon Ending the cults of personality in free software

Doing what the OP challenges us to do: I don't care what Linus Torvalds uses on his computer. It's easy.

And I particularly don't like KDE Plasma, even if Linus does. But I do like Linus Torvalds. He's a straight talking guy who has consistently walked his talk, even if some don't like what he has to say. AFAIK there is no cult of personality as far as he's concerned. Historically cults of personality are nurtured by the personality involved. Linus has done nothing of that sort.

kinleydon Detailed Breakdown of a Clojure Web App

Clojure does make difficult things easy. And it's getting better and better with the rapid evolution of new libraries and middleware.

Given one of the core differences in approach, composibility for Clojure and 'convention over configuration' for RoR - I don't think there will ever be a monolithic RoR equivalent in Clojure. Instead the micro-frameworks that are emerging are finding their niches, and are being designed from the ground up to work with other micro-frameworks. Working in tandem these compositions of micro-frameworks are quickly getting mature and I'm sure will be in the same league as RoR soon enough.

What I like about this is it allows you to handle Clojure a micro-framework or middleware at a time. It's easier to digest this way, at least for me: Ring -> Compojure -> Hiccup - Enlive/Comb/Fleet [x] -> Korma -> Friend, followed by Domina, Enfocus and others on the ClojureScript side.

[x]: marks where I am.

kinleydon Detailed Breakdown of a Clojure Web App

I think most of the examples assume a single developer beginning the process of learning Clojure. That would explain what appears to be the assumption that one person will be handling both the front- and back-ends because it's easier to set up simple examples this way.

kinleydon Uses for cURL

Here's a pitch for another nice one: http://echohttp.com/

kinleydon Patent US4022227 - Method of concealing partial baldness

Duly noted. It stinks, both of them. The patent system has been broken for a long time now.

kinleydon RethinkDB: An open-source distributed database built with love over three years

Sounds like an excellent elevator pitch.

kinleydon The Nature of Lisp

Very nicely put. imho, it could serve as the tl;dr for the op, which was also excellent.

kinleydon Inventing a Soccer Ball for Poor Countries

Not a Brit, but yeah, it is football to the world at large.

Congratulations to Sting and Tim Jahnigen, this is heart warming.

Regarding the cost of the balls, I think when you factor in a 30 year life and assume a cost of $30 per ball, we are looking at a $1/year cost. The up front cost might be higher, and that is an issue, but the actual cost per ball/year is a heckuva lot less. I'm not sure what kind of calculation Unicef is doing when they say “compared to the $2.50 we pay for a regular football, the current cost difference for the more durable solution is currently too high.”

kinleydon Meet the new Light Table

Awesome Chris - thank you!

kinleydon Meet the new Light Table

Same problem here.

Edit: Arch x86_64

kinleydon Clojure at a Bank – Clojure Code Immaturity

Yes, I found Clojure frameworks, handlers and middleware to be lightweight and easy to use. I'm amazed at how well structured and easy to set up a Clojure web stack can be. Still working my way through the different libraries, and enjoying it.

kinleydon Clojure at a Bank – Clojure Code Immaturity

Yes, to me the title suggested the article was about the immaturity of Clojure Code (as in not ready for prime time) and it was only upon reading it that I realized it was about the immaturity of the OP's Clojure code as he began his Clojure journey.

It was a nice read. I liked the frankness - no claims to overnight Ninjitsu mastery - and yet I get the feeling it's all pretty solid.

kinleydon Apple ][+ in HTML5

Nice one, thanks.

kinleydon Apple ][+ in HTML5

Yes, a great piece of hacking. Thanks again, David. :)

kinleydon Apple ][+ in HTML5

Thanks exodust. :)

kinleydon Apple ][+ in HTML5

I would like to add this link also, Linapple[1], an Apple][ emulator for Linux, which is pretty good too. More fun on your Linux box, from the good old days. :)

[1] http://linapple.sourceforge.net/

kinleydon Apple ][+ in HTML5

The level of anal retentivity is creditable. Goodbye HN.

Edit: Thanks mparlane. I was on my way out, but you are right of course. :)

kinleydon Apple ][+ in HTML5

And that's why I love HN. Thanks for the down vote.