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That's just one step away from reasoning form a paradox and patting yourself on the back, how you have proved something (would the same argumentation be as enticing if it were based on misappropriation or misunderstanding like that of using "physics" for arguing for perpetuum mobile?).

My bigger gripe with your reasoning is that using topology 1 and stopping at that (i.e. there are no questions left) precludes (or makes intractable because of combinatorial explosion) reasoning by analogy (symmetry).

Because you then don't need the complexity (& boilerplate) of SERIES or LOOP the moment you want to do a series of transformations on a slightly bigger list.

TrailMeme [http://trailmeme.com/] is a step in this direction.

This can be viewed as a corollary to Perlis's "It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than 10 functions on 10 data structures." [http://www.cs.yale.edu/quotes.html]

It would be very interesting to see a breakdown of people (diss)agreeing with pg's thesis by hacker/maker vs. business person.

I wonder if this has anything to do with CLANG [0] (the recently kickstarted sword-fighting simulator). In some of the videos they hinted that a custom controller is coming down the line.

[0] http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/260688528/clang

Sure, but if you are concerned about privacy/surveillance, you use a new (one-time) address for each transaction.

There is always bitcoin.

Well, there is defonce [http://clojure.github.com/clojure/branch-master/clojure.core...]

As for function lookup, I recommend reading this thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2928285 Also, vars are by default static (but can be made dynamic with ^:dynamic).

... and Haskell for programmatically manipulating said PHP code base. [http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Haskell_in_industry]

No, but it does it lazily.

pmap mentioned above probably has too much overhead for what you are thinking as it is intended for more coarse distribution of workload.

Clojure can do this as well without requiring any special syntax or function because all sequence are funcallable:

  (map [1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10] [0 3 4])
  => (1 4 5)

It generalizes them the lisp way: by building machines that build machines.

The language should be less of a moving target now, after the changes in 1.3.

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Are people brute-forcing the 5 letter password? ;)

Codebases were littered with (vec (map ...)) and (reduce (fn [acc [k v]] ...)) patterns which are nothing but noise. This change removes the need for that, makes the intention clearer and in the case of reduce-kv removes the need for lambdas in some cases (where it was used only for destructuring).

mapv and reduce-kv are a great addition; not so much as a feature per se, but rather as a testament of the core team being on the lookout for design patterns that are actually symptoms of lacks in the language [http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?AreDesignPatternsMissingLanguageFeatu...].

While I appreciate Heroku's quick and decisive response, I don't quite follow why they felt the need to muddle the message by explicating that their sponsorship is handled by women. That really shouldn't have any barring on anything.

(setq mwe:color-box-hide-parens nil)

This is an emacs lisp-only convention, most likely stemming from the fact that elisp allows multiple else forms (most other lisps don't, which at least for me also solves the problem of visually parsing ifs).

Next step: assignation markets [http://www.outpost-of-freedom.com/jimbellap.htm]

Apparently only 17% of time on FB is spent looking at photos: http://www.scribd.com/doc/79028052/Buddy-Media-DLD-Keynote-H...

http://pllop.it/ (disclaimer: I'm an adviser) does some of what you are describing (with a lot more to come), but is positioned more as a product than as tool to be integrated.

If the artist was precise (if you look at the coverage of the exhibition you will find numbers ranging from 1 to 3M, both of which are significantly too low [0]), it would take about 50 more rooms (there are about 5M new photos uploaded to Flickr/day vs. 250M to FB [1]).

[0] Rough extrapolation based on http://royal.pingdom.com/2011/01/12/internet-2010-in-numbers... and a 20% growth rate http://www.kullin.net/2010/09/flickr-5-billion-photos/

[1] http://www.quora.com/How-many-photos-are-uploaded-to-Faceboo...

Can you give any further reading/info on family resemblance as used by Google?

Have you tried vox.io [http://www.vox.io]?

I think it gives credence to Lulzsec's dox and their denial of the A-Team's effort. A much simpler explanation than there being a large transgender population is there is only one transgender individual (Raymond-Claire) who constructed a fantasy world. For a transgender their sexual identity is undoubtedly a (disproportionately) big part of their identity as a whole and it therefore informs their every action. The appearance and emphasis on assorted physical and sexual deviances (deafness, ugliness, homosexuality) points towards writer's uncomfortable or even antagonistic attitude to their own body and sexuality which is again consistent* with transgenders.

* consistent as in correlated and strengthening the hypothesis at hand. I'm not implying all transgenders have such issues.

Or just use "Private Browsing".

http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Private%20Browsing