thomasvarney723

Why do you think the C was easier to write?

I see what you mean and although the definition of a from-scratch transducer looks a bit ugly to me, the idea of composing existing transducers together seems rather elegant.

Though I likely haven't completely understood each of the authors gripes, each problem to me seems to have a notable solution provided by Clojure (with the exception of tail-call optimization).

Clojure:

is compiled to JVM byte-code and is fast.

has a good parallelism story (parallel map, parallel fold, channels)

is almost completely backwards compatible.

has a sequence abstraction that leverages the same operations over many different types (string, vecctor, list, set, map, etc.).

has a standard compose function.

has reduce, map and filter in the standard library. Transducers (also first class) further extend their usefulness.

's closures allow statements and there's even sugar for annonymous functions.

has macros to reduce boilerpate.

has a conditional macro.

I'm sure this list isn't unique to Clojure but I'm most familiar with it.

I recommend Peter Attia's (currently unfinished) series, "The straight dope on cholesterol". He's a surgeon interested in health and fitness. http://eatingacademy.com/?s=cholesterol

Very well said. The advent of transducers in Clojure has made this 'orthogonality' especially true.

Doesn't California City have something to do with Los Angeles's water infrastructure history?

Would you care to share that story?

I've heard it said that Clojure's macro system is most similar to Common Lisp's macro system and that Racket (and Scheme) style macros are more powerful. Can anyone compare the differing approaches?

It seems to me that Apple has had a rich history of interesting languages: Squeak, Dylan, Hypertalk, AppleScript and Swift. Those are just the ones I know of.

I recognize destructuring from Clojure. Did it origniate there? Or is this a specific case of pattern matching?

Are there any prominent applications built with REBOL or Red?

I agree "they"/"them" sounds cleaner than "he or she"/"him or her" but isn't it officially incorrect? I do like that Facebook has started using "they"/"them".

That's hilarious and terrible.

What's corrupt about FIFA? Genuinely curious as I don't really watch soccer.

Except for special occasions: no vegetable oil, no wheat, less sugar.

I agree with much of the paleo, keto, weight lifting and meditation submissions on here. I would add that I think there isn't much better for you than saturated and monounsaturated fat and that there isn't much worse for you than "vegetable" (industrial seed) oils because of their high (especially omega-6) polyunsaturated fat content.

Two books I would really recommend are "Perfect Health Diet" by the Jaminets and "The Paleo Manifesto" by John Durant. "The Paleo Manifesto" is a 30,000ft view of health from an ancestral perspective. The "Perfect Health Diet" delves into the chemistry of metabolism and is very interesting in it's own right if you're into that kind of thing.

What were the other 3?

Here's a good video showing the difference between underscore and lodash: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3svKOdZijA

What do you mean?

Did you write your own scraper or use a library? If so, which?

Headspace is an app I've tried and thought was interesting.

What is the gun?

I find I have the same problem explaining computer technologies to people.

Using locations instead of names for data seems like what Rich Hickey means when he talks about Place Oriented Programming.

I can't recommend LastPass enough. Also, PIA for VPN. I put a little cash and my credit card in my phone case so that I have only one thing to carry and always have money on me. I really liked f.lux when I used windows, if only I had a decent replacement for ChromeOS.

What were the technologies the author references when he mentions Eric Meijer and Alan Kay?

I don't mean to sound like I know the best pricing scheme for ISPs but it has always seemed to me that the pricing model used for home internet makes the most sense. Once you have an infrastructure in place, the cost to send data over it is minimal, right? So, to me, paying for speed instead of an amount of data makes the most sense.

"At least one of these statements are incorrect."

Do you use Om with React? If so, do you have an opinon on it vs. Backbone, Angular, etc.?

My bet would be that using a two-stroke cycle allows the piston to stay lubricated without using a sump for oil.

Is it possible to participate in SoC if you're not currently enrolled?