Rayne

I probably would have actually enjoyed the Ouya, but it had such terrible input lag that it was effectively unplayable. Couldn't find any way to fix it, so it just sits on a shelf in my apartment now.

Well, so would I. The spoon doesn't cure the symptoms.

Sure, but asserting that everyone should be using random password manager X isn't super constructive.

I've seen this used on IRC for approximately 7 years.

As a 19 year old software engineer who started writing code when he was 13 because it was fun, I don't think this quite hits the mark.

I didn't give up everything in life to be a programmer, but it was my passion (and it looks like it's this guy's passion as well). It is fun. I still played outside, had friends, and lived a childhood. What I got out of it are skills that are in demand, a head start on life, and adult, mature friends who kept me out of trouble and helped me build a fun, happy life for myself.

I owe everything to programming. I was a kid from a small town in Alabama and now I'm a happy software engineer in Los Angeles. I got to go to the first Clojure Conj conference when I was 16, speak at the second at 17, and get an internship that led to a job at around the same time. I met the best friends I could have ever met through it and have had more fun that I could have ever imagined having as a direct result of it.

That said, we're not entirely at odds. It is important to keep yourself healthy and such and not let it completely take over your life. I just felt it important to provide a different perspective on the matter.

core.async is a Clojure library and is built with no compiler support.

I specifically mean desktop. I'd be surprised to learn that VNC clients and such can manage it but something like this wouldn't, but I've been known to be wrong before.

This device is really appealing, but I am extremely disappointed that it can only mirror chrome tabs. I'd be much more interested in this device if they would throw out some native applications to mirror a whole screen like Apple's Airplay can.

As once a poor schmuck in not-even-that-rural Alabama, we never could and still cannot get decent anything there. Best I could come up with when I still lived there and what my mother still uses is mobile internet with a small cap.

Hey (long time no see, btw) there. I played it recently. You've definitely got to go into it expecting what it is to enjoy it. Exactly nothing happens in the game. You don't really interact with anything, you just walk around a beautiful set of landscapes on the island and listen to the story. The game is just short enough that it doesn't become too boring to play in my experience, and it's an excellent experience to relax to.

Hope you enjoy it!

Nailgun is not a good solution to the problem. If the JVM startup speed is a problem, your best option is to use something not on the JVM and not use hacks that make it feel faster.

The global package index meant (for me) that pretty much everything I installed broke something else I needed. Once they've got the sandbox stuff working (and when you can start a repl in that sandbox, imo it's nearly useless if you can't), it should be much better.

Sure, but I'd vote for doing things right to begin with rather than waiting for complaining users. But I guess we might disagree on what 'right' means in this context. :)

Under new libraries I see a reddit API lib listed. Why are they including things like this in Factor itself. Doesn't it kind of bloat things? Factor can strip this out if it isn't used of course, but can you really maintain all of these libraries? If you just add random things to Factor itself you're eventually going to end up with something that is impossible to maintain without a very large number of invested people.

I think we should really wait to hear from Linode until we completely dismiss them, at least.

I like Sublime Text, but I really can't use it for what I need a text editor for, which is Clojure. It is ridiculously bad at indenting/formatting Clojure and when I used it for any length of time I spent more time fixing the code it mutilated than I did actually working. I posted this bug report ages ago. If you're interested in doing Clojure in Sublime Text, upvote it! http://sublimetext.userecho.com/topic/98139-clojure-auto-ind...

Most people are going to prefer Emacs, but lots of people happily use Eclipse. Light Table is also a budding option. Vim is also fine if you're into that. ST2 can suffice with the https://github.com/odyssomay/sublime-lispindent plugin.

I've seen this argument a couple of times in this thread. I used to use Spotify and now I use Rdio and I do not see a difference in speed at all. What kind of speed are we talking about? How quickly a song starts playing? I've noticed no difference, and obviously the songs can't play faster.

I'm using Mountain Lion as well, and no crashes.

Not for me either with the same version. It doesn't even render, but it doesn't crash.

This looks like a nice service. I could see myself using it. One thing I noticed on the front page is that you do strange things with punctuation. Examples:

"Import the contents from the web . Convert your blog to a book in one click."

Notice the space before the first period.

"Papyrus lets you create books in pdf,epub,kindle formats."

No spaces after commas and no 'and' before 'kindle'. Also, there is no space between the last period and "(Coming soon)" in the two rightmost feature sections.

How does he at all sound self-impressed? I just read the article twice and still don't understand this comment.

Because he is just showing an example of macros, not giving a tutorial on how to add list comprehensions to Clojure.

The point of a list comprehension is often that it can work with multiple lists. This can't do that, can it?

I don't think there should be special cases for certain email addresses. I think the instructions on what to do should just be as clear and detailed as possible.

This looks neat. I've always wished I had a way to sign into all my email accounts without having to set them up individually one at a time. This app definitely needs some work though. It is crazy slow and appears to be a web-app-pretending-to-be-native. Not that that is necessarily bad, but this one seems slow. Also, I can't get it to work at all. I've got my email account set up and it knows how many unread messages I have, but it never loads them. It has been sitting like this for about 30 minutes: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/23745600/Screenshots/oxNi.png and restarting doesn't help.

I also can't for the life of me figure out how to add a second email address.

Well, now I kind of want you to.

Chris indicates that Korma isn't going anywhere. I think there is probably still motivation to maintain it. At least, even if he doesn't I'd be willing to bet that someone will.

Noir wasn't really much of a framework either. It was mostly a collection of libraries and a bit of code that added the middleware for them for you. The constraining part was the mutable nature of defpage and how hard it made it to actually get at and do anything interesting with your routes.

If you looked at the post before 6:10PM CST, please look once more for a quote from Chris Granger and a link to the commits where I moved refheap to Compojure for reference when doing the same thing on your own.