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Any plans to support JVM based languages? I imagine something like Tomcat would work with your ideology of uploading a file (in this case a .jar) via FTP and being up and running. Adding JVM support would add many languages to your supported list quickly :)

I've heard good things about http://www.appfog.com/ who used to specialize in heroku-esque PHP deployments. Perhaps they'd be worth checking out.

Github wants to explain what Git has to offer you. I assume they want to see you as a potential customer, and if nothing else it gives you a real live low-risk git repository to play with after you're done with the tutorial.

It's not that crazy if you think about it. If you're a freelancer working small contracts for people that "want a website", you're pretty free to use whatever technology you'd like. Doubly so if you "provide hosting".

Outside of tech and corporate circles people could really give a damn. They just want to get things done.

At first I thought this was an attempt at trolling, but then I noticed that Mr. Golick is the commenter so therefor I must assume serious intent.

Care to give an answer better than "some book some java dudes wrote 20 years ago said so"?

While I generally agree with SRP, when that single responsibility can be expressed in a single function, I don't see the win with have a class dedicated to it. Smells of pedant OO nonsense.

Is not instantiation etc a cross-cutting concern that violates SRP in this instance?

It has a "Railsier" "Convention over Configuration" type ethos. Certainly more opinionated, if nothing else, where as Backbone is more of an empty canvas & instruments to cover it.

There are technical difference as well, but I think that's less of an issue.

Does Habit List use iCloud to sync it's data across my devices?

    He's not interested in furthering his studies to make more money.

    "The richness is in me, in my heart and in my head, not in my pockets," said Filipaj, who is now an American citizen.

This is a wonderful example of "Working Code Wins". Keep in mind though that often this complexity doesn't scale, for those of you on a team looking to implement similar A/B test code ;)

Way to be scrappy, Patrick.

Obligatory mention of "Inventing on Principle" by Bret Victor (https://vimeo.com/36579366) which explores a lot of similar turf. With Circa though we get to have these things today though, and with C integration to boot. Great work.

do keep us in the loop :)

I'm also a pretty big proponent of distributed teams :)

That said, as others have noted, if you're hiring quality people, there's no reason they can't learn Clojure on the job. Plus if you make an investment in your people they're more likely to be invested in you ;)

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    Will it be open source?

    I'm a firm believer in open source software and open
    source technologies. I can guarantee you that Light Table 
    will be built on top of the technologies that are freely 
    available to us today. As such, I believe it only fair 
    that the core of Light Table be open sourced once it is 
    launched, while some of the plugins may remained closed 
    source. At some level, this is an experiment in how open 
    source and business can mix - it will be educational for 
    us all.

I think this is a moot point, as we've seen time and time again using technologies such as Clojure/OCaml/Haskell/Etc is a boon for hiring great talent, not the other way around.

http://janestreet.com/minsky_weeks-jfp_18.pdf See part 4 "Personnel" for Jane Street's experience hiring OCaml devs.

If you're into this type of thing, I imagine http://throneofjs.com/ would be up your alley as well.

  Speakers:
    Alex MacCaw — Spine.js
    Steve Sanderson — knockout.js
    Dan Webb — Top Secret
    Erich Ocean — Blossom
    Miško Hevery — Angular
    John Bender — jQuery-mobile
    Jeremy Ashkenas — backbone.js
    Yehuda Katz — ember.js
    Tom Dale — ember.js
    Nick Small — batman.js
    Harry Brundage — batman.js

Perhaps a tool similar to [Titanium](http://www.appcelerator.com/products/titanium-desktop-applic...) would suit the needs of this project.

Essentially you write your application in standard html/css/js and are then able to distribute OS-specific applications for all major platforms.

Similar to PhoneGap, but I think the results are a bit better with desktop apps :) (especially something as "simple" as a text editor.

So it's "Hot or Not" for puppies?

Also bear in mind that the community behind Rails is more mature, and a lot more companies have stake in it being an effective solution than do CoffeeScript, not to mention the fact that Yehuda Katz probably has a bit more reach than Michael Ficarra.

... also also a student's cost of living as opposed to a seasoned software engineer's is probably pretty disparate (for better or worse).

Fairly certain that they're playing off of [Comet](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_(programming))

2) Wouldn't http://documentcloud.github.com/backbone/docs/backbone-local... work for local development?

You're correct. That's why the first version was written in Ruby :)

https://github.com/lightness/lightrail would seem to be of interest :)

Does litlet have an official or 3rd party rss feed? A quick search turned up nothing of note.

Did anyone else find this to be skeevy/pervy typical male nerd fantasy bullshit?

Too often Sci-Fi books go down this path as well, taking what could be an otherwise compelling story and turning it into ... this. (Daemon by Daniel Suarez is the first thing that comes to mind)

I should make it a point that frank discussions of sex and human sexuality don't bother me in the least, but drugged-up-sex-power-struggle-bullshit? Mer.

According to their forums, disabling sound (ie: turning the volume all the way down), fixes lag/stutter. In practice that seems to be mostly true. Still find the controls slightly unintuitive (but I imagine with an external mouse things would be better).

Agreed, completely, however there is one difference: When an artist ceases to ship, they starve.

I like this, it's like when they teach you mathematics without _really_ teaching you the 100% correct version because you're not really ready yet. I imagine the approachability of a lot of Haskell material to beginners suffers from being overly correct (which, to be fair, we as developers are trained to be, haskellites doubly so).

Speaking as someone who's brain has been broken by OOP, I found this article quite illuminating and would love to see more of the hardcore haskell/ML/FP guys weigh in.

>> it's an accretion of rewriting tricks

I think you'll find this point of contention won't work against raganwald: https://github.com/raganwald/rewrite_rails

I'd imagine you're unnecessarily polluting the type with unused functionality, no?

(not sure if this is true, perhaps GHC is smart about it).

If nothing else, superfluous derives would seem to distract/obfuscate your intent.