At least 2 of the people on this mailing list read Hacker News. One thing that really annoys me is the "Link Expired" message. If you wait more than a minute or two on a page, the NEXT button will fail to get the next news item.
It seems to me that the Hacker News people need an education in using immutable data structures and a lesson or two in Hickey's notion of state and time. If Hacker News kept their news chains as immutable data structures they could update the pages without expiring links. You get a fresh head of the pages but I'm 3 pages further along on an "old" path yet we're both walking the same immutable structure. This is painfully obvious to a Clojure user like myself. Does anyone know anyone associated with Hacker News? Can we clue them into immutable data structures? Better yet, does ClojureScript fully support a method of walking immutable host data structures so they could code the pages with ClojureScript? That would be a very visible win in a widespread community. How would Datomic play in this game? Would the global immutable data structure living in Datomic? Or would you simply architect multiple machines that push/pull git-like updates among themselves? A clone of Hacker News in Clojure would be a good GSOC project as it is well defined and small enough for a single person effort. Tim Daly -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
