Re: Clojure:Lisp :: LSD:Meditation

2014-06-13 Thread Dave Della Costa
I'm not sure what the problem is here.  I've posted personal blog links
before that were Clojure related; I sincerely thought that it was
potentially useful to the group, and I more or less got responses that
supported that.

That being the case, I'm having a hard time understanding what is so
different about my blog post and Divyansh's; as far as I can tell, this
post is relevant to Clojure, even if it's a bit more...exploratory.  It
has Clojure code examples, it talks about Common Lisp and Python and
metaprogramming.  It's clearly not random spam.

So it seems to me that some folks simply don't like the content; that's
fine, but I think it's a stretch to say that it's not appropriate for
this list.  Or if it is not appropriate, then even relevant blog posts
should never be appropriate, and arguably stuff like, say, epic
ruminations on the nature of literate programming would arguably be even
less appropriate for the list.

DD

(2014/06/13 11:25), Gary Trakhman wrote:
 To be fair, I actually read the thing, but I hoped to see more
 interesting information on LSD, meditation and Clojure than the headline
 would suggest :-).
 
 
 On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 10:01 PM, Atamert Ölçgen mu...@muhuk.com
 mailto:mu...@muhuk.com wrote:
 
 There's also Planet Clojure http://clojure.in/.
 
 @Divyansh
 
 Josh, Hussein and Gary are not the only ones who think this sort of
 traffic building is uncool. By traffic building I mean; sending a
 message with a link that has no valuable information for the group
 members. They are probably just nodding their head and thinking that
 sending another response is not necessary. At least that's what I
 did before I saw your response.
 
 90% of the messages in this group doesn't interest me. That's fine.
 Valuable information for someone else. But I certainly wouldn't want
 everybody to post their blogs here regularly. Because each message
 is a tiny little distraction. I'm willing to pay the price because
 when a really cool library is announced for example, I get a big
 reward. Let's keep the benefit/cost ratio, time-wise 
 attention-wise, high.
 
 
 
 
 On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 10:05 PM, Gary Trakhman
 gary.trakh...@gmail.com mailto:gary.trakh...@gmail.com wrote:
 
 Twitter's a more organic way to do this.  Your followers can
 read it, decide to retweet or not.
 
 
 On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 5:37 PM, Divyansh Prakash
 divyanshprakas...@gmail.com
 mailto:divyanshprakas...@gmail.com wrote:
 
 Sorry if you feel that way. Thought i could share my
 thoughts and start an interesting discussion.
 That is what the group is for.
 You are obviously free to skip anything that doesn't
 interest you. That was the prime reason for the concise title.
 I have no intentions of misleading anyone.
 
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Re: Clojure:Lisp :: LSD:Meditation

2014-06-13 Thread Josh Kamau
If i were to be asked, i would restrict the group to:
1. Any type of question that is related to clojure
2. Any type of announcement on clojure core library
3. Any new library/version
4. Any link to a narration on real life usages (e.g how we did xyz with
clojure) or benchmarks  (generally hard facts )
5. Any link to new book, tutorial, training materials.

This is just my opinion, I dont know the group policy and may be its all up
to me to choose what i want to read and what i dont want to and probably
keep my feelings to myself ;)

Josh


On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 12:34 PM, Dave Della Costa ddellaco...@gmail.com
wrote:

 I'm not sure what the problem is here.  I've posted personal blog links
 before that were Clojure related; I sincerely thought that it was
 potentially useful to the group, and I more or less got responses that
 supported that.

 That being the case, I'm having a hard time understanding what is so
 different about my blog post and Divyansh's; as far as I can tell, this
 post is relevant to Clojure, even if it's a bit more...exploratory.  It
 has Clojure code examples, it talks about Common Lisp and Python and
 metaprogramming.  It's clearly not random spam.

 So it seems to me that some folks simply don't like the content; that's
 fine, but I think it's a stretch to say that it's not appropriate for
 this list.  Or if it is not appropriate, then even relevant blog posts
 should never be appropriate, and arguably stuff like, say, epic
 ruminations on the nature of literate programming would arguably be even
 less appropriate for the list.

 DD

 (2014/06/13 11:25), Gary Trakhman wrote:
  To be fair, I actually read the thing, but I hoped to see more
  interesting information on LSD, meditation and Clojure than the headline
  would suggest :-).
 
 
  On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 10:01 PM, Atamert Ölçgen mu...@muhuk.com
  mailto:mu...@muhuk.com wrote:
 
  There's also Planet Clojure http://clojure.in/.
 
  @Divyansh
 
  Josh, Hussein and Gary are not the only ones who think this sort of
  traffic building is uncool. By traffic building I mean; sending a
  message with a link that has no valuable information for the group
  members. They are probably just nodding their head and thinking that
  sending another response is not necessary. At least that's what I
  did before I saw your response.
 
  90% of the messages in this group doesn't interest me. That's fine.
  Valuable information for someone else. But I certainly wouldn't want
  everybody to post their blogs here regularly. Because each message
  is a tiny little distraction. I'm willing to pay the price because
  when a really cool library is announced for example, I get a big
  reward. Let's keep the benefit/cost ratio, time-wise 
  attention-wise, high.
 
 
 
 
  On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 10:05 PM, Gary Trakhman
  gary.trakh...@gmail.com mailto:gary.trakh...@gmail.com wrote:
 
  Twitter's a more organic way to do this.  Your followers can
  read it, decide to retweet or not.
 
 
  On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 5:37 PM, Divyansh Prakash
  divyanshprakas...@gmail.com
  mailto:divyanshprakas...@gmail.com wrote:
 
  Sorry if you feel that way. Thought i could share my
  thoughts and start an interesting discussion.
  That is what the group is for.
  You are obviously free to skip anything that doesn't
  interest you. That was the prime reason for the concise
 title.
  I have no intentions of misleading anyone.
 
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Re: Clojure:Lisp :: LSD:Meditation

2014-06-13 Thread Atamert Ölçgen
On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 9:34 AM, Dave Della Costa ddellaco...@gmail.com
wrote:

 So it seems to me that some folks simply don't like the content;


It's not because we don't like the content. I didn't even read the content.

You haven't made a post and linked to your blog since February, right? (I
just searched my local archives)

Divyansh has posted 3 links in the last 3 months.

 I have seen another post by Gijs. He links to his blog. But he's also
announcing an open source project. I see no problems with that. I even
posted it to hacker news.

I'm not a moderator or anything, just simply explaining my point of view -
as a member of the group.

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Re: Clojure:Lisp :: LSD:Meditation

2014-06-13 Thread Dave Della Costa
 Divyansh has posted 3 links in the last 3 months.

So?

 It's not because we don't like the content. I didn't even read the
 content.

 I have seen another post by Gijs. He links to his blog. But he's also
 announcing an open source project. I see no problems with that. I even
 posted it to hacker news.

So, *is* it about the content or not?  I'm still not understanding what
line Divyansh's post is crossing.


(2014/06/13 18:51), Atamert Ölçgen wrote:
 
 On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 9:34 AM, Dave Della Costa ddellaco...@gmail.com
 mailto:ddellaco...@gmail.com wrote:
 
 So it seems to me that some folks simply don't like the content; 
 
 
 It's not because we don't like the content. I didn't even read the content.
 
 You haven't made a post and linked to your blog since February, right?
 (I just searched my local archives)
 
 Divyansh has posted 3 links in the last 3 months.
 
 I have seen another post by Gijs. He links to his blog. But he's also
 announcing an open source project. I see no problems with that. I even
 posted it to hacker news.
 
 I'm not a moderator or anything, just simply explaining my point of view
 - as a member of the group.
 
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Re: Clojure:Lisp :: LSD:Meditation

2014-06-13 Thread Dave Della Costa
You raise a good point, which is that I don't know what the group policy
is or where it's posted.  I just see this in the header on the google
groups page:

Welcome to the Clojure mailing list. Please note that posts by new
members are moderated to prevent spam.

Anyone know better than this?

(2014/06/13 18:50), Josh Kamau wrote:
 If i were to be asked, i would restrict the group to: 
 1. Any type of question that is related to clojure 
 2. Any type of announcement on clojure core library
 3. Any new library/version 
 4. Any link to a narration on real life usages (e.g how we did xyz with
 clojure) or benchmarks  (generally hard facts )
 5. Any link to new book, tutorial, training materials. 
 
 This is just my opinion, I dont know the group policy and may be its all
 up to me to choose what i want to read and what i dont want to and
 probably keep my feelings to myself ;) 
 
 Josh
 
 
 On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 12:34 PM, Dave Della Costa
 ddellaco...@gmail.com mailto:ddellaco...@gmail.com wrote:
 
 I'm not sure what the problem is here.  I've posted personal blog links
 before that were Clojure related; I sincerely thought that it was
 potentially useful to the group, and I more or less got responses that
 supported that.
 
 That being the case, I'm having a hard time understanding what is so
 different about my blog post and Divyansh's; as far as I can tell, this
 post is relevant to Clojure, even if it's a bit more...exploratory.  It
 has Clojure code examples, it talks about Common Lisp and Python and
 metaprogramming.  It's clearly not random spam.
 
 So it seems to me that some folks simply don't like the content; that's
 fine, but I think it's a stretch to say that it's not appropriate for
 this list.  Or if it is not appropriate, then even relevant blog posts
 should never be appropriate, and arguably stuff like, say, epic
 ruminations on the nature of literate programming would arguably be even
 less appropriate for the list.
 
 DD
 
 (2014/06/13 11:25), Gary Trakhman wrote:
  To be fair, I actually read the thing, but I hoped to see more
  interesting information on LSD, meditation and Clojure than the
 headline
  would suggest :-).
 
 
  On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 10:01 PM, Atamert Ölçgen mu...@muhuk.com
 mailto:mu...@muhuk.com
  mailto:mu...@muhuk.com mailto:mu...@muhuk.com wrote:
 
  There's also Planet Clojure http://clojure.in/.
 
  @Divyansh
 
  Josh, Hussein and Gary are not the only ones who think this
 sort of
  traffic building is uncool. By traffic building I mean; sending a
  message with a link that has no valuable information for the group
  members. They are probably just nodding their head and
 thinking that
  sending another response is not necessary. At least that's what I
  did before I saw your response.
 
  90% of the messages in this group doesn't interest me. That's
 fine.
  Valuable information for someone else. But I certainly
 wouldn't want
  everybody to post their blogs here regularly. Because each message
  is a tiny little distraction. I'm willing to pay the price because
  when a really cool library is announced for example, I get a big
  reward. Let's keep the benefit/cost ratio, time-wise 
  attention-wise, high.
 
 
 
 
  On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 10:05 PM, Gary Trakhman
  gary.trakh...@gmail.com mailto:gary.trakh...@gmail.com
 mailto:gary.trakh...@gmail.com mailto:gary.trakh...@gmail.com
 wrote:
 
  Twitter's a more organic way to do this.  Your followers can
  read it, decide to retweet or not.
 
 
  On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 5:37 PM, Divyansh Prakash
  divyanshprakas...@gmail.com
 mailto:divyanshprakas...@gmail.com
  mailto:divyanshprakas...@gmail.com
 mailto:divyanshprakas...@gmail.com wrote:
 
  Sorry if you feel that way. Thought i could share my
  thoughts and start an interesting discussion.
  That is what the group is for.
  You are obviously free to skip anything that doesn't
  interest you. That was the prime reason for the
 concise title.
  I have no intentions of misleading anyone.
 
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Re: Clojure:Lisp :: LSD:Meditation

2014-06-13 Thread Atamert Ölçgen
On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 10:03 AM, Dave Della Costa ddellaco...@gmail.com
wrote:

  Divyansh has posted 3 links in the last 3 months.

 So?

  It's not because we don't like the content. I didn't even read the
  content.

  I have seen another post by Gijs. He links to his blog. But he's also
  announcing an open source project. I see no problems with that. I even
  posted it to hacker news.

 So, *is* it about the content or not?  I'm still not understanding what
 line Divyansh's post is crossing.


It's not the content in his website, it's the content posted to the mailing
list.

To further expand on this; I didn't participate in the literate programming
thread, but I think it belongs here. The kind of post we're discussing here
is a purely promotional kind. Please scroll and read the OP again.






 (2014/06/13 18:51), Atamert Ölçgen wrote:
 
  On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 9:34 AM, Dave Della Costa ddellaco...@gmail.com
  mailto:ddellaco...@gmail.com wrote:
 
  So it seems to me that some folks simply don't like the content;
 
 
  It's not because we don't like the content. I didn't even read the
 content.
 
  You haven't made a post and linked to your blog since February, right?
  (I just searched my local archives)
 
  Divyansh has posted 3 links in the last 3 months.
 
  I have seen another post by Gijs. He links to his blog. But he's also
  announcing an open source project. I see no problems with that. I even
  posted it to hacker news.
 
  I'm not a moderator or anything, just simply explaining my point of view
  - as a member of the group.
 
  --
  Kind Regards,
  Atamert Ölçgen
 
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Re: Clojure:Lisp :: LSD:Meditation

2014-06-13 Thread Jonas
I found this post from 2011 which probably is still 
relevant: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/clojure/t0pGIuoyB7I/RQtuuAOhes8J

On Friday, June 13, 2014 1:05:47 PM UTC+3, David Della Costa wrote:

 You raise a good point, which is that I don't know what the group policy 
 is or where it's posted.  I just see this in the header on the google 
 groups page: 

 Welcome to the Clojure mailing list. Please note that posts by new 
 members are moderated to prevent spam. 

 Anyone know better than this? 

 (2014/06/13 18:50), Josh Kamau wrote: 
  If i were to be asked, i would restrict the group to: 
  1. Any type of question that is related to clojure 
  2. Any type of announcement on clojure core library 
  3. Any new library/version 
  4. Any link to a narration on real life usages (e.g how we did xyz with 
  clojure) or benchmarks  (generally hard facts ) 
  5. Any link to new book, tutorial, training materials. 
  
  This is just my opinion, I dont know the group policy and may be its all 
  up to me to choose what i want to read and what i dont want to and 
  probably keep my feelings to myself ;) 
  
  Josh 
  
  
  On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 12:34 PM, Dave Della Costa 
  ddell...@gmail.com javascript: mailto:ddell...@gmail.com 
 javascript: wrote: 
  
  I'm not sure what the problem is here.  I've posted personal blog 
 links 
  before that were Clojure related; I sincerely thought that it was 
  potentially useful to the group, and I more or less got responses 
 that 
  supported that. 
  
  That being the case, I'm having a hard time understanding what is so 
  different about my blog post and Divyansh's; as far as I can tell, 
 this 
  post is relevant to Clojure, even if it's a bit more...exploratory. 
  It 
  has Clojure code examples, it talks about Common Lisp and Python and 
  metaprogramming.  It's clearly not random spam. 
  
  So it seems to me that some folks simply don't like the content; 
 that's 
  fine, but I think it's a stretch to say that it's not appropriate 
 for 
  this list.  Or if it is not appropriate, then even relevant blog 
 posts 
  should never be appropriate, and arguably stuff like, say, epic 
  ruminations on the nature of literate programming would arguably be 
 even 
  less appropriate for the list. 
  
  DD 
  
  (2014/06/13 11:25), Gary Trakhman wrote: 
   To be fair, I actually read the thing, but I hoped to see more 
   interesting information on LSD, meditation and Clojure than the 
  headline 
   would suggest :-). 
   
   
   On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 10:01 PM, Atamert Ölçgen mu...@muhuk.com 
 javascript: 
  mailto:mu...@muhuk.com javascript: 
   mailto:mu...@muhuk.com javascript: mailto:mu...@muhuk.com 
 javascript: wrote: 
   
   There's also Planet Clojure http://clojure.in/. 
   
   @Divyansh 
   
   Josh, Hussein and Gary are not the only ones who think this 
  sort of 
   traffic building is uncool. By traffic building I mean; 
 sending a 
   message with a link that has no valuable information for the 
 group 
   members. They are probably just nodding their head and 
  thinking that 
   sending another response is not necessary. At least that's 
 what I 
   did before I saw your response. 
   
   90% of the messages in this group doesn't interest me. That's 
  fine. 
   Valuable information for someone else. But I certainly 
  wouldn't want 
   everybody to post their blogs here regularly. Because each 
 message 
   is a tiny little distraction. I'm willing to pay the price 
 because 
   when a really cool library is announced for example, I get a 
 big 
   reward. Let's keep the benefit/cost ratio, time-wise  
   attention-wise, high. 
   
   
   
   
   On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 10:05 PM, Gary Trakhman 
   gary.t...@gmail.com javascript: mailto:gary.t...@gmail.com 
 javascript: 
  mailto:gary.t...@gmail.com javascript: mailto:
 gary.t...@gmail.com javascript: 
  wrote: 
   
   Twitter's a more organic way to do this.  Your followers 
 can 
   read it, decide to retweet or not. 
   
   
   On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 5:37 PM, Divyansh Prakash 
   divyansh...@gmail.com javascript: 
  mailto:divyansh...@gmail.com javascript: 
   mailto:divyansh...@gmail.com javascript: 
  mailto:divyansh...@gmail.com javascript: wrote: 
   
   Sorry if you feel that way. Thought i could share my 
   thoughts and start an interesting discussion. 
   That is what the group is for. 
   You are obviously free to skip anything that doesn't 
   interest you. That was the prime reason for the 
  concise title. 
   I 

Re: Clojure:Lisp :: LSD:Meditation

2014-06-13 Thread Bob Hutchison

On Jun 13, 2014, at 6:58 AM, Jonas jonas.enl...@gmail.com wrote:

 I found this post from 2011 which probably is still relevant: 
 https://groups.google.com/d/msg/clojure/t0pGIuoyB7I/RQtuuAOhes8J

And just for fun, from that thread... Rich Hickey wrote:

There will be times, yes, when the most considerate thing will be to write 
opinions in a blog post, perhaps putting only a pointer here and following up 
on the blog.


 
 On Friday, June 13, 2014 1:05:47 PM UTC+3, David Della Costa wrote:
 You raise a good point, which is that I don't know what the group policy 
 is or where it's posted.  I just see this in the header on the google 
 groups page: 
 
 Welcome to the Clojure mailing list. Please note that posts by new 
 members are moderated to prevent spam. 
 
 Anyone know better than this? 
 
 (2014/06/13 18:50), Josh Kamau wrote: 
  If i were to be asked, i would restrict the group to: 
  1. Any type of question that is related to clojure 
  2. Any type of announcement on clojure core library 
  3. Any new library/version 
  4. Any link to a narration on real life usages (e.g how we did xyz with 
  clojure) or benchmarks  (generally hard facts ) 
  5. Any link to new book, tutorial, training materials. 
  
  This is just my opinion, I dont know the group policy and may be its all 
  up to me to choose what i want to read and what i dont want to and 
  probably keep my feelings to myself ;) 
  
  Josh 
  
  
  On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 12:34 PM, Dave Della Costa 
  ddell...@gmail.com mailto:ddell...@gmail.com wrote: 
  
  I'm not sure what the problem is here.  I've posted personal blog links 
  before that were Clojure related; I sincerely thought that it was 
  potentially useful to the group, and I more or less got responses that 
  supported that. 
  
  That being the case, I'm having a hard time understanding what is so 
  different about my blog post and Divyansh's; as far as I can tell, this 
  post is relevant to Clojure, even if it's a bit more...exploratory.  It 
  has Clojure code examples, it talks about Common Lisp and Python and 
  metaprogramming.  It's clearly not random spam. 
  
  So it seems to me that some folks simply don't like the content; that's 
  fine, but I think it's a stretch to say that it's not appropriate for 
  this list.  Or if it is not appropriate, then even relevant blog posts 
  should never be appropriate, and arguably stuff like, say, epic 
  ruminations on the nature of literate programming would arguably be 
  even 
  less appropriate for the list. 
  
  DD 
  
  (2014/06/13 11:25), Gary Trakhman wrote: 
   To be fair, I actually read the thing, but I hoped to see more 
   interesting information on LSD, meditation and Clojure than the 
  headline 
   would suggest :-). 
   
   
   On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 10:01 PM, Atamert Ölçgen mu...@muhuk.com 
  mailto:mu...@muhuk.com 
   mailto:mu...@muhuk.com mailto:mu...@muhuk.com wrote: 
   
   There's also Planet Clojure http://clojure.in/. 
   
   @Divyansh 
   
   Josh, Hussein and Gary are not the only ones who think this 
  sort of 
   traffic building is uncool. By traffic building I mean; sending a 
   message with a link that has no valuable information for the 
  group 
   members. They are probably just nodding their head and 
  thinking that 
   sending another response is not necessary. At least that's what I 
   did before I saw your response. 
   
   90% of the messages in this group doesn't interest me. That's 
  fine. 
   Valuable information for someone else. But I certainly 
  wouldn't want 
   everybody to post their blogs here regularly. Because each 
  message 
   is a tiny little distraction. I'm willing to pay the price 
  because 
   when a really cool library is announced for example, I get a big 
   reward. Let's keep the benefit/cost ratio, time-wise  
   attention-wise, high. 
   
   
   
   
   On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 10:05 PM, Gary Trakhman 
   gary.t...@gmail.com mailto:gary.t...@gmail.com 
  mailto:gary.t...@gmail.com mailto:gary.t...@gmail.com 
  wrote: 
   
   Twitter's a more organic way to do this.  Your followers can 
   read it, decide to retweet or not. 
   
   
   On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 5:37 PM, Divyansh Prakash 
   divyansh...@gmail.com 
  mailto:divyansh...@gmail.com 
   mailto:divyansh...@gmail.com 
  mailto:divyansh...@gmail.com wrote: 
   
   Sorry if you feel that way. Thought i could share my 
   thoughts and start an interesting discussion. 
   That is what the group is for. 
   You are obviously free to skip anything that doesn't 

Re: Clojure:Lisp :: LSD:Meditation

2014-06-12 Thread Divyansh Prakash
(and rant about other stuff I don't know a whole lot about)

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Re: Clojure:Lisp :: LSD:Meditation

2014-06-12 Thread Josh Kamau
I feel USED when you use the mailing list to drive traffic to your blog.


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 (and rant about other stuff I don't know a whole lot about)

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Re: Clojure:Lisp :: LSD:Meditation

2014-06-12 Thread Hussein B.
Thanks. Now, I have a clue how to skip some posts here.

On Thursday, June 12, 2014 3:41:13 PM UTC+2, Divyansh Prakash wrote:

 I compare Clojure to acid in this 
 http://pizzaforthought.blogspot.in/2014/06/clojurelisp-lsdmeditation.html 
 rant.


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Re: Clojure:Lisp :: LSD:Meditation

2014-06-12 Thread Divyansh Prakash
Sorry if you feel that way. Thought i could share my thoughts and start an 
interesting discussion.
That is what the group is for.
You are obviously free to skip anything that doesn't interest you. That was the 
prime reason for the concise title.
I have no intentions of misleading anyone.

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Re: Clojure:Lisp :: LSD:Meditation

2014-06-12 Thread Gary Trakhman
Twitter's a more organic way to do this.  Your followers can read it,
decide to retweet or not.


On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 5:37 PM, Divyansh Prakash 
divyanshprakas...@gmail.com wrote:

 Sorry if you feel that way. Thought i could share my thoughts and start an
 interesting discussion.
 That is what the group is for.
 You are obviously free to skip anything that doesn't interest you. That
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Re: Clojure:Lisp :: LSD:Meditation

2014-06-12 Thread Atamert Ölçgen
There's also Planet Clojure http://clojure.in/.

@Divyansh

Josh, Hussein and Gary are not the only ones who think this sort of traffic
building is uncool. By traffic building I mean; sending a message with a
link that has no valuable information for the group members. They are
probably just nodding their head and thinking that sending another response
is not necessary. At least that's what I did before I saw your response.

90% of the messages in this group doesn't interest me. That's fine.
Valuable information for someone else. But I certainly wouldn't want
everybody to post their blogs here regularly. Because each message is a
tiny little distraction. I'm willing to pay the price because when a really
cool library is announced for example, I get a big reward. Let's keep the
benefit/cost ratio, time-wise  attention-wise, high.




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wrote:

 Twitter's a more organic way to do this.  Your followers can read it,
 decide to retweet or not.


 On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 5:37 PM, Divyansh Prakash 
 divyanshprakas...@gmail.com wrote:

 Sorry if you feel that way. Thought i could share my thoughts and start
 an interesting discussion.
 That is what the group is for.
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Re: Clojure:Lisp :: LSD:Meditation

2014-06-12 Thread Gary Trakhman
To be fair, I actually read the thing, but I hoped to see more interesting
information on LSD, meditation and Clojure than the headline would suggest
:-).


On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 10:01 PM, Atamert Ölçgen mu...@muhuk.com wrote:

 There's also Planet Clojure http://clojure.in/.

 @Divyansh

 Josh, Hussein and Gary are not the only ones who think this sort of
 traffic building is uncool. By traffic building I mean; sending a message
 with a link that has no valuable information for the group members. They
 are probably just nodding their head and thinking that sending another
 response is not necessary. At least that's what I did before I saw your
 response.

 90% of the messages in this group doesn't interest me. That's fine.
 Valuable information for someone else. But I certainly wouldn't want
 everybody to post their blogs here regularly. Because each message is a
 tiny little distraction. I'm willing to pay the price because when a really
 cool library is announced for example, I get a big reward. Let's keep the
 benefit/cost ratio, time-wise  attention-wise, high.




 On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 10:05 PM, Gary Trakhman gary.trakh...@gmail.com
 wrote:

 Twitter's a more organic way to do this.  Your followers can read it,
 decide to retweet or not.


 On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 5:37 PM, Divyansh Prakash 
 divyanshprakas...@gmail.com wrote:

 Sorry if you feel that way. Thought i could share my thoughts and start
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 That is what the group is for.
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