Re: [ANN] Specter 0.9.2

2016-01-29 Thread Jason Lewis
Wow, I hadn't seen this lib before, it really *is* the missing piece in a lot of ways. One question, are you considering migrating from cljx to cljc for cross-compiling? We've been trying to eliminate cljx dependencies in favor of cljc, and I'd be happy to help with the effort if it's on the roadm

Re: Reality check: EC2 + Ubuntu + Atom (from GitHub) + Clojure?

2015-08-02 Thread Jason Lewis
IntelliJ CE (the free version) has served me well for Java and (playing with) Cursive for Clojure. I can't speak to Python. For Clojure nothing beats emacs + CIDER, and emacs is a fine choice for Python. I generally stick to IntelliJ for Java, but I do know a few people who use emacs for Java and

Re: Clojars Private/Commercial Repos

2015-07-01 Thread Jason Lewis
quite a few open >> issues[3] that are ready for discussion/patches. >> >> - Toby >> >> [1]: >> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/clojars-maintainers/uAVJVwRAnSU >> [2]: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/clojure/i2YqnCkeemM/0nOJaK8U91EJ >> [3]: >>

Re: Clojars Private/Commercial Repos

2015-06-30 Thread Jason Lewis
I think my company would be willing to pay a reasonable fee for private Clojars repos, on something like the Github model? Not sure what the lein overhead would be, I know grabbing Datomic Pro from non-Clojars with creds is a motherf@#@#ing pain in the ass at times (but only in comparison to the co

Re: Clojure on AWS Lambda?

2015-06-15 Thread Jason Lewis
I'm actually really curious about this as well, I've been wanting to experiment with AWS Lambda but the slow start-up of the Clojure runtime on the JVM has made me apprehensive... is there some mitigation of this on the Lambda service? On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 4:07 PM Kyle Sexton wrote: > Curious

Re: [new] GNU emacs settings for clojure ?

2015-06-14 Thread Jason Lewis
M-x package-install cider should give you a better time. One is never "stuck" with emacs; one is privileged to enjoy it. On Sun, Jun 14, 2015, 18:01 Xavier wrote: > Hello, > > I am new to clojure (which I really appreciate). I am stuck with GNU > emacs for all the stuff I do and I cannot find s

Re: Clojure for Desktop UI Design Application

2015-01-13 Thread Jason Lewis
If you're looking for functional reactive programming in Clojure (rather than going web-based), there's a great library for Clojure bindings to RxJava: https://github.com/ReactiveX/RxClojure Jason Lewis vox 410.428.0253 twitter @canweriotnow blog http://decomplecting.org els

Re: [ClojureScript] Re: [ANN] freactive - high performance, pure Clojurescript, declarative DOM library

2014-11-23 Thread Jason Lewis
Furthermore (it occurs to me) cesium is used to drive atomic clocks... so if you're using an atom to maintain state... even more relevance. Relevance? Wait, it's Cognitect now :) Jason Lewis vox 410.428.0253 twitter @canweriotnow blog http://decomplecting.org else http:

Re: How to go about 'proving' why dynamically typed languages are better.

2013-10-07 Thread Jason Lewis
I think what you're banging your head against is the tension between computer science qua pure science, versus software engineering qua engineering practice. This tension isn't unique to our field; mathematicians look down on theoretical physicists, who look down on practical physicists, who lo

Re: Clojure for the Brave and True, an online book for beginners

2013-09-03 Thread Jason Lewis
+1 for outsourcing editor infos. Is this on Github? I might be inclined to open a pull request for Vim or LightTable. On Sep 3, 2013 8:42 PM, "Greg" wrote: > I think it could benefit from more posts on using Clojure with IDE/Editor > ___. > > Perhaps outsource some of that with links to existing

Re: Any generic DB libs?

2013-05-27 Thread Jason Lewis
Those are both object/relational mapping libs, so the paradigm is a little different, but Korma is probably what you're looking for: http://sqlkorma.com Jason On May 27, 2013 12:18 PM, "sdegutis" wrote: > > Does Clojure have anything like Ruby's Datamapper or ActiveRecord (besides clj-record)? >

Re: ClojureWerkz now accepts donations

2013-04-17 Thread Jason Lewis
Ah... I missed the "why only these limited options" section. Sorry! Jason Lewis Email jasonlewi...@gmail.com Twitter@canweriotnow <http://twitter.com/canweriotnow> Blog http://decomplecting.org About http://about.me/jason.lewis On Wed, A

Re: ClojureWerkz now accepts donations

2013-04-17 Thread Jason Lewis
What about Gittip? It'd be easier for me to just pass some of my donations along to you! On Apr 17, 2013 1:11 PM, "Michael Klishin" wrote: > On behalf of the ClojureWerkz [1] team I'm happy to announced that > ClojureWerkz now > accepts donations. More at > http://blog.clojurewerkz.org/blog/2013/

Re: Sweet-expressions

2013-03-25 Thread Jason Lewis
N Jason Lewis Email jasonlewi...@gmail.com Twitter@canweriotnow <http://twitter.com/canweriotnow> Blog http://decomplecting.org About http://about.me/jason.lewis On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 6:44 PM, Kris Jenkins wrote: &

Re: Trying to understand Java better to understand Clojure better

2013-03-13 Thread Jason Lewis
-Clojure)... Ok, rambling a bit here... but I love the fact that Clojure lets me leverage the entire Java stdlib, I just wish I didn;t have to switch gears and think about how to proxy that AbstractSingletonFactoryFactoryInterfaceFactory to write the Lisp-y code I wanted to in the first plac

Re: What causes the text that I print to the terminal to become mangled garbage?

2013-03-12 Thread Jason Lewis
tl;dr concurrency is hard Jason Lewis Email jasonlewi...@gmail.com Twitter@canweriotnow <http://twitter.com/canweriotnow> Blog http://decomplecting.org About http://about.me/jason.lewis On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 11:27 PM, Michael Klishin < micha

Re: Forcing evaluation of args to a macro?

2013-02-15 Thread Jason Lewis
Thanks for the info - The macro in question was in a library I was using... I just ended up writing a function to build a data structure that did exactly what I needed. First hand lesson that data structures > functions > macros Thanks, Jason Lewis Email jasonlewi...@gma

Re: Why is this so difficult?

2013-02-15 Thread Jason Lewis
I don't want to sound like a curmudgeon, but all I can say is people who complain about lein have never written a Makefile. Jason Lewis Email jasonlewi...@gmail.com Twitter@canweriotnow <http://twitter.com/canweriotnow> Blog http://decomplecting

Forcing evaluation of args to a macro?

2013-02-15 Thread Jason Lewis
ut is munged. I also tried passing the fn call that I was using to build the vector, with no better results. Is there any way to force evaluation so the macro 'sees' the vector it expects instead of trying to work on the symbol or form that I pass it? Thanks, Jason Lewis Email

Re: Clojure - Python Style suggestion

2013-02-09 Thread Jason Lewis
ITT: emacs users complaining about modifier keys. Sorry, but as a Vim guy, I couldn't help laughing. On Feb 9, 2013 6:46 PM, "Gregory Graham" wrote: > > I like the parentheses better. My only complaint is that I have to press >>> the shift key to type them. >>> >> >> You can always remap your ke

Re: Clojure - Python Style suggestion

2013-02-08 Thread Jason Lewis
Unless the function is threaded (->), the function call is always in the car position in a list, the args are the cdr elements. On Feb 8, 2013 5:41 AM, "Max Gonzih" wrote: > I can't understand how to distinguish where is function call and where > is var in function arguments. Should it be indent

Re: Clojure - Python Style suggestion

2013-02-07 Thread Jason Lewis
`quote` is a feature, not a bug. Its not just for distinguishing between lists and function calls, its for deferring evaluation. Its also been part of Lisp since the beginning... IIRC, its in McCarthy's paper that defined the first lisp. On Feb 4, 2013 7:58 PM, "Dave Sann" wrote: > The syntax do

Re: Clojure - Python Style suggestion

2013-02-04 Thread Jason Lewis
Significant white space is the most horrifying development in programming languages in the last 20 years. Please kill this thread. On Feb 4, 2013 5:25 PM, "Armando Blancas" wrote: > What do you think? > > > I think, go right ahead and give it to them. Worst that could happen is > you gain insight

Re: iOS and Windows RT support?

2013-01-22 Thread Jason Lewis
iOS is out of the question at this time, but I could be wrong. Jason Lewis Email jasonlewi...@gmail.com Twitter@canweriotnow <http://twitter.com/canweriotnow> Blog http://decomplecting.org About http://about.me/jason.lewis On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 12

Re: [ANN] Schejulure 0.1.1

2013-01-18 Thread Jason Lewis
Adam, This looks great. I was building a couple of applications that run periodic tasks/services on top of quartzite, but I'll definitely play with this. Much nicer scheduling syntax, and the lack of a single stateful scheduler feels much more Clojurian (and cleaner, too). Thanks! Jason

Re: Wildcards in Leiningen Dependencies Versions

2012-06-18 Thread Jason Lewis
One thing I would like to see is something like the tiddle-wakka in Ruby Gemfiles, ie, gem 'foo', '~> 1.2.3' would match 1.2.x where x > 3, and so on for the most precise specified version number (major, minor, patch) It's super effective. On Jun 18, 2012 8:32 PM, "Phil Hagelberg" wrote: > O

Re: Clojure Sticker

2012-06-14 Thread Jason Lewis
I, for one, would be happy to collaborate on an open-source Clojure ecommerce app, if it meant Rich would sell us stickers sooner. (only half joking) Jason On Jun 14, 2012 5:33 PM, "Bruce Durling" wrote: > Rich, > > On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 7:52 PM, Rich Hickey wrote: > > No, you are not allowe

Re: Function minimizer a la fminunc

2012-06-10 Thread Jason Lewis
David - You aren't taking the Stanford/Coursera ML class by any chance, are you? I was just starting to look into porting some of that stuff over from Octave to Clojure. Jason Lewis On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 8:24 AM, Lachlan wrote: > maybe http://commons.apache.org/math/apidocs/in

Re: Lambda: A lniux distro for clojurists

2012-05-28 Thread Jason Lewis
+1 for lubuntu as a base distro. I just installed it at work and had my Ruby and Clojure env's up and usable in <15 min. On May 25, 2012 4:29 PM, "Jake Johnson" wrote: > I like this idea a lot. My suggestions would be to base it on something > like Lubuntu. I have Ubuntu installed as dual-boot, b

Re: Can Clojure be as readable as Python or Ruby ?

2012-03-09 Thread Jason Lewis
This has been a fascinating discussion, thanks to everyone involved. I do kind of feel like complaining about indentation in Clojure is like complaining that Ruby has too many parentheses ( shut up, they're optional!). I still feel like a big part of 'readability' comes down to personal preferenc