Re: Downloadable Clojure mp3s

2010-12-15 Thread Alec Battles
I use audio in much the same way. On the other hand, I hardly listen to music. I have nothing to contribute, but would be interested in seeing what people end up posting. I suppose extracting the audio track from a video lecture is in most cases a pretty good idea... (after all, if Feynman were al

Re: Posted the Bowling Game Kata in Clojure w/ Video. Thoughts welcome. EOM

2010-12-12 Thread Alec Battles
> Because posting the link would make some modicum of sense… > > http://blog.twonegatives.com/post/2168030248/kata > > ^_^ Excellent blog post. I have yet to read Dave Thomas's book, though it's very high on my list. One note: As a fairly seasoned amateur of pretty much anything East Asian I obj

Re: Lisp history

2010-12-10 Thread Alec Battles
>  For those who were not around when the Common Lisp > standard was being debated you might find this interesting: > > http://lisp.geek.nz/weekly-repl/ > > Common Lisp Standardization: The good, the bad, and the ugly > by Peter Seibel Thanks for sharing this. Anyone whose name pulls up a profile

Re: Moderately off-topic: installing emacs on OSX

2010-12-10 Thread Alec Battles
> I don't use OS X so I can't comment on such a consensus, but while I > appreciate the sentiment, it's actually harmful to some degree to have > lots of blog posts scattered around everywhere that all have slightly > different advice, especially since that advice usually becomes > outdated within

Re: Google AI winner uses lisp

2010-12-10 Thread Alec Battles
> On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 8:53 PM, Alec Battles wrote: >> I'm sure a few people have read this news already. It's been up for a >> week, though strangely ZDnet -- which, on principle, I refuse to link >> to > > Why? Because of the website's close ties t

Google AI winner uses lisp

2010-12-09 Thread Alec Battles
I'm sure a few people have read this news already. It's been up for a week, though strangely ZDnet -- which, on principle, I refuse to link to -- is one of the only places to write it up. http://pr-usa.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=560484&Itemid= Nice news to read before b

Re: Moderately off-topic: installing emacs on OSX

2010-12-09 Thread Alec Battles
> On Dec 6, 9:16 pm, Phil Hagelberg wrote: >> On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 9:00 PM, javajosh wrote: >> > Sorry for asking here, but I think it's at least a little relevant to >> > Clojure since I for one wouldn't be installing emacs if it wasn't for >> > Clojure and Slime. Getting prompts about what th

Re: Wolfram: 100 years since Principia Mathematica

2010-12-03 Thread Alec Battles
> He may have some interesting points but... > > Anyone who makes grandiose claims and can't bother to give credit to > the people who have helped them along the way deserves to be ignored. My feelings exactly. His perception of himself seems self-aggrandizing as well. Why is John Carmack the onl

Re: Wolfram: 100 years since Principia Mathematica

2010-12-01 Thread Alec Battles
> I thought his blog had some interesting points.  I enjoyed reading it.  Do I > wish Mathematica was more affordable and/or open source?  Yes.  So what. > That doesn't make Wolfram a lunatic or a fraud. Do you recall me saying that? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the

Re: Wolfram: 100 years since Principia Mathematica

2010-11-27 Thread Alec Battles
> Thought some Clojure folk might enjoy this: > > http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2010/11/100-years-since-principia-mathematica/ Though I don't use Clojure (I follow this list out of curiosity), I have a hard time imagining why anything Wolfram writes is interesting, and furthermore why any a user

Re: could clojure be androids joker card

2010-11-09 Thread Alec Battles
Andriod is not Clojure's joker card, Clojure is Andriod's joker card. --DragonCat -- 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