Re: Clojure Conj extracurricular activities spreadsheet

2011-11-08 Thread Nick Brown
Drinks + Clojure sounds like a good idea for me. What time will it be? On Nov 5, 10:54 pm, Phil Hagelberg wrote: > On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 6:16 PM, Michael Fogus wrote: > >> Any thoughts about when / where these events can take place? > > > At this point it would be great if a Conj-planning heav

Re: Clojure Conj extracurricular activities spreadsheet

2011-11-04 Thread Nick Brown
I'm interested in the core.logic and the web and clojure sessions. On Oct 25, 12:11 pm, Fogus wrote: > All, > > We talked about the possibility of getting some ideas about > extracurricular activities during the Conj days (and possibly training > days).  I've created a spreadsheet at the link bel

Re: Using Clojure to Generate Java Source?

2011-09-29 Thread Nick Brown
It may be easier to convince him by explaining how much time it is going to cost to do conversion. Abstract computer science terminology isn't always that convincing to managers, but explaining how much time will be wasted is. On Sep 29, 6:56 pm, Nicolas wrote: > Best would be to act as professi

Re: Anyone on Google+ yet?

2011-07-14 Thread Nick Brown
It looks to me like it will have decent potential once all Google's services get integrated it in. So you can post stories from Google News and Google Reader, share Google Docs with a circle, create a circle based on a Google Group and all its members automatically get added... Oh well, until then

Re: Clojure for large programs, was Re: Please stand firm against Steve Yegge's "yes language" push

2011-07-02 Thread Nick Brown
"Many managers, understandably, go with a technology with heavy library support and lots of developers. The common critique that Lisp isn't practical in industry, comes from that position. But Clojure, sitting atop the JVM, doesn't have that problem. " The library part, ok, sure (but if I'm writin

Re: hammock driven development...

2011-06-11 Thread Nick Brown
esult in fewer mosquito bites, especially in North Carolina summers). I think my notes from that talk read something like this: Bring hammock to work. :) Go to sleep sober. :( Nick Brown http://standardout.wordpress.com/ On Jun 9, 1:09 pm, Brian Marick wrote: > On Jun 9, 2011, at 3:27 PM, Jul

Re: Why no def- ?

2011-01-24 Thread Nick Brown
Ugly? Aww, I thought the ^ metadata looked kinda cute... It is a bit awkward that defn- exists and not def-, but it seems defs are not going to be as common as defns (though I'll admit I haven't written or read enough complex idiomatic Clojure code to know for sure). And if you really want to be

Testing if a sequence is lazy

2011-01-17 Thread Nick Brown
Hi, I'm wondering if there is a good way to test if a given sequence is lazy, and if so, how much of it has been evaluated. I know the fact that it is lazy should be transparent, but I'm thinking in the context of unit testing knowing that could be valuable. For instance if you know a particular

Re: could clojure be androids joker card

2010-11-08 Thread Nick Brown
One problem I've heard with creating Android apps in languages such as Clojure or Scala is the dependencies (in Clojure's case, probably clojure.jar and clojure-contrib.jar) that are brought in increase the size of the app. Those dependencies may be very small when deployed as a server app or on a

Re: A suggestion for the next Conj

2010-11-03 Thread Nick Brown
We could set up a web app that uses data mining algorithms to analyze people's interests, experience with Clojure, industries they work in, Myers-Briggs type, and other information to put together compatible small groups of people. I just had a "How big of a nerd can I be?" moment. But that doesn

Re: Conj arrivals and Thursday night...

2010-10-23 Thread Nick Brown
As opposed to other times in which DC metro traffic is any better? That's actually what I'm braving Saturday evening as I'm leaving the conference early to get to my high school reunion. On Oct 18, 6:02 pm, Christopher Petrilli wrote: > I'll be driving down from DC, and probably arriving betwee

Re: Clojure meetup group listing

2010-09-20 Thread Nick Brown
We've got one in the Raleigh area that, while not specific to Clojure, it is a common topic (along with other JVM based languages such as Scala and Groovy): http://www.meetup.com/TriJVM/ Though a Clojure specific meetup would be nice, I know for a fact there are other Clojure users here. On Sep 20

Re: clojure-conj registration is now open!

2010-09-03 Thread Nick Brown
Yeah, I'm in the same boat. A conference I want to attend right in my backyard and its the same weekend as my high school class reunion... On Sep 3, 4:27 pm, Sean Corfield wrote: > Dang! Wish I could be there but it clashes with a previous commitment > in Albuquerque (a cat show - seriously!). >