Re: Who is "doing something worthwhile" in Clojure?

2013-12-19 Thread Phillip Lord
Rich Morin writes: > This makes me wonder about the number of Clojure-driven projects that > meet Tim O'Reilly's notions of "doing something worthwhile": > > “Pursue something so important that even if you fail, >the world is better off with you having tried.” I never understood how "flog

Re: Who is "doing something worthwhile" in Clojure?

2013-12-19 Thread Daniel Higginbotham
> > I have done several things in my life where, at least, I am sure that > the world would not have been better off if I hadn't tried. I think this > is enough to hope for. > I'm fooling around with Weather Jerk (http://www.weatherjerk.com/) in my spare time. It uh... solves the problem of h

[ANN] component 0.2.1

2013-12-19 Thread Stuart Sierra
Component: object lifecycle management & dependency injection https://github.com/stuartsierra/component Version 0.2.1. in Leiningen: [com.stuartsierra/component "0.2.1"] Changes in this release: * Conveniences * Added arities to `start-system` and `stop-system` * Generic `system-map` f

Re: Who is "doing something worthwhile" in Clojure?

2013-12-19 Thread Rich Morin
On Dec 19, 2013, at 02:36, Phillip Lord wrote: > I never understood how "flog books about technology" came into that > category. The books are simply an artifact and technology is only one domain. Tim has spent decades promoting the interchange of well-chosen ideas. For example, although Christ

Re: Comparing core.async and Reactive Extensions

2013-12-19 Thread Timothy Baldridge
You learn something new every day. As this always been the way that Rx worked (the locking part)? I haven't used Rx for several years, so I may be off in my assumptions. Timothy On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 9:41 AM, Matthew Podwysocki < matthew.podwyso...@gmail.com> wrote: > You can easily do bi-dir

Re: Comparing core.async and Reactive Extensions

2013-12-19 Thread Matthew Podwysocki
You can easily do bi-directional communication using Rx, but it's involving two Subjects, which are both Observables and Observers, or any flavor thereof Subjects whether Replay, Async, Behavior, or Buffered or Controlled (for backpressure coming soon). var subject1 = new Rx.Subject(); var subj

Re: Comparing core.async and Reactive Extensions

2013-12-19 Thread Matthew Podwysocki
Timothy, Yes, it has always been this way enforced with a strict grammar with locking. The only place we don't care is in JavaScript, because we're single threaded. Matt On Thursday, December 19, 2013 11:51:46 AM UTC-5, tbc++ wrote: > > You learn something new every day. As this always been t

Re: Parsing large XML files

2013-12-19 Thread Peter Ullah
Thank you everyone for your advice, I found it useful and think that I am part-way to a solution using clojure.data.xml/source-seq as suggested by dannue. I'll post what I have done so far in the hope it might help someone else... comments on style welcome. *Solution*: Given the following XML

ANN: Om, a ClojureScript binding to Facebook's React

2013-12-19 Thread David Nolen
Enjoy, http://swannodette.github.io/2013/12/17/the-future-of-javascript-mvcs/ David -- -- 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 - ple

Re: ANN: Om, a ClojureScript binding to Facebook's React

2013-12-19 Thread Thomas Heller
Hey David, looks really interesting although I have to be a little critical of your benchmarks. Add a download of 200 todos via xhr and then do the render, you will most certainly lose to other JS Framework out there (especially if you choose EDN over JSON) cause of the extra overhead associate

Re: [ANN] Hoplon: web applications in Clojure and ClojureScript

2013-12-19 Thread James Reeves
Thank you for taking the time to write such a detailed explanation. That clears up my understanding of the library considerably. - James On 19 December 2013 03:45, Micha Niskin wrote: > Ah, yes. There are some gaps in the docs that need to be fixed. To answer > your questions: > > >1. The

Re: Who is "doing something worthwhile" in Clojure?

2013-12-19 Thread Bruno Kim Medeiros Cesar
Being acquired by Monsanto does not invalidate "The Climate Corporation"'s work, which I find extremely exciting and valuable. In fact, why would their work be "worthwhile" by your worthiness definition? They are just insurance sellers, after all. Clojure itself is the ultimate worthwhile proje

Re: Who is "doing something worthwhile" in Clojure?

2013-12-19 Thread Ben Wolfson
Why is a programming language---which one would think is in itself neutral, being a tool that can be put to a variety of uses---more obviously worthwhile (let alone the ultimate worthwhile thing!) than sellers of insurance, who, after all, do, if they're honest, insulate people from what would othe

Re: Who is "doing something worthwhile" in Clojure?

2013-12-19 Thread Rich Morin
On Dec 19, 2013, at 16:02, Bruno Kim Medeiros Cesar wrote: > Being acquired by Monsanto does not invalidate "The Climate > Corporation"'s work, which I find extremely exciting and > valuable. In fact, why would their work be "worthwhile" by > your worthiness definition? They are just insurance se

[ANN] Example async TCP echo client/server using Java 7 NIO.2.

2013-12-19 Thread David James
An asynchrononous TCP echo client/server in Clojure using Java 7 NIO.2. https://github.com/bluemont/clj-async-tcp-echo-nio.2 As I've been diving into async libraries in Java and Clojure, I thought it would be nice to make a simple example with the Java 7 NIO.2 async classes. I'm sure there is room

Re: Who is "doing something worthwhile" in Clojure?

2013-12-19 Thread Sean Corfield
On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 5:19 PM, Rich Morin wrote: > I have no argument with The Climate Corporation's business model; > my problems are with Monsanto. That said, I don't want to dive > off into that discussion. In fact, my comment about them should > probably have been left out of my initial po

Re: [ANN] Hoplon: web applications in Clojure and ClojureScript

2013-12-19 Thread Murtaza Husain
Hi, Thanks for the great framework. I am loving it and will give it a try in a pet project. A few nitpicks - 1. Why not use hiccup data structure for representing DOM, instead of the custom fns and macros. This provides several advantages where your DOM is just data and you can manipulate it

Re: Who is "doing something worthwhile" in Clojure?

2013-12-19 Thread Alex Baranosky
Yep, "positive impact" is pretty much entirely opinion-based. On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 6:15 PM, Sean Corfield wrote: > On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 5:19 PM, Rich Morin wrote: > > I have no argument with The Climate Corporation's business model; > > my problems are with Monsanto. That said, I don't w

Re: Who is "doing something worthwhile" in Clojure?

2013-12-19 Thread John Wiseman
Suggestions of endeavors using clojure for something worthwhile itself seems like an entirely worthwhile discussion if people can resist the temptation to debate what worthwhile means and to disagree with other people's concept of worthwhile. For example, here's a recipe for a useful discussion: I

Re: Who is "doing something worthwhile" in Clojure?

2013-12-19 Thread Alex Baranosky
Fair enough :) On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 10:09 PM, John Wiseman wrote: > Suggestions of endeavors using clojure for something worthwhile itself > seems like an entirely worthwhile discussion if people can resist the > temptation to debate what worthwhile means and to disagree with other > people'