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I'm a Clojure newbie, but what impresses me about Clojure is the restraint and good taste in introducing new features to the language and core libraries. The language continues to be simple, extremely elegant and fun, but most of all, there is a strong sense of good design. APIs are considered carefully and not introduced into the core unless they solve a major problem, and solve it cleanly and well.

What is missing from Clojure, I think, is better support – either at the language level or as common practice – for large software composition, or programming-in-the-large. This is probably the opposite problem from to of Erlang, the other language that tackles the huge problem of state management well. Clojure is terrific when it comes to implementing computation, but how to best assemble various components into a large, maintainable program is not so clear.
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The state has implemented a seed-to-sale tracking system called MITS: http://www.mymits.com/
And, in some cases, the cause; paradox-of-choice and all that.
> You might as well carry a huge banner that says "I'm a giant nerd."

Got that reaction with big clunky smartphones 15yrs ago.
Now every Joe in the vicinity keeps earnestly stroking their Facebook app.

Screw it :-D
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It's not just a few coffee shops, Colorado and Washington are big states. They will very much welcome tourism and the dollars that brings in. The cannabis cup was already in Denver and I don't recall hearing complaints about all the money it brought to Colorado.
Stuart obviously has a Cognitect-centric view of what's gong on. It's interesting that you name three projects he didn't. This reflects the fact that, these days, there's way too much interesting stuff going on in Clojure. e.g. Cascalog 2
There are still statically typed languages used today like ada. although even within Ada, you'll often see programmers package spare buffers into structures to increase flexibility.
If they are completely straightforward, it would have saved someone a trip to the post office.

companies cause stress when you can't trust them. You don't have 100% confidence that you'll even get a refund. You don't know what they're capable of if they are even misleading you by accident.

When the company gets annoyed or mad, then how do you trust them when you send back your data? You can't.

the worst feeling is that you feel that you are taken advantage of, even subtly.
Unfortunately on the hardware side I haven't done more than ordering a LCD and trying out several switches, and on the software side I'm not beyond POC software. I'm still not sure what kind of interface i want. Currently I think it should be RPL alike, but i see some UX issues i'd like to solve sometime. Sorry, no link.
Someone always does it for me, so here is a compensation up vote. I agree, a few mins of vote changing grace wod be nice.
Kaynes in the 30' thought we would work 4h per day in 2000' for the same level of life because evolution of productivity.
But because of marketing, we have more needs (cell phone, internet, advanced technical material etc...) so we need to continue to work 40-60 hours per week to live an average life.

If we decide to live with less, we will work less, so much less. It is a society mindset. (but I want to keep internet!!)
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Take a look at EDN, fressian and especially core.async. You can do pretty similar things to Erlang.
Cross-platform native code generation: Objective-C for iOS, Java for Android. The tool itself works only on Mac - it still needs Xcode for building and deploying to the App Store, so a Windows version wouldn't be useful.

The big difference from Xcode is that Neonto Studio is completely visual. It's for designers. It's not an IDE; there's no code editor, no property bindings, or any of those things that make Xcode / Interface Builder so intimidating.

The generated code is therefore basically the view / view-controller side of an app. A programmer can easily integrate it into a project, and it saves a lot of time compared to doing the same work in code.

There's also a whole class of content-centric apps that can be done completely within this tool: books, video apps, music albums... Anything that's self-contained, doesn't need a server and doesn't have complex business logic.
Have you ever seen the videos of the people refusing to comply with these checkpoints?

For CBP to search you under the aegis of border security, you must have recently crossed the actual US border. The law doesn't require CBP searches to occur at the actual border; for instance, there may be so many possible crossing points at e.g. the Canadian border that, logistically, search only makes sense at some chokepoint 20-30 miles from the border. But they can't search people at random. The CRS says so, and, 30 years before that, so did SCOTUS.
Yes, it would be really nice if people and journalists commenting on this would understand and acknowledge that cannabis has been widely available legally in Colorado for years, both through legal home growing and at retail outlets.
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Technologically a moon colony isn't much a stretch from a space station. I think Asimov wasn't wrong about technology, but of politics and economics. NASA funding has long shrunk as a percentage of GDP since the 80s.
It's a grand old tradition, ain't it.
In many cases it's much easier than you'd expect. See e.g. http://www.heinz.cmu.edu/~acquisti/ssnstudy/ (TL;DR: "we show that it is possible to predict individual SSNs simply from publicly available data").
Previous discussion (3 months ago), with a list of correct/failed predictions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6287340
Plants can be grafted one onto another, sometimes cross-species. You can graft Cannabis onto grape vines for example.

Pro-growers can pretty much maintain the exact "same" plant for generations of plants.

Obviously this doesn't change the DNA "fingerprint" of the graft but it just shows the "seed to customer" tracing is a meaningless regulation.
I imagine that since part of the customer base is underage, the illegal market will still exist.
in this discussion in the media, out of all the millions of words that are going to be written about pot legalization in WA and CO over the next few weeks, how many words are going to be devoted to the fact that in the states of washington and colorado pot was legalized because the citizens of those states are able to create their own laws?

Very few words will be devoted to that aspect of it, and those corporate media articles that do discuss it will speak negatively of it.

And because the media will not bring it up much, neither will comments online do so.

Well, except for my comments.
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I skimmed the article and have to admit I missed that part. My issue was tourism for the sake of getting high - which clearly doesn't apply here.
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The only videos I've seen are of people refusing to comply and being waved through. In one of those videos, the driver was asked for proof of citizenship, and spent 4 minutes attempting to demand proof of citizenship from the agent before they finally waved him through. It's pretty great.

Also: be careful that we're talking about the same thing. There are CBP searches that protect border integrity and search for contraband, and then there are ICE checkpoints that aim to catch illegal immigrants. In practice, ICE's authority is nothing like CBP's: CBP's is much more potent, and CBP is what this article is talking about.
Perhaps there will be an issue with local convenience stores running out of snacks, but I don't imagine marijuana vacations to be very raucous affairs. Also, marijuana isn't exactly rare or expensive anywhere in the US, odds are if you're going to get on a plane and head to Colorado for weed you will also spend a lot of dollars on other stuff. It should be a great boon for the economies of CO and WA.
I would be more concerned about federal authorities going in regardless of how well state regulations are working, just because some far-right politician needs to show voters how tough-on-crime he is.
This has already been tested with the medical setup. Many retail buyers continued to purchase their cannabis the way they were before, from their friends. That system had been in place for such a long time that people didn't feel the desire or need to change. Growers also found dispensaries to be a ready new group of wholesale buyers.
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federalism, in reality, is really better exemplified by the unelected federal judges from ivy league law schools who decide the way we live our lives.

That is really what federalism is.

Democracy is what happens when the citizens of colorado and washington create their own laws to live by.
I take it you don't find the video appealing to watch on its own?

I guess I wanted the teaser site to reflect the product's output: it's a tool for creating mobile apps with high visual impact and motion graphics style, so the website is also like that (perhaps to the point of being form over function).
Are there illegal markets for booze and tobacco?
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If it ever was his number, it's been changed by now.
well, I can set a limit of say 500 euros (or whatever I need) per day. So even with a lot of smaller transactions, there is a point where they would stop.

Damage can still be done, though and I'm not aware if/how I can get alerts for transactions. So I need to remember to check my account often.
>I was specifically talking about the communication with moon. I find it funny how back in the day, futurologists were obsessed with it.

What's funny about it?

The President himself (JFK) had promised that the US will send "a man on the moon and return him safely to the earth" by the end of the sixties.

If the same amount of money and determination was continued post-1969, moon colonies (colonies of scientists, like in Alaska, not some kind of new state on the moon), would have been a very real possibility.
You can probably be stopped by any law enforcement agency in the US and have ID demanded of you, and while ID is not mandatory in the US, you can be inconvenienced for not having it. That's a result of Hiibel v. Nevada. It sucks a lot, but we're still better off than most of Europe in that regard.

But if CBP could not convince a judge or jury that you'd crossed the Canadian border, and demanded a search of your vehicle and found e.g. an eighth of weed, that evidence could probably be tossed in court; CBP needs both the fact of your crossing of the actual border and a reasonable suspicion to search you.
How much time do you think candidates should spend on your programming challenge?
Classic use case: creating a packed structures to directly read TCP packets. There is still the "convert from big to little endian" problem, but I think you can use GCC's method for individually packing a struct:

struct TCP_Packet {
uint16_t source_port;
uint16_t dest_port;
uint32_t seq_no;
uint16_t flags;
uint16_t window_size;
uint16_t checksum;
unit16_t urgent;
...
} __attribute__ ((packed));
It's disgraceful that our Veterans are treated the way they are. I have a few acquaintance who served several tours in Iraq and Afghanistan and the only thing that's allowed them to "reintegrate" back into peaceful civilian life has been illicit cannabis use. They live in Colorado so I'm hoping today is a great one for them.
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Got it, that's what I was assuming it was. That's very cool. Will it handle screen sizes, scroll views, tablet vs. phone, etc? If not, I can't give my design team this tool then code from their views, it just won't work. My Storyboards look nothing like what comes out, because I have to do so much manipulation of the views to fit all the screens I need and to do Scroll View bullshit.

If you solve that, I'd use it and I'm a coder not a designer. Regardless, that is a REALLY exciting idea. It's one of those things where an 80% solution won't cut it which always worries me (that's what WYSIWYG web design tools rarely catch on) but a 100% solution doesn't seem impossible.
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Computing made this evident, decentralized systems are almost always superior to centralized ones.

The current government hierarchy is littered with single points of failures. I never believed the action of voting to be relevant in any way whatsoever. This is the biggest illusion of power to the people.

It's like having a faulty production system filling its error log where you can only blindly deploy a fix every four years and hope things get better. All while accumulating user complaints and deferring your customer service offshore.
Indeed, most growers 'clone' their plants as a propagation technique (cuttings). This style, growing a mother plant from seed and then taking hundreds of cuttings which grow into full size plants, ensures consistency and is faster than starting each plant from seed. Growers often swap trimmings rather than seeds, and they're sold in dispensaries.
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Agreed. If CO (not sure about WA's law) didn't want the tourism they wouldn't have made provisions allowing non-residents to purchase.
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Any kind of violent revolution will end up with an order-of-magnitude more people getting shot, jailed, or otherwise ruined than the current US system.

Revolution is good as long as you're born 30 years after that. (Sometimes more. It took almost a century for the French Republic to stabilize after the revolution.)
she will be lucky if Air lasts two years.
Took this a while ago. It is a great course and David Malan (the lecturer) is really engaging.
Trump in the NFL?
I see your point logicallee. Thank you for the civility and thorough explanation.
I haven't read the book yet, but David Crane's Pitfall Post Mortem[1] also covers a lot of what you mentioned. Truly fascinating stuff.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBT1OK6VAIU
According to this the price will initially go up:

http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2013/12/30/high-prices-f...

...but since marijuana is literally a weed, why wouldn't the price eventually drop to something like that of tea? I mean, tea is harder to grow, process, and ship, and you can get it for 6 dollars a pound. Even the overpriced teavana stuff can go for as little as 40 dollars a pound.
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>To skeptics, it marked a grand folly, one they said would lead to higher drug use among teenagers

They don't know what the proper incidence of usage is. Meanwhile, we all need to know why some people become addicts and others don't
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The NSA alone should be more than enough. Extremely smart people are working there. I can't think of a bigger insult to the people than what they did.
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Why are we so obsessed with finding genetic reasons to explain thinking differences in gender(or race) when the obvious elephant-in-the-room are social/cultural pressures that must have a huge impact?

I'd feel better about these studies if they could somehow account for these outside influences.

How about the whole idea of "boys will be boys" versus "A lady must be clean & proper". Don't we pretty much enforce responsibility & "proper adult lady" behavior in girls super early? Generally frowned upon when girls use bad language, spit in public, not sit up straight in chairs, etc. We enforce girls to act like proper, well-behaved princesses from day one. We also know that it's much easier for a woman to ruin her lady-like image[0] than for a guy to ruin his. In fact, looking at TVshows like JerseyShore and the whole gangsta-hiphop image... I can't think of any way for a man to ruin his social image short of being accused of child molestation. For boys, it's just "Go wild!" and that attitude seems to carry all the way to college for the most part, hence the whole frat-house start-up culture. The only responsibility that's really drilled into boys growing up is to just avoid doing things that'll land 'em in jail. Any other anti-social behavior(like loud burping in public & having many, many nights with random ladies) is just fine. In fact, being a responsible & well-behaved male adult makes you a wimp it seems! http://stream1.gifsoup.com/view/54507/danny-tanner-wtf-o.gif

0. http://www.alternet.org/story/86736/he's_a_stud,_she's_a_slu...

Girls typical toys:

http://1-ps.googleusercontent.com/x/www.dailydawdle.com/imag...

http://genderfatigue.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/girls_toy_i...

http://www.stylishtrendy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/top-...

http://www.novanatural.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/ima...

Boys typical toys:

http://cf067b.medialib.glogster.com/media/5e/5e59e3fc4e4be00...

http://themamareport.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/transfor...

http://www.mommyq.com/wp-content/uploads/Track.jpg (Also, LOL @ the photoshopped-in black boy for diversity.)
1. there have been several attempts (including two of my own!), but it's an ambitious project

2. yes, we're actually very interested internally in opening up large parts of the system long term. We're also very interested in creating a system that could outlive the company.

3. internal drives are currently 2-4TB. It's better than RAID. RAID is susceptible to correlated failures, does not survive fire, theft, or flood, and is much more labor intensive (swapping out failed drives within short windows, rebuilding arrays, etc).

4. Reliability/availability: all chunks of data are encrypted, chopped up into dozens of pieces with parity data added, and spread to dozens of locations (currently 40), only half of which need to be present for complete recovery. When availability of those pieces drops below a certain level, a self-healing process automatically recreates the missing bits. Performance: data can be streamed from the network at a high data rate, and we're currently at more than 10x the speed of competing cloud services for getting data into Space Monkey, but there's lots of room for improvement (we're not as fast as a local NAS yet, but soon will be)!
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