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Comment on Analyzing Word Frequencies with Clojure, Enlive and Incanter by Today in the Intertweets (March 8th Ed) | disclojure: all things clojure

Today in the Intertweets (March 8th Ed) | disclojure: all things clojure — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 07:28:58 +0000

[...] Word Frequencies with #Clojure, #Enlive and #Incanter by Ethan Fast (here, via @liebke) — Uses enlive to scrape a web page, count the words and show their frequencies [...]

Comment on OSX Package Management by How I develop on OSX | Ethan Fast

How I develop on OSX | Ethan Fast — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 05:34:54 +0000

[...] become the custom to lay down some hate. So here goes: Apple, you ought to implement a decent package management scheme. Some inconsistency with something I had installed (or worse, you put there) was messing [...]

Comment on Police Pursue and Capture a Barefoot Runner by David

David — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 13:38:18 +0000

Fantastic! Yet, at the same time, utterly scary. I’m not 1984-extolling , Gmail-privacy-fearing barefoot runner myself, but if it’s a case of guilty until proven innocent then we, the unshod, and society, have problems.

Comment on Police Pursue and Capture a Barefoot Runner by Jens

Jens — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 12:53:47 +0000

What was your country once called? “Land of the free” or something?

Comment on Police Pursue and Capture a Barefoot Runner by Annie Nomous

Annie Nomous — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 06:21:09 +0000

Hahah, hilarious. And you last name is FAST?

You should figure out who the cops are on your beat, and send them a box of muffins with a barefoot running book.

Comment on Police Pursue and Capture a Barefoot Runner by Lieutenant Dan

Lieutenant Dan — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 05:18:49 +0000

“No, I’m fine,” I said. “I’m running!”

Did you say that in a Forest Gump kind of way?

Comment on How I develop on OSX by Ethan

Ethan — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 13:52:34 +0000

I’m not entirely sure either — but my reasoning boils down to this: lacking pm creates another free variable.

For whatever reason, this kind of problem never occurs on my linux machines, where I install (almost) everything via pacman. There, I can always know exactly what software I have set up, and where it is… not so much on OSX. Maybe if I cleaned my system and tried out Homebrew, things would be better. Maybe not. Apple has its own pre-installed versions of various things (certainly ruby, and maybe rails), and perhaps I’m paranoid, but I’m never entirely confident that changes to $PATH eliminate them from the equation (hard-coded execution paths, or whatnot).

And I agree that TextMate is far from the best editor — is is good for rails, though. Btw, thanks for commenting — I don’t get a lot of that here.

Comment on How I develop on OSX by Derek Neighbors

Derek Neighbors — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 10:05:34 +0000

I’m not sure how a package management solution solves your particular problem. If you crave such a thing probably best to ditch OS X and go to GNU/Linux. Textmate isn’t all that. If you know Lisp why on earth are you not on GNU/Linux using Emacs?

Comment on A Genetic Algorithm Framework in Clojure by Tweets that mention A Genetic Algorithm Framework in Clojure | Ethan Fast -- Topsy.com

Mon, 18 Jan 2010 09:28:58 +0000

[...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by Ehud Lamm and Bio Computing, C. Pedro Gonçalves. C. Pedro Gonçalves said: RT @BioComputing: A Genetic Algorithm Framework in Clojure http://blog.ethanjfast.com/2009/09/ga-framework/ [...]

Comment on The Tweeting Narcissist by Tweets that mention The Tweeting Narcissist | Ethan Fast -- Topsy.com

Tweets that mention The Tweeting Narcissist | Ethan Fast -- Topsy.com — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 00:03:12 +0000

[...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by hrjn_rss, YC Hacker News. YC Hacker News said: Tell HN: A recent project, the Narcissist Quotient: http://bit.ly/7HDPyZ Comments: http://bit.ly/4TPnXu [...]