Re: Anyone willing to do a tutorial on minecraft modding in clojure?

2014-09-19 Thread Michael Swierczek
On Thursday, September 18, 2014 4:31:05 PM UTC-4, Jeb wrote: Is Bukkit an option? I've used https://github.com/CmdrDats/clj-minecraft. Active project, fun and easy to use. On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 4:30 AM, Hi-tech Robert hitech...@gmail.com javascript: wrote: Hi, I am looking for tutorial

Re: 56 second GC on Heroku - seems a bit long

2014-06-18 Thread Michael Swierczek
On Monday, June 16, 2014 1:47:14 PM UTC-4, Brian Marick wrote: We have a small Clojure app on Heroku that performs backend tasks for a Rails app. Low traffic (like a request a minute). Heap is 400M. We've been having long (10 sec) GC pauses using both the default and G1 GC (both untuned).

Re: How to go about 'proving' why dynamically typed languages are better.

2013-12-23 Thread Michael Swierczek
Agreed -- which is why I find your speculation about lightening up with more experience ... meeting the demands of practical coding to be unsound. For those of us whose practical programming context includes a high cost associated with most any runtime bug, greater embrace of static typing,

Re: How to go about 'proving' why dynamically typed languages are better.

2013-10-08 Thread Michael Swierczek
On Tuesday, October 8, 2013 6:26:20 AM UTC-4, Paul Butcher wrote: The best explanation of these misunderstandings I've come across is What to Know Before Debating Type Systems: http://cdsmith.wordpress.com/2011/01/09/an-old-article-i-wrote/ In particular it asserts (correctly in my view)

Re: unusual question: how do you get morale?(or moral support)

2013-05-13 Thread Michael Swierczek
On Sunday, May 12, 2013 3:34:22 PM UTC-4, atkaaz wrote: Hi. I've been meaning to ask (all of)you, how do you get moral support? How do you put yourself into that mood so that you're happy/willing to program? What motivates you to do it? Is it the people you surround yourself with or the