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Great write up! I've made the same mistake of having too many subclassed entities, and realising my queries getting slower because my indexes were not being used. I think Apple should mention this caveat in their official documentation. I'm sure many folks have been bitten by this issue.

Great job @yasoob! What's even more amazing, even thought not directly relevant, is that the author is still in high school.

My initial response was "link bait!"

I wonder what's the primary reason for their "Mu" compiler adopting a "strict-ish" evaluation strategy.

For clojure, there's kern (https://github.com/blancas/kern) for parsec style parser combinators. It's quite easy to use. Ironically, I actually understood parser combinators better by reading its wiki (By understood, I mean understood how to _use_ parser combinators). Parsec was initially difficult to grasp because the type system complicated things for me then. I only got Parsec completely after that eureka moment when I finally understood Monads.

As a Pakistani I find this report alarming. However I also believe that the situation, especially the army's view of the Taliban, in particular groups under the TTP, has drastically changed. The TTP's brazen attacks on the Pakistani military in recent months have prompted the army to respond with force. In particular, the army actually is waiting for the govt's green light to clean up North Waziristan. It recently launched air strikes [1] on Taliban positions, and until a couple of weeks ago a full scale military operation similar to the a successful one conducted in Swat in 2009 seemed imminent.

Ironically though the Sharif administration is not entirely in favour of an operation. Some of the complexities include the fact that Khyber Pakhtunkhwa is governed by PTI which disagrees with a military operation entirely.

Currently there is a shaky ceasefire between the govt and the TTP. However a new splinter group called Aharar-ul-Hind, forked off from the TTP and carried out a daring attack on a court in Islamabad a few days back [2].

Interestingly enough, the new TTP chief Maulana Fazlullah is supposedly based in Afghanistan, and there is a worrying, ironic prospect of TTP raids from Afghanistan into Pakistan after NATO withdrawal.

1. http://edition.cnn.com/2014/02/25/world/asia/pakistan-airstr... 2. http://www.geo.tv/article-139849-TTP-splinter-faction-Ahrar-...

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I'm slightly surprised to see regex being used to parse and retrieve arguments from a function's source code. I would've normally assumed this to be a bad idea.

As a clojure fanboy, I'm quite pleased to see it do well.

It's actually a simple lisp interpreter. But made purely as an exercise to teach myself haskell, so please be gentle.

This is great news! The API looks very idiomatic, so kudos to the author. I can't wait to try this out.

Do you have a rainbow-parens mode? I've become overdependent on those in emacs.