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I haven't looked at Clojure in a bit, but shouldn't the (nil? to-info) check in the transfer implementation of handle-action come first? It seems like that would never be reached in the current implementation.

My experience with Intuit's Quickbooks Online suggests that all Mailchimp users will be paying 2-3X within 3 years for a worse product. I'd plan on transitioning soon. They're awful.

They want you to experience what it was like to browse wayback in the early 90s. Sorry, I couldn’t resist the joke :)

I'm not surprised because it's the differentiating camera feature between the SE/XR and the 11. My friends and family that have Night Mode love it, but most don't care that much about multiple lenses. I too believe the SE is up to the task. Hopefully someday Apple will issue a software update that enables it.

Either way, I'm going to upgrade as the 1st gen SE camera is showing its age. Everything else about the 1st gen is still good enough for me.

No Night Mode for the camera. It's disappointing that they're not enabling it, but I guess it's not surprising.

I think @Richicoder is right. USAA's tools haven't been updated in a while and are a pain to use. Their tech is still really good for a US bank. Personal Capital has been pretty painless (besides the occasional bank/investment syncing issues). Personal Capital's investment and retirement tools are quite nice. The only downside to Personal Capital is their advisors calling to try and sell their service. I eventually blocked their numbers and haven't heard anything from them in years.

A long time ago I used Mint. If I remember correctly, I had tons of syncing issues and problems navigating their UI. I tried USAA for a while, but eventually stumbled upon Personal Capital. I passionately dislike Intuit due to their pricing practices of Quickbooks Online, so I'd never use Mint again ;)

USAA's checking/savings accounts have most of those features. You can connect external bank and investment accounts. Track home value. Categorize transactions. There's more features, those are just the ones I know about. That said, I still use Personal Capital to track my finances.

Do you have any recommendations for the satellite beacon? My brother is doing this in his RV and I’d love to get him one. Thanks.

That's a better way to put it. Thanks Alex. I'm excited to see where we end up.

I don't find that too surprising, Rich tends to let things bake internally (in his head and at Cognitect) for a while before releasing anything publicly for consumption and feedback.

Most of Clojure's current development is around tooling [1] and some changes to move clojure.spec out of alpha. I believe they want to accomplish this for 1.10, but I'm not sure where I remember hearing that.

Alex Miller has mentioned that Cognitect built and continues to work on a tool that tracks all of your functions with spec definitions and generatively tests them only when the function or one of its dependencies changes. This would be extremely helpful since generative testing can be expensive to run, especially if you want to generate huge amounts of test cases. It'd be nice to say "test all of my codebase's functions 10 million times" and then have that information stored locally with the code.

In Rich's "Effective Programs" talk [2] he outlines the "10x problems" that Clojure was targeted at solving. In it there are two 10x problems that weren't solved by Clojure: resource utilization and libraries. There's not much Clojure can do to solve resource utilization as it's dependent on the host (JVM), but the library problem (especially Clojure libraries with spec definitions) is solvable (though there seems to be some disagreement on whether only allowing growth in libraries in a practical).

Pure speculation: All of their tooling projects (spec, codec, tool.deps, and the above mentioned generative test runner/tracker) are going to come together in a tool that attempts solves the library dependency problem. Rich outlines a lot of his thinking about how to accomplish this in his "Spec-ulation" talk [3]. He wants Clojure to "become the first community to make [dependencies] great". I hope that we'll see more tools and guidance from the Clojure team on this soon (and maybe improved out-of-the-box error messages)!

[1] https://github.com/clojure/tools.deps.alpha [2] https://youtu.be/2V1FtfBDsLU?t=29m53s [3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyLBGkS5ICk

I've been waiting for Cloud Postgres as well and wish I could have used it on my most recent project. I was told last month by a "Cloud Specialist" that they were targeting early Q2 of this year to leave beta, but I'll believe it when I see it.

I also find it frustrating that they don't have more turnkey services. In particular, search. It's ironic that Google's doesn't offer a search service (except if you use App Engine).

Rich Hickey had a great comment a long time ago on the Software Engineering Radio podcast [0] that I think speaks to this. He was asked why he didn't just make the ideas in Clojure a library for Java.

Interviewer: "Wouldn't it have been possible or simpler to add this using some kind of library or framework to an existing language? In other words, why does this kind of stuff need language support as opposed to just a library?"

Rich: "In fact it is a library. It's a library written in Java that you can use from Java. The whole thing about a language is, a language is about what does it make idiomatic and easy. So for instance, you can use the same precisely the same reference types, and the STM, and the data structures of Clojure, all from Java... The lack of idioms and language support means using exactly the same constructs, the same underlining code, from Java, is extremely painful compared to Clojure where it is the natural idiom."

I've always loved that definition of a language.

[0]: http://www.se-radio.net/2010/03/episode-158-rich-hickey-on-c...

The product looks pretty interesting, but I don’t see any pricing. What would it cost for a single user?

A bit off topic, but do you know if there has been any discussion to bring the search API to a standalone service?

https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/standard/java/search...

Sorry if this is off topic, but Nautilus seems to really need support[0].

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[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14227337

On the iPad you can drag two fingers over the keyboard to move the cursor around. When you have text selected, two finger dragging on the top half moves the left side of the selection and the bottom the opposite. It's a very useful gesture.

I use 1Password on OSX and iOS, it's worked great.

Isn't this single dispatch?

They did, you can read about it here: http://blog.jetbrains.com/blog/2015/09/18/final-update-on-th...

Jason this looks sweet! I don't ever comment on HN, but I couldn't hold back when I read the post.

I've been writing the same boiler plate code in my API layer as well and have been thinking about something like this for a while. This is the first validation library I've seen that provides the coercion needed when dealing with user generated data. I've seen plenty of libraries that do one or the other, but when you use two libraries you end up duplicating the schema definition or writing custom transformation functions to make the libraries play nicely together.

I haven't play with it yet, but am extremely excited to do so and will post my thoughts soon. Thanks for all the great stuff you and the Prismatic team are putting out; it's greatly appreciated!