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Maharajji's (Neem Karoli Baba) only possession was a blanket and he was living in a remote village in North India in the 60's. There is little chance that he had access to the drugs you mentioned.

And the LSD that was carried by Ram Dass was made by Sandoz, arguably the purest LSD that you could ever get.

May be reading Ram Dass' account of the event in _Be Here Now_ will provide some much needed context.

Barliman is written in miniKanren[0], a logic/relational programming system built by Daniel Friedman[1], Will Byrd[2] & Oleg Kiselyov[3]. There are implementations of miniKanren in languages other than Scheme, one of the prominent being Clojure[4].

To oversimplify, in the miniKanren world programs are written using relational logic, wherein there are "variables" and then certain "relationships" between the variables. That is the program specification. Now we can run the specification and allow miniKanren to generate one or more variables that satisfy the relations. Thus a miniKanren program can have more than one answers. One interesting side-effect of this kind of an abstraction is that programs can also be run backwards to generate more programs that satisfy certain relations. That's pretty much what's happening with Barliman.

[0] http://minikanren.org/ [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_P._Friedman [2] http://webyrd.net/ [3] http://okmij.org/ftp/ [4] https://github.com/clojure/core.logic

I started my career hacking Common Lisp (Allegro CL), these days I do Clojure, among other things.

That comic by Dr. Barski tears me up every time! Just to test, I went and read the comic again and I cried, again!

I have met Dr. Barski personally at a Clojure conference many years ago and I still remember him as an extremely kind and knowledgeable person.

Thank you for the Land of Lisp, Dr. Barski! Some day, we will be able to assemble our guilds and beat the Insectoids for good. Until then,long live language du jour!

Hello stolen_y, we might have the right kind of gig for you. We are based in SF city. Please send me an email as soon as you can. bg@helpshift. com

Alex, there is also a small company called Helpshift that's using Clojure in production since 2009 :-)

These kind of problems are more elegantly solved in logic (aka relational) programming languages like Prolog and similar logic programming implementations like miniKanren & Clojure's core.logic. Here's the same problem solved using Clojure's core.logic library https://github.com/swannodette/logic-tutorial/blob/master/sr...

namecheap.com is definitely one of the best per my experience and what I have heard.

The next decade could belong to Julia.

Hi Jordan, ReactJS looks really awesome. Curious, what kind of persistent data-structures do you use at Facebook? Are they similar to the ones on Clojure[Script]?

Indeed it is an open security hole. See my other comment.

The repository was not created by Linus. It was a Github security exploit discovered by a friend of mine. Apparently he had contacted Github before exploiting but they didn't show any interest in fixing the issue. There should be a clarification from him soon.

There was a sign-off apparently: https://github.com/joyent/libuv/commit/804d40ee14dc0f82c482d...

Very nice. Surface syntax (and some semantics like interop) seem to be heavily inspired by Clojure :-)

Kudos to you Jennifer. I hope your path inspires many other aspiring programmers.

Actually not; Firefox beat Chrome comprehensively in the overall test. Chrome actually came 3rd in the list - http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/chrome-27-firefox-21-ope...

ISRO's total budget for the year 2012-13 is ~$950 million. Apparently this project cost them ~$250 million all inclusive.

Well, two launches within a day's time, both carrying navigation satellites.

Compare with the ISRO launch on Monday that was a success - http://www.spaceflight101.com/pslv-c22-launch-updates-irnss-...

It's not dead yet. David Miller has been untiringly maintaing Clojure's CLR implementation for years now. Clojure CLR right now has feature parity with Clojure JVM. core.async is still alpha (it's also an external lib), I bet that once it reaches some stability David will add support for CLR in a weekend (as it has been usually). Unfortunately that doesn't mean there is much community interest in the CLR port though, but David's relentless stewardship of the project is relentless.

Example: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/clojure/Kvefcae2W6s

Project Source: https://github.com/clojure/clojure-clr