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meow00:01:13

and I have nothing to lose and therefore nothing to fear

meow00:01:02

And that is no exageration - I literally have nothing to lose that hasn't already been lost

meow00:01:42

once you've lost it all - more than once - you are never the same

meow00:01:58

not a bummer - I am free

laforge4900:01:17

travel light through life

meow00:01:43

I've had nothing but the clothes on my back - more than once

meow00:01:02

Right now I have little more than that.

meow00:01:15

and that's about all I want

laforge4900:01:32

living in a 3 room apt. just breaking even. no heat most of the day.

meow00:01:10

I'm couch-surfing and grateful to not be on the streets.

laforge4900:01:24

I've also died twice. First time was melanoma. Told 20 years ago I had a significantly less than 5% chance of living 5 years.

meow00:01:25

2 years on the streets.

laforge4900:01:05

These days drs tell me they have never seen a survivor who had melanoma spread to the lymph nodes.

meow00:01:07

about 6 months was in a tent - which was a luxury

laforge4900:01:18

everything is relative.

meow00:01:41

we are survivors

laforge4900:01:56

Today we got a portable washing machine. Rupali has been washing our cloths by hand for the last year.

meow00:01:28

I would get new clothes and throw the old ones away if nobody else wanted them

meow00:01:42

newly donated

meow00:01:56

never did laundry the whole time I was on the streets

laforge4900:01:11

never had it that tough

laforge4900:01:31

but facing death was life changing too

meow00:01:35

it did me a world of good

laforge4900:01:49

Learn what is important

meow00:01:59

definitely

laforge4900:01:26

I decided I was living a life that was not going anywhere and that I wanted to contribute something technical.

meow00:01:45

being humbled is interesting

meow00:01:43

instead of committing suicide I thought I'd try one last time to create a reality that embraced me

meow00:01:05

since I failed in my suicide attempt

laforge4900:01:07

sounds good, if challenging

meow00:01:20

so far so good

laforge4900:01:45

and so the man does what he feels like

meow00:01:59

whatever, I do what I want...

laforge4900:01:09

or is it you do, yes, what you want.

meow00:01:10

;cartman:

laforge4900:01:19

the former means no dicipline

meow00:01:21

we need south park emoji

laforge4900:01:44

lisp style, like all emoji. (sp)

meow00:01:13

oh, I see

meow00:01:34

:keyword-emoji

laforge4900:01:36

at least on skype, the emoji are represented by a word in paren

meow00:01:45

did not know that

laforge4900:01:15

So, is cljs a good starting point?

laforge4900:01:34

sorry, I mean cljc

laforge4900:01:48

being platform nutral

laforge4900:01:38

Would you want a language that is platform agnostic or one that embraces the underlying platform?

meow00:01:42

reader conditionals

meow00:01:59

not sure

laforge4900:01:14

That's a good first question.

meow00:01:16

lots of benefits to host interop

laforge4900:01:35

yeah. and that is the UGLIEST part of clj.

laforge4900:01:44

Done quite badly.

meow00:01:12

I would lead by playing Socrates herding cats

meow00:01:34

ask a lot of questions and let the experts decde by consensus

meow00:01:48

I wouldn't write any of the code

meow00:01:12

other than writing in the language so I could eat the dogfood

meow00:01:20

nom nom nom

meow00:01:39

how about square brackets instead of parens

laforge4900:01:03

I'll call you bill gates then. Intentionally incompatible

laforge4900:01:21

Though MS seems to have changed its spots of late.

laforge4900:01:10

I just dread what MS is going to be doing in the near future once windows 8 is completely dead.

laforge4900:01:21

--let loose the gates of advertising.

laforge4900:01:40

I really think windows 10 is an advertising platform more than anything else.

laforge4900:01:09

Pay to turn the ads off!

meow00:01:05

AdBlock in Chrome is awesome

laforge4900:01:23

and now there is someone working on a new browser that is doing ad replacement

laforge4900:01:11

--ex ceo of firefox

laforge4900:01:00

OK, one advantage of [ over ( --no shift key, so you can type more easily.

laforge4900:01:14

But is ]]]]] as readable as )))))?

meow01:01:32

its a trivial thing that makes it easier to break with the past and make a fresh start

laforge4903:01:01

now using clojure 1.8.0

laforge4922:01:26

phantomjs for unit testing?