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Clojure eXchange 2012: David Nolen on The Refined Clojurist [video]

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Another video from the event: Rich Hickey - The Language of the System

http://skillsmatter.com/podcast/scala/the-language-of-the-sy...

I wish skillsmatter would clean their web design up a bit :-(

Speaking of which, blip.tv, on which most Clojure videos[1] are hosted, is one of the most frustrating websites that I have come across.

It's a pity those videos are not found elsewhere.

Try to start from the oldest videos on the channel.

[1]http://blip.tv/clojure

At a glance, it seems like some of those are available on infoq.com. infoq still has some problems but all in all it's a lot better. And it even offers MP3 downloads of some talks, which I've made extensive use of.

iTunes has some of those: "Clojure By Rich Hickey"

https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/clojure/id275488598

I'm not letting Vimeo off the hook either: I wanted to see the videos bigger, but not full screen. Clicking their logo said "sorry there was a problem loading this video". So I clicked "Watch later" and both videos were added to my Vimeo profile with title, screencap, etc. Clicking either video there tells me that I don't have permission to watch the private videos. Argh.

EDIT: Now I can't even watch the videos on the Skills Matter page. I get this message: "You have been temporarily blocked from Vimeo - The connection you are using has been automatically prevented from communicating with Vimeo's servers. This ban will be lifted automatically after an appropriate period of time." WTF?

I often set my user agent to iPad so that I'm served <video> elements whose src attribute is a direct (cURLable) link.

agreed, it has to the the worst looking site I've seen in awhile.

I think the content makes up for the eye-injuring theme. There was some Scala talk recently with nice ideas.

I'll guess this is the same as the 'unconference' talk that David Nolen gave at the 2012 Conj. He's doing some really spiffy stuff with the new constraint mechanism in core.logic, and this talk was among the best of the week.

I really liked that talk, I had not seen the constraint logic programming befor. David mentions that the zebra example would be better solved with constraints. Is there a example of solving the zebro puzzle with constrains?

Also about the predicate dispatch work, is there allready some code somewhere one could look at (other then core.match)?

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