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What's more, it seems that a small wage increase (say, for the next hire after a CEO's child is born) could have an outsize effect on average pay at the company.

Knowing some information theory should tell us that the answer is precisely one bit. Is there a law like Betteridge's for articles where the headline answers its own question?

This reminds me quite a bit of this article: http://blog.moertel.com/posts/2006-10-18-a-type-based-soluti..., although Haskell's type system is likely much better for expressing this sort of constraint.

I think the title is a bit misleading. Perhaps "a quick explanation of one common feature of functional languages in five minutes" would be more appropriate?

Any chance of source code, or at least a detailed post explaining the algorithms behind this?

I'm sure "the Muslims" all get together, all 1.5 billion of them, to discuss their next bombing target. Please distinguish between a small group of violent extremists and a major world religion.

Anyone have any idea what sort of algorithm would be used to convert the photos? It's a really great look; I'd love to play around with that a bit.

It actually can have some benefits -- a language without any unbounded loops or recursion isn't Turing-complete, but you do get a static guarantee of termination. NASA, for example, writes much of their C code only with bounded recursion. So they can't compute some things, but they can be sure that the Mars lander never gets stuck in an infinite loop.

I'd say that the next step would be a CAPTCHA for Go -- creating an efficient Go player is still an open problem, and we could crowdsource the AI research to spammers!

You'll find that they are integers, though:

>>> isinstance(True, int)

True

>>> bool.__mro__

(<type 'bool'>, <type 'int'>, <type 'object'>)

Although they aren't literally the same object, 1 == True does evaluate to True.

OP here -- this is my first real open-source library, and I'm newish to Clojure. Any criticism is very much welcomed.

This is somewhat inspired by https://github.com/amoffat/sh/, although Clojure macros make this quite a bit easier.