Too slow for me on Chrome.

Baldur's Gate 2 is still my all-time favorite. It is more than just a game. One of humanities greatest works of art.

"...we'd like to extend an invitation to you to apply again whenever you feel more capable".

Sounds like it was written by a pompous egg head on a power trip.

I play yahoo's online chess once and a while.

Wages cannot be too low. It's simple supply and demand. Too many workers, with little demand for their work. Evidenced by the fact people are willing to work at wal-mart wages.

I would love for everyone to be successful but it's not the kind of thing you can wave a magic wand with a fantasy solution, dump blame on wal-mart, then call it a day.

I'd suggest skipping Clojure altogether. The JVM cannot support tail call optimizations. Use of recursion will be muffled a bit. Not very lispy.

Newer is not always better. Try racket or common lisp.

I would respectfully disagree and perhaps my reasoning is incomplete as I am a Clojure newbie. However, the absence of tail call optimization has not been a limiting factor in my case; I have been developing clojure code ,which I am sure is non-idiomatic, that is effectively doing the job.

On the other hand, JVM ecosystem is vast. It means acces to the latest database drivers ( Oracle, Sybase , etc.) as well as NOSQL drivers. Almost all third party REST API providers( ASW, Google, etc.) provide java wrappers that you could use in your Clojure code.

The loop/recur syntax gives you recursion in constant stack space.[0] It was a bit of a speed bump coming from Scheme but it's just part of being on the JVM. Personally, I'm more than happy to take some ugly TCO syntax if it comes with the all the good stuff Clojure inherits from Java.

[0] - http://clojure.org/special_forms#Special%20Forms--%28recur%2...

I was part of a haunted house. Kids went through the backyard and garage. With really good candy at the end (snickers bars, kit kat, etc)

My girlfriend's brother was a clown with a real chainsaw (chain removed). It is amusing how much clowns scare people.

I don't have a tombstone worthy project.

But my favorite personal project is a database comparison tool. It is basically a "diff" on databases. Everything from the schema, to stored procs, indexes, etc. It also works cross database. You can compare Oracle to SQLServer to [insert DB here].

There are lots of database "diff" tools. But I believe mine is the only one that works well cross-database. And it's easy to add support for a new database (day's work at most).

  "the tools I use recognize that structure"

Yes. I would describe it as parsing the content into a tree. Interaction's with content can then be legal operations on the tree, instead of random acts on plain text.

Thank you for putting in the labor to create tree-based interaction.

Here's my initial stab at crowdsourcing educational standards, if you're curious:

http://opencompetencies.org

Absolutely. Generics are too powerful an abstraction to do without in 2013. I can't imagine coding without them. Go is a no-go for me.

Everyone talks down on C++ but it's one of the few languages that gets generics right. The only language with implicit RAII (not explicit like C#/Java). The only language to put into practice 0 cost abstractions.