This looks like a really cool project/language. How do I build it? Does it build on OS X?
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I'd love to "watch" the project on github, but alas it's stranded on the island of google code. Check out this [1] basho blog entry on why they chose github over bitbucket — most of the reasoning applies to google code as well. I'm not affiliated with github, by the way, just a happy user.
For a project like this, the concept of "watchers" isn't a vanity metric. I've been working on a lisp->javascript language and have found github watchers to be surprisingly motivating and encouraging.
Unfortunately, I don't have a Mac, so my ability to support Mac users is limited at the moment. Scotch should build from source just fine if you install GHC and use Haskell's Cabal tool to download a few extra packages - haskeline and executable-path are the two I can think of at the moment that are needed.
The command to build is ghc --make scotch. Just run the executable that's produced. Let me know if you run into any problems and I'll see if I can help.
As far as Github, never used it, as I've always been a SVN guy - I'll have to look into it after the holidays are over. Thanks for the suggestion.
Thanks, Evan! I actually disagree about production use, with similar reasoning to Travis Swicegood's answer about coffeescript in production [1]. Since sibilant is just a source-to-source compiler, it's as production-ready as Node.js or client-side javascript is. The output javascript from sibilant is fairly plain and readable and encourages a particular subset of javascript's features. The language is under active development, but Node's API is also changing. I've been hacking on sibilant since late June and believe it to be sufficiently expressive, although it can always get better.
Pivotal labs does this by offering everyone free catered breakfast at the start of the day. As I understand it, the motivation was to synchronize everyone's lunch hunger so half of a pair-programming team wasn't hungry earlier because they hadn't eaten lunch but their pair had. It also served to mitigate mid-afternoon food-coma somewhat.
Nice. A gray evocative of either look was my first thought as well.
It could also be half-and-half -- for example a diagonal cut. (Then the transition to the actual could wipe the wrong color off to one side.)
Or, a shaded gradient, top to bottom, between the light and dark -- so either way the flicker-to-actual is half as harsh. (This could also work well with a fade/wipe to actual.)
Lived in Portland for 7 years (went to school in SE, Reed College). Hence, nostalgia dump:
When I left for the bay area a few years ago, NE Alberta and North Portland were picking up inertia. If you're into coffee, try Albina Press.
The lucky lab on SE Hawthorne (close in) is a Great pub and I'm not much of a pubgoer.
Eat street food. The Portland street food scene makes the mission district look behind the times.
Get some tea in the teahouse in the Chinese gardens (right downtown). It's often overlooked by Portlanders, but the Chinese gardens are really quite wonderful. The tea menu is run by the Tao of Tea, which is one of the better tea importers in America.
Check out the nickel arcade (wonderland, I think it's called) on SE Belmont.
Powells & Powell's Technical. If you're a book person, set aside at least half a day for this. Read some books in the cafe. Hang out a while - there's no better book store in America (including the strand - nyc, moe's - berkeley, serendipity, etc)
I know I'm disagreeing with other posters, but avoid the pearl like the plague. It's the least "truly portland" and is for people from other cities who are looking for shiny glass highrises and warehouses. Everything is more expensive and upscale. Similarly, NW 23rd and 21st have a distinctly "east coast haven" flavor. Go to NYC or SF for that, enjoy portland for what it does best — the quirky stuff that you can't get elsewhere, and there's plenty of that.
Speaking of quirky, get a doughnut in the middle of the night at voodoo.
Check out the saturday market (sat and sun), if it's running when you're in town. Another uniquely portland experience, but you probably won't buy anything.
Beers: Hair of the dog, rogue, lucky lab. Try something on cask or nitro if you haven't lived in a place that really geeks out on beer.
Oh: ride public transit. Notice that it runs on time, is fairly easy to understand, and is clean. There's a sky tram, a light rail, a streetcar, and an extensive bus system. Everything is free downtown in the fareless square.
To be fair, it was changed to "Free Rail Zone" after the addition of two new rail lines, and the buses now pass through downtown noticeably faster without the free passengers (or I may be imagining things).
Regarding coffee: albina press is good but has been surpassed. Most of the original crew left to start their own shops.
Red E on N Killingsworth is my favorite. Barista, in the Pearl and also on NE Alberta, is similar and somewhat more famous. Both serve Coava a local roaster that sells single origin coffees, meaning the beans are of one type and come from one farm. Their stuff consistently wins awards in the coffee world.
It's not so bad to hit the Pearl and NW 23/21. Portland isn't that big, so it's easy to stay a few minutes then leave if you don't like it. Plus, the Pearl is adjacent to Powell's books, anyway.
If you really want a hard core Portland experience, go check out the dudes skating the skatepark under the Burnside bridge, then go to a strip club.
There's a lot of causal ambiguity in this article, particularly due to the fact that no small percent of millionaires likely come into wealth by way of inheritance or marriage. For example, the author cites the presence of 350k millionaire teachers as contradicting the statement "you won't get rich as a teacher." "get rich" implies causality, but "are rich" (the cited fact) does not.
Having read a few of the books discussed in the article, the author makes a point of showing how actually a small % of millionaires came into their wealth from an inheritance. He states that 80% are first-generation affluant.
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