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Use of Mutable Data Structures in Clojure

One of Clojure’s biggest strengths is that it is backed by the JVM, and has good interoperability with the Java libraries.  When I needed to implement a simulation with events that should be executed in order of their timestamp, I was immediately tempted to use Java’s PriorityBlockingQueue, since neither sorted-map nor sorted-set supported two events [...]

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Discovered that WordPress has a great built-in feature that allows you to post entries by email. Setting it up was easy…and it may give me a way to post updates when I’m behind Nazi firewalls.

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