I had the same struggle and originally used viper-mode + vimpulse to ease the transition. Recently I've switched to Evil, which is excellent and requires very little configuration to give you vim-like navigation with all the other good things in emacs: http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Evil
Thanks for the feedback. I'd be very happy if this inspired better solutions. My goal was to solve a problem that was slowing down my work, and I reached for multiprocessing from my toolbox since that's my first choice to run work in parallel. Since I didn't find an existing implementation, I decided to share it. It would be great to learn from some alternative approaches.
You'll want to not just read a book, but also get hands on experience with the language. That's where I found Clojure a good choice for me since I could work on problems of interest to my work and reuse existing Java libraries.
Joy of Clojure also presents a persuasive argument in the opening chapter for Clojure, Lisp and functional programming. There is a pdf of that chapter available for free from the author's website:
I learned Clojure with Joy of Clojure, the early access version, coming from a Python background with very little practical experience in Java or Lisp. It's an excellent book.
The biggest advantage for my coding has actually been in my day-to-day Python work, where I'm much improved at designing functionally, parallelizing with multiprocessing, and building decorators and context functions to remove boilerplate code. So my Python is faster and cleaner; this is all thanks to being able to to think better about code design after working in Clojure.
For a good example of "why Clojure" take a look at Cascalog:
I remember seeing it last year and it doesn't look to have been worked on recently. A great proof of concept, but it'll be hard to sustain development motivation: there aren't good opportunities for making money, and this type of work unfortunately doesn't generate a lot of recognition amongst scientists.
Sound, wifi and the camera work fine and it's been through a couple of Ubuntu upgrades with no issues. I was specifically looking for something that would be zero maintenance and have been very happy.
They are available in a bunch of depths and heights and are easy to adjust. You probably won't be moving them up and down multiple times during the day, but can configure it to a comfortable height. They run about $100.
There I was brainstorming ideas to replicate the hierarchical database/collection/document management that MongoDB and CouchDB offer. One solution I have used, and became disenchanted with, was combined keys with all this information munged together. It would be interesting to hear what others do with their key/value stores.
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/334/6062/1518.full.pdf
Supporting online material:
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/suppl/2011/12/14/334.6062....