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by arohner 11y ago
All of Google, and most ClojureScript users would like to disagree with you. Google Closure has been successfully tree-shaking since it was released, in 2009. ClojureScript uses Closure for an optimization path, so the majority of CLJS apps
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by arohner 11y ago
Your cache isn't as warm as you think it is. The cache on mobile browsers is ~50MB, and 250MB on IE11. It's smaller on older IEs. Most regular internet users will download more than that every single day. You should always use a C
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Macs vs. PCs(rasterize.io)
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by arohner 11y ago
> In practicality how difficult/easy is it to build cross-runtime libraries and how much reuse can you get out of clojure libs b/c of its hosted status? It depends on what you're trying to do, and whether the platforms hel
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by arohner 11y ago
Idiomatic Clojure tends to have fewer parenthesis than Java.
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by arohner 11y ago
Yes. I'll also add the 4-year education is incredibly inefficient, in terms of skills added over time. Even in highly technical STEM degrees, you probably don't need 4 years "full time" to gain all of the skills an emplo
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by arohner 11y ago
Why is a business checking account so difficult? Seems like "I have $1000 (or 10k) to place in my shiny new account" would be enough to mollify them?
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by arohner 11y ago
Intellectual curiosity, and a desire to experiment with new languages to be more productive/write cleaner code.
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by arohner 11y ago
It definitely did not make hiring harder. In fact, it was probably easier, because at the time, Clojure was more unique. The people interested in working in rare languages tend to be above average. Also, I would avoid optimizing TTFBugFix t
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by arohner 11y ago
Can this be used, or setup in a way that supports the standard invoicing model? i.e. I want an api call to email a .pdf to a customer, and then have them "click this link and enter your info to pay via checking account". Several k
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by arohner 11y ago
> which is why Clojure is hardly used at all and why Java is everywhere. Surely that has nothing to do with Java being 20 years old, and Clojure 1.0 being 6 years old? > Clojure doesn't even win in the one line department against
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Rendering Om Server-Side with Foam(rasterize.io)
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by arohner 11y ago
Do you count backtracking as 'mechanical'? This could be relevant to you: http://norvig.com/sudoku.html
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by arohner 11y ago
> SQL is fine, no problem with it unless you are embedding queries in a OO application which is essentially every single production deployment of a SQL database in the last twenty years . That's the problem.
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by arohner 11y ago
> Following the emerging set of best practices (use a CDN, bundle/minify your code with a tool like browserify/webpack, don't block the critical render path) is enough to get your code to a point where it should run totall
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by arohner 11y ago
Only two steps away from embracing the dark side: (and (foo bar) (hello world))
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by arohner 11y ago
This is a bad idea, because users may not give you a second chance. The research says over and over again, users respond negatively to small increases in latency. In fact, if I knew of a way to decrease the size of the first load, at the ex
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by arohner 11y ago
Except for Chrome, and firefox users who have explicitly configured their cache size, most browsers have a very limited cache, with the average sizing being ~50MB. For everything. I don't know about you, but I've loaded 50MB alrea
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by arohner 11y ago
Gratuitous plug, my startup, https://rasterize.io , will give you most of the information in the chrome timeline, for every single visitor to your site. It also analyzes the page and detects a lot of these warnings, and alert whe
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by arohner 11y ago
They are! http://clojure.org/transients
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by arohner 11y ago
Clojure isn't very slow. It's possible to write Clojure with identical performance of java (though this isn't idiomatic, and avoids some of Clojure's nicer features). Clojure's immutable datastructures are ~25% slow
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by arohner 11y ago
Clojure's motivating reasons for immutability are around correctness, not speed. In typical Clojure, immutable data structures are somewhat slower (25%-100%) than standard java, but make up for it because they can be trivially parallel
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by arohner 11y ago
I'd love it if there was a way to run Contributor while still blocking doubleclick. I'll happily pay, but I'm not turning off adblock, and if I'm paying, I want that page space occupied by the article, not cat pictures.
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by arohner 11y ago
I introduced core.typed to Circle, and I was responsible for most of the early type annotations in the Circle codebase. Because of me, Circle was also the first large contributor to core.typed's kickstarter campaign. Other commenters a
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Server-Side Rendering with Om(rasterize.io)
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by arohner 11y ago
Oh for sure. Dota has ~11M MAU. The #100 top earning player's lifetime earnings are lower than a fresh out of school programmer's starting salary.
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by arohner 11y ago
Valve has done a brilliant job creating a virtuous cycle around professional Dota. They host The International (TI), the biggest tournament of the year. Dota is free to play, and financed by selling in-game cosmetic items. Every year around
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by arohner 11y ago
The top esports earnings, broken down by player, game and country: http://www.esportsearnings.com/players Interestingly, Sumail is 50th, w/ $300k. The next highest pakistani is $500. It's also worth pointing out t
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by arohner 11y ago
Great article. You should additionally measure page speed as experienced by your users, because other pesky things like network congestion, the user's browser & hardware and the speed of light all affect website performance. If you
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by arohner 11y ago
I have no knowledge about what Circle did during the downtime, but I can talk as a Clojure expert. > Is there a way to automatically identify the diffs between your codebase and what's running in production? In general, no, because

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