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by blain_the_train 9y ago
When i looked at the eco system there seemed like a pretty big gab between R and Python in ML
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by blain_the_train 9y ago
You are coupled to mvc, that's the upside to a framework.
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by blain_the_train 9y ago
> Don’t expect much more growth out of this language in terms of new projects written in clojure. Why would an average dev not be able to maintain a clojure code base? I'm going to guess what you really mean is a average dev that d
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by blain_the_train 9y ago
I would imagine one reason for this is because the real complexity of a project has nothing todo with the programming. It has to do with evolving the business. Were on our 3rd re-write of our business, but the codebase still has legacy syst
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by blain_the_train 9y ago
I would encourage you take a look at the rational behind Clojure spec and Schema. Both allow you to specify the expected types of the arguments.
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by blain_the_train 9y ago
Troll: a person who makes a deliberately offensive or provocative online post. You don't have to be wrong to be a troll, you just have to unhelpful and provocative. Which is what your comment was. You just said "its useless"
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by blain_the_train 9y ago
>Rails project has less functions, and with a far more predictable structure. This is probably true if your building a very very generic small webapp. In which case, maybe use rails if it's the stack your good at. However, as the co
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by blain_the_train 9y ago
People usually say "closer to the metal" to mean more control over the hardware. Its hard to see what mainstream language clojure has more control over the metal then given that it targets the two of the largest languages it self.
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by blain_the_train 9y ago
So would rich be rich without the language that rich built? This is a hilarious way of looking at it. There answer is yes.
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by blain_the_train 9y ago
It also lacks multimethods, or pattern matching which mean you need classes for polymorphism. Which makes it not suitable for for imo
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by blain_the_train 9y ago
I think you mean, think about a problem abstractly. However, a good abstraction is context specific, which is why it's often hard to deliver one in a interview, because the interviewer is both biased and a working against you.
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by blain_the_train 9y ago
What do you mean by "batch processing" Personally i find that term to be confusing. I believe if Kafka can do streaming then it effectively can do batch as batch is a subset of streaming.
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by blain_the_train 9y ago
I have had the same thought. I'm guessing, given how long lisp has been around. That the ideas is well research.
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by blain_the_train 9y ago
Take a look an Parinfer https://shaunlebron.github.io/parinfer/ . Which essential makes clojure a whitespace language with indent mode.
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by blain_the_train 9y ago
Thats true, if you wanted a large codebase you should stick with Java. Only half joking. I like to think the goal is to create a working system. I haven't seen sufficient evidence that Static Typed languages as a category are more li
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by blain_the_train 9y ago
I'm experiencing the same thing right now. Even in Dynamic languages that claim to support FP like Python and Ruby i feel like i'm i have to concede building a compossible system because the language itself is so coupled that the
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by blain_the_train 9y ago
www.workiva.com/careers.com returns a 404
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by blain_the_train 9y ago
And then the next person will re write it in python. It would faster and less costly to just learn the language...
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by blain_the_train 9y ago
For a modern look at systems design i highly recommend "Designing Data-Intensive Applications (DDIA)" By Martin Kleppmann. Not really about structuring code, but I think stepping back and realizing your code is part of a larger sy
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by blain_the_train 9y ago
https://drewverlee.github.io/ i cover some (most) of the Design Patterns from the GOF book though the lens of Clojure. I stopped largely because i concluded the same thing Peter Norvig did many years ago, most DP in that bo
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by blain_the_train 9y ago
I imagine datomic query language is significant more powerful.
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by blain_the_train 9y ago
I find it amusing that the first look Google gives me on strong vs weak typing says there like static vs dynamic typing. Then wiki says there is no strong definition for either term. Maybe it would be easier to drop those terms and go one l
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by blain_the_train 9y ago
Found them in other comments, I don't see anything that's native to clojure though, not like pdb is for python at least
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by blain_the_train 9y ago
Could you provide links to this better debugger
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by blain_the_train 9y ago
total agree, I hope Clojure Spec will eventually be applied to most Core Clojure functions, and that information will trickle up to user defined functions. But thats only a hope, and possible based on my limited knowledge of the tool. Howev
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by blain_the_train 9y ago
IMO The Clojure Community does care about developer happiness. I think "happiness" is very subject, Clojure makes me happy, i'm a dev, what more can i say on that? As Phillmv made his work about his feelings, i feel its appro
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by blain_the_train 10y ago
> You wouldn't... stick the whole app state in a global variable. Huh. I thought this is what Om Next did to great success. * https://medium.com/adstage-engineering/realtime-apps-with-om... [edit] i misundersto
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by blain_the_train 10y ago
> This book will help you navigate the diverse and fast-changing landscape of technologies for storing and processing data. We compare a broad variety of tools and approaches, so that you can see the strengths and weaknesses of each, and
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by blain_the_train 10y ago
> webapp declares an env_file from which to pick up env vars. This is important because we configure a lot of our applications with environment variables so that the same docker image can run in different environments, taking inspiration
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by blain_the_train 10y ago
I'm going to assume thats a dead project. He missed his deadline. Refunded all pre-orders and hasn't posted any updates for 2-3 months?

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