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by janetacarr 4y ago
I think we all dream of side-income, but honestly freelancing on the side would be too exhausting for me (and employers don't typically like it). I see the control over my time freelancing affords as my ticket to eventually make living
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by janetacarr 4y ago
Personally, as a freelancer/consultant, I never think there is a right time for anything in my life. Of course, you might feel differently (and it probably is different). I'm offering advice from my perspective only, and I don&#x2
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by janetacarr 4y ago
> In Canada, our anti-trust regulator is completely feckless and captured by industry. For non-Canadians, this is by design, our government carved out NAFTA-exempt industries (Grocers, Dairy, Telecom, and Banking) during NAFTA negotiatio
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Clojure Frameworks: Opinions are features not bugs(blog.janetacarr.com)
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Default Alive or Default Dead?(paulgraham.com)
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Clojure's typing “problem”(blog.janetacarr.com)
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by janetacarr 4y ago
I only do time-based rates for vague work products, like consulting. Usually it's a quarter-day/half-day/day/week/chunk rate depending on the arrangement, and I try to limit my exposure to time-based rates, especial
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Show HN: A Quadtree Implementation for Clojure(script)(github.com)
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by janetacarr 4y ago
I'm skeptical of this to be honest. The global employment market is a free market (of sorts), and so people will happily pay more for employee they perceive to be better whether they are or not. People still buy Rolexes, iPhones, and T
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by janetacarr 4y ago
You're conflating not wanting to be in an office with being mediocre at their job, and that's simply not true. Some of the best developers I've met were remote long before COVID, and I'm certain it's because they we
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by janetacarr 4y ago
I've been using GBoard for Dvorak and it's awful. This is a welcome addition.
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by janetacarr 4y ago
I'm surprised no one has pitched Clojure yet, so I guess I'll do it. However, for solo development in a new venture and the most time effective way, it's generally a good idea to use tools you're already very familiar wi
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Fix your Clojure code: Clojure comes with design patterns (Part 2)(blog.janetacarr.com)
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by janetacarr 4y ago
OP here, This is a subject I've wanted to write about for years now, so I'm curious to hear your thoughts about designing Clojure codebases.
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Fix your Clojure code: Clojure comes with design patterns (Part 1)(blog.janetacarr.com)
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by janetacarr 4y ago
> Really it's not. The interop is a conscious decision core to the language rationale. I'm aware. I was expressing an opinion to a twitter friend, but I should have foreseen the replies of some people taking my opinions as me p
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by janetacarr 4y ago
Thanks for the reply Sean. You're probably right about people working on what interests them. I may have started Clojure during the "all-Clojure" years and failed to recognize the shift.
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by janetacarr 4y ago
Since it keeps coming up, I'd like to clarify that I'm not advocating for a port of Rails or some kind of analog. I should have chosen a better post title. I have never used Rails. I'm arguing Clojure has missing or rotting l
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by janetacarr 4y ago
I got that impression from the relentless amount of web frameworks for Clojure that keep popping up. Anytime I see Clojure on the front page of HN, it's about some new Clojure web framework, so this post is a protest of that in a sense
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by janetacarr 4y ago
My central thesis seems to be getting lost here. I'm not advocating for a Clojure Rails because I love Rails. I've never used Rails to be honest. I'm arguing open-source efforts are repeatedly being spent on trying to build t
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by janetacarr 4y ago
I never said it can't be done. I did write this in a hurry, so I may have muddled my central thesis. I'm arguing two things: First, Clojure has missing or rotting libraries, requiring re-implementing logic we've all done at l
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by janetacarr 4y ago
Thanks for the reply James. I agree with everything you said. To clarify, I'm not advocating to re-create Rails for Clojure, rather, I'm arguing open-source efforts are too focused on the search for Clojure's Big Web Framewor
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by janetacarr 4y ago
Thanks for the quote Mark, it's an interesting perspective.
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by janetacarr 4y ago
I think you've answered you're own question here, in a sense. Erlang was created by Ericson for use in telecom systems. (OTP stands for Open Telecom Platform) which gives credence to the idea that Erlang didn't need a Rails.
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by janetacarr 4y ago
One can dream ;)
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by janetacarr 4y ago
This is mostly true tbh. But API wrappers handling things like retries, pagination, client-side business logic, and coercion from JSON. Having to account for all of that for two API calls is somewhat tedious and repetitive, and I'm sur
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by janetacarr 4y ago
I agree. Boring is tough to work on. I thought about touching on this in the article. Re-frame and reagent have become the default for Clojurescript development, but I have no idea how.
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by janetacarr 4y ago
That's surprising. I listed the interop caveats here because sometimes it feels like a bandage intended to bridge some gap until Clojure matures. But if Alex said that, then maybe it's not. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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by janetacarr 4y ago
Interesting insight. I've never tried to call Erlang libraries from Elixir, but I'm not sure I'd want to either :)
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by janetacarr 4y ago
I understand this. Contrary to what I wrote, I do use interop to get work done when I have to, but it's certainly not an inviting solution.

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