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by slifin 4y ago
Cars have only increased in size, but the main issue when everyone hops in a car is that it creates unsafe environment for everyone not in the car Even if we ignore the threat of being run over, constant noise, pollution, less space for wal
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by slifin 4y ago
Clojure typically doesn't attract the kind of developers who want to work on "boring" things So there is an imbalance there On one hand I'm kind of happy there's no one true way in Clojure to do web dev, because as
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by slifin 4y ago
Cars are glorified and incredibly ingrained in culture Some people can't even imagine walking anymore and are blind to even how much road furniture and infrastructure they litter everywhere Some of the biggest structures we have are ro
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by slifin 4y ago
Clojure has multiple hosts, I think there's at least 3 platforms that can make mobile apps under Clojure ClojureScript -> React Native ClojureDart -> Google Dart Clojure -> GraalVM Four if you consider Unity via Arcadia on Clo
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by slifin 4y ago
I think you're correct to recognise obvious problems like mongodb and yaml etc In your time you would have seen more reliable solutions to the same problems The reality is that good teams can make good products and codebases with a bad
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by slifin 4y ago
Again not the richest man in the world Forbes publishes the "rich list" but it explicitly excludes royal families, oligarchs and many other sources of wealth/power
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by slifin 4y ago
> preparing for the interview
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by slifin 4y ago
Interested to learn more about the query planner over time but just some initial thoughts
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by slifin 4y ago
Oh and as a Clojure developer it's annoying that I have to start caring about types again I'm surprised that's not bought up more in hacker news conversations Postgres is very picky type wise when you construct comparisons, w
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by slifin 4y ago
I've started using postgres at work after a decade of mysql My expectations were that postgres had a better query engine that was able to make more advanced plans Operationally it sounded easier to shard mysql, I thought they were the
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by slifin 4y ago
More context here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQbmpecxS2w
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by slifin 4y ago
Why would Texaco lower their prices? Oil companies know if they restrict the supply the price skyrockets and they directly benefit The world is so reliant on oil and cars that people don't lower their dependencies they just pay the new
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by slifin 4y ago
Nurse assistants who often do more work than nurses get paid 18k in the UK Then if they work for years they might increase in pay band from like 2 to 4 which takes them up to like 20k-22k Absolute joke for the hard work they do
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by slifin 4y ago
We're collectively and purposefully ignoring an absolute ton of issues with cars
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by slifin 5y ago
Got a feeling this is going to be a net positive for the world I don't know any developers who are excited about Jira but I know plenty of managers who are
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by slifin 5y ago
Could easily achieve this in Clojure with spec and rcf or spec and pre/post Everytime I inject new code into the running application I can check the static and runtime shape of things with a specification language In fact there's
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by slifin 5y ago
I feel like no one talks about Google Project Starline any more Maybe because Google themselves haven't really spoken about it for about a year?
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by slifin 5y ago
I'm learning structural editing at work at the moment, the most useful ones for me so far have been: - slurp forward - raise
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by slifin 5y ago
Treadmill desk has worked for me so far If you have a standing desk already you just need a treadmill I worried before I bought the treadmill that I would be too un-stable to use a computer but that isn't the case it works no problem I
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by slifin 5y ago
Clojure it's runtime is fast and lively enough that I can iterate my feedback loop for great developer ergonomics Then all I need to do is focus on how to pace my thinking and taking regular breaks My treadmill desk is helping with tha
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by slifin 5y ago
I would not conflate slow feedback loops with intentional breaks For me slow feedback loops push me into dopamine seeking activities, intentional breaks push me into relaxation and deep thought Recently I got a treadmill desk and the physic
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by slifin 5y ago
The best workers I've seen have always been close to stakeholders and have a large set of permissions and a high degree of autonomy Today everyone is scared or unable to give those things to juniors so we lean on agile processes instea
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by slifin 5y ago
Reddit conversation here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Clojure/comments/r1x1ji/juxt_blog_a...
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by slifin 5y ago
Fish is so good I think I'm using shellder and some other bits But I just use it as a way to run commands, and I use dynamic languages to create scripts just not bash..
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by slifin 5y ago
For context I use phpstorm and Clojure Here is a video I recorded which hopefully demonstrates just how much faster you can go in Clojure https://youtu.be/L0af0bc5Jec Like I think a parent comment said it's hard to exp
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by slifin 5y ago
I live in a walkable urban location and have never drove, in order to shop without having to worry about carrying heavy milk etc I just use a trolley capable of going up steps it cost me £35 and allows me to carry a lot more comfortably Bef
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by slifin 5y ago
So many developers think encryption means it's completely fine to have unrelated security failures Encryption at rest is a protection against physical theft that's it Encrypting a hot relational database is madness but I've s
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by slifin 5y ago
I've been here before I came to Clojure from F#/ReasonML/C#/PHP/JavaScript so I understand the comfort in specifying something with a type system and what it's like to not have one and what it's like to ha
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by slifin 5y ago
As someone that uses Clojure as a hobbyist I don't think I've ever used the fact it's a homoiconic language in my programs But I do suspect it's helping me indirectly it does make it easier to write static analysis tools
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by slifin 5y ago
There's no rule that says you can't use multiple editors I'm happy taking advantage of the strengths of many editors for many different situations

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