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by vemv 8y ago
Given the comment section is devoted to definitions, I'll add mine: the single most important characteristic of proper FP is _strictly segregated side effects_. At a high level, many e.g. Clojure programs are indistinguishable from an
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by vemv 8y ago
Quite obviously emotions are a continuum that correlates with intelligence. The most intelligent animals feel/express the most sophisticated emotions. To think otherwise would be clearly contrary to science (i.e. you believe in souls t
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by vemv 8y ago
I cannot walk around the city and determine who is using Tinder. But with this app I can purposefully visit a place known to have a user. i.e. real-world interactions have a lot more repercussions than cyber-bullying.
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by vemv 8y ago
Can only women locate men (resembling Bumble)? Either way, couldn't this app be a handy tool for antisocial behavior? (anything from laughing at randomers to finding a victim of some sort of crime)
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by vemv 8y ago
The final result looks too widget-y/SPA-y, overloaded with information. That's precisely a front where GH wins (over Gitlab): it's visually calm and sparse, ideal for something that would be part of daily, thoughtful work.
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by vemv 8y ago
Exactly; happy someone said this before me. 'Toxic' is just a slightly more sophisticated way of saying 'big mean jerk' (i.e. something completely subjective and open to interpretation).
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by vemv 8y ago
The keycaps can't be easily DIYed right?
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by vemv 8y ago
As a software developer you should be more empathetic towards the author. Doesn't he, like you, deserve a paycheck every month?
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by vemv 8y ago
Kudos for all the contributions! Worth pointng out: if you know exactly how to use a function, how much of an actual problem is that the docstring is contrived? I'd sure like nicer docstrings, but also I understand that the authors (co
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by vemv 8y ago
The repeated message from the authors is that clojure.core docstrings are not gonna improve. If you think it's an easy problem to solve, please point out a single resource (library, website) which is 100% high-quality, comprehensive, u
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by vemv 8y ago
I don't think one can do proper, robust Event Sourcing without having first a few years experience in hardcore functional programming (particularly of the variant that strictly segregates side-effects), something most of us lack. OO an
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by vemv 8y ago
Fair point... but, events in the style of "User address changed" are very repetitive, wasteful, fragile etc. So stopping seeing user-address-change as (primarily) an event is a win. One always can fall back later to perceiving use
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by vemv 8y ago
It will be very rare to find companies publicizing high-paid remote offers. They would get swamped with the the wrong applicants. I'd go for well-established US companies which use something you are an expert in. Then I'd try to p
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by vemv 8y ago
Exciting stuff. There's been bit of a Lisp renaissance over the last 5-10 years (thanks to the Emacs packaging system, Clojure) so this could be the next logical step for someone who writes parens for a living.
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by vemv 8y ago
I hope AWS realises that harming OSS authors, even indirectly, is counterproductive to AWS' interests. If Mongo dies, so does its userbase, and so does DocumentDB. How to fix it classily? Contribute back with code maintenance or whatev
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by vemv 8y ago
Clojure + ClojureScript * One language across the whole stack * Its approach for React makes it both easier to grasp and more correct/maintainable than its ES6 counterpart * Gradual typing for the parts that matter * The overall experi
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by vemv 8y ago
I feel deeply aligned with the goals of this project, but unfortunately (for me) I think a given solution is not really hackable unless it's open source. Depending on a given indivudual's opinions, availability, etc tends to be at
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by vemv 8y ago
What if photovoltaic technology just isn't actually ready for showtime? i.e. it may need more research, so there's a clear recycling plan for each unit. We've seen this sort of thing before - being too quick to proclaim X is
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by vemv 8y ago
Not unreasonable, but what about the mass animal extinction we are currently undergoing? Is that something that routinely happens? And in the precise historical moment of peak human activity?
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by vemv 8y ago
As one can see in two other top-level comments in this thread, the choice of an all-caps DSL is off-putting. It would be more idiomatic to have a hiccup-like API, where data is passed - not code, not syntax. And the keywords should be names
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by vemv 8y ago
You don't need any espionage to implement and release the new Amazon Kafka product. Kafka is an open source package after all. Profiting from any marginal gain from such espionage would be deterred by the huge reputational risk for AWS
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by vemv 8y ago
Whether we are fans or not, keeping up with (and discussing) new AWS offerings is extremely relevant for practitioners.
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by vemv 8y ago
Imagine belonging to an expert, seasoned team that masters a given technique. Literally the worldwide top 1% for that technique works under your roof. You don't take feature development lightly: each feature will be discussed and polis
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by vemv 8y ago
As http://tech.trello.com/why-we-chose-kafka/ points out, Redis Streams would be another alternative. It seems still underdocumented though as it's a recent addition. I created https://github.com/a
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by vemv 8y ago
It's made by Google which boasts about its 15y experience on containers?
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by vemv 8y ago
What bothers me about k8s is that it promises a lot ("15 years of experience of running production workloads at Google" at your fingertips! yay!) but it's in fact still a young, ever-changing solution. Even developing an ap
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by vemv 8y ago
Ha ha, sounds like a good problem to have :) Can't help sadly, generally computers will leave me well awake for at least a couple hours since the moment I'm done.
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by vemv 8y ago
Looks like event-driven systems are all the rage now! I feel there's still too much competition/innovation in the message queue space though. Too many choices, with maddeningly different characteristics. And seemingly you can twea
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by vemv 8y ago
At work, I hate sitting (despite owning a couple very specific chairs that I'm actually comfortably in) and I also hate standing. Both seem to keep my body/mind tense - which is at odds with the deep focusing/relaxation I nee
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by vemv 8y ago
I'm a bit hesitant about this article's proposition, although I'm open to be convinced. In the end there's a GIL. For pure CPU-bound workloads, your only true source of parallelism will be putting more processes into the

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