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by yogthos 7y ago
My team is developing full stack apps with Clojure, and using Clojure on the backend with ClojureScript on the frontend is completely seamless. I copresented a talk on the platform my team develops and how we leverage Clojure features there
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by yogthos 7y ago
Obviously we should take action against all kinds of threats. My point is that the reaction to this virus is completely disproportional to the level of the threat. Meanwhile, lack of reaction to an actual existential threat we're facin
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by yogthos 7y ago
This virus is not a threat to long term survival of the human species by any stretch of imagination. Meanwhile the collapse of our biosphere is an existential threat. What's more, we know that we have a very short window to make any me
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by yogthos 7y ago
Imagine if people would get as excited about actual problems like global warming and the unfolding mass extinction as they do about a new mild flu.
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by yogthos 7y ago
I don't really see anything worrisome about that actually. This indicates that there is a stable community around the language, and while it would be nice for Clojure community to keep growing, it's very much sustainable at this p
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by yogthos 7y ago
I would pick Clojure over any statically typed FP language simply because it's far easier to train news devs for it. My team has been using it for close to a decade now, and we've only hired a single person who already knew Clojur
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by yogthos 7y ago
Yeah that's fantastic growth. I completely agree that the genie is out of the bottle now because with so many users there's a sufficient population of technical users who will develop, maintain, and host ActivityPub based services
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by yogthos 7y ago
#deletefacebook has been great for Mastodon, it's currently at over 2 million users and growing actively
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by yogthos 7y ago
I wrote a bot to mirror Twitter/Tumblr/RSS to Mastodon https://github.com/yogthos/mastodon-bot
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by yogthos 7y ago
I think that decentralization has to be the solution. Having a handful of websites run by megacorps was not how the internet was meant to work. The fediverse around ActiviyPub is looking very promising. Mastodon is the most prominent servic
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by yogthos 7y ago
Communication happens at server level where different instances can choose to federate with one another. Your account lives on a particular server along with the data associated with it such as your posts.
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by yogthos 7y ago
I really think that open source federated services are the future. There are now a bunch of these services all using the same protocol called ActivityPub. PeetTube is a YouTube alternative, PixelFed replaces instagram, Lemmy is an alternati
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Clojure Beginner Resources(gist.github.com)
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by yogthos 7y ago
I really recommend just forcing yourself to use it for a week or so. You just have to switch your mindset to the opening paren being a control character for starting an expression. I just don't look at the parens at all when I work wit
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by yogthos 7y ago
That is absolutely not the case. There's a huge difference between having immutable constructs available in a language and immutability being the default. Clojure is built around the idea of immutability from ground up. It makes it nat
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by yogthos 7y ago
My team used to be a Java shop, we adopted Clojure around a decade ago and never looked back. Not really sure what this whole compiler telling the developer what to do is supposed to mean to be honest. One of the advantages of using a Lisp
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by yogthos 7y ago
I had around a decade professional experience with Java before I started using Clojure. Within months I was able to easily tackle problems that were daunting for me in Java using Clojure. I having used many languages during my career, I def
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by yogthos 7y ago
On the other hand, these talented people chose Lisp over other options. Maybe their talent is also what let them recognize the value of Lisp, and that they would have a much harder time solving those problems with anything else.
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Clojure/north early bird tickets are now on sale(twitter.com)
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by yogthos 7y ago
I installed it using Snap and Let's Encrypt using this guide [1], and everything worked out of the box. Been running and upgrading it since without a single issue. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ [1] https://www.digitalocean.com/communi
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by yogthos 7y ago
Sure, easy for a technical person. That said, Digital Ocean has automated backups, and security mostly consists of making sure you do your updates in a timely fashion. I've literally had to do no other ops work in over a year running N
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by yogthos 7y ago
There's a friendly sign up guide available now https://joinmastodon.org/
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by yogthos 7y ago
I setup a personal NextCloud instance on a $5 Digital Ocean last year, and along with Fastmail, it replaced all the Google services I've been using. It took about an hour to get up and running, it went through version updates without a
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Ubiquitous interface – how to integrate things in Clojure(mauricio.szabo.link)
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Why Clojure Is My Favourite Language(slipset.github.io)
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by yogthos 7y ago
GPU shaders are a good example.
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by yogthos 7y ago
It's not about designing a simpler language than C, but rather one that matches what hardware is actually doing better. The example in the article is how GPU programming works. To make the most out of modern hardware we need to change
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by yogthos 7y ago
A lot of people have a misconception that C is close to the way hardware works. The reality is that hardware engineers jump through lots of hoops so that C programmers can keep pretending that they're coding against a really fast PDP-1
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Building Mobile Apps (iOS and Android) with ClojureScript(medium.com)
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Twitter wants to decentralize, but social network creators don’t trust it(theverge.com)
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