zebraman

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by zebraman 8y ago
Using modern Clojure's clj is so much easier than the CL procedure.
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by zebraman 8y ago
"This isn’t the case in a language like Java, where access to the outside world is mixed in with other functionality." That's why there is a SecurityManager: https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/e
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The state of Asterisk Contact Centres – results are out(queuemetrics.com)
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IVR: The Call Center Warm-Up Band (by Allison Smith, the Voice of Asterisk)(queuemetrics.com)
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Say-cheez: capture build details at compile time(github.com)
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by zebraman 8y ago
Not sure if it is me, but for a long time I have kept away from anything perl of moderate complexity. Package management used to be atrocious - it would be slow, pull a ton of modules, compile them with the C toolchain, break for missing de
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by zebraman 8y ago
> I hope that some derivative of perl can rise from the ashes, because I'm too stupid to write actual lisp programs, but perl allows me to emulate what I imagine lisp programmers must feel. Well, there is Clojure. You can script it
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SignalWire Launches Twilio Alternative with Disruptive Pricing(businesswire.com)
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Alex Miller: Dependency Heaven (talk transcript, Clojure)(github.com)
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Teach Yourself to Echolocate: A beginner’s guide to navigating with sound(atlasobscura.com)
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The Bloomberg article about SuperMicro is bogus, here's why(reddit.com)
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Datomic Ions in Seven Minutes (Talk Transcript)(github.com)
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by zebraman 8y ago
Reflection is partially emulated, IIRC.
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by zebraman 8y ago
What I'm saying is that it breaks when you do a Class.forName(...), while if such class is known to exist at compile time, it is the same as a switch statement on the class name that returns a new object of the same type; and that seco
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by zebraman 8y ago
Personally, I wonder why class-loading is not possible. In the end either a class exists in the closed-world that existed when the project was compiled, or it does not. Of course you cannot change the JDBC connector after it was compiled!
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by zebraman 8y ago
We are starting to do that, and for very simple operations, it works (like scripts for maintenance that we deploy remotely, and run as cron jobs). So far no big surprises, but we were very careful. The big minefield is that you do not reall
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by zebraman 8y ago
For command-line applications, it opens up an interesting space. There was a post on HN a while ago: https://www.astrecipes.net/blog/2018/07/20/cmd-line-apps-wit... though the system requirements for com