Absolutely this. When facing a tough problem it’s a great tactic to write out what you’re trying to solve and how you plan to solve it in prose-style English. I’ve done it often without ever sharing my writings with…
I agree with this to a large extent. A new codebase in the latest Java/whatever can be OK. But most of the time I feel like it's dealing with the same bad code, with just a smattering of nice syntax on top. I started…
See also Liberator for Clojure
Seems to be a typo? $ perl6 -e 'say "नि".codes' 2
Presumably a riff on "Lisp has no syntax"
Also Perl: 5.20 is current stable, 5.21 is unstable but will eventually lead to 5.22. http://perldoc.perl.org/perlfaq1.html#How-often-are-new-vers...
Yes. My experience of hiring is that it is extremely hard and imprecise. I prefer to give the candidates every advantage possible. I would help them to the extent of my abilities in a work situation, so I see no use in…
That's only superficially the same. There's questions and there's "let's work through this" questions. The latter are awesome when explicitly stated as such and can be (should be?) as hard as you want to make them - I…
Love it! One of my favourite bad interview questions. I got asked this in an interview ~5 years ago. My response was to look shocked... Pause. Then ask: "What do you mean? What detail do you need? DNS? SYN / ACK? HTTP?"…
Saw the presentation for this at ClojureX in London. I'm definitely interested to have a look https://skillsmatter.com/skillscasts/5738-keynote-by-kyle-ki...
Oh wow. The attitude on display is really not good.
That's a great book. I've just started reading I Am A Strange Loop by Hofstadter and it's promising. Also by Hofstadter: Le Ton beau de Marot was a good read. GEB is the big one, but if you like his style - probably…
Re. "Continuously Deliver them to the Docker Registry". Is this focussed on open projects going to the public registry? Or will you provide a private one / integrate with services like quay.io, etc.? EDIT: Love CircleCI…
Yeah. Bad use of 'patent' maybe. Just interesting that the same arguments are provably going around and around.
Possibly more interesting... start the video from the beginning and they're talking about software patents. The same points were being brought up then as now. But yes. Good video! Cheers!
It's Wiki is pretty killer. That may not sound like much, but it's pretty awesome. I use it as a reference on a few things even when dealing with other Linux distros. e.g. The page on SSH basically starts with how to…
> The consensus in the community right now is to not get carried away with macros and DSLs. Even if your library provides a DSL, it should be based on a functional API that is mostly usable without macros. Yup. But what…
Thanks for this; pretty much the response I was expecting but very well said. My opinion is that functions that take quoted code do actually do the 99% job of macros pretty well. I also think creating completely new…
Kinda fair - I meant "homoiconic" in the loose sense of having macros that can manipulate expressions as data and which has mechanisms such as quote/unquote to do so. That's what many people see as the reason for…
100% agreed. I've been looking at Elixir occasionally for a year or so... It's getting better and better. It certainly takes a lot from Clojure, but with a real Erlang / OTP twist. (It also recognises that…
Really hope this doesn't sound like belabouring the point but... > tpope is one of only a few driving forces over on the Vim side of Clojure tpope is indeed one of the few, but I'd hate for people to dismiss…
All analogies break down. Of course. How about (staying with the building analogies because I'm in a building right now and looking around trying to think of analogies...) the electrician who has wired your flat? You…
For this comment I'll try to stick to one specific thing. I'll focus on the mechanic analogy, but I do think the premise of the article is flawed. I have some thoughts about burnout in programmers etc. but they aren't…
I'm a big proponent of everything-behind-http because of the way it introduces a common language for integrating disparate services. However! as someone who has had to debug some particularly gnarly email issues in the…
> Explicit declaration of the scope of a variable at initialization leads to unintended global namespace pollution when omitting the declaration is legal and causes the variable to be placed in the global scope Ah, but…
Absolutely this. When facing a tough problem it’s a great tactic to write out what you’re trying to solve and how you plan to solve it in prose-style English. I’ve done it often without ever sharing my writings with…
I agree with this to a large extent. A new codebase in the latest Java/whatever can be OK. But most of the time I feel like it's dealing with the same bad code, with just a smattering of nice syntax on top. I started…
See also Liberator for Clojure
Seems to be a typo? $ perl6 -e 'say "नि".codes' 2
Presumably a riff on "Lisp has no syntax"
Also Perl: 5.20 is current stable, 5.21 is unstable but will eventually lead to 5.22. http://perldoc.perl.org/perlfaq1.html#How-often-are-new-vers...
Yes. My experience of hiring is that it is extremely hard and imprecise. I prefer to give the candidates every advantage possible. I would help them to the extent of my abilities in a work situation, so I see no use in…
That's only superficially the same. There's questions and there's "let's work through this" questions. The latter are awesome when explicitly stated as such and can be (should be?) as hard as you want to make them - I…
Love it! One of my favourite bad interview questions. I got asked this in an interview ~5 years ago. My response was to look shocked... Pause. Then ask: "What do you mean? What detail do you need? DNS? SYN / ACK? HTTP?"…
Saw the presentation for this at ClojureX in London. I'm definitely interested to have a look https://skillsmatter.com/skillscasts/5738-keynote-by-kyle-ki...
Oh wow. The attitude on display is really not good.
That's a great book. I've just started reading I Am A Strange Loop by Hofstadter and it's promising. Also by Hofstadter: Le Ton beau de Marot was a good read. GEB is the big one, but if you like his style - probably…
Re. "Continuously Deliver them to the Docker Registry". Is this focussed on open projects going to the public registry? Or will you provide a private one / integrate with services like quay.io, etc.? EDIT: Love CircleCI…
Yeah. Bad use of 'patent' maybe. Just interesting that the same arguments are provably going around and around.
Possibly more interesting... start the video from the beginning and they're talking about software patents. The same points were being brought up then as now. But yes. Good video! Cheers!
It's Wiki is pretty killer. That may not sound like much, but it's pretty awesome. I use it as a reference on a few things even when dealing with other Linux distros. e.g. The page on SSH basically starts with how to…
> The consensus in the community right now is to not get carried away with macros and DSLs. Even if your library provides a DSL, it should be based on a functional API that is mostly usable without macros. Yup. But what…
Thanks for this; pretty much the response I was expecting but very well said. My opinion is that functions that take quoted code do actually do the 99% job of macros pretty well. I also think creating completely new…
Kinda fair - I meant "homoiconic" in the loose sense of having macros that can manipulate expressions as data and which has mechanisms such as quote/unquote to do so. That's what many people see as the reason for…
100% agreed. I've been looking at Elixir occasionally for a year or so... It's getting better and better. It certainly takes a lot from Clojure, but with a real Erlang / OTP twist. (It also recognises that…
Really hope this doesn't sound like belabouring the point but... > tpope is one of only a few driving forces over on the Vim side of Clojure tpope is indeed one of the few, but I'd hate for people to dismiss…
All analogies break down. Of course. How about (staying with the building analogies because I'm in a building right now and looking around trying to think of analogies...) the electrician who has wired your flat? You…
For this comment I'll try to stick to one specific thing. I'll focus on the mechanic analogy, but I do think the premise of the article is flawed. I have some thoughts about burnout in programmers etc. but they aren't…
I'm a big proponent of everything-behind-http because of the way it introduces a common language for integrating disparate services. However! as someone who has had to debug some particularly gnarly email issues in the…
> Explicit declaration of the scope of a variable at initialization leads to unintended global namespace pollution when omitting the declaration is legal and causes the variable to be placed in the global scope Ah, but…