When your job depends on it you tend to work really hard at believing that advertising is necessary and actually it's good, actually actually relevant ads are helpful! After all, if it wasn't then what am I doing with…
Only in theory, with branching factors of 32, they are not remotely equivalent unless you have a supercomputer counting atoms in a universe or something.
Useful to specify that it is log32N, not log2N since that makes an enormous different in practice. Also, if you care about that then you can use transients (if no one knows you mutated the data structure then it still…
Why didn't it work? Paizo had a big jump in sales ... for Paizo, the numbers are a rounding error for WotC. Same with the DnDBeyond boycott drive, did that actually make a dent? To me there is basically no evidence for…
It might be that they are out of touch but there is another very sensible reason for all this. They view D&D as extremely under-monetized (pretty reasonable, they don't make much off each player on average) and they…
This is a segment of geek culture that has all sorts of ego/identity stuff tied up with these brands. So when they don't "act properly" it feels like it reflects on them and they take it personally. That's the downside…
I honestly don't understand it completely, but there are a lot of casual players who will not even read the rules intro in the players handbook, and will play for a long time without ever learning how their character…
WotC owns or controls all the places those creators sell their stuff. So they definitely have the economic means to force creators to abandon the old license. They will also probbaly just threaten people with their odd…
They are going to "revoke" that license in the way that you will no longer be able to sell content with that license in the stores they control (which are all of the ones that matter).
In practice it's much harder to avoid. Especially with the new players driving all the recent growth. The brand is so dominant that in any group most of the players will play D&D or they will not play. If you don't have…
Yes? The entire industry is obsessed with onboarding and first-experience ease and intuitive interfaces and making things "just work", etc, etc. This includes Linux, which still has rough edges but the approach of just…
They aren't automatically more capable, it's just a well known and frequently noticed fact that Clojure tends to attract more senior developers, and the community is very senior dev heavy compared to other language…
I have basically the same experience doing cljs dev that I do with clj dev, when it comes to being REPL-driven. I know that the setup for cljs is a bit more involved and things will break sometimes (putting a browser in…
It is a very weird unexpected artifact of Clojure being so focused on backwards compatibility. People finish excellent libraries and because they don't need to constantly update them because they still work perfectly…
> I'm explaining to you why Clojure won't reach mass adoption I don't think you need to explain that, it's a conservative ecosystem for experienced devs, that was the target niche it was always aiming for. It's…
This is why it's a bad idea to evaluate software technologies entirely by what shows up in the social media hype cycle news. The only metric you learn from that is "what's the new fad that I can get attention by writing…
I did learn Clojure on my own, and the first time I shipped Clojure was doing some contract work with some other clojurists I met at a meetup. As for breaking in, I'd suggest meeting some other developers if you can,…
Don't forget your phone is much more deeply tied to your identity through your cell company contract and the OS account information is more likely to be closely tied to your identity. It's also much rarer for someone to…
I've chosen to specialize in Clojure and it hasn't been difficult at all, in fact in a lot of ways it has been easier. I was already a senior dev when I started with Clojure, but having Clojure experience on top of that…
I love my UHK too but the trackpoint is pretty disappointing, even after you mess with the movement settings to make it slightly less janky. The thumb modules are a huge drop in build quality compared to the excellent…
It seems to come down to different views on what this means. Some people want leadership who will listen to user demands and apply pressure to the community to push them to work on things in those directions. Clojure…
They will absolutely study the use of sound bites/memes like this one in political discussions though. The "but that's definitely untrue", "yeah, ok, but ... you know what I mean, right?" type comments build a very…
Murdoch's international scope and relatively ruthless and firm handed narrative control.
Elite overproduction does seem a much more sensible focus here. If you want to blame the internet, then the obvious path is the "shared story" angle. There was a single mainstream dominant narrative for a while, but it…
I think the clojure syntax, with those symbols differentiated, is a pretty great choice. The choice of default meanings is good too, lists/application, indexed sequences and k/v mappings are useful widely used primitive…
When your job depends on it you tend to work really hard at believing that advertising is necessary and actually it's good, actually actually relevant ads are helpful! After all, if it wasn't then what am I doing with…
Only in theory, with branching factors of 32, they are not remotely equivalent unless you have a supercomputer counting atoms in a universe or something.
Useful to specify that it is log32N, not log2N since that makes an enormous different in practice. Also, if you care about that then you can use transients (if no one knows you mutated the data structure then it still…
Why didn't it work? Paizo had a big jump in sales ... for Paizo, the numbers are a rounding error for WotC. Same with the DnDBeyond boycott drive, did that actually make a dent? To me there is basically no evidence for…
It might be that they are out of touch but there is another very sensible reason for all this. They view D&D as extremely under-monetized (pretty reasonable, they don't make much off each player on average) and they…
This is a segment of geek culture that has all sorts of ego/identity stuff tied up with these brands. So when they don't "act properly" it feels like it reflects on them and they take it personally. That's the downside…
I honestly don't understand it completely, but there are a lot of casual players who will not even read the rules intro in the players handbook, and will play for a long time without ever learning how their character…
WotC owns or controls all the places those creators sell their stuff. So they definitely have the economic means to force creators to abandon the old license. They will also probbaly just threaten people with their odd…
They are going to "revoke" that license in the way that you will no longer be able to sell content with that license in the stores they control (which are all of the ones that matter).
In practice it's much harder to avoid. Especially with the new players driving all the recent growth. The brand is so dominant that in any group most of the players will play D&D or they will not play. If you don't have…
Yes? The entire industry is obsessed with onboarding and first-experience ease and intuitive interfaces and making things "just work", etc, etc. This includes Linux, which still has rough edges but the approach of just…
They aren't automatically more capable, it's just a well known and frequently noticed fact that Clojure tends to attract more senior developers, and the community is very senior dev heavy compared to other language…
I have basically the same experience doing cljs dev that I do with clj dev, when it comes to being REPL-driven. I know that the setup for cljs is a bit more involved and things will break sometimes (putting a browser in…
It is a very weird unexpected artifact of Clojure being so focused on backwards compatibility. People finish excellent libraries and because they don't need to constantly update them because they still work perfectly…
> I'm explaining to you why Clojure won't reach mass adoption I don't think you need to explain that, it's a conservative ecosystem for experienced devs, that was the target niche it was always aiming for. It's…
This is why it's a bad idea to evaluate software technologies entirely by what shows up in the social media hype cycle news. The only metric you learn from that is "what's the new fad that I can get attention by writing…
I did learn Clojure on my own, and the first time I shipped Clojure was doing some contract work with some other clojurists I met at a meetup. As for breaking in, I'd suggest meeting some other developers if you can,…
Don't forget your phone is much more deeply tied to your identity through your cell company contract and the OS account information is more likely to be closely tied to your identity. It's also much rarer for someone to…
I've chosen to specialize in Clojure and it hasn't been difficult at all, in fact in a lot of ways it has been easier. I was already a senior dev when I started with Clojure, but having Clojure experience on top of that…
I love my UHK too but the trackpoint is pretty disappointing, even after you mess with the movement settings to make it slightly less janky. The thumb modules are a huge drop in build quality compared to the excellent…
It seems to come down to different views on what this means. Some people want leadership who will listen to user demands and apply pressure to the community to push them to work on things in those directions. Clojure…
They will absolutely study the use of sound bites/memes like this one in political discussions though. The "but that's definitely untrue", "yeah, ok, but ... you know what I mean, right?" type comments build a very…
Murdoch's international scope and relatively ruthless and firm handed narrative control.
Elite overproduction does seem a much more sensible focus here. If you want to blame the internet, then the obvious path is the "shared story" angle. There was a single mainstream dominant narrative for a while, but it…
I think the clojure syntax, with those symbols differentiated, is a pretty great choice. The choice of default meanings is good too, lists/application, indexed sequences and k/v mappings are useful widely used primitive…