butternoodle

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by butternoodle 3y ago
I'm tickled you asked ChatGPT but I think it misses the the forest for the trees somewhat. 1. Architecture - XTDB is designed to work with Kafka, but it also works with typical JDBC databases as a datastore. Datomic can use SQL databas
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by butternoodle 3y ago
Can you elaborate?
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by butternoodle 3y ago
Then you're asking a rhetorical question to be snarky.
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by butternoodle 3y ago
The following quote was written in 1930, in the New York Times: "Some day no one will have to work more than two days a week... The human being can consume so much and no more. When we reach the point when the world produces all the go
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by butternoodle 4y ago
That's an interesting take. What makes you think diversity played a major role? Does this happen often in your country? Where I am "diversity" hiring would be regarded as dysfunctional at best.
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by butternoodle 4y ago
To each their own! I feel the same way about Algol family languages, too many arbitrary design decisions that have been internalised for decades at this point for my liking.
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by butternoodle 4y ago
SBCL's save-lisp-and-die is my all time favourite function name. It's so unintentionally melodramatic :)
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by butternoodle 4y ago
I have no intention of being snarky and I'd like to engage in good faith, but I'm aware of how this will read: How is it a useful metaphor? I don't understand how you can use it to extrapolate from a situation in which you va
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by butternoodle 4y ago
I may be mistaken but I think Electric Clojure renders HTMX unnecessary. Where HTMX still works by a developer specifying the network calls (albeit in a declarative manner), Electric Clojure hands over the same responsibility to the compile
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by butternoodle 4y ago
As a security guy I would say this situation happens with reasonable frequency in REST web frameworks where developers are encouraged to use ORMs[0], and the design of Hyperfiddle/Electric is no more likely to fall victim to it. I&#x27
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by butternoodle 4y ago
State is data over time!
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by butternoodle 4y ago
* Predictability and convention are more important than totally clean design. Over the course of a language lifetime, code style best practice is going to change so you almost certainly won't have uniform interfaces. Your Clojure examp
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by butternoodle 4y ago
My recommendation is to use Portacle as your IDE and run through Practical Common Lisp by Peter Seibel over the course of a few days. Both are available for free online and very easy to get set up with. Practical Common Lisp provides a good