uDontKnowMe

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by uDontKnowMe 2y ago
I'm not so sure. I wish it were as you say but there are currently 5600 job postings mentioning Scala on LinkedIn in the USA, vs 82 that mention Clojure. 82! In the entire USA. So even in its state of relative decline, Scala might be a
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by uDontKnowMe 5y ago
What about Avro then?
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by uDontKnowMe 5y ago
It's interesting you call relationships on Reddit para-social, I don't know if that quite fits the word because Reddit is more of a two-way reciprocal relationship between commenters. Perhaps Twitter fits that description better s
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by uDontKnowMe 5y ago
Consistently interesting content coming out of Pragmatic Bookshelf publishers these days. Recently, I have particularly enjoyed the Ray Tracer Challenge ( https://pragprog.com/titles/jbtracer/the-ray-tracer-challeng
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by uDontKnowMe 5y ago
Thank you so much for this, it's great work!
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by uDontKnowMe 5y ago
Unfortunately even if you only cared about plants, you would still be better off on a vegan diet because animal agriculture requires order(s) of magnitude more plants to be cultivated than a vegan diet would, on account of it taking many ca
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by uDontKnowMe 5y ago
The food chain is an abstraction that describes the natural world, not a moral agent any more than the water cycle is. Wild animals predate in the wild, yes, but they aren't moral agents. Humans are able to reason about our own actions
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by uDontKnowMe 5y ago
I have to point out the obvious, that this chart doesn't pass the smell test and must have done something really wrong to conclude that in 2021, JS and Python power less websites than Scala.
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by uDontKnowMe 5y ago
Really dislike the "written in Rust" suffix all the time...
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by uDontKnowMe 5y ago
Why wouldn't companies raise their prices to match demand in the long term?
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by uDontKnowMe 5y ago
Would there not be a risk that you may get something working nicely in openjdk and then you go to do a native compilation, and it turns out that it doesn't work due to some new method call which uses reflection or something?
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by uDontKnowMe 5y ago
I explored this briefly but it ended up taking about 25 seconds to compile hello-world in Clojure. That struck me as causing a lot of pain to develop for. That, combined with how you'd lose access to a lot of the java library ecosystem
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by uDontKnowMe 5y ago
What do you mean by democratic? Are you thinking of some kind of election system to replace mods, and if so have you seen such a mechanism work anywhere else on forums?
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by uDontKnowMe 5y ago
Sorry, to be more precise, I'm seeing in total roughly: - 6.8% old reddit - 5.8% mobile web - 72% new reddit - 15.6% reddit apps
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by uDontKnowMe 5y ago
I think it's a common misconception that old.reddit.com is still extremely popular. As a mod of a medium-large sub which should skew highly towards old.reddit.com (developer-focussed content, created at around the beginning of reddit i
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by uDontKnowMe 5y ago
Have you considered rabbitmq or nats?
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by uDontKnowMe 5y ago
>Exactly, and all you need is Any If you're using Any, then your program is (at least in part) dynamically typed. I don't think it's fair to say "look! Static typing is better than dynamic typing in any and all situat
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by uDontKnowMe 5y ago
An other Ray Tracing book I've really been enjoying recently is the Ray Tracer Challenge by Jamis Buck https://pragprog.com/titles/jbtracer/the-ray-tracer-challeng...
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by uDontKnowMe 5y ago
That's true! But now we'll get into what is possible vs what is idiomatic, common, and supported by the language/stdlib/tooling/libraries/community. If I remember correctly, Rich Hickey did actually do some dev
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by uDontKnowMe 5y ago
I've seen this article and I applaud it for addressing the issue thoroughly but I still am not convinced that static typing as we know it is as flexible and generic as dynamic typing. Let's go at this from an other angle, with a t
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by uDontKnowMe 5y ago
Not who you are responding to, but the common idea that static types are all win and no cost has become very popular these days, but isn't true, it's just that the benefits of static typing are immediately apparent and obvious, bu
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by uDontKnowMe 5y ago
Yes I agree there is a problem of a lack of institutional funding in the Clojure world. Luminus is a great tool but it is a bit sad that it is arguably the most production-ready web toolkit in the ecosystem and it is mostly the work of a si
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by uDontKnowMe 5y ago
That's right. You typically would have your text editor/ide open, and the process you're developing would expose a repl port which your editor can connect to. As you edit the source code, that will automatically update the co
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by uDontKnowMe 5y ago
There is the widely used Luminus framework https://luminusweb.com/
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by uDontKnowMe 5y ago
Thanks for that great series! It reminded me a lot of this demo for O'Doyle Rules, a Clojure rules engine library, wherein the author demos a dungeon crawler style video game written top to bottom using only the rules engine for logic
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by uDontKnowMe 5y ago
This is way old ancient irrelevant news as the project never really took off and was quickly abandoned/contributors refocussed on Scala proper. That was also many major versions of Scala ago (2.11, which has since been succeeded by 2.1
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by uDontKnowMe 5y ago
I don't think this is universally true, no. Historically there have been large migrations of developers from traditional statically typed languages towards Ruby/Python/JS/Groovy/Clojure. In fact, Clojure was designe
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by uDontKnowMe 5y ago
Thank you fogus and the team for your work on these tools!
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by uDontKnowMe 5y ago
Which community/platform has tried this?
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by uDontKnowMe 5y ago
I like: Defn: https://podtail.com/en/podcast/defn/ The REPL: https://www.therepl.net/episodes/ (Seems to have gone quiet) ClojureScript Podcast: https://clojurescriptpodcast.c

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