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by xmlblog 5mo ago
This. Maybe there's a market opportunity for people who want to be treated like cattle, but even Spirit couldn't find it.
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by xmlblog 1y ago
The comments are pretty convincing evidence that most people see only everyone else's complexity while slowly boiling in their own.
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by xmlblog 3y ago
Rent-seeking, anyone?
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Morse, an open-source interactive tool for inspecting Clojure(clojure.org)
173 points by xmlblog 3y ago|37 comments
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by xmlblog 3y ago
> "small-ish backoffice systems that never has to be web scale". Doesn't production use of Datomic by Nubank and Netflix (to mention just two examples) belie this assertion?
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by xmlblog 3y ago
> If you have 10s or 100s of app servers that has the exact same working set in memory, it's probably not worth it. The introduction of intelligent application-level partitioning [1] and routing schemes can help one balance cost and
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by xmlblog 3y ago
Having the working set present on app servers means they don't put load on a precious centralized resource which becomes a bottleneck for reads. The peer model allows app servers to service reads directly, avoiding the cost of contenti
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by xmlblog 3y ago
Newer releases have improved significantly in this area. It's now possible to understand perf implications with the addition of io-stats[1] and query-stats[2]. [1] https://docs.datomic.com/pro/api/io-stats.htm
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by xmlblog 3y ago
Free beer binaries are not mutually exclusive of Enterprise support agreements featuring all those things you mentioned above _for people that need that_.
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by xmlblog 3y ago
Netflix, Facebook (Meta), Nubank, and many others.
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by xmlblog 3y ago
Attending https://2023.clojure-conj.org/schedule/
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Datomic is Free(blog.datomic.com)
1099 points by xmlblog 3y ago|368 comments
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Datomic Implicit Partitions(blog.datomic.com)
38 points by xmlblog 3y ago|4 comments
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by xmlblog 4y ago
A company that wastes its own money and its candidates' time by failing to screen out any of its red flags as soon as they are known is a red flag.
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by xmlblog 4y ago
I mean... 1. https://clojure.org/news/news 2. https://ask.clojure.org/ 3. https://groups.google.com/g/clojure 4. http://planet.clojure.in/ 5. https://t
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by xmlblog 6y ago
Only teenagers?
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by xmlblog 6y ago
> Who is really going to be interested in building on top of tech owned by a (new, unknown, regional) bank? As opposed to building on top of tech "owned" by a small software consultancy? Perhaps I simply lack imagination, but h
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by xmlblog 6y ago
Reify Health | Software Engineer in Test | Full-time, 100% Remote | https://www.reifyhealth.com/ At Reify Health, we are building a more creative healthcare system. We envision a world where every potential therapy, if safe
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by xmlblog 7y ago
s/corrections/connections/
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by xmlblog 8y ago
> then I remembered that historically hackers have been phenomenally bad people to give any kind of real power to. As opposed to the paragons of virtue who wield power now.
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by xmlblog 8y ago
Would be nice to find the microbe that converts plastic to plants.
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by xmlblog 8y ago
Confirmation of the old Spanish proverb: "es mejor estar solo que mal acompañado." https://www.spanishdict.com/translate/es%20mejor%20estar%20s...
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by xmlblog 8y ago
Whether you're affiliated with Gitlab or not, it's kind of shitty to use someone's platform to push a competitor. Nothing in the terms of service forbids it of course and you're absolutely free to do so, but it just feel
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by xmlblog 8y ago
Getting the word out is what the HN post is for. That's orthogonal to where the content is hosted. In addition to the confidence comment, I think it's kind of shitty.
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by xmlblog 9y ago
Because artists have been depicting the political system for centuries.
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by xmlblog 9y ago
Which is why Cuba, Venezuela, and North Korea are doing so well. I'm astounded people still think the idea of central production control has any juice left in it after such a thorough debunking in the 20th century.
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by xmlblog 10y ago
But why are they so UGLY?
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by xmlblog 10y ago
Would you want to be legally liable for content someone else may or may not produce when the best of intentions inevitably rub up against real-world time constraints?
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New ClojureScript.org website(clojurescript.org)
9 points by xmlblog 10y ago|0 comments
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by xmlblog 10y ago
Incidentally, the source is here: https://github.com/clojure/clojure/blob/master/src/clj/cloju...

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