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I have worked at several places where SRE meant different things: - A virtual, first responder team on call rotation for all the services because developers didn't want to be on ca…

It also makes you bitter, at least in my experience.

And arena support, and a parallel GC... there's always something exciting and promising coming up. The proprietary implementations are also quite good.

I was going to say the same. In my experience I can say without hesitation green field projects is how you advance your career, become visible and get promoted.

You say this because you are on HN, very senior and/or living in a bubble. In the vast majority of programming jobs out there you are not paid to solve problems: you are told very …

Or, you could have been suddenly cheated on and exposed, or divorced and recently entered the dating market, or thinking about opening up your relationship after decades of monogam…

Sure. But if they are first class and you have a mechanism to assign them to variables then there is no need for syntax sugar.

It's funny how I started this way as well, and a decade later my Common Lisp code couldn't be more procedural and CLOS and LOOP heavy.

Maybe this is just me and my experiences but when I encounter people in the wild that seem dull I often assume they just have fringe interests that are kinda problematic to share w…

Yeah I don't get it either. Lisp is perfectly fine for this task although probably makes less sense now that Julia is a thing. Reminder that before Python was used for data science…

I am afraid it is a serious argument. If you ever feel the need to write code like that lookup table, you are working on the wrong place and you have a hiring problem.

This reads like a cautionary tale about getting nerdsniped, without a happy ending.

He probably means Allegro CL which is in my experience the best one. All the OS Lisp GCs are stuck in the 80s and honestly not very good. The one in LispWorks is pretty good though…

Life without REPLs.

It seems to me the author just wants multiple dispatch.

I don’t fear Java as much as I fear its acolytes.

I have found that my consumption of rock is mostly tied to my cortisol levels. To some degree, one could say that rock / metal is a degeneration of Bach's music (and that's what ma…

Left an otherwise good job because of this. I am done with it. For the next job I take, I will demand to be present in the daily meeting to see how it looks like. Ideally, there is…

Ah, finally I will be able to understand my doctor's handwriting.

I inherited some piece of code that made use of an extremely long and complicated jq script. I simply gave up understanding the whole thing, and restored the balance in the univers…

I love it. I want it. I've been dreaming of this for years. But I refuse to buy a black HHKB.

Standing desks, split keyboards, photos of outdoor adventures... I see these everywhere. Is this the modern developer's midlife crisis at 40?

I mean I would love writing Ada and Common Lisp at work but my hipster CTO wants me to use Go and TypeScript.

Thankfully we live in a world in which we constantly start new containers with every merge to master and the orchestrator will simply restart your container if it your application …