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badsavage

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About badsavage

i breath linux, write clojure and read hacker news. my idols are John Pierpont Morgan and Genghis Khan

Recent public activity

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    open-source software

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    Comment #21332197

    Hehe, at least someone is talking about it. Online privacy is a dream in the 2010s

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    Comment #21194126

    I didn't know malli, thank you Borkdude!

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    Comment #21190644

    Spec is very useful, but please implement it without macros. Metosin did a great job to make it more usable, but we still struggle because specs could only exist in Namespaces. We …

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    Comment #21190589

    Clojure is a different language. Being "fully compatible" with (more similar to) Java was never a goal.

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    Comment #21134717

    vim is still the best text editor, our whole family uses it for daily work

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    Comment #21027830

    Nicely done

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    Comment #20840612

    I am really interested in the beta and also would like to help somehow: bobo.linux \@ \g\m\a\i\l\.\c\o\m

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    Comment #20824368

    Yup, Svelte is hot and Postgres is always a good decision! Thank you for the details, really interesting project! Once I built a CSS based browser MMO myself as a challenge. I used…

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    Comment #20818203

    Awesome work! What is your technology stack now?

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    Comment #20790092

    Basically you says if a type system is optional, people tend not to use it, because most of the times they are good without it. I agree. But we do use spec very successfully for co…

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    Comment #20789773

    Clojure's startup time is very slow compared to other languages, but we balance it with fully reloadable systems both on the backend or frontend. Otherwise the speed is almost iden…

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    Comment #20789726

    A great example here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18776215

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    Comment #20789704

    Clojure has something like an extendable type system called Spec. We can create our own types lol

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    Comment #20789670

    yes, immutable data is a core value of Clojure. OP said no wrong, but think about it: Bitcoin also just stole the good parts from other software projects. Really practical inventio…

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    Comment #20789648

    looks like you don't know FP pure functions are completely separate to every other parts of your software, they are very readable and easy to debug * edit: don't write functions lo…

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    Comment #20789608

    Maybe stop smoking pot and try isomorphic DSLs instead.

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    Comment #20789581

    I agree! When I meet a girl, I ask her about macros and functions first. I except to hear something like: macro < function < data.

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    Comment #20759854

    As an eastern european, I see the case a bit different. Corrupt governments and cheating locals were always able to "hack" voting. I would rather trust a blockchain based -fully tr…

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    Comment #20736462

    HN creator Paul Graham was really into Lisp. HN has been built with his own Lisp, Arc. HN attracted many experienced programmers and experienced programmers usually like Lisp, beca…

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    Comment #20698309

    https://youtu.be/HM1Zb3xmvMc is a song about Lisp

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    Comment #20698256

    Lisp is the red pill to programming. A mind-blowing out-of-the-box experience. An alien technology. -- Lisp has a so called "no turning back point", true lispers cannot bear other …

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