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Thanks for the list, it's a little surprising to see WordPress and Drupal doing so well. I'm afraid I've been underestimating both of them. I also didn't realize the popularity dif…

I've talked to a few agencies over the years but it's never panned out, they'd have jobs for different technologies than I knew or they wanted 10 years experience for what I did kn…

That's good advice, I haven't been to a meetup in a while. There are two interesting meetups in the next week alone and several over the past few months that I probably would have …

I'm a programmer of several years and would like to start subcontracting but I don't know where to start. I was supposed to be bringing in money with this some time ago and I'm at …

Location: Denver, CO Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Possibly Technologies: Python, Django, PostgreSQL, Heroku, Clojure, jQuery/JavaScript, HTML/CSS Résumé/CV: portfolio @ www.cjo…

> You have personalities like Richard Branson and Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, who are not engineers. Elon Musk has a BS in Physics, Jeff Bezos has an engineering degree (electrical/c…

Out of curiosity, which theory of value are you using here? There are many and in the most commonly used value =/= utility.

Also of interest is that birds have little oil droplets, often colored, as part of their visual set up. There are five different known types of color-filtering oil droplets (a sixt…

Denver. Willing to relocate. Full-time/part-time/contract. Stack: Clojure, Python, I'm learning JS/jQuery Portfolio: http://www.cjolsen.com/portfolio Contact: see webpage for email…

SEEKING WORK - Denver, remote Entry level Clojure/Python dev, also working towards web development. Willing to learn new frameworks/languages. Looking for part-time/full-time. Cloj…

The query language is embedded in legal Clojure data structures, so it would be tricky to port to JS. That's a drawback of embedded DSL's I suppose.

The SICP lectures on logic programming will provide some conceptual background if needed. http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-comput...

This article reads like the author is just mad at some audiophile for being a jerk about their vinyl collection. Fair enough, but it's kind of straw-manning vinyl collectors. Imply…

It might not be easy, depending. Without too much trouble you could write a macro for this: (my-macro " foo bar baz beez zang dang bang") and have the macro parse the string manual…

What I think this is missing which was a huge part of the SICP course is that Lisp is probably the best language to write your own language in with a custom syntax tailored for the…

I always liked The Rise of Worse Is Better in explaining why C and its derivatives became the standard. http://www.jwz.org/doc/worse-is-better.html

I'm not sure how high the adoption rate is but it's a natural extension of immutable data into the database world. It also has some old roots in the Lisp community, lectures 8A and…

I was interested in the same question (how big is a simple Scheme in Clojure?), and ended up working on one for the heck of it. It's a little under 500 lines of Clojure, and it has…

Great post! For those interested, GNU's Lesser General Public License (LGPL) was created to address these concerns.

Ah, c'mon, don't pin it on The Bearded Guy! That stuff predated him (see Ricardo's Law of Rent: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_rent ). The Bearded Guy was after all the last …

OK, I'll respond to this and harryh's at the same time. First of all, "distortion" is relative to what economic model you're starting with - so it can get a bit tricky, and I'm not…

Well I certainly agree that money in general and our relationship to it could use a good rethinking - which is a surprisingly unpopular opinion considering America's financial sect…

Sounds like it's a choice between a short period of minimum wage pay and then getting replaced by "cost saving technologies", or a slightly longer period of subsistence wages and t…