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The terminal is a excellent abstraction layer to work around the limitations of LLMs. Tools like grep, the composability of commands through UNIX piping, for example. You can devel…

The Netherlands has the Highly Skilled Migrant (HSM) visum: https://ind.nl/en/residence-permits/work/highly-skilled-migr... In summary, it requires: - a company willing to apply fo…

Floyd & Hamilton | http://www.floydhamilton.nl/EN/Home | Amsterdam, the Netherlands (Onsite) Floyd & Hamilton builds recruitment software that is used by some of the best companies…

SEEKING WORK. Remote. Based in the Netherlands (CET), but able to conform to US timezones if necessary. Clojure & Clojurescript developer with a lot of experience in web developmen…

Beware of people suggesting their personal favorite language. There are many languages worth knowing. My personal favorite is the Lisp family and particularly Clojure. Pick up a bo…

SEEKING WORK. Remote. Based in the Netherlands (CET), but able to conform to US timezones if necessary. Clojure & Clojurescript developer with a lot of experience in web developmen…

SEEKING WORK. Remote. Based in the Netherlands (CET), but able to conform to US timezones if necessary. Clojure & Clojurescript developer with a lot of experience in web developmen…

I suggest buying the books. They are excellent. If you have to pick two, I would suggest the O'Reilly book[0] and the Joy of Clojure[1]. The first is an excellent primer and the la…

The consumer market for GNU/Linux desktop application is tough, although there are some niche markets that can be viable. Wikipedia has a list of proprietary GNU/Linux applications…

You're wrong. Religion in antiquity was different. It was our first attempt at philosophy, even though many of the best Greek thinkers stopped believing as they slowly built their …

Here is a shameless plug: http://www.vixu.com (my startup) is based on open source Clojure/ClojureScript CMS (and soon webshop) software. See https://github.com/fmw/vix for the cod…

Obviously, a single founder gets more when and if a payday happens. Most startups fail, however. If attracting a co-founder increases the odds of success it is surely worth it. The…

This is something the British actually did during World War II in order to confuse possible invading forces and spies[0]. [0]: http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/2050190…

Microsoft offers good deals to startups[1], so cost is less of a factor than you may think. However, most people start programming as a hobby before they start a company, so it wou…

I'm betting my startup on Clojure, but it doesn't feel like much of a "bet". It is probably one of the least risky choices I've had to make and as a bonus to the technical benefits…

I was using a double negative, so I never meant to or did say that OpenJDK isn't suitable for production. Apologies for the confusing phrasing if you misunderstood me, but I was st…

That is what I meant when I said that Oracle is mostly creating a nuisance for the server market. It forces sys admins and developers to jump through more hoops to get the software…

E.g. early versions of ClojureScript had a critical bug on the OpenJDK that gave me the impression that (many of) the core developers are using the Sun package and are optimizing f…

Interesting conclusion. This is not like the Flash situation. Both JDK's are acceptable on a technical level. The Sun one is just a bit faster and more polished. In other words: th…

This will be a nuisance, because e.g. Clojure just works better with the Sun Java packages. The Sun packages don't just have performance improvements, but the Clojure devs seem to …

A large part of our industry is self-taught. You don't need a specific degree to get a good job - or even a degree at all. Some bigger companies are a bit more formal (e.g. Google,…

You are correct, of course. Eventually some user would figure out they can rotate "aaaaa" and "bbbbb" every other week to avoid having to remember a better password. That being sai…

You could require users to enter their old password when changing it. That way, you can compare two plain-text passwords without the need for plain-text storage (or pre-computing, …