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> Haskell people smart, other people dumb? Da hell you're talking about, friend? I said nothing about "people", or them being smart or dumb; just a difference in cultural stereotyp…

> I would have to make a trip just for the food Totally. There are too many dishes to count that don't exist and unlikely ever will outside of that country. Traditional sausage Qaz…

Okay, but what that has to do with preferring strong CS theoretical grounds vs. cutting corners to get-the-shit-done? My initial point was about cultures - Haskelites are typically…

Are you using a 42 year old book to find flaws in my argumentation? Let's talk real, contemporary numbers. NuBank: from ~12M customers in 2019, grown to 25M in a year, then to 48M …

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49097840 > Clojure is actually an interesting case here, because it is hosted. So, you can write a Clojurescript macro that runs at compile tim…

Honest answer? This is not simple, because to authentically bake that kind of bread, you'd need the "tandir". No, it's not like Punjabi or Indian traditional tandoors, those are si…

Uzbek cuisine is a fascinating phenomenon because its traditions were shaped by interesting geography, climate and history. It is a double-land-locked country, therefore the lack o…

No, in Uzbek it is actually "non" and not "naan", "palov" and not "pilav", "somsa" and not "samosa", "tandir" and not "tandoor".

Clojure is actually an interesting case here, because it is hosted. So, you can write a Clojurescript macro that runs at compile time on the JVM, but emits code that runs at runtim…

> My point stands. Your point can stand, sit or jump around in a circle - makes no difference. Any ignorant fool can make a hollow point about things they don't fully understand an…

You clearly and obviously have little or none of practical, genuine experience working with experienced Lispers, and driving your opinions from a book-read definitions rather from …

No, of course not in prod. SDE stands for "Software Developer Environment" - ephemeral VMs we spin up for testing before stuff hits staging/prod clusters.

I think you have very little insight to what you're talking about. The modern Lisp landscape is nothing like what it was in the 90s or even 2000s. The amount of practical shit Lisp…

I have a complete and utterly opposite experience. I have used and shipped all sorts of solutions in dozens of different languages before getting to know Lisp. My only regret is th…

> How would a kubernetes We have a few services built in Clojure and we expose nrepl port on our pods in our SDEs, it's enormously helpful to test and debug things on the fly, with…

It never gets old - the number of times I have to roll my eyes and chuckle whenever someone "shares bash tricks" (like the OP) or says stuff like "powershell needs to become more u…

> As usual, mixing up cause and effect. Yup. Reminds me: "studies prove that horses improve health and increase the lifespan...". Bruh, people who live around horses are probably t…

That's plausible and isn't too hard to imagine. The value of Emacs is not the concrete implementation of it - let's be honest, GNU Emacs is not void of enormously annoying warts. T…

> Babel allows a fantastic degree of power in code transformation That's still not homoiconicity. It reminds me old Stuart Sierra's presentation from Clojure/conj¹. Around 6 minute…

I'm sorry, but that's not homoiconicity. I'm not trying to devalue your work (if you're talking about BABLR/CSTML), but you really cannot bolt homoiconicity onto a non-homoiconic l…

> This has always been my problem with adopting Emacs or Obsidian That's an orthogonal problem. It's almost trivial to set up Org-mode so all your personal notes are always encrypt…

Because you need Lisp. That's the actual "power of Emacs". Emacs is a Lisp-interpreter with a built-in text editor. Everything stems from that. Anyone challenging "the choice" of L…

What do you mean by "richer ecosystem"? Have you ever seen GitHub language stats - there's so much Elisp on GitHub alone, it's absolute bananas. The amount of Elisp in the wild pro…