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> I strongly suspect that what we're seeing is that much of the tech code-writing economy had already become completely performative prior to AI turning up. It no longer matters in…

Science has gone too far.

Just want to say this is super cool. I'm excited to see what people build on top of it.. seems like it could enable a new category of hosted data platforms-as-a-service (platform-a…

There was a bit of a conference hiatus worldwide due to the pandemic, but the Clojure community (including Rich) is definitely still active.

Yeah.. I have all the respect in the world for Haifeng's talent and I totally understand (and agree!) that open source developers need to be compensated one way or another, and I d…

I don't disagree at all, but unfortunately it's mostly out of the hands of any community to recommend or enforce usage of a given library. There are many valid concerns around GPL …

This is correct, you can compile Clojure to native code using GraalVM. There are many heavily used projects that do this.

There are actually a surprising number of academics in the Clojure for data science study groups. A lot of them ran into performance or portability issues with Python or R and foun…

The literate programming story is great in Clojure. Clay ( https://github.com/scicloj/clay ) is also a great option and supports rendering to quarto notebooks, which are IMO one of…

Most Clojure guides understandably focus on the Clojure language itself. As a hosted language, Clojure relies on various mechanisms of its host platform (for example the JVM, CLR o…

Sunday is also the first day of the week in Canada (actually a separate country from the US despite appearances).

Unnecessary commuting should always be included in working hours and expensed.

I think your analysis doesn't account for the fact that the majority of double vaccinated people are also at far higher risk of covid to begin with. There was an interesting articl…

Physicist Frank Wilczek has clearly never met a software engineer.

> This is not one of those tech acquisitions where the company is bought to be shut down. I’ll believe it when I see it. I didn’t know there was any other kind of tech acquisition.…

This! Women who get into business or tech or whatever aren't "emulating men". Many are actually genuinely interested in those pursuits. A lot of women just do not want to be homema…

Interestingly, single, childless women are also the happiest population demographic. ( https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/may/25/women-h... ) I don't disagree homemaking…

Jira. But seriously. The main one is a lack of ownership. When there are 20 different people asking for stuff from engineering and no on managing or prioritizing those requests, I'…