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Back in the late 2000's I looked around for the right tool for my Ph.D. dissertation and quickly ruled out Word, Libre (or Open Office) Writer, or any wysiwyg tool, because they 1)…

James Randi has been caught outright lying and is not to be relied on: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/film-news/11270453/... http://zthoughtcriminal.blogspot.com/2013/04/…

Character (integrity, drive to learn & improve) and skills that you respect or admire. Then shared values and life situation: the startup should be the #1 priority for everyone on …

Shameless plug: more examples of literate Clojure in Emacs here, https://github.com/limist/literate-programming-examples

It's not bad - I read this book a while ago to boost my Python-fu. But it left me feeling like most software/language books - unsatisfied, i.e. here are the pieces (syntax), here a…

Short answer: There's a mix of people, and a few are students (college or graduate school). Some are remote coders. Some are doing startups. And some quit their jobs to come to Ber…

Depends which page you're referring to. The article/link above makes the price clear, and also why we charge - we keep things simple and don't do the recruiting model. The homepage…

Thanks for the compliment. We certainly enjoy socializing, but effective learning and working take precedence, and we expect an atmosphere of "enthusiastic intensity" at HRet. The …

Yep, they target a different audience. They're more for beginners who want an apprenticeship in coding. Whereas Hacker Retreat is for intermediate and advanced coders who have thei…

No. There's no product showroom there, just a cafe on the ground floor. Hacker Retreat is happening in the space above, where MSV's incubated startups usually are. They agreed to l…

Thanks! We think at least a few people from our last Fall batch would agree to that. We're intending more people to say that when this next session/batch is done.

Yup, we know...boy do we know. :) Rationally, and per our FAQ, we considered ditching it because the economics are marginal or worse. But neither Jose nor I could let the idea die.…

Thanks! Short answer is, it depends. If we get really strong interest and commitment (like 20 people who will definitely be there), we'll do another batch in the Fall/Winter. Somew…

I'd have to disagree - the math is important, and lays a foundation for functional/declarative programming. One major lesson of Chapter 1 (where the math is most evident) is concep…

Much better to have a REPL handy - like order-of-magnitude better. :) The further in the book you go, the more you need to write, run, tinker and test to check your understanding(s…

Yep, it would be fun to do that for code - we're thinking of different models and timings for Hacker Retreat. Consider sub'ing to our email list to stay in touch, thanks.

As a coding-vacation? Or as something that blends well with remote work? We've adjusted the format of the current Hacker Retreat to accommodate people working (remotely, on their s…

Good question - when I got to that part, I couldn't get the picture language to run either and just wrote code that I compared with other online solutions. I just took a look at th…

I'd be curious to know the answer to this as well - I have not come across anything comparable w/ Haskell and the like, yet.

Cool idea, will be curious to see how it goes (don't own iStuff so can't directly participate). Live remote video-learning, I've found, tends to require a good friend of comparable…