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I remember doing just that - writing some ugly parsing code, thinking that I should be a good team member and add some specs for what I was doing, and when I tried calling conform.…

Aren't high schools and universities still closed in Sweden? Edit: Run remotely, to be clear.

Depends on the cheese, and on the usage, really. My mom works at a cheese factory, so I regularly get more cheese than I know what to do with, so most of it ends up in the freezer.…

That's why I prefer to listen to podcasts when taking walks etc, rather than full-on audiobooks - if my mind wanders and I start thinking about something else, it's not a big deal …

This has been my experience. I managed to switch to working remotely 100% by saying "I need to move to another town, either I start working remotely or I'll need to switch jobs". M…

What had kept happening was that services written by my team (mostly doing Clojure for backend development) were taken over by other teams that either weren't interested in learnin…

I agree with what you're saying, my post was mainly trying to point out that there might appear to be more Clojure jobs than there actually are. For the past couple of months, I've…

In my experience (in Sweden), most of those results are "false positives". Companies/recruiters like to look for passionate programmers, so they put smaller languages like Clojure …

RSS is one of the main ways I consume the web (including HN). Been doing it for years and I'm very happy with it. I don't know anything about how it works, but it seems lightweight…

I would say that one of the main reasons why F# gets comparatively little attention is that, yes, C# is being evolved with a fairly big focus on taking lessons from functional lang…

C# 8 will introduce nullable reference types, which will effectively be equivalent to Options. And they are working on pattern matching (some simple, partial implementation is alre…

I'd like to point out that the extension method feature of C# is one big reason why I like this whole story much better than the Streams API in Java. There are often methods I wish…

I've worked a lot with both C# and Java, and C# is so superior I never want to touch Java again. Especially since around C# 3.5, the distance between Java and C# has grown enormous…

Don't know if you know this, but given your example: The MP3s of the Joe Rogan Podcast can be downloaded from his website. Just an FYI.

Agreed. I've worked for many years as a software engineer, and some of the most challenging stuff I've done has been building robust test automation frameworks. The amount of disre…

I went with this approach on a recent project, for two reasons: * Tracing/history/auditing * Structuring the service around these events, it became trivial to add new "event types"…

There are also complete lecture series on linear algebra with Gilbert Strang on Youtube, highly recommended.

IMO it's completely inferior to LINQ in C#. One of the main reasons being that Java still lacks extension methods, so you're stuck with the methods that are provided for you. In C#…

> Can I run Visual Studio on my macbook? There is Visual Studio For Mac [1], though I'm unsure how it compares to Visual Studio "proper". [1] https://www.visualstudio.com/vs/visual…

Wow, that's good to know. Hope you won't have to go through that again.

Maybe see with your employer if you could start working part-time? Taking two hours off every day, or one day per week or something like that might be enough to help move your proj…

I really recommend the Japanese For Busy People books, I learned tons from them quickly. They start off very basic (obviously), but they explain the grammar in a really good way, a…

* Visual Studio + Resharper for C#. Don't really think there are any realistic alternatives, although I'd be happy to try some out, my current setup tends to get slow. * Visual Stu…

Agreed. Especially when taking commuting into account - for me, one day off means 2 hours less commuting. During the past year, I've actually started trying this out. I've taken a …