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A web app to encourage people to explore their city. I built this to give myself a little incentive to go out and explore. - XP is calculated based on your current location at the …

If anyone is looking to brush up on their Algebra fundamentals, I built an app for that and it's free to use: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/pensend/id1571322730 . I had a similar p…

IMHO Javascript is "unusable" because you can mutate state (among other things). Rich Hickey has a few other arguments against static typing and OO such as names dominating semanti…

Hours spent at the office do not equate to hours worked.

Regarding take-home assignments, if you do decide to incorporate this into your hiring process, I think pulling a page out of Aaron Swartz's "How I Hire Programmers" [1] is a good …

I'm still under the impression that if you gave the same set of companies to every VC in the world and had each of them bet on the winners, that you wouldn't see that much of a dif…

I can't speak about lein or maven, but it is in no way a requirement to use emacs as your editor. In fact, there is really interesting work going on in other editors like Atom with…

> To be perfectly honest, Clojure's biggest mistake, from my point of view, was to be so heavily JVM-dependent. With Clojure being a hosted language, there's nothing stopping it fr…

Could you speak more on the use of macros and bottom-up programming as well as REPL-driven development at Walmart Labs (if applicable)? Would be interested to know if those lisp-li…

The docs for the API, especially for a company whose primary users are software developers, is a core part of the product offering. Just look at the investments that AWS, Twilio, a…

Why not plant trees? https://forestsnews.cifor.org/10316/make-it-rain-planting-fo...

Chief Architect of Warby Parker Robert Lefkowitz's presentation on technical debt and his proposition for a microservice architecture called the von Neumann. Some interesting ideas…

Agreed. One of the core tenets of bitcoin, in my opinion, is that it's borderless --or international as you say-- and not centralized in any way. National cryptocurrencies won't wo…