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I rarely visit HN anymore because of shit like this, but I decided to check back over here to see what everyone had to see. not surprised

We use Clojure extensively at Room Key. Our main web API, various scheduled cron-like jobs, and AWS Lambda functions are all written in Clojure.

Are you willing to say how much money was at risk?

Yes, significantly upping the ulimit would have probably been sufficient for all practical purposes, although we might run out of JVM heap space if we are up long enough. Plus, it …

There were only two threads stuck, so monitoring the threads wouldn't have set off any alarms. One was a Clojure agent thread, which basically allowed all the clients marked for re…

This course is great: https://www.coursera.org/learn/machine-learning It's all done in GNU Octave, which is mostly compatible with MATLAB.

He did tweet about it: https://twitter.com/KentBeck/status/461175937892356096

You actually have to buy an add-on called WPAR Manager[1] to enable live mobility; it's not available in baseline AIX. They have been shipping this tech for several years now. Disc…

Damn, this is sad. I'll echo the other comments here that he was a nice guy. I was an undergrad at Duke circa 1999-2000 and knew him through the Duke LUG. I was a noob, and he alwa…

Very well stated. A few months ago I wrote a post on my company's blog pushing Clojure, and the ideas just seemed to flow. Now I'm getting around to writing a specific post on Cloj…

Try to carve out a few hours during your real job to work on it. Build a little momentum, and then when you get home you'll be more inclined to reach for the laptop instead of the …

socket.io.js is being served on port 8080, and is blank for me, resulting in "Uncaught ReferenceError: io is not defined" in app.js

Nice writeup, but I would think watching Chelsea win the Champions League is the exact opposite of "an emotionally traumatic experience".

Apparently, the algorithm behind his rotation policy is NP-complete.

I know OSX does a lot of things right, but focus follows mouse and copy-on-select/paste-on-middle-click are two things that I can't live without.

Perhaps just as enlightening is the location of the Esc key (to the left of Q): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:KB_Terminal_ADM3A.svg

"I love breakfast burritos" Just a tip: we call them breakfast tacos.

I've been using Clojurescript with a Noir backend to build an internal tool for work, and I thought I'd share my experience so far. Some background: I'm a Java guy by trade, this i…

I've spent the past few days trying to implement a little utility app in Clojure/Clojurescript for work, and here's some of my initial impressions. I've been going back and forth b…