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Can you expand on your point here?

I agree that a fair number of retail GameStop investors will be left holding the bag but this article is at best under reaearched and at worst deliberate spin. No mention of the la…

with the current Tory government the chances of taxing those assets significantly is indeed low. with the assets out of the country the chances of taxing them at all is zero. As we…

if you use Firefox then reader mode is ideal for these situations

small note: Banks do not want to forget fraud, the rollback would be akin to a git revert. Even if the history presented to the customer makes the fraud vanish it won't be forgotte…

Why is the fastmail app allowed?

Am I mistaken in thinking that the issue was scaling not supported by the box2d physics library and that they needed a custom workaround in their engine?

you learnt what everyone else was learning, so now you're competing with everyone else on their level. learning something more niche can be a signal that helps you stand out, even …

no regrets here (lead Dev at small company, 50ish employees) using for roughly 50% of the projects. 6 years ago we were fully Java, clojure allows us to mix the two without a busin…

I believe it leads to datomic, a database you can try out on Aws (datomic cloud) to see the implementation of all the things he's getting excited about.

ah I see, the greater risk of mitm attack due the script not being hosted by a package manager, fair enough.

looks like the author also provides package manager installation on further reading of the readme. I'm still not quite seeing the issue with the curl to bash, I'm trusting the auth…

whats the issue here? (genuine question) besides having to trust the author? and what installation methods do you recommend for cli tools?

I don't think this implementation harms either Erlang or JVM clojure ecosystems. I also doubt the creator of this has as much interest in maturing JVM tooling as you so demand of t…

I believe jblow removed this in more recent versions.

Yes I agree

Unit tests for business logic and specifications for data shape can help to catch those typos as a side effect of the other benefits they bring. However typo catching will never be…

Safely and automatically renaming a function, local or global variable does not require a type system (see clojure and many other dynamic languages). Only renaming an instance fiel…

This is not true, the traffic for the previous github incident with the great cannon was co located[0] with the great firewall (which is indisputably under the control of the chine…

could you explain the link? In this situation they were apparently silencing anti government voices, which sounds like the opposite.

In case you're unaware, your smarter compilers bullet point is called dependent typing. You can try it out in languages like Idris. Also the person who wrote "The little schemer" r…

It is a lisp, with visual similarities to clojure. Library access is irrelevant. The features that differentiate clojure are not there. - Immutable and persistent data structures a…

This is not a dialect of clojure, please fix the title.

But how recently have we developed the capability to: - observe this thing at all - accurately measure it's velocity and acceleration - understand that it's velocity and accelerati…

Polymorphism doesn't require anything to do with OOP or objects themselves, see clojure multi methods as an extremely pure example that involves nothing even close to an object. Pr…