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> The issue isn't tooling, it's hardware resources and in some cases licencing. Hardware resources are definitely an issue. That's why we generally recommend using remote developme…

Related to this topic: When running integration/e2e tests, setting up the environment (all the required services, data stores etc.) in the right sequence, loading them with test da…

Sounds like Garden Core could be a great fit here. The motivation behind Garden was that, like you, we had built our own home-grown kubernetes dev environments, but felt like there…

(Garden co-founder here) Garden supports in-cluster building, using buildkit or kaniko. This way, you don't need to have Docker or k8s running on your dev machine as you're working…

We have an easier time categorising a disorder as a disease rather than a moral failure when we see clear neurobiological correlates. But as we know (or at least currently believe)…

Indeed! I disagree with people who think vim and emacs are ugly: they have their own nice 8bit-esque aesthetic which I'd expect hackers to like, given that they've chosen to stare …

Even if the mouse were quicker on average for long jumps, the moving of the hand from mouse to keyboard feels like more of a combo breaker, more distracting. Speed is very importan…

I rock back and forth, depending on the languages I'm using. Emacs does more, but is in my experience more kludgy, even after having in aggregate spent many days customizing it (ma…

If you want ⌘S, ⌘C, ⌘V etc., try Macvim ( https://code.google.com/p/macvim/ ). I use it for longer coding sessions (more colors, faster rendering when in fullscreen with split pane…

I wonder if this could have some great research applications. A year ago I watched some lectures from Stanford on ethobiology (i.e. the branch dealing with the biological processes…

I should have been clearer: I'm not advocating anarcho-capitalism, just having an academic discussion. My point was that a state isn't necessary to enforce contracts, although the …

> Without the state, corporations (and capitalism) are not possible. A state is not necessary for enforcing contracts - that could be done by private parties, as in anarcho-capital…

If you want a lisp that compiles to JS, ClojureScript is also a good option. It's ready for use, and there's a lot of smart people working on making it better. The Clojure/ClojureS…

Good post! Generalizing the point, maybe a good description of sophistication is: using one's intuition in a natural way to explore the boundaries of one's knowledge, having previo…

WRT Smalltalk's image, code management is only one of its marquee features, so I think Smalltalkers would object to calling image vs files a false dichotomy. Yeah, I agree. That wa…

Perhaps this project shows that file vs image is, in fact, a false dichotomy. Instead of replacing our current file-based workflows with a monolithic image, this kind of tool could…

Exactly. When he says So under its expressive covers, everything about Clojure is strongly conservative, with a core overriding bias towards protecting programmers from mistakes. h…

I just can't be bothered with fiddling with config files and installing little bundles and packages for every functionality. While this is obviously a matter of taste, I do like vi…

It's indeed possible to add type-checking to Clojure by writing macros for type declarations and checking. But Clojure was designed primarily as a dynamic language, and if one want…

Clojure does have more sugar than Scheme, but imho some of it improves readability; for example, using brackets for grouping instead of overloading lists like Scheme does can make …

How big is the performance hit from the virtualization in your experience?