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We ( https://basil.net ) are not new and not a startup, but our main language is Clojure and each new project is written in it. Very satisfied with our choice.

I don't like the prefix idea: besides the duplication of information, it also becomes a liability if you ever rename things. Imagine you prefix all customer IDs with `cus_`, but at…

Here's a relevant article about it: https://www.economist.com/business/2023/02/20/global-firms-a... Some quotes: "under a weighty combination of commercial and political pressure, …

I see some Clojure examples in the article. We use Clojure almost exclusively and this would be a great replacement for line-based Git diffs, providing much more insight in actual …

We adopted it in 2017 and got rid of it in 2021. It introduced a lot of complexity, while still leaving a lot of issues up to us to figure out. E.g. deployment strategies. Also: ou…

Cool! We built something similar for on-premise data sources, in Clojure. https://basil.net

No they are a genuine lab with scientists; but I agree that the homepage is misleading.

I started a website for charitable gift vouchers where the recipient can choose from a very large and varied list of causes to donate to. It turns the receiver into an active parti…

HN could allow the submitter to optionally configure up to 3 multiple choice questions about the article. A user would need to answer all of them correctly before being able to com…

Thanks for sharing this, I had no idea about the existence of these things!

Something I never understand when defence spending is compared: how do they account for differences in PPP and different levels of grease/corruption? E.g if the US spends twice as …

This obituary turns an anonymous "Muslim victim" into the portrait of an admirable, wholesome human being, whom I can eerily relate to, despite being an atheist who is weary of Isl…

As a Clojure user I very much agree with Rich's careful way of designing software. But in case of the Clojure language itself, I'd personally prefer a big-bang version 2.0 with sig…

Rich Hickey made a similar (but more clear) case against semantic versioning in his Spec-ulation keynote https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyLBGkS5ICk He advocates talking about "bre…

Yes, I understand that, but it doesn't account for all the moving parts of the Lambda service (like container re-use, warmup time, deployment steps...) that have no local equivalen…

Can someone explain the benefits of Datomic Ions? What problems is it supposed to solve and how does it compare to existing solutions? Also, what is the story regarding local devel…

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My experience is the reverse: I started a company with my 10+ years best friend, and it has been great. We even hauled another friend on board (he bought some shares, but we still …

We're developing "boring" business applications intended for long (~10y) use: - Kubernetes: provides a good abstraction for running multiple apps and services in a cloud, without v…

Here's a great movie illustrating how the grid is balanced when a popular tv show ends and millions of people want a cup of hot tea: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slDAvewWfrA

We found a great remote developer using Github. For a while I had been keeping track of high quality repos which mentioned that the author was for hire. When we finally needed to h…

Funny thing is that they publicly own up to their performance problems in an unusual way: in their comparison with GitHub ( https://about.gitlab.com/comparison/ ) they list "Fast p…