Rich changed my whole career, I owe him a big debt!
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#22i’m very grateful to rich for clojure, cognitect’s libraries/tooling, and datomic. all of these have been well maintained, stable, and backwards compatible over the years.
although he’s no longer working on datomic, i really hope cognitect values growing it. it feels like such an improvement over sql to work with.
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#23I wonder if he’ll still give talks. I don’t blame him if not, but he’s really good at it. “Simple made easy” was a classic even if everyone proceeded to ignore the practical advice contained therein. And “Maybe not” is my personal favorite, a great discussion of requirements/provisions and the downsides of option types.
I think Hammock Driven Development[0] deserves a spot in the classics! [0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f84n5oFoZBc
Somehow this reminded me of Joel Spolsky, who apparently is still blogging.
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#24Amazing news. I saw a video cast of Rick during a meeting @ NuBank, and it looked like corporate life had sucked the life out of him [1]. So, I'm glad he got out of there, and I hope he's able to shake it off like a bad dream. Building something like Clojure require radical thinking, and creative freedom. I can only imagine how trying to fit that into your weekly scrum sprint would be draining. And in the monthly mee…
Maybe you're just used to seeing him in "on" mode (giving legendary conference presentations) and he's more subdued when doing everyday work.
It's a bit distasteful to virtually follow him around and speculate about his mental health.
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#25May have to do with https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/NU?p=NU and vesting periods :)
A true computing thought leader. All the best Rich. My only complaint about you was not open-sourcing datomic and making it free for developers.
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#26with the new wave of languages emerging, and now the return of Rich being active with Clojure, I'm super excited and welcome back :)
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#27“just slip out the back, Jack
Make a new plan, Stan
You don't need to be coy, Roy
Just get yourself free!”
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#28This is awesome! One, it reinforces the ongoing maturing of Clojure, the language as a team project. Two, it portends cool new things to come; the kind that can only come from a place of personal liberty. Three, BDFL is retiring from an employer , headlong into his life's work. I for one am cheering. (edit: typos, formatting)
This was exactly my take. This language just got a whole lot of significant focus behind it
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#29I am personally grateful to your contributions and talks, Rich. Thank you for everything so far.
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#30The word congratulations came into English from Latin, where it was formed by combining prefix com-, meaning with, to gratulari, meaning "give thanks" or "show joy." Gratulari is derived from gratus, as is gratitude. Gratus means "pleasing," "thankful." Having only had the good fortune to meet you in person a few times: Congratulations, Rich. You have my deepest gratitude. It fills me with great joy to know you are t…
Hah, very fitting way to put it :)