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I wonder if I could write the story of the BBM once he left the university and went on to work in Corporate Land. My career (if may be called that) can be summarized by a constant swing. On one side, I have a "job" where I start well but after a while I fall out of grace from higher-ups because I inevitably end up calling out their bullshit and/or start seeing the pointlessness of it all and lose interest in progress…
I'm exactly this type of student. 18 yo, just starting university next month. Any advices? Every single thing in the article fits my life so far, the boredom, the pointlessness of all things, the ease of brilliance, 1 to 1, sans the sadness because I'm still hopeful that the world can be fixed and am still an idealist. (I attribute this to my faith.) My classmates always envied how little or none I work for the same…
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> programming from inside the system. Can you elaborate on that? I think you are saying that REPLs in other languages don't do what you can do in Lisp, but I don't think I know enough to fully understand why.
Imagine this: You start a fresh REPL session with a vague idea of something you want to build. You have good tooling that enables you to write code in your favourite editor and pipe it to the REPL through a socket. You write a couple of functions and send them to the REPL. You call them a few times with some test arguments, maybe define a couple global variables while testing, and realize one of the functions doesn't…
It particularly resonates with me because I think so many project teams neglect the Developer Experience. In my opinion DevOps should be more about making coding, testing and deploying as frictionless as possible.
the mosaic background of this site is stunning, i need to figure out how to generate that
I wonder if I could write the story of the BBM once he left the university and went on to work in Corporate Land. My career (if may be called that) can be summarized by a constant swing. On one side, I have a "job" where I start well but after a while I fall out of grace from higher-ups because I inevitably end up calling out their bullshit and/or start seeing the pointlessness of it all and lose interest in progress…
Have you considered part-time?
But I never had problems with the programming assignments or the labs, I enjoyed those. And when I finally got my degree, I found out that all it takes to make hundreds of thousands of dollars is to solve a couple of algorithms for someone. I guess it all worked out in the end, although I do hate the corporate world (and have trouble staying anywhere long) with a passion and would very much like to find a way out.
Note: I was put on bipolar medication because of the wild swings in my grades during college, but I don't believe I am actually bipolar so I no longer take it.
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> programming from inside the system. Can you elaborate on that? I think you are saying that REPLs in other languages don't do what you can do in Lisp, but I don't think I know enough to fully understand why.
Imagine this: You start a fresh REPL session with a vague idea of something you want to build. You have good tooling that enables you to write code in your favourite editor and pipe it to the REPL through a socket. You write a couple of functions and send them to the REPL. You call them a few times with some test arguments, maybe define a couple global variables while testing, and realize one of the functions doesn't…
I quite enjoyed this article, but I reckon they're talking about ADHD rather than "bipolar" mind. Seen under that lens, I resonate with his caricature. Focus is a precious, rare resource outside my control. Mainstream languages, made for collaboration in big teams rather than maximum personal freedom, soon impose restrictions that kill hyperfocus. The "unused variable is an error" is the most egregious of them that I…
Same. That has tripped me so many times when trying out something simple in golang.
I get why they are undesirable in the long run, but in the short run I'm often trying out a fragment and don't have the users of every variable written yet.
I quite enjoyed this article, but I reckon they're talking about ADHD rather than "bipolar" mind. Seen under that lens, I resonate with his caricature. Focus is a precious, rare resource outside my control. Mainstream languages, made for collaboration in big teams rather than maximum personal freedom, soon impose restrictions that kill hyperfocus. The "unused variable is an error" is the most egregious of them that I…
> The "unused variable is an error" is the most egregious of them that I hate with a passion. Same. That has tripped me so many times when trying out something simple in golang. I get why they are undesirable in the long run, but in the short run I'm often trying out a fragment and don't have the users of every variable written yet.
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Imagine this: You start a fresh REPL session with a vague idea of something you want to build. You have good tooling that enables you to write code in your favourite editor and pipe it to the REPL through a socket. You write a couple of functions and send them to the REPL. You call them a few times with some test arguments, maybe define a couple global variables while testing, and realize one of the functions doesn't…
That is very helpful. Thank you. Most of my exposure to Lisp has been Scheme and Racket and minimal at that. Are these images you describe something that is part of a particular distribution of Common Lisp?
In the end what you have is a base image, and then a set of code and instructions to transform that image into your runtime image, then you distribute that image as your "application".
I have never needed to do this, as all of my work has been utilitarian in nature, rather than some kind of monolith distributed to others. I simply load my code on to the stock image and go from there.
But even then, for folks that do that, they may well load up the stock image with useful and common, personal, utilities, and snapshot that. Their "application" is their essential working environment.
Smalltalk does, and Forth can work from this concept of an image.
Schemes tend to not be this way. They are interactive, but the image concept is not as ingrained in the Scheme world. Instead, it's more like doing development in something like Bash -- an interactive environment to be sure, but one that always resets to the baseline state and must be reloaded when started. There are certainly Schemes that can do this, it's just not as routine.