Rich Hickey: The Value of Values

Is there any convenient way to get notified when Rich Hickey pushes a new talk or article? I can't seem to find a RSS feed, mailing list or Twitter account to follow. Any advice appreciated!

Is there anywhere I can go to get a collection of useful programming videos? Somewhere that aggregates videos like these after they are uploaded?

Great talk, and without having any experience with FP, it really makes sense on many levels. I love data, and how transparent it is, and how objects seem to get in the way a lot of the time. I like queues, and shipping data from one process to another rather than sharing objects. RESTful interfaces, etc. Those concepts and tools are powerful.

The only thing I'm not too comfortable with is that space isn't really infinite. Yes, it's much cheaper, but still not infinite. If we stored all our logs in an ever growing database, and expect to be able to access it all the time, this is really very expensive. This is why we rotate logs, archive them and trash them eventually. Sure, we can afford this expense for source control, because this data (source code) is amazingly small in comparison. I'm not sure how it translates to real data on our systems, which is immensely bigger.

Also thinking about it in context of technologies like redis. redis manifets a lot of the advancement in technology in how memory is used. It's so vastly bigger and cheaper than before that we can afford to store our whole database in it, instead of on much slower disks. But then this super-fast in-memory database definitely faces storage size constraints that needs to be considered...

Just a few random thoughts. Wish I could have a chat to Rich Hickey one day. Even if I could, I have a lot more to learn until then, so I'd make the most of this chat.

> This is why we rotate logs, archive them and trash them eventually.

i think an organization trashes old logs for out-of-band reasons - acquiring more disk space requires following an organization's procurement process which imposes tons of friction, or because compliance with applicable regulations requires saving, e.g., emails, for three months and saving them for longer is a legal risk.

Has anyone seen a Sales CRM implemented with a temporal+value approach? Seems quite useful for tracking movement through a funnel.