Why isn’t Mixpanel in this list ? It’s a developer tool right?
Y Combinator Resources for Developers
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Agreed. We had to rush this page out for a Google-driven deadline. I've just fixed the formatting like you suggested.
I am curious about what that Google-driven deadline might be. Care to elaborate a bit?
Most likely Google's public launch of .dev domains: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19178757.
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#124Under the “ Ask a Female Engineer ” heading, I wish they would include a link to https://communequation.wordpress.com/2017/07/05/im-not-a-wom... for an alternate viewpoint, in order to reduce the echo chamber effect.
On the one question currently in that section, they have a diversity of viewpoints from the panel. There's no evident echo chamber effect. Anyhow, it would be rejecting the argument of the blog post to link to it there, and the blog post itself is a bit of an increase incoherent mess (the author proudly identifies as female, adopting one label, and seems to equally proudly adopt the tech worker label, yet rejects the…
Labels, and words in general, while making it possible to communicate concepts to other people, also inherently make gross generalizations of those concepts, which confuses communication. Labels are therefore also used to “label” people, which is considered a bad thing. Therefore, some people really don't like labels.
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#125Pardon the criticism, but I've got text running far off the screen on mobile.
Somewhat shocking to see a brand new 2019 website that isn't responsive, especially when it's not super difficult.
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It's easy to roll anything in CL if you know what you're doing, but making it talk wsgi or generate pngs isn't trivial, no matter what language you're writing it in.
CL implementations do have an FFI that you could at least call C libraries from, don't they?
While I have admittedly limited experience with it, CFFI worked awesome for the couple things I tried to do with it. I don't have any CL code in production yet, but enjoy using it when I'm doing some recreational programming, or looking for something that's easy to embed in a C program (Lua's nice, but it's trivial to take the ECL Common Lisp implementation and hook up emacs-slime to it, even when it's embedded in a C program)
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#128Is Paul Graham and Robert Morris's Arc language[a] being used for anything in production other than Y Combinator websites? [a] http://arclanguage.org/
https://www.laarc.io/ uses it. It's a HN clone created by an ex-employee from S2 (which develops Heroes of Newerth, a Dota clone). It's available on github as well. https://github.com/laarc/laarc
Looks like a fork of HN, so not really created by this S2 ex-employee.
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> it's been more or less been proven to be false Not really. It's true that few big winners have used Lisp, but that would only disprove the thesis if there were also companies who tried using Lisp and failed. AFAICT, no one is even doing the experiment. I actually know of two notable counterexamples: Barefoot Networks has an internal design tool written in Common Lisp that is a significant source of competitive adva…
If not commercial Lisp, what you think about using Racket for both the IDE and so they can pre-scale by giving HtDP to good developers who want to learn Scheme?
The rule I always apply to such questions is: whatever works.