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Whoa, very cool!

Free energy theory is so interesting to me - I think there are some very interesting, unexplored, overlaps with Boyd's OODA loop that are begging to be studied

It's really great to see this list growing (when I first heard of this last year it was only about 800 I think).

I'd love to hear from anyone at a remote company about the things you need to do differently to succeed. I have a hypothesis from my time in the military that you have to be much more disciplined around communication and mission when you're not all in the same place.

I read that case study - really cool stuff!

Yes, unfortunately you're right that they do the whole signposting and support better than we do.

There are bodies in the UK who are providing more support for example https://techvets.co/ and many of the large financial institutions in London have veterans programs these days, but we've got a long way to go in comparison!

Interviewee here. AMA, particularly if you're a veteran who wants to get into tech.

I'd love to hear from my betheren over the pond what the signalling and transition process is like for guys and gals leaving the US forces.

Thanks for this. I'm halfway though the book you wrote in 24 hours at the moment :-)

Looks really nice! I'm looking forward to trying this out.

You can read the whole book for free online: https://natureofcode.com/book/

Which I highly recommend - it's great! :-)

Great suggestions (and book suggestions)!

30 ish years is young for a programming language now?

No - it's actually pretty straightforward. I think I should read it again :-)

There's https://github.com/rycee/home-manager I haven't used it yet, but intent to try soon.

What's a diff range? Do you have a link to desrciption/docs so I can read up?

I already got the begging email asking me to sign the petition. You're right that this feels like the wrong tone!

Well, I can't disagree with the reasons, but as someone who lives outside the M25 this means I lose a really handy way to get home when I've had a drink. Ah well, I'm supposed to have given up anyway :-)

I did not get that meaning from reading the memo. And I really don't understand how anyone could. Could you point out the part in the memo where he stated bluntly that many of his colleagues shouldn't be there because of their sex?

I thought that LDL-P had been determined to be a more reliable indicator of heart disease risk? Also hasn't heard of insulin resistance as an effect of ketogenic diets... What's the mechanism for that, do you know?

Purescript does have very workable solution for client and server sharing code:

https://hackage.haskell.org/package/servant-purescript

I'm using this with Halogen and it works great

You are correct - these are the lessons you learn in the military too.

I've only recently been noticing how applicable the lessons I learned in the Royal Marines are to software development. Thanks for putting it so eloquently.

I've been completely blown away with Pieter's courage and willingness to share his journey. I hope I have 10% the dignity when my time comes!

I think I prefer departure

There's the diagrams package in Haskell for vector drawing:

http://projects.haskell.org/diagrams/gallery.html

Juicy pixels for raster manipulation:

https://github.com/Twinside/Juicy.Pixels

And gloss or haskell for mac as a processing kind of environment:

http://gloss.ouroborus.net/

http://haskellformac.com/ (http://learn.hfm.io/fractals.html)

There's an old comment thread from a year ago here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/2naug0/haskell_as_...

I'd be interested to know what you think about the feasibility of using these tools to produce the kind of things you make :-)

Love this! Some of these algorithms are inherently recursive, have you used/looked into a functional language to create them at all?

Yeah it is a lot. I wouldn't consider buying a brand new car normally. However As currently structured it seems to be a fairly tax efficient way to extract money from the company (vs just buying one from after tax earnings). I was wondering if anyone went down this route with the model S or is going to with model x.

Model X has arrived in the UK recently. As a UK company director (contractor), I seem to be able to tax efficiently buy one of these things and get rid of my gas guzzling family 4x4. Anyone done this, I'm still a bit hazy on how the BIK tax and finance costs work?

Should I do it?

Extreme Ownership by Joko Wilink

Team of teams by Gen. Stan McChrystal

Both of these are required reading for understanding how humans work together.

I'd very much like to hear about using NixOS to provision kubernetes or mesos too.

This is a great article. I've also seen tech debt exacerbated by poorly implemented agile practices. One of the worst projects I worked on kept kicking the can down the road because of a misguided idea that everything should be a customer deliverable. So not only were we forced to work with crap, but we were disempowered from making it any better! It was a nightmare, motivation and team cohesion was non-existent and yes, turnover was very high!

The presentation is really impressive! I'd be interested to know how much time/resources went into this if Levi is on here?