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I really love Clojure, but these days I'm still mostly a Java/Kotlin guy. Haven't seen any Clojure job or Clojure being used in production yet, unfortunately.
Sadly, that is a common fate for Lisp(-like) languages nowadays. People are scared of unusual syntax.
Unfortunately, many people do that. For example, here in New Zealand there is a new startup Onzo (bike sharing). When they launched, I tried to google about them (just out of curiosity). And in 1 minute I found their Jenkins server exposed to everyone as well. I could see how their build process works, who commits what etc. I decided to try to login using simple credentials (something like admin:password) and it didn't work. But there was a Register button. "Why not?" I thought and clicked it and created my own account. And voila, it gave admin permissions by default - I could delete their projects, change variables etc. Emailed them about that.
Moral: never expose your build/deployment systems. If you really want to expose some parts (for whatever reason), then use/write client/UI that has no permissions. 'Build Status' badge is a good example -- it exposes build status info, but doesn't show too much and doesn't give any permissions whatsoever.
I love ops explanation because it separates infinity (as a number) and infinite process (counting).
For me, back in school days (or was it university?) it was a revelation when I came across quaternions. It suddenly clicked. I finally understood that there was nothing special about complex numbers (despite their special names and weird look). It was just an extension and a very intuitive one!
I finally understood that real numbers are the same thing: tuples. They just happen to have exactly one element, hence we omit parens and everything else and just write that element (number)! Complex numbers have 2 elements (real and imaginary). Quaternions - four. And so on.
I love ops explanation because it gives more natural picture: there are _other_ numbers beyond naturals. Then you tell kids there are also negative numbers (integers) and rational numbers and real and complex and so on. I believe that way it is much easier to grasp that very abstract (but fundamental) idea of 'number'. That it is not just 1,2,3...
Because otherwise, we get people thinking "Complex numbers do not exist, that is just a silly thing used by mathematicians that has nothing to do with the real world, it is useless."
It started as a Scheme R5RS implementation in Java, then I translated everything to Kotlin. Finally, decided to make it a hybrid (abomination?) of Scheme and Racket and Clojure.
Still in development, don't know how to implement macros properly. Also, it's only an interpreter for now, there is no compiler (for the same reason: don't know yet how to write a compiler for Kotlin. Use ASM?)
Anyway, it is a great and enlightening experience and I would recommend everyone to write your own lang.
I live in New Zealand and here it is a normal practice for landlords to offer a fixed-term tenancy agreement for 6-12 month. When it expires, then landlord/tenant can decide whether they want to sign another one (fixed-term), otherwise it becomes periodic.
Isn't it the case in US? I mean what's the point of wasting $250k if you can just wait for 6-12 months?
Or why can't they sell the building with a tenant? Why move out, what's the problem? It is a common practice here in NZ too.
Personal stuff: I just send emails to myself.
Something like: '[TODO] Do something ...' Then you can elaborate in the message body.
Pros:
- free
- simple
- no apps required (or: you can use any app/web client you want)
- easily done and accessible from anywhere
- auto sync out of the box
- search/filtering out of the box
- timestamps out of the box
- tags out of the box (via email tags/labels)
- groups/projects out of the box (via mail folders/inboxes)
- rules out of the box (via email rules)
- supports files, links, code snippets, formatted text etc.
- I can flag/unflag them, delete/restore, mark as read/unread and so on
- most clients allow you to add a reminder/follow up for an email (hence, reminders and notifications out of the box)
I've only read 2 books and a half so far and it is brilliant!
I'm not a big fan of fantasy books (prefer hard sci-fi), but Malazan just blew my mind. One of the best things I've ever read.
Not an easy read though, be prepared!
Yes, ability to explore and understand the project via debugger is a great and useful skill.
However, if it takes debugger to understand that project, then, I'd say, it is a badly written and poorly documented project.
Of course, saying 'fake it' I don't mean 'just pretend that you know stuff, but don't actually learn and don't work hard'. You have to learn, you have to work hard to really understand the project etc.
My advice would be: fake it till you make it.
Relax, try to split the whole thing into small pieces, try to understand how they interact with each other, try to understand the dataflow.
Also, in my experience you can never actually grok the whole system at once. It is a slow process.
And what always helps me: separate things that _actually_ matter for your work and everything else (the power of abstraction!). Not sure how to explain it properly. Basically, when I start working on a new project, the number of new things (new words, terms, abbreviations and other domain-specific stuff) is often overwhelming. But in most cases it doesn't matter. Most systems are pretty much the same: data flows here and there, this thing validates stuff, this thing calculates something, this thing stores results etc. They just have different names and use different words, but in reality they are the same thing.
Finally, it's just a job. Take care of yourself, your health (including mental), relax, take it easy.
UPD: also, really, take care of your health! Eat healthy food, do exercises/go to gym, daily walks (it makes a huge difference!), sleep well.
Also, some supplements help me a lot: vitamin D3 + K2, Zinc, Fish Oil, Magnesium + Calcium. For me it made a huge difference! You can also try L-Theanine (with coffee).
Devs often complain about Java being boring and old-school, but it never ceases to amaze me how cool Java and Java-related techs are (JDK, JVM, GC etc.)!
Literally, state of the art, almost alien technology. And it seems that more cool stuff is coming.
API was pretty intuitive, plus some googling and reading stackoverflow. And yes, browsing the source. I don't remember encountering any major problems with it.
Used PDFBox a couple of projects ago. It was great! Very nice API, works like a charm.
Humans always liked egocentric views -- "The Earth is the center of the Universe". Or another version: "Humans are superior because they have consciousness".
If there are many levels of consciousness, one may imagine some extraterrestrial super intelligent beings that are many levels above humans, that would think of humans as non-consciousness beings -- like we think of many animals.
Now, if we go down instead, we can say that all animals with brain are conscious (just as not as we are), can't we?
If there are any problems with Arc gene -- if it is not transferred properly to a child -- then child might develop various conditions (autism etc.)
Or why not neutrons, which are not charged (hence should penetrate better, if I understand it correctly)?
Not sure about US, but here in New Zealand they don't work so well.
I try Apple Maps ~once in 6 months, They are definitely getting better and better, but still no comparison to Google Maps.
Would be great if it was not just On/Off switch, but one could set timer (per site) and it would gradually desaturate website the longer you stay (1%, 2%, ...).
When timer turns 0, then site becomes fully grayscale (100%). When page is closed, then the timer is reset (after the same period of time?).
Then, if you already have stomach flu, then I don't see how bleaching your clothes might help here. Take a medicine.
Finally, reading about stomach flu (I'm not a doctor), it doesn't look like a serious problem: > Most people with the stomach flu require no formal treatment. The key to a rapid and safe recovery at home (home remedy) is proper hydration.
If it gets more serious then take a pill or/and go to a doctor.
Yes, germs are everywhere (surprised?), so what?
First, you can't bleach all you house.
Second, even if you could, why do that? Our body seems to fight nasty stuff pretty well. If you have some specific condition or disease, then just take targeted measures.
> We are "reclaiming" the syntactic real estate of "_" from the space of identifiers for use in future language features. However, because there are existing programs that might use it, it is a warning for identifiers that occur in existing syntactic positions for 8, and an error for lambda formals (since there is no existing code with lambdas.)
In the place I'm currently working at we have Windows behind Cisco VDI, we have to have Cntlm proxy running (all traffic goes through it).
Last week I got an email from Security team because I installed Decentraleyes addon for Firefox. Apparently, it's not allowed and is a security breach.
But the development has stalled recently: can't figure out (read as 'too lazy') how to implement macros and how to fix some issues with lazy sequences.
But overall, really love this hobby project, very enlightening.