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Why a tech billionaire? We as humans just need to eat less animal food, and reduce our emissions as low as possible.

Most vegans I know see it as the right way to be in the world, not something that brings complexity or social pressure, so it ends up being no hassle at all.

Heroku does have autoscale capabilities based on avg response time. You set a min and max dyno count and off you go. It's as simple as it sounds but for run of the mill, follow-the-daytime apps it works.

Judging by the comments here it seems lots of people suffer from Stockholm syndrome - me included. I'm so used to SQL that it's hard to imagine something better.

I wonder if we started from scratch today would we end up with something like SQL.

I payed 40x2 for igg and igm antibody tests, on my own free will.

My opinion is that clojure has a confluence of just right abstractions and language choices that allows you to be very very succint while still very readable which in turn makes the language very expressive. I can name a few features: immutability, multimethods, protocols, transducers, lazy sequences, macros, and a very small and sturdy core. All of these features exist in some other language, but the combination of them together is what makes clojure great IMHO.

Besides, experienced clojure devs just see things differently and end up writing lots of nice libs that capture the essence of the feature the lib is providing. Think datomic (immutable database), reagent (interface to react), honeysql (data-as-sql), "dependency injection" (mount/component & others), pull/query-based UIs (om.next and its spiritual successor, fulcro) and so on.

I can tell you what I miss: really good error messages :)

Your comment misses alot of nuances about Clojure. Most Clojure devs I know were already senior devs in one or more languages, and were very capable of dealing with any missing "out of the box" functionality.

Besides, by sitting on top of the JVM you have access to alot of mature libraries, and it's extremely easy to do a wrapper in clojure.

What the spring & other frameworks have as an advantage is a predefined set of opinionated choices about logging, error handling, validation and so on that would give you a couple of weeks advantage at top. What they don't have is an expressive language as clojure.

It's easy to replace Slack the tech, it's hard to replace Slack the app that people are used to when they say they want a chat app for their company.

It's like saying Windows is not difficult to replace. Technicaly true but practically false.

It doesn't matter, it has become the reference already. You could say the same about Nike or BMW or Dropbox. The truth is that these brands enjoy a certain (literal) mindshare (through proper execution) that is hard to replace.

I outsourced the following from my wife:

- Vergílio Ferreira - Miguel Torga - Gonçalo M Tavares - Eugénio de Andrade (poetry) - Sophia de Mello Breyner (poetry)

That clears it up, thanks.

Can someone explain to me the basic tenets of Hinduism, and if it is related to Yoga? I have met so many yoga teachers that don't know how to answer this yet are free to speak about spiritual yoga stuff, so I remain confused.

In short, make them happy.

If you said to me: you are gonna die and reborn, no guarantees about what your life will be in terms of health, education, personal wealth or personality traits, in which country do you want to be born? Most probably not the US for me.

Things get less interesting because you get detached from what people consider worldly pleasures. In Buddhism, happiness comes from cutting afflictions down through training and practice.

If you find a good knowing teacher, they can guide you through a process where you can attain the bliss of meditation, which is completely worth it and different from "regular" happiness.

As you practice, this newfound happiness becomes ingrained and you become happier. It's very natural.

I wonder how faster we would get those innovations if we were actively trying to invent them.

I have never used Rx libraries. What are the cases where you have low friction coroutines such as loom (no "coloured" functions afaik) where you want to use RxJava? Handling backpressure? Modelling complex flows? Honest question

I have been testing the OpenJDK builds, afaik it's usable. It's still in heavy development though

I admit the tone is heavy, which makes introspection (reflecting about self consumerist tendencies) unpleasant. But as I understand it, consumerism is a spectrum, just like veganism.

One could read your reply as saying that people want to dodge responsibility, though. It's a double edged sword.

Hell, I just used loom last night on some pet projects. You can use it today if you dare.

Offshoring anything requires more efficiency from the start because a company's management problems will be amplified by offshoring.

Of course if a company is remote first it will already be at advantage, but most companies I know are not known by it's management efficiency.

So a trillion dollars are lying on the ground, but its buried deep and you require the tools to dig.

Nice article, thanks!

Check Jacob Collier if you haven't already. He is really pushing it, he has a song where he changes the temperament during the song (sorry if this imprecise/wrong). He is kinda like a musical prodigy. Not my cup of tea but I do recognize he is very refreshing.

Clojure folks do that. Don't know about all of them, but lots of them do. You even have emacs cider shortcuts to run tests from a live repl.

Send me an email, I know a nice company that may be recruiting. Remote friendly.

I didn't understand your comment. What I meant is jhana is Pali, most Ch'an/Mahayana sources go back to sanskrit and thus spell it as dhyana. A Mahayana practitioner saying jhana is as odd as a Theravadin saying dhyana.

Congrats! Did you do that on your own or with a teacher? I find it curious that you mix jhana which is normally from Theravada/mindful based techniques and concentration which is normally from Ch'an/Mahayana techniques.

Agreed, its not a vanilla SQLite but can give you a rough idea of the quality of SQLite codebase.