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quinedstatementon Try Clojure in your browser

You need a space between the + and the first 3 (+ is the function you want to call).

quinedstatementon Why big companies fail to keep talent

"Top talent likes top talent." That I can agree with. I know people can't be fired from big companies, but I wish they could be indefinitely suspended with pay. ("We'll pay you to STOP CHECKING IN CODE.") Then the three people with a clue wouldn't have to waste their time reverting the mistakes of the people trying hard for a good performance review.

You hit the nail right on the head. I used to say this all the time when I was working for Oracle. There were plenty of people who weren't even contributing nothing - they were forcing the competent people to take time away from real work to fix the bugs these people caused. Negative value, indeed.

quinedstatementon The Economics of Bike Lanes

I always tell people: if you knew you wouldn't get a ticket in a car for running a red light safely, you would do it. As soon as the police start ticketing for running red lights and stop signs on a bike, I'll stop.

I ride in Philadelphia and I try to be somewhat considerate to drivers. I slow down for every stoplight and stop sign, but if nobody's coming, I'm going to go through it, because I'm not going to get in trouble.

quinedstatementon Is Haskell the Cure?

I recently had that same epiphany. For fun, I decided to re-implement a simple chat server I wrote a while back in Erlang. I found that everything clicked - the type system worked with me instead of against me, and I was able to create prototypes as quickly as I could think of them. But, it took two years of thinking about Haskell before I could synthesize code in it. (code here: https://github.com/dmansen/haskell-chat)

quinedstatementon If you don’t have pet projects, I don’t think I want you

I consider myself very passionate about programming. I do a lot of research and learn about programming in my spare time, but have hardly any personal programming projects to show. After work, instead of grinding away coding like I do every day, I'm learning how to draw, and paint, and play music. Does this mean I'm not qualified for this .NET position?