zirkonit

Clojure is the most fun programming I've had in years.

It takes quite some time to really kick in (more than one or two pet projects, rather than couple of "hello world"-style lines it took for Ruby), but once it does… walking up and down the ladder of abstraction never felt so good.

Well-written.

Monolithic and opinionated, in software libraries and frameworks, will always contrast with lite an modular. Some monoliths end up long-lasting (Rails?), some perish – as always, fitting the needs of your target audience is key. “Backend engineers”, for a JS framework, is as good a target audience as any.

Oh god. Time is a flat circle, 90s are having a comeback, now this, tomorrow under construction gifs and faux 3D buttons in framesets.

The cringiest part is I do believe their usecase (huge annoying CLICK cursors over “buy now” buttons) just _might_ increase conversions enough to be worthwile.

This can certainly be boiled to “when engineering a product, be thoughtful of how it can be (ab)used – if it can be, it will be”. Which is obviously a great advice from any perspective.

I can agree, and I can disagree. I definitely wouldn't compare software engineering to medicine; rather, I see a more apt analogy in, actually, _engineering_ – whereas designing a firearm is just as noble and ethical

Software is eating the world, good and bad, and our role as a profession is to help make the transition of the entire society, altruistic and greedy, charitable and fraudulent, to the highly automated mode of being. After this, it's everyone's individual karma vector's job to guide us in more or less ethical way of conducting ourself professionally.

Obviously more of an art project than anything else, but a brilliant direction to focus our thinking on. Insect protein really is a good direction to grow our meat consumption in, and if at first “toy” projects like this mostly provoke disgust, I hope in 25-50 years they will be in a very different position.

Half software development / half data science. Clojure, Ruby + beginner Golang for softdev, R, Weka, Mathematica, Ruby and a bit of Python for data science.

On the web side, I'm almost purely backend developer.

And the slogan of solidarity to the victims of the tragedy, for the unaware.

Misleading headline.

This is a complete -solution- for a limited poker version. Really strong, but stochastic, Hold'em algorithms have existed for a long time.

Je suis Charlie.

Immensely useful thread, thanks a lot.

Thanks for the experience. I thought about that but wasn't sure it is a productive effort. A successful anecdote is extremely helpful.

I do have savings, I'm not in a burning position. I did get a job, but it's not in softdev; I'd prefer working in engineering.

I don't exactly _have_ to avoid my old network, but I wouldn't to explain them what kind of situation I am in.

SEEKING WORK - Remote

Available for Clojure or Ruby-based software and web development. Proficient in data science, data analysis (using R + Weka + Mathematica + Go + Ruby).

Currently changing locations in Asia; only available for remote work.

Friendly, business-minded, a lot of experience with A/B testing and ecommerce optimization. Can be just a developer or a technical and business partner.

Write me at zirkonit [at] gmail.com and we will work something out )

In the end, management is just like engineering – getting the outcome you need despite all the constraints.

Negative personality traits of the team is a constraint just like anything else – a smart leader will be able to foster thinkers into coming up with really actionable ideas, soothe entitleds' egos, calm down the talkers etc.

Makes sense, thanks for the perspective.

Curious to know, thanks.

Nothing particularly special, every travel startup has some internal DB/toolset to (re)create proper geoschema.

Front-end tooling is pretty nice, though; I believe content editors' productivity using AT-AT is much higher than using some of the tools I've written :)

A trip down memory lane. Some of the “hot” technologies took off (CPU architectures, genome computations, ray tracing); some lingered on in the same early 2000s state (genetic algorithms, etc).

I, for one, am slightly puzzled why genetic algos never became mainstream in any computational field.

I love OpenBSD and this is in no way a bash, but… ugh

  Who were the most productive developers? Top three in terms of lines added:

I understand this is just a funny page with some metrics, but seriously calling people who added most LOC the most “productive” developers is somewhat disingenious.

  In order to prevent cvs from filling up with all this code, it’s necessary to delete some old code.

Is there any current reason to still use CVS in 2015?

  Special mention to jsing for achieving the most churn and smallest net gain by adding 153802 lines and deleting 152604.

Net gain. Blowing up the codebase size is “net gain”. Maybe OpenBSD team knows something I don't, but I got a bad vibe from this report.

A solid project with very little visibility – I, for one, heard about it only with this post!

Good luck to Luca and the Lotus team in 2015!

=) Nice link, didn't know about it!

Good point!

What's funny is that MS-DOS is only 4 years older than Windows, initial MS-DOS release being 33 years old whereas Windows is 29 years old.

I'm pretty sure that in 2018, there won't be a “Windows Showcase” giving such a rush of sweet nostalgia; I wonder how come Win has so much more longevity than MS-DOS had?