Every time I try and write a non lisp language now, my head hurts.

moin moin

Last year I tried to write some python like this (func-name arg arg) and couldn't work out why it wasn't working 😇

morning

Good morning to all you beautiful people ☀️

Morning!

morning

morning

morning

sup actionshrimp

If anyone is interested, Humble Bundle have a bunch of data science books for £12, here's the link https://www.humblebundle.com/books/data-science-books

ooh

Wow that's pretty awesome value

I'm still reading cryptography books from the last humble bundle

Good Morning lovely Clojure people 🙂

☕

good morning maleghast

where is the name maleghast from if you don't mind me asking

Hello @danieleneal I don’t mind you asking at all 🙂 It is an invented portmanteau of “male” the latin word for evil (you’ll see it in other fictional names, like Maleficent, the witch from Sleeping Beauty), and a medieval English word “ghast” meaning man. Essentially it’s code for “evil man”, or more specifically “Man of Evil”. I “invented” it (at least I think I did) to name a central character in the novella I wrote as my long-form course work component for the creative writing minor I took in the final year of my degree (BA Hons English and American Literature - University of Kent at Canterbury). I might be able to point you to a place to read it if the mood takes you, but I realise that it’s not at the top of everyone’s list to read short novels by people they barely know on the internet 😉

😄

After I got my mark in the course, which I was very pleased with and proud of - I got a First for the course and saved my degree from a fail to a Third - I adopted the name as my online handle and have used it ever since.

man of evil! sounds menacing 😄

nice work !

The character is the exiled God of Evil - think analogue for Satan - in a story about Gods meddling in the affairs of man.

He’s actually a pretty decent chap… 😉

@geek-draven thanks for sharing the humble bundle. Just purchased the full bundle

A shame data intensive isn't in the bundle

@yogidevbear @geek-draven Me too - thx!

@dominicm - What book is that, that you are sad is not included..? I have a feeling you’ve talked to me about it before and I’ve failed to make a note…

ooh is that designing data intensive applications - I'd like to read that too...

I managed to get my boss to purchase Designing Data Intensive Applications about 2 months back

Really great book

^^ that one

Busy skimming over the books in this purchase. Amazing value for money

Anyone read through Head First Data Analysis before?

Thanks all 🙂

This is the book I was thinking of. Isn’t Martin Kleppmann one of the people behind Samza?

Yeah, he is - this is the blog post that brought him to my attention, and that (originally) made me want to read this book. https://www.confluent.io/blog/turning-the-database-inside-out-with-apache-samza/

Designing Data Intensive Applications is an excellent book and Martin’s a lovely chap to talk to.

afternoon

‘Ello again - had your lunch? (that’s my definition of afternoon)

yep 😄 was delicious

I'll be starting a new job on Monday in Canary Wharf, doing exciting things with Clojure. Thanks for all the support and encouragement I've received over the years from this great community.

If anyone is looking for their first full time Clojure role, I am happy to share my experiences.

There are lots of really nice companies out there with Clojure roles (full time and as part of other tech). Its a shame I can only work for one company at once 🙂

@jr0cket you make it sound like you're leaving the clojure community

Nah, he’ll never leave!

@jr0cket - Who are you going to work for?

@yogidevbear landed! Let me know what you think. https://youtu.be/Uv9fyDTIPig

@reborg woah, saving for later.

I am going to save that for later too 🙂

@maleghast one could read your name to be malemale

which I find funny

Yes, I suppose so 🙂

but that’s not what it is

Awesome thank you @reborg!

Definitely going to make time to watch this over the weekend