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2018-03-15
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thomas08:03:20

moin moin morning

thomas09:03:10

@otfrom here are loads of hugs for you!!!!! :hugging_face: :hugging_face: :hugging_face:

thomas10:03:57

welcome @rustam.gilaztdinov to Clojure UK

guy10:03:52

Morning all!

rustam.gilaztdinov10:03:43

such friendly channel doge

yogidevbear10:03:16

Morning one and all 🙂

maleghast10:03:22

Wow, the wind up here! (just saying)

otfrom10:03:57

Same in Dundee today

Amelia10:03:22

Where is everyone based? I assumed most would be in London, but maybe that was a bad assumption...

guy10:03:35

I’m in London, but i think it’s quite spread out over the uk

guy10:03:50

(well the ones that talk at least :D)

Amelia10:03:53

That’s good, I think

chrjs11:03:48

Morning all

thomas11:03:39

I work in Rotterdam and live in Gouda... but used to be in the UK for almost 17 years (Winchester/So'ton area)

thomas11:03:57

but still hang out here as it is such nice group of people 🙂

Amelia11:03:37

Winchester/Southampton is exactly where I’m moving to - in a couple of weeks I’ll be in Basingstoke full time, which seems to be a bit dry for the kinds of meetups I’ve become used to while working in London!

benstox11:03:29

I live in Farnborough, Hants, work in London; just learning Clojure though

chrjs11:03:04

Up North in Newcastle. Distributed dev team.

otfrom11:03:08

@amelia I'm 75% in Dundee 25% in London. Used to live in London tho

otfrom11:03:24

slack was going a bit weird there

Amelia11:03:32

That was a bit unnerving, had to stop myself saying “…Yes?” 😂

Amelia11:03:22

I’ll still be in reach of London so planning to go to the monthly meetups at least, dojos when I’m a bit more confident. Maybe I’ll see some of you there!

otfrom11:03:24

sorry about that

otfrom11:03:42

I think I'm talking in May

otfrom11:03:53

munging data with core.async and transducers

Amelia11:03:49

I’ll aim to understand this sentence so I can appreciate your talk by May! :thumbsup::skin-tone-4: Good to have a deadline 🙂

otfrom12:03:54

Took me a while to understand it too

otfrom20:03:54

Well, about 4 years anyway

Amelia21:03:50

That’s quite a lot...!!

otfrom00:03:34

I need to do a lot of thinking sometimes

otfrom11:03:01

(a topic near and dear to my heart)

yogidevbear11:03:23

Which meetup is that at @otfrom?

otfrom11:03:34

London Clojurians if it all works out

otfrom11:03:04

and I think I owe Edinburgh a talk too, so I'll give them the polished version after I experiment on people in England 😉

Amelia11:03:21

That’s fair 😁

Amelia11:03:37

What’s the Clojure community in Scotland like?

otfrom11:03:04

I'm not really sure yet tbh. I've been a bit antisocial (the talk is to force me to get out and meet people)

otfrom11:03:51

the first UK clojurebridge was in Edinburgh run by @ali_king

Amelia11:03:15

Oh, brilliant!

Amelia11:03:24

I didn’t even consider when and where it might have started

otfrom11:03:48

clojurebridge didn't start there, but the first UK one was there

otfrom11:03:10

we're just stealing all the good ideas from other people 🙂

bronsa11:03:41

FYI if anybody is around London this evening and is interested, I’ll be giving a talk on ukanren at PWL https://www.meetup.com/Papers-We-Love-London/events/248467200/

bronsa11:03:24

if learning about how core.logic works interests you, you should come :)

otfrom11:03:36

(other people always give much cooler talks than me. ;-))

otfrom11:03:58

@bronsa will there be a video?

reborg13:03:03

Just watched the strangeloop presentation over lunch... I appreciate the engineering effort but not sure I need any of the feature mentioned 🙂

reborg13:03:38

Also, he seems he wants to load the language with essentially everything. A little bit of a silver bullet approach. What's wrong in using different languages for different problems?

reborg13:03:28

A bit skeptic, but hey, will try the language if I have time at some point

mccraigmccraig13:03:32

it's quite a simple language which takes some fundamental concepts and weaves them together very well - e.g. having macros run in a state-monad with the full compiler state and extensible pattern matching are both brilliant

mccraigmccraig13:03:13

i don't think the basics of the language came through very well in the strangeloop talk though... it was very future-focused

mccraigmccraig13:03:27

(from my hazy recollection)

bronsa12:03:03

if only lux had any sense of aesthetic

mccraigmccraig12:03:52

haha, it took me a while, but i ended up really liking it

bronsa12:03:28

yeah I’m sure you do get used to it eventually — but I’m not ready to rape my eyes that much until stockholm syndrome starts kicking in

bronsa12:03:42

the language is quite good otherwise

mccraigmccraig12:03:10

(that's pretty much what yet-to-be-lispers say about lisps @bronsa😉 )

bronsa12:03:18

I know I know

otfrom15:03:57

@jasonbell surely you mean "morning"

mccraigmccraig15:03:12

UTG @otfrom - don't be an anglocentrist

otfrom15:03:52

sorry. 😉

maleghast15:03:15

@mccraigmccraig - Does that mean Lux is v1.0..?

thomas15:03:48

what would UGT/UTG be called in German?

mccraigmccraig15:03:53

no @maleghast it's a way away from that... it's approaching 0.6 - which includes a self-hosted compiler and a few different backends https://trello.com/b/VRQhvXjs/lux

thomas15:03:06

Universalgrußzeit according to Google translate.

maleghast15:03:17

Ah ok - plenty of time for me to "get around to it" then 😉

maleghast15:03:22

brb - school run!

otfrom15:03:33

@thomas my fave is when you are only missing a comma or something like that

otfrom15:03:41

they are sooooo hard to find

thomas15:03:47

yes... that just hurts

otfrom15:03:45

and is so hard to find

thomas15:03:30

I quite like the fact that comma's are considered whitespace in clj. the number of times I had an error in JS after adding a k/v pair to a map on a new line 😠

maleghast17:03:03

Commas are annoying as Hell.

dominicm17:03:45

a useful tool when dealing with the shell though