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2016-02-16
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agile_geek09:02:01

Morning. I am frazzled this morning. Too much to organise and to little time to do it! How are you folks?

thomas09:02:47

Morning...

thomas09:02:22

fine… WAH today as it is half term… which means I have to be an art critic as well today.

paulspencerwilliams10:02:53

Not that chipper myself. Still stuck in an Angular hell. I’m an FP developer, get me out of here!!

paulspencerwilliams10:02:13

@agile_geek: get your lappy working in the end?

agile_geek10:02:12

@paulspencerwilliams no. The opposite. It's now not even booting up for any OS. I am away from home for 2 weeks so no chance to fix it as I don't have access to a wired internet connection.

glenjamin10:02:48

anyone else find the policing of the channel-formerly-known-as-general more distracting than posts in a general channel?

agile_geek11:02:44

@glenjamin: yes. I am also very uncomfortable with the conversations going on in the community-development channel around the code of conduct.

martintrojer11:02:17

all that clojure

thomas11:02:56

very sad indeed…. and only a few months ago they were still recruiting 😞

martintrojer11:02:59

hopefully 10 new awesome Clojure startups will now form in Bristol

martintrojer11:02:21

or was it Brighton?

martintrojer11:02:23

one of the Bs.

minimal11:02:32

Shame, met them at FPX where they were recruiting too

paulspencerwilliams11:02:23

I saw a recruitment advert for them over the last couple of days!

agile_geek11:02:59

This is the second company recently (or is it the third?) that has used Clojure and closed down...I worry it's a jinx. The other one I can think of is Prismatic.

thomas11:02:54

Prismatic is pivoting… not closing down. (I think)

benedek11:02:58

or if you look at this from an other angle: shows clj is more widespread as community is sometimes hit by company shut downs...

benedek11:02:21

being extreme positive here. feels weird too… simple_smile

thomas11:02:01

true.. regardless of the technology used a company can go bust.

thomas11:02:26

sometimes it helps (wordperfect) though.

agile_geek12:02:51

I wonder if it's actually the greater use by startups for competitive advantage that means the risk of going bust is higher?

gjnoonan13:02:58

@glenjamin: agreed re the policing of the Chanel, it is not sanctioned, it is distracting, and it is being looked into 👍

glenjamin13:02:39

the rename to “announce-to-everyone” was a good move imo, as it’s not “don’t use this”, it’s just “this is what will happen"

annapawlicka16:02:48

@agile_geek: Walmart is using clj and I don’t think they’re going bust anytime soon 😉

glenjamin16:02:50

probably some selection bias as well, I know i’m not watching the news about companies that use Scala

pyb17:02:00

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