went to a scala meetup

definitely don’t want to touch that with a 100 foot pole hehe

Are there plans to opensource datomic?

hehe I do not think so

they reached out to me and I said the same thing and no not in their culture so far

real shame

deal breaker for a lot of people

including me 😉

I remember a Rich Hickey conference where he was asked: "Why isn't Datomic open source?" His answer: "Because I have a child in the school". Epic answer.

hah

hey not saying he can’t do whatever he wants.. in fact I am glad

to each their own and he can always opensource it later down the road

once nobody is using it at all 😉

Is there a way to find other slack communities like this one?

Not easily. They all have to advertise. Slack is inherently designed for a closed, private team system.

There used to be a site that tried to collate them, but I think slack shut them down because they had slack in their name.

There is another cool slack called functionalprogramming; it has a clojure channel but it's been deprecated in favor of this one. However, F# is strongly represented there and the community is quite impressive.

They arranged pair programming sessions a few weeks ago, although my partner sadly did not show up 😞

I'd do pair programming

How did they set that up?

They opened a google doc excel sheet in which willing participants registered

And after two weeks or so they just paired 'em up depending on the available times and timezones

Then you had another two weeks to actually do the pair programming, posting results afterwards

I would totally be down for some pair programming too.

Great idea

hmm how’d that work? you’d be pair programming on something only one of the pairs cared about, yes? Or am I missing something?

It's something you decided in the one- to two-week timespan

We're all on slack, so just write a message and see what's what

But more to the point, no, they did not sort interested members by skill level or domain

should we open a chatroom? #pairprogdojo or like that

I don't know, imho it feels like that would increase the cognitive load; most people already visit four or five channels, a new one might be ignored or under-populated

iae: right, i thought that it would be useful when the actual event is happening

Aaah, of course!

My mistake

And what would happen in the pragprogdojo?

I figured that the pair programming sessions would happen at the same time and afterwards people would present their results. This would be the channel for help/organizing etc.

You mean all of them?

That might be difficult due to timezones and personal time constraints

Iirc they had another little survey form where people posted their results

I see, maybe not all of them at once, but there’ll be clusters of activity / daytime.

Yes, and it's a good use case for such a channel

Especially when it comes to the details of how to pair program with somebody perhaps not even in the same country

wow the new magit is really great

escherize: for those of us who have to upgraded .. why?

glad i've been slacking on learning it up to this point

why is there no more magit-status?

or rather, what replaces it

"This release marks the end of a commit marathon that lasted for more than 4700 commits.” 😮

It’s a lot faster at showing diffs and the interface is more comprehensive

ah, it's still there

the interface has had a lot more care poured into it

just a big release, i guess

I’m really impressed with the new magit. At first I just stared at it as if I had never seen a computer before. I felt like an old man: ‘THEY CHANGED EVERYTHING WHAT DO I DO’.