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2015-07-07
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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.
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 😞
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
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?
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
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.
I see, maybe not all of them at once, but there’ll be clusters of activity / daytime.
Especially when it comes to the details of how to pair program with somebody perhaps not even in the same country