off-topic 2019-11-30 | Slack Archive

anyone using spacemacs notice windows being duplicated from time to time?

@Raf may be try in #spacemacs or #emacs?

Amusing. taken from https://www.confluent.io/blog/kafka-streams-vs-ksqldb-compared

Hah! Big hint on the timing of Rich Hickey's Clojure for Java Programmers talk on one of the slides with examples for Java interop forms, showing these:

andy.fingerhut02:11:48

(new java.util.Date)
Thu Jan 05 12:37:32 EDT 20008

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andy.fingerhut02:11:56

And this:

(.. System getProperties (get "java.version"))
"1.5.0_13"

seancorfield02:11:12

Java 5. That was when I parted ways with Java. Too many "silly" additions 🙂

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sogaiu02:11:43

@andy.fingerhut feeling like james ussher? 😉

Blake04:11:18

hiring for a small clojure project dealing with Google Page Rank algorthim, DM me for more details

enforser19:12:11

You may want to try posting in #jobs

Gulli08:11:46

By day, I'm a java dev myself. But part of the reason why I've started straying away from the language is because of 'silly' additions. Anyone here use Scala? Been eyeing that.

seancorfield00:12:14

@UQXS91RT7 I went from Java to Groovy to Scala to Clojure. It's an impressive language but I don't really like static typing... And back when I was using it there was almost no backward compatibility with tooling so every time you upgraded anything, you had to upgrade everything!

seancorfield00:12:55

Clojure is a joy to use in that respect.

Gulli07:12:06

I prefer static typing. But in regards to Clojure, it's awesome and I'm slowly falling in love with it as I learn it. Scala on the other hand, I wan't to get into it because it seems more maintainable than Java, and at work it will be much easier to switch to Scala than to Clojure.

Gulli07:12:54

But yeah, I've heard about it not being very backwards compatible, which is something Java strives much to do.

Gulli11:12:04

Oh by the way, I watched your video on fixing the core.memoize bug recently, very informative. Thanks for sharing that.

bherrmann14:11:38

On hacker news .... Fleck is a Clojure-like LISP that runs wherever Bash is. ... https://github.com/chr15m/flk/

dominicm15:11:57

That's pretty cool, I need to get a grasp on the escaping rules. I'm hoping they're improved.

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