About a decade ago, I heard "We don't use Git because it makes things more complicated." :D

See here for a possible explanation of sweeping generalisations in tech: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult

Hearing these kinds of statements from Java-developers who haven’t once stepped outside their bubble is just as aggravating every time 😫

@U2FRKM4TW I mean, that's not wrong. Git is complicated! I feel like it's the best we have currently, but I yearn for something better. Perhaps https://pijul.org/ becomes a viable alternative one day.

"Git is complicated" [as opposed to some other SCM system] and "Git makes things more complicated" [as opposed to a complete lack of SCM] are different statements though. :) I should've made my previous statement clearer.

Maybe it's baked into the definition. How did they define scale? What is scale? 😄 Also what does scale? I'm intrigued. If they say that something doesn't scale my first question would be "what does scale?"

Very true, git may not scale to infinite org size but it scales much further than "just editing the files on the server"

This is how I teach git, except, inverted :p :)

I teach a basic git workflow to absolute programming beginners. You can use the tool in a very simple manner and get most of the benefits.

Any time a git workflow is more complicated than "create a PR on a branch, and someone reviews and merges it into main" I rely on others to work out the details. It has handled all of my uses of git that remain 🙂

> The java.lang.System.nanoTime() method returns the current value of the most precise available system timer, in nanoseconds. The value returned represents nanoseconds since some fixed but arbitrary time (in the future, so values may be negative) and provides nanosecond precision, but not necessarily nanosecond accuracy. https://www.tutorialspoint.com/java/lang/system_nanotime.htm According to that, nanotime isn't since Jan 1st 1970 like currentTimeMillis.

Because they're completely unrelated. From nanoTime's docstring:

* The value returned represents nanoseconds since some fixed but
* arbitrary <i>origin</i> time (perhaps in the future, so values
* may be negative).

I see, thank you

Yep, that's a common mistake to rely on one versus another. Use nanoTime to measure durations. Use currentTimeMillis to get unix epoch time.

That is so freaking cool — I had no idea!!! For me, it's exhilarating to see how broad the impact of @U050B88UR is. ❤️

Thanks for posting that, @U11BV7MTK !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDRRbuWuUbQ comes to mind by the awesome @U066U8JQJ

The hills are alive with the sound of ((((()))))'sssss.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HM1Zb3xmvMc

I'm open to writing one 😅

Hard to think of good rhyming lyrics without getting too technical

and still talk about Clojure and not just LISP in general

the book on Data Oriented Programming https://www.manning.com/books/data-oriented-programming from @U0L91U7A8 has more of them 🙂

The book used to have songs, but the the publisher asked me to remove them

I object to there objection.

@U0L91U7A8 maybe you can make them available somewhere else?

@U3ES97LAC I have no idea how to write songs because i have no sense of what words will sound like next to each other when handled properly...

Come listen, Brother, Sister

Heed my call. A story to be sure.

I faced modern development. And feel into the tarpit.

My atomnemnt was immutable. My motivation now pure.

Hear how I found the cure. Here how I found clojure. 

I don't know how to do this and also not be a bit sappy.

If someone is interested to play the song with an instrument, I will be happy to share the lyrics

Haha thats pretty good! How do you say the last part out loud?

(λx.x x) (λx.x x) ; (while true)

@U8WFYMFRU here is the complete recitation https://youtu.be/BTouODWov-A?t=101

@U0AHJUHJN performed it in his music synthesis program. It sounds like... https://twitter.com/FnConf/status/1507361683123146755?s=20

@U04V15CAJ maybe not quite "while true", because at this point in the lambda calculus lecture we wouldn't yet have a definition for "true". Also, in Haskell class, (λx.x x) (λx.x x) is the point when the lecture pauses indefinitely because that is a legal Haskell definition for bottom :)

aaah make sense :)

A perfectly typesafe way to keep doing nothing until the heat death of the universe :D

I was actually surprised it worked. I thought maybe ghc will know the over-clever student's shenanigans and throw it out of the class, but no, it did not.

When I started with Common Lisp, I was disappointed they didn't implement numbers as Church Numerals but I didn't know much about performance then

Joe Armstrong had this great line. Paraphrasing... "Performance is a solved problem. If you want performance, just wait ten years."

I think it was in "The mess we're in".