Rich Hickey and the Clojure/core team just announced (ok, they announced it last week, but I was on vacation then, so I actually have an excuse to be blogging late) a new project, ClojureScript, a Clojure to JavaScript compiler. With Clojure being a great language to develop and JavaScript being […]
I just got Google + the other day, for all the hype I am currently a bit disappointed. One issue of course is that I still know practically know one on it, which should change as they open their doors and I invest the time to find people again. And some things […]
Whats the difference between an engineer, a scientist, and a mathematician? An engineer sees his equations as an approximation of reality. A scientist sees reality as an approximation of his equations. A mathematician just doesn’t care. There was discussion in a relatively recent Basement Coders podcast (ok, it went out mid May and […]
Avoid writing testcases that compare data structures that include infinite lazy sequences. It kinda does what you would expect… And yes, this is speaking from experience.
I was listening the latest Java Posse roundup recording on the “Future of Software” in which the topic of AI came up, and couldn’t help but chime in on a few things. The basic question being posed was, will computers eventually become smart enough to write their own software. Some argued no, […]