I just returned from the Strange Loop conference earlier tonight. I don’t really have time to get into too much detail of what I saw (I do have to get back on Eastern Standard Time), but let me say it was a great conference. Some of the standouts were Rich […]
So today was, lets say Day 0 of Strange Loop. Aside from some hiccups on the plane to St Louis regarding a very important part of the plane (we were delayed for half an hour while they fixed the flushing mechanism in the lavatory), things have gone well. The actual […]
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 […]
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.