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    Alex Miller

    tech.puredanger.com · Personal blog · on HN since 2008

    Alex Miller writes about Clojure, Java, concurrency, and software conferences, and founded the Lambda Lounge group.

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    What HN says

    HN links it for Clojure posts, such as a rebuttal to claims that its community is against testing, and for code examples.

    Stats for nerds
    24HN people shared it
    47linked in comments
    756story points
    Dec 2015last shared
    2010people per year2015

    Top posts on HN

    1. 1
      Real world Clojure
      2 people · 178 points · first shared 2011 · 34 comments on HN
    2. 2
      2 is a code smell
      1 person · 73 points · first shared 2011 · 30 comments on HN
    3. 3
      Clojure and Testing
      2 people · 69 points · first shared 2013 · 38 comments on HN
    4. 4
      Clojure Hills of Abstraction
      1 person · 66 points · first shared 2011 · 13 comments on HN
    5. 5
      Clojure vs Java, pt. 1
      1 person · 59 points · first shared 2011 · 19 comments on HN
    6. 6
      A Year of Clojure
      1 person · 51 points · first shared 2010 · 11 comments on HN
    7. 7
      Clojure multi-methods
      1 person · 43 points · first shared 2010 · 5 comments on HN
    8. 8
      Playing with fork/join from Clojure
      1 person · 28 points · first shared 2011 · Discussion on HN
    9. 9
      Comparing concurrent frameworks
      1 person · 26 points · first shared 2011 · 9 comments on HN
    10. 10
      Clojure-conj: Present and future
      1 person · 25 points · first shared 2010 · Discussion on HN

    What HN people wrote when they linked it

    • calibraxisDec 2015

      Sadly, one must investigate original sources, otherwise we get soundbite-knowledge. Here's a blogpost written by a core Clojure contributor that starts: "Occasionally I hear someone say that the Clojure community is against testing." (http://tech.puredanger.com/2013/08/31/clojure-and-testing/)

      Or take this discussion on testing: "Finally, testing is greatly facilitated by design. Ideal testing takes some design constraints, some specification and turns it into tests as opposed to sort of embodying design inside tests. That's inside out. But again, that's something we have to work more at. Stems like Quick Check are interesting because you're basically starting with propositions about your system, which reflect the design and saying you write the tests, computer." (https://github.com/matthiasn/talk-transcripts/blob/master/Hickey_Rich/DesignCompositionPerformance.md)

    • kylecordesOct 2010

      Yes! I know the guy who started Lambda Lounge (Alex Miller http://tech.puredanger.com/about ) and heartily supported its founding; I spoke at it every once in a while; and my firm (Oasis Digital http://oasisdigital.com/ ) sponsors Lambda Lounge by paying for travel expenses for out-of-town speakers.

      Lambda Lounge is the best software dev user group ever.

    • gtaniJul 2010

      http://tech.puredanger.com/2007/09/18/spelunking/

      http://debasishg.blogspot.com/2009/06/code-reading-for-fun-and-profit.html

      http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2006/05/post.html
      (section about "making Mongrels stable and secure"

      http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=483824

      http://blog.rubybestpractices.com/posts/gregory/005-code-reading-stdlib.html

    • juliangambleJul 2013

      This is an example of Peter Norvig's spellchecker written with core.async by Stuart Sierra (@stuartsierra):
      https://gist.github.com/stuartsierra/5954022

      This is an example of Rock Paper Scissors by Alex Miller (@puredanger):
      http://tech.puredanger.com/2013/07/10/rps-core-async/

    • puredangerJul 2012

      I wrote a response to this (http://tech.puredanger.com/2012/07/12/conference-expectations-from-speakers/) but I think mikeal's comment here gets at the heart of it better: https://gist.github.com/3098860#gistcomment-370439

    • moeOct 2010

      Obligatory: http://tech.puredanger.com/2009/01/28/maven-adoption-curve/

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