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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.
What HN saysHN links it for Clojure posts, such as a rebuttal to claims that its community is against testing, and for code examples.
24HN people shared it
6linked it in comments
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Most-shared posts
- 1Real world Clojure2 people · 178 points · first shared 2011 · 34 comments on HN
- 2Clojure and Testing2 people · 69 points · first shared 2013 · 38 comments on HN
- 32 is a code smell1 people · 73 points · first shared 2011 · 30 comments on HN
- 4Clojure Hills of Abstraction1 people · 66 points · first shared 2011 · 13 comments on HN
- 5Clojure vs Java, pt. 11 people · 59 points · first shared 2011 · 19 comments on HN
- 6A Year of Clojure1 people · 51 points · first shared 2010 · 11 comments on HN
- 7Clojure multi-methods1 people · 43 points · first shared 2010 · 5 comments on HN
- 8Playing with fork/join from Clojure1 people · 28 points · first shared 2011 · discussion on HN
- 9Comparing concurrent frameworks1 people · 26 points · first shared 2011 · 9 comments on HN
- 10Clojure-conj: Present and future1 people · 25 points · first shared 2010 · discussion on HN
- 11Using Clojure and clj-plaza to play with RDF data1 people · 17 points · first shared 2010 · 2 comments on HN
- 12Clojure Inspector1 people · 17 points · first shared 2010 · discussion on HN
- 13How about a functional programming conference?1 people · 10 points · first shared 2012 · 7 comments on HN
- 14Clojure-conj: Composable abstractions1 people · 8 points · first shared 2010 · 2 comments on HN
- 15Clojure-conj: Parallel programming and fork-join1 people · 7 points · first shared 2010 · discussion on HN
What HN people wrote when they linked it
calibraxis · 2015-12-14
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/…
kylecordes · 2010-10-17
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.
juliangamble · 2013-07-13
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/
puredanger · 2012-07-12
I wrote a response to this (http://tech.puredanger.com/2012/07/12/conference-expectations-from-spe… but I think mikeal's comment here gets at the heart of it better: https://gist.github.com/3098860#gistcomment-370439
moe · 2010-10-10
gtani · 2010-07-04
http://tech.puredanger.com/2007/09/18/spelunking/
http://debasishg.blogspot.com/2009/06/code-reading-for-fun-and-profit.…
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-stdli…