TurboHaskal

I have worked at several places where SRE meant different things:

- A virtual, first responder team on call rotation for all the services because developers didn't want to be on call for their own stuff.

- Another name for a platform engineering / DevOps team.

- A team who built nothing, maintained nothing and were not paged for anything. They just collected metrics, built dashboards and spread the gospel of SRE with a big focus on form over function. IME they were annoying to work with, frequently missed the point specially when it came to stateful workloads and were ultimately just an incident factory.

It also makes you bitter, at least in my experience.

And arena support, and a parallel GC... there's always something exciting and promising coming up.

The proprietary implementations are also quite good.

I was going to say the same. In my experience I can say without hesitation green field projects is how you advance your career, become visible and get promoted.

You say this because you are on HN, very senior and/or living in a bubble.

In the vast majority of programming jobs out there you are not paid to solve problems: you are told very clearly what to do, how to do it and what technology you have to use for the job.

People don't hire analysts they hire "Java programmers".

Or, you could have been suddenly cheated on and exposed, or divorced and recently entered the dating market, or thinking about opening up your relationship after decades of monogamy.

Sure. But if they are first class and you have a mechanism to assign them to variables then there is no need for syntax sugar.

It's funny how I started this way as well, and a decade later my Common Lisp code couldn't be more procedural and CLOS and LOOP heavy.

Maybe this is just me and my experiences but when I encounter people in the wild that seem dull I often assume they just have fringe interests that are kinda problematic to share with regular people they haven't built rapport with yet.

Like they're probably into something weird or niche that doesn't translate well in casual conversation so they just keep it surface level until they figure out if you're their type of person.

Yeah I don't get it either. Lisp is perfectly fine for this task although probably makes less sense now that Julia is a thing.

Reminder that before Python was used for data science, people used things like BioPerl and PDL and that didn't stop people from working on pandas and the like.

Also let people have fun.

I am afraid it is a serious argument.

If you ever feel the need to write code like that lookup table, you are working on the wrong place and you have a hiring problem.

This reads like a cautionary tale about getting nerdsniped, without a happy ending.

He probably means Allegro CL which is in my experience the best one.

All the OS Lisp GCs are stuck in the 80s and honestly not very good. The one in LispWorks is pretty good though but I wouldn’t call it state of the art. It just works.

Life without REPLs.

It seems to me the author just wants multiple dispatch.

I don’t fear Java as much as I fear its acolytes.

I have found that my consumption of rock is mostly tied to my cortisol levels.

To some degree, one could say that rock / metal is a degeneration of Bach's music (and that's what makes it great).

Left an otherwise good job because of this.

I am done with it.

For the next job I take, I will demand to be present in the daily meeting to see how it looks like. Ideally, there isn't one.

Ah, finally I will be able to understand my doctor's handwriting.

I inherited some piece of code that made use of an extremely long and complicated jq script.

I simply gave up understanding the whole thing, and restored the balance in the universe by rewriting it in Perl.

I love it. I want it. I've been dreaming of this for years.

But I refuse to buy a black HHKB.

Standing desks, split keyboards, photos of outdoor adventures... I see these everywhere. Is this the modern developer's midlife crisis at 40?

I mean I would love writing Ada and Common Lisp at work but my hipster CTO wants me to use Go and TypeScript.

Thankfully we live in a world in which we constantly start new containers with every merge to master and the orchestrator will simply restart your container if it your application gets OOM killed, so Java is finally usable :)

Correct, it's just 1/2 EU.

Economically right-leaning but culturally left-leaning.

Ah yes, the current political Trojan horse.

In my experience, it used to be 60% former sysadmins that didn't know how to code or approach problems from a software engineering perspective, and 40% SWE who liked doing platform stuff.

Now it's actually 80:20 due to software engineers becoming frustrated and disillusioned with the current state of things. Not only due to specialization and the push towards tool standardization (you don't get to build many custom components because we k8s all the things so most of the time you're just writing yaml/hcl), but because working with regular sysadmins gets extremely frustrating.

Eating whole cake means you consume fat at the same time as the sugar, so the latter is metabolized more safely.

Sugar is 50% fructose and 50% glucose. The user you mention advocates for a higher amount of fruit which has mostly fructose so my take on this is that he prefers his pancreas over his liver.

Thankfully ADHD for adults is being taken more seriously now.