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I clicked that yesterday and got a notification telling me that it would take a while to get the copy of the data. Still waiting. In the meantime, a user who clicks that button has to guess whether it's safe to delete their facebook while facebook is getting the data.

However, the facebook data isn't good enough because I found that most of my friends didn't put in their contact information. So whether you download a copy of the facebook data or not, you're going to lose contacts (you decide whether it matters) and the rest you're going to need to call friends of friends and find the contact info you need, or ask people directly on facebook for their information.

Maybe we shouldn't replace cancer with cancer, and should simply get rid of it.

Edit: I honestly don't think it's hard. Delete your facebook, stop using it and don't replace it with something else. People lived without being used by social media services for a very long time.

Dunno. I just deleted mine, was sort of annoying not being able to find mobile phone numbers or emails for people I'd like to stay in touch with. I think that it'd be good to have a script that scrapes facebook id's, names, mobile numbers etc from your friends list, or some automation to prepare for deleting your account.

I would love to see more recruiting at state schools and community colleges etc from tech companies. There are a lot of hard working people who could be great to work with but didn't have the family background they needed to be noticed.

I've never felt comfortable answering questions like those, because the designs are owned by the business. Even if I made it, I don't feel like I have the right to hand a design for my current employer to my next employer.

Thats disappointing, because Datomic is not and will not be adopted. No one wants to revolutionize data back to postgres when cognitect goes out of business. Stable solutions are found in cloud hosting from too big to fail companies and self-management. However, maybe they have found a niche through people taking on risk for major technical debt.

If robots performed to the calibre of hyper-rational beings like Jeff Bezos, then you would be right - robots would make damn good CEOs!

It's been popping up lately. It's meant as a smear on dynamically typed languages, because dynamic has a positive connotation and untyped is decidedly negative. Pretty similar in intention to uni-typed.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23282683/is-clojure-uni-t...

Edit: Sorry, learned something new just now. I'm very, very wrong.

Untyped is where operations are valid on everything because it's all a sequence of bits.

Dynamic is completely different and refers to when the type is discovered.

Sorry. However, Javascript is definitely dynamically typed.

12 startups in 12 months? That's just strange.

Although it should be obvious, this extreme attitude is not shared by many programmers. I'll also mention that I've found Clojure programmers to be as friendly as any in irc and on the google groups.

Interesting that there are still services around that are vulnerable to syn floods.

I'm really looking forward to pedestal. From what I understand the team is vacationing, but that there are plans to integrate core.async. I do wish that its development were a bit more public, though.

The misconception list basically summarizes the interactions I have with people who know I use Clojure. It's really interesting that these are still around, especially considering that lisp hasn't been new for a long time.

As an aside, I loved the chrono trigger reference! I was actually listening to some of its music as I viewed the slides.

I know this is old hat for the FP community, but it's worth mentioning that the dot product would be normally be written as (reduce + (map * xs ys)) (or something similar) for the sake of readers scared by the loop acc pattern.