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  People Who Make Me Feel Stupid: Rich Hickey

  03.03.10 | Permalink | Comments Off

  This is the third in a series of blog posts where I talk about people who’s skills as programmers make me feel stupid. Check out my thoughts on Geoffrey Grosenbach and Antirez. As a person who learned the hard way about how tough it is creating web applications that can handle state and concurrency issues [...]

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  What’s In Chris’ Brain – Christmas 2009 Edition

  12.22.09 | Permalink | Comments Off

  With Christmas quickly approaching, it’s time to dump all the junk rattling around in my head and into the blog. I hope you have a great holiday season. Concurrency is coming, better be ready The Continuation Mondad in Clojure. Even if you hate Lisp (I’m looking at you, Kevin) or don’t give a damn about [...]

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  What’s In Chris’ Brain – Blog Experiment Version

  11.26.09 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  I had a few drinks last night with my fellow Milton-area PHP developer and we got to talking about a lot of different topics. I will summarize a few of them here: Concurrency is still drawing significant interest from me I recommended my friend check out Tim Bray’s Concur.next series (yes, I know I’m whipping [...]

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  The Scary Future World I Will Program In

  11.12.09 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  A lot of the reading I have done on the Internet in the last few years has led me to the following conclusions about the future world I will be programming in: It will require manipulating exponentially more data than now It will require you to understand both parallel processing and concurrency (although to this [...]

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Facebook should've be written in unicornSchemaLang, because everyone *knows* that PHP is no good for anything, right?

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