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Paul Lam
Personal blog · quantisan.com · on HN as plamstartupsprogramming
Paul Lam's personal blog at quantisan.com covers startups and programming. Since 2011, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 19 times, most often “Simple, Easy, Quick: Using Go along with Clojure”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Paul Lam's guides to securing a fresh Ubuntu server and a Clojure workflow article with code examples. One commenter called the server outlines pretty decent.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
An experimenter taking the long way through Clojure, startups, and cultures.
Most-linked posts?
- Simple, Easy, Quick: Using Go along with Clojure2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-05-12
What Hacker News says?
I spent a year during and after grad school writing a blog and building a tiny community on healthy living for elderly people. I remember a particular article I wrote on eating pineapples for healthy bowel movements really offended some in the community. My grad research was on AI and robotics for elderly. I thought I knew my audience. How wrong I was. I didn't even reach out to talk to my audience, for crying out l…
Comment linking /facebook-loving-farmers-of-mozambique/
on “Ask HN: Show your failed projects and share a lesson you learned”Submitted How a few screws cost $2000 and a 240GB multinodes cluster cost $50 as a story · 85 points
HN discussionthese are pretty decen outlines http://www.quantisan.com/securing-a-fresh-ubuntu-server-with... http://plusbryan.com/my-first-5-minutes-on-a-server-or-essen...
Comment linking /securing-a-fresh-ubuntu-server-with-fabric-tasks/
on “Identical Droplets in the DigitalOcean: Regenerate your Ubuntu SSH Host Keys now”Submitted HN front page, 16000 visitors in a day, how many actually read the article? as a story · 77 points
HN discussionI did a piece on using Clojure with Go recently. For me, it wasn't a switch but using them along side each other to tackle different problems more efficiently. Here's the link -- http://www.quantisan.com/simple-easy-quick-using-go-along-wi...
Comment linking /simple-easy-quick-using-go-along-with-clojure
on “An Introduction to Programming in Go”Submitted Eureka moment on design patterns for functional programming as a story · 4 points
HN discussionLet’s say you wanted to count how many of your online friends were dogs, while respecting the maxim that, on the Internet, nobody should know you’re a dog. To do this, you could ask each friend to answer the question “Are you a dog?” in the following way. Each friend should flip a coin in secret, and answer the question truthfully if the coin came up heads; but, if the coin came up tails, that friend should always s…
Comment linking /a-magical-promise-of-releasing-your-data-and-keeping-everyones-privacy
on “Privacy Loss in Apple's Implementation of Differential Privacy on MacOS 10.12”Submitted 4 Disciplines Necessary in Building a Startup as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI used Clojure's logic programming library to write a finite state machine for solving state transitions in equity trading https://www.quantisan.com/event-driven-finite-state-machine-... I'd love to see more real world examples too.
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on “Solving murder with Prolog”Submitted Dealing with On-Call Anxiety at a Startup as a story · 2 points
HN discussionA while ago I saw a promising Clojure project stepwise [0] which sounds pretty close to what you're describing. It not only allows you to define steps in code, but also implements cool stuff like ability to write conditions, error statuses and resources in a much-less verbose EDN instead of JSON. It also supports code reloading and offloading large payloads to S3. Here's a nice article with code examples implementin…
Comment linking /orchestrating-pizza-making-a-tutorial-for-aws-step-functions-with-stepwise/
on “Metaflow: Build, Manage and Deploy AI/ML Systems”Submitted Simple, Easy, Quick: Using Go along with Clojure as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSEEKING WORK - Remote for companies on US times; local in London negotiable Data consulting to make the most out of your data. I am a full-time data scientist actively involved in the big data scene in London and is a core committer on an open source MapReduce tool called Cascalog written in Clojure. I have delivered projects such as i) extracting features from our customer event data on Hadoop into Neo4J to drive a…
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on “Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (June 2013)”Submitted Coffee Chats with Founders Around the World as a story · 1 points
HN discussionChanging the perspective a little... A few years ago, we applied client-side applications and edge computing for chicken farmers in Mozambique. https://www.quantisan.com/facebook-loving-farmers-of-mozambi... That was a fun side project but I got ahead of myself in the tech and failed on finding a product-market fit.
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on “Ask HN: What cutting-edge technology do you use?”Submitted Funny business do not cause A/B testing errors as a story · 1 points
HN discussionWriting is a skill. If you don't work on it, you will always be an average writer. The question then, is do you treat writing as a means to an end or a skill to be mastered? I've been writing my own blog for 7 years. It still takes me at least half a day to write each of my posts (about 500 words). I post infrequently because of that. After all these years of writing on my blog, I only have a couple hundred subscrib…
Comment linking /more-problem-solving-less-solution-glorifying/
on “Ask HN: Do you write your own content?”Submitted Algorithmic ownage as a story · 1 points
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