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pitheringabout.com is a personal blog at pitheringabout.com about programming. Since 2012, 15 different Hacker News readers have linked it 23 times, most often “Clojure at a Newspaper”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (7) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for its posts on adopting Clojure at a bank and a newspaper, including a multi-part series on the decision and the technical pitfalls encountered.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 7 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Clojure at a Newspaper5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2014-07-11
- Clojure at a Bank – Moving from Java (2012)3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2012-10-23
- Clojure at a Bank - Support2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2012-10-24
- Clojure at a Bank – Clojure Code Immaturity2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-11-04
- Clojure at a Real Estate Portal2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-04-07
What Hacker News says?
Here's one bank that is blogging about moving to Clojure: http://www.pitheringabout.com/?p=778 It is used in a few places, but its not common. The reason it isn't used often is because no one bothered to build anything with it. So, if Clojure / Lisp / etc want to make the language popular, you should build something that makes money and tell the world about it. This is what happened with RoR and Django. I have a CRU…
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on “How Lisp is Going to Save the World”Submitted Clojure at a Real Estate Portal as a story · 156 points
HN discussion> Was it the lack of structure that made them go for it in the first place? Here are the first two posts that discuss their decision: http://www.pitheringabout.com/?p=693 http://www.pitheringabout.com/?p=749
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on “Clojure at a Bank – Clojure Code Immaturity”Submitted Clojure at a Bank – Clojure Code Immaturity as a story · 111 points
HN discussionThis is the third of a series of posts about introducing Clojure at an investment bank. The first and second posts are here http://www.pitheringabout.com/?p=693 http://www.pitheringabout.com/?p=749 Tangentially, the 'swedish colleague' the author brought in to help with the transition to Clojure is the immensely talented Hakan Raberg (sorry don't know how to type umlauts etc on my keyboard) , who is a good friend an…
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on “Clojure at a Bank – Clojure Code Immaturity”Submitted Clojure at a Bank – Moving from Java (2012) as a story · 106 points
HN discussionSee also: Clojure at a Newspaper ! [1] This guy should write a Clojure: War Stories book. [1] http://www.pitheringabout.com/?p=1018
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on “Clojure at a Bank – Moving from Java (2012)”Submitted Clojure at a Newspaper as a story · 70 points
HN discussionHere's a few: - Walmart Labs - http://jobs.walmart.com/san-bruno/ecommerce/mobile-instore-s... - Staples - http://careers.staples.com/sanmateo/ - Climate Corp (now owned by Monsanto) - https://github.com/TheClimateCorporation - RoomKey http://www.colinsteele.org/post/27929539434/60-000-growth-in... - Puppet Labs - http://puppetlabs.com/blog/new-era-application-services-pupp... - Soundcloud - http://blog.josephwilk.n…
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on “Ask HN: Who's using Clojure in production?”Submitted Clojure at a Real Estate Portal as a story · 10 points
HN discussionA follow-up which describes some of the technical pit-falls they encountered is also posted on his blog: http://www.pitheringabout.com/?p=1041
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on “Clojure at a Newspaper”Submitted Clojure at a Bank - Moving from Java as a story · 7 points
HN discussionPart 1 is here: http://www.pitheringabout.com/?p=693
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on “Clojure at a Bank - Support”Submitted Reasons to learn Clojure and Emacs together as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted TDD and Clojure as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Clojure at a Bank – Freeing the Rules as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Clojure at a Bank - Support as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Clojure at a Newspaper as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Clojure at a Newspaper as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Clojure at a Bank – Testing as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Clojure at a Bank – Clojure Code Immaturity as a story · 2 points
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