Clojurians Log v2

Morning. I am frazzled this morning. Too much to organise and to little time to do it! How are you folks?

Morning...

fine… WAH today as it is half term… which means I have to be an art critic as well today.

Mornings

Not that chipper myself. Still stuck in an Angular hell. I’m an FP developer, get me out of here!!

@agile_geek: get your lappy working in the end?

heyyall

@paulspencerwilliams no. The opposite. It's now not even booting up for any OS. I am away from home for 2 weeks so no chance to fix it as I don't have access to a wired internet connection.

anyone else find the policing of the channel-formerly-known-as-general more distracting than posts in a general channel?

@glenjamin: yes. I am also very uncomfortable with the conversations going on in the community-development channel around the code of conduct.

http://www.theverge.com/2016/2/16/11014144/line-closes-mixradio

all that clojure

sad times

very sad indeed…. and only a few months ago they were still recruiting 😞

hopefully 10 new awesome Clojure startups will now form in Bristol

or was it Brighton?

one of the Bs.

Bristol

Shame, met them at FPX where they were recruiting too

I saw a recruitment advert for them over the last couple of days!

ouch

This is the second company recently (or is it the third?) that has used Clojure and closed down...I worry it's a jinx. The other one I can think of is Prismatic.

Prismatic is pivoting… not closing down. (I think)

or if you look at this from an other angle: shows clj is more widespread as community is sometimes hit by company shut downs...

being extreme positive here. feels weird too… :simple_smile:

true.. regardless of the technology used a company can go bust.

sometimes it helps (wordperfect) though.

I wonder if it's actually the greater use by startups for competitive advantage that means the risk of going bust is higher?

@glenjamin: agreed re the policing of the Chanel, it is not sanctioned, it is distracting, and it is being looked into 👍

the rename to “announce-to-everyone” was a good move imo, as it’s not “don’t use this”, it’s just “this is what will happen"

@agile_geek: Walmart is using clj and I don’t think they’re going bust anytime soon 😉

probably some selection bias as well, I know i’m not watching the news about companies that use Scala

The music industry is the toughest to make any profit in