And the candidate for the first interview was obvious to me. Zach Beane is the uniting link of the whole community. The creator of Quicklisp and a number of useful open-source libraries, like Vecto and ZS3, he is also always active on #lisp irc channel answering questions, as well as keeping a blog, where he shares interesting Lisp news, and supporting Planet Lisp blog aggregator. And that's not all...
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In some cases, where it isn't a good fit for the final product, I use Lisp to prototype ideas before writing a final thing in some other language, e.g. C or Perl. But I even use CL to generate data and code in other languages, so it's still in the mix, still a part of my workflow.

Preston-Werner’s bet has paid off. GitHub is now profitable. Users can sign up for free and start contributing, but they pay money if they want to privately host code there — starting at $7 per month. GitHub also sells an enterprise product that lets companies run your own version of GitHub behind the corporate firewall. That starts at $5,000 per year, but can cost hundreds of thousands annually for companies with hundreds of coders.
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When Scott Chabon wrote a book about GitHub, the first fork appeared within a month. It was a German translation of his book. Now, three years later, it’s been translated into 10 languages, with another 10 translations in the works. Half of the traffic to the book’s website comes from China. “Tons of people in China are learning Git because they can read [the book] in Chinese on my website, because somebody provided that,” he says

Building the leading global content streaming platform is a huge challenge. NoSQL is just one example of an exciting technology area that we aggressively leverage (and in the case of open source projects, contribute back to). Our goal is infinite scale. It takes no less than a superstar team to make it a reality. For those technology superstars out there: Netflix is hiring (http://jobs.netflix.com).

Clojure/Lisp Readability By Stefan Tilkov on December 2, 2009 9:34 AM | Permalink | Comments (6) Tim Bray has put up an excellent set of theses on Clojure. I can agree with most of them, but wonder about the idea that "Lisp is a handicap". I understand where Tim comes from, and I fully admit that even after playing with Lisp, Scheme and Clojure for quite some time, I'm still not sure whether this is really an issue. I would only feel qualified to really comment on it once I have used it on a real project with some complexity. But what I found interesting is the example Tim gives: (apply merge-with + (pmap count-lines (partition-all *batch-size* (line-seq (reader filename))))) I find this particular example to be extremely readable if you read it from the inside out - the reader function presumably returns a reader for the file named filename; line-seq returns a (lazy) sequence of the lines in the file, partition-all cuts this into segments (using *batch-size* as

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Was vor mehr als zwanzig Jahren im Bayerischen Fernsehen als ein Fernsehflohmarkt begann, hat sich längst zur Kultsendung entwickelt: die Antiquitätenberatung Kunst & Krempel. Das Prinzip ist einfach: ein Familienschatz, sein Besitzer und die Experten treffen zusammen, spontan, ohne große Vorbereitung. Die Kamera zeichnet auf, was dann geschieht: immer wieder etwas Neues, Unerwartetes.

Understand what you really have to lose (which is usually not much)

If you are a person with a laptop and an idea, don’t worry about messing up the 100m dollar business you think you will someday be.

Russell adds: It’s hard to emphasise how important this is. In reality, most people have very little real downside to having a go and even if the idea doesn’t work out (and most don’t let’s remember) you’ll still learn a ton, which will add considerably to your value in business.

I’d also add, on a related note, that far too many entrepreneurs get paranoid about protecting their idea to the point of paralysis. The value of most ideas is in the execution, not in what the concept actually is. To make it reality, you need to share it – actually, with as many people as possible, counter-intuitive though this might seem. And in my view, forget about NDAs and the like. They’re pretty useless all round as far