#qcon Rich Hickey: fundamentally value-based systems as a much clearer approach than OO
#qcon Rich Hickey, referring to a setMonth method in a Date class: "our class libraries have destroyed our brains"
in RIch Hickey's "Persistent Data Structures and Managed References" Clojure talk at #qcon
Agreeing with @mtnygard via Twitter, even though I'm sitting next to him
Still looking forward to QCon even though not entirely happy that I have to get up at 4:00am to catch my flight to London.
Priceless: "A completely baffling user interface that makes perfect sense IF YOU’RE A VULCAN (cf. git)" http://tinyurl.com/byad87
http://tinyurl.com/b8oebe ; http://tinyurl.com/cbtage ; http://tinyurl.com/btodod – multiple HTTP reliability approaches, all abandoned
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@janecek It's like that old Douglas Adams line about the VCR watching the movies for you so you don't have to
RT @janecek »I love Instapaper's "read later" button... using it often... haven't read later anything yet though'« LOL!
Putting application logic on top of WSRM on top of TCP reminds me of BLOAT: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3252.txt :-)
writing sth about RESTful HTTP reliability, noticing that "reliability" is really a stupid term for the topic
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Which once again proves to me that the need for "patterns" is a design smell (& a sign of a platform/language weakness) more often than not