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Why sell cheap fast food when you can charge michelin star prices?

So what does your app do? And what have been the biggest drawbacks from your language choice?

There are several commercial users of Fulcro using Node JS on the backend. I am one of them.

I gave a talk on using Fulcro for building web apps with Clojure.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMbGhgVf9Do

Just wanted to say thanks for making such awesome stuff! I've used clj/cljs/datomic on several projects over the years and it's been great.

The Clojure core team does not get anywhere close to the praise it deserves.

AdStage is a cross-channel advertising management platform helping in-house marketers and digital agencies easily report, automate, and optimize paid search and social campaigns under one roof. We are looking for someone to join our report product team. Report is a WYSIWYG tool for marketers to build dashboards and present their performance internally and to their clients. https://www.adstage.io/reporting/ The report product stack is Clojure and Datomic on the backend, with Clojurescript and Fulcro/Om Next on the front end. We are looking for people with experience or a desire to learn functional programming in a modern Lisp.

You can read our blog to see how we leverage this stack. https://medium.com/adstage-engineering/realtime-apps-with-om....

For senior engineer we are looking for someone with - 4 to 6 years of engineering experience - Strong leadership skills and communication skills - Experience with any of the following languages and technologies: JavaScript, Ruby, Clojure, Cassandra - Software engineering degree - Experience with marketing or advertising industries is a plus - Management experience is also a plus - ONSITE San Francisco

If you are interested please email [email protected].

AdStage is a cross-channel advertising management platform helping in-house marketers and digital agencies easily report, automate, and optimize paid search and social campaigns under one roof. We are looking for someone to join our report product team. Report is a WYSIWYG tool for marketers to build dashboards and present their performance internally and to their clients. https://www.adstage.io/reporting/

The report product stack is Clojure and Datomic on the backend, with Clojurescript and Fulcro/Om Next on the front end. We are looking for people with experience or a desire to learn functional programming in a modern Lisp.

You can read our blog to see how we leverage this stack. https://medium.com/adstage-engineering/realtime-apps-with-om...

For senior engineer we are looking for someone with - 4 to 6 years of engineering experience - Strong leadership skills and communication skills - Experience with any of the following languages and technologies: JavaScript, Ruby, Clojure, Cassandra - Software engineering degree - Experience with marketing or advertising industries is a plus - Management experience is also a plus - ONSITE San Francisco

If you are interested please email [email protected].

AdStage | Full-Stack Engineer | San Francisco ONSITE

AdStage is a cross-channel advertising management platform helping in-house marketers and digital agencies easily report, automate, and optimize paid search and social campaigns under one roof. We are looking for someone to join our report product team. Report is a WYSIWYG tool for marketers to build dashboards and present their performance internally and to their clients. https://www.adstage.io/reporting/

The report product stack is Clojure and Datomic on the backend, with Clojurescript and Om Next on the front end. We are looking for people with experience or a desire to learn functional programming in a modern Lisp.

You can read our blog to see how we leverage this stack. https://medium.com/adstage-engineering/realtime-apps-with-om...

Also see some of our open source work (more in progress). https://github.com/AdStage/pluck-api

If you are interested please email [email protected].

Hi Sam,

PG in some of his older articles was really big on Lisp being the most powerful programming language and instrumental to his success. His writing actually inspired me to learn Clojure.

In your experience, does the power of a programming language, in a software business, matter as much?

Thanks for doing this!

This is on the top of HN because people, like me, are interested in it. You say learn to do it the "right way", by that logic we should have stuck to making desktop only apps instead of browser based web apps. I'm not saying this is better or worse. But I certainly think it's an approach worth considering.

I'm hoping for a day where I get two threads in my JS runtime. Now that would be nice...

I've been working on a similar concept after using Anki for a year. http://www.looprecall.com/

I wanted to have a more modern UI and plan on adding the ability to share decks between users. I would welcome any feed back! :-)

Oh come on! He should at least be sent to jail for the same number of years he took away from an innocent man.

If you're from a war torn country have you considered applying for asylum? I know cases were asylum was granted to guys from my old country, India, which is by no means a war torn country.

I'm going through the immigration process right now and everyday Canada looks like a good option. I know it's not the US but it's still an awesome western country and has a reasonable immigration system.

Good luck!

Interesting article. I always thought math felt like programming but in a language far higher level than any of the available programming languages. So like programming but with a lot less friction when going from thought to symbols.

For example, creating new domain specific control flows with Lisp macros versus defining a Dirac delta function using limits and integrals. In programming it's easy for bugs to seep in because there are more little/subtle details and leaky abstractions. But math on the other hand feels much more abstract and clean.

Perhaps this is just because dumb silicon boxes interpret our code and humans interpret our math which gives us a much more sophisticated base language to work with.

I think you misinterpreted what I said. All I said was, a degree is not a necessary or sufficient condition for being a great developer. Evidenced by the fact that there exist great developers without degrees. I'm not drawing any whacky conclusions about one group being "better" than another.

Also, for what it's worth I graduated with two technical degrees from descent university. Most of the developers I know have engineering degrees.

There is a major flaw in this article. Software developers are not cogs. Just because someone has an engineering degree does not make them just as good as any other developer. Being able to write great software usually comes from passion and practice, not a piece of paper that says "Computer Science BS". Some of the best developers I know didn't even get an engineering degree. Is there a shortage of people with pieces of paper? Maybe not. Is there a shortage of people that love writing software enough to spend most nights and weekends doing it? Yes.

This is based on my experience interviewing candidates for two small tech companies.

Not bad for an intro to linear algebra but he covers a lot of topics without diving into the details.

In college I watched the Khan Academy lectures. They were amazing. Made linear algebra very intuitive. https://www.khanacademy.org/math/linear-algebra

Hi Mike! Great work!

So when do you think we'll be able to make a solid app using React Native and cljs on iOS? What's the biggest impediment for being able to do that now?

It really depends on what the software does. I've mostly seen people make money off of their open source software by consulting for companies that use it. For example, I know a couple companies paid the creator of core.typed to develop it further. But those were one off gigs, not recurring revenue.