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New comment by dragandj in "The cult of vibe coding is dogfooding run amok"

dragandj — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 00:06:05 +0000

> An app is often much more than a CRUD interface. "I could have written Facebook over a weekend" syndrome :)

Clojure: The Documentary[official trailer] [video]

dragandj — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 19:41:38 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJEyffSdBsk

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47547282

Points: 5

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Python Only Has One Real Competitor

dragandj — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 20:14:33 +0000

Article URL: https://mccue.dev/pages/2-6-26-python-competitor

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46927441

Points: 10

# Comments: 1

New comment by dragandj in "AI generated music barred from Bandcamp"

dragandj — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 11:37:23 +0000

Perhaps music that at least the author would listen to? To this day I haven't heard an AI song that made me wish I press the rewind/play to listen it again. Granted, most human-generated songs are crap, too, but at least they are not crap to their authors.

New comment by dragandj in "AI generated music barred from Bandcamp"

dragandj — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 11:29:23 +0000

IMHO, it would be solved by just making AI "art" un-copyrightable. Fine, make "AI art" as much as you wish. Sell and buy it as much as you please if you find it to your taste. BUT, you can NOT participate in organizations that take royalties from radio stations, TVs, movies, records, etc. for publishing, performance, etc.

New comment by dragandj in "Original Superman comic becomes the highest-priced comic book ever sold"

dragandj — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 21:53:45 +0000

As an avid reader of BDs, I would agree with you, but for the purpose of this discussion, and for the general public, these two are indistinguishable. Even to the actual translation, which is (pardon my rusty French) somewhere in the ballpark of "cartoon strips".

New comment by dragandj in "Clojure Land – Discover open-source Clojure libraries and frameworks"

dragandj — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 22:56:56 +0000

OTOH, 1% of a large group is still quite a lot. How many programmers are there in the world? Google says estimated 47 million. 1% of that is almost half a million people. If there are half a million Clojure programmers, Clojure is quite a successful technology! (Sadly, I doubt there are that many)...

New comment by dragandj in "Open source can't coordinate?"

dragandj — Sat, 21 Jun 2025 14:20:34 +0000

I was pointing out that when we talk about reinventing the wheel, it wasn't the Emacs who was doing that, but the other guys. Whether they reinvented better or worse wheels is up to debate.

New comment by dragandj in "Open source can't coordinate"

dragandj — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 08:25:25 +0000

Emacs was there way before GTK and Qt appeared, though.

New comment by dragandj in "Writing documentation for AI: best practices"

dragandj — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 10:58:06 +0000

Software business is a business because it has customers, not users. In this case, you're left with the users, while OpenAI takes them as customers.

New comment by dragandj in "Major sugar substitute found to impair brain blood vessel cell function"

dragandj — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 09:51:37 +0000

Everywhere I look around myself I see the same thing: people move very little (compared to our ancestors) and they eat often, and they eat a LOT (compared to our ancestors, of course). Sure, eating processed crap influences this in a negative way, but I think parent poster is on the point: eating in moderation and exercising more is the way...

New comment by dragandj in "OpenAI dropped the price of o3 by 80%"

dragandj — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 14:51:32 +0000

If these kids could read, they would be very upset.

New comment by dragandj in "Cloud Run GPUs, now GA, makes running AI workloads easier for everyone"

dragandj — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 12:33:54 +0000

Yeah, right. Capping a resource, such a wild idea. Of course they won't implement it for the same reason bar owners don't put a cap on drinks.

New comment by dragandj in "At Amazon, some coders say their jobs have begun to resemble warehouse work"

dragandj — Tue, 27 May 2025 13:28:47 +0000

Or a false manual, with wrong or far from optimal examples...

New comment by dragandj in "At Amazon, some coders say their jobs have begun to resemble warehouse work"

dragandj — Mon, 26 May 2025 09:01:33 +0000

There are many more scenarios, though. One of them is that AI slop is impressive looking to outsiders, but can't produce anything great on itself, and, after the first wave of increased use based on faith, it just gets tossed in the pile of tools somewhere above UML and Web Services. Something that many people use because "it's the standard" but generally despise because it's crap.

New comment by dragandj in "At Amazon, some coders say their jobs have begun to resemble warehouse work"

dragandj — Mon, 26 May 2025 08:37:12 +0000

In other words, AI is just a replacement for google search and Stack Overflow, automated and served as an IDE plugin...

New comment by dragandj in "At Amazon, some coders say their jobs have begun to resemble warehouse work"

dragandj — Mon, 26 May 2025 08:36:01 +0000

Sure, but if you have a strong copyright infringement case, couldn't you team up with a litigating company and take on Amazon? I am not sure that in any industry any tiny mom and pup shop can take on the largest corporate player without any cooperation from complementary interests...

New comment by dragandj in "[dead]"

dragandj — Thu, 22 May 2025 11:33:11 +0000

As Rich says, have fun using Clojure! It's even better that people can have their livelihoods using Clojure. But, fun is the important part too.

New comment by dragandj in "Java at 30: Interview with James Gosling"

dragandj — Fri, 16 May 2025 15:07:22 +0000

Many Clojure tutorials are free! It's difficult to say without knowing nothing about your preference and experience. Everyone's welcome to join Clojure Slack community (for example) which has several tens of thousands of members and dedicated beginners channel. I'm sure if you asked there, you'd get tons of recommendations tailored to you. https://clojurians.slack.com/

(BTW Clojure, as a Lisp dialect, has almost no syntax. You can learn THAT in 5 minutes. The challenge is in training your programming mind to think in totally new concepts)

New comment by dragandj in "Java at 30: Interview with James Gosling"

dragandj — Fri, 16 May 2025 14:56:30 +0000

Throw in Clojure into the mix, and you get superpowers!