cbrozefsky

Did they, Olin Corp, ask Olin Shivers before using that name?

If you count military bases, Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan are the most recent ones that come to mind. Camp Bondsteel in Kosovo is another example

At least in the Crimea they had a referendum...

One can make semantic arguments about wether any of those are annexation, but speaking as an US citizen, I think it would be quite ignorant to ignore that the US consistently subverts the national sovereignty and territorial integrity of countries when it suits their needs.

So encrypting my private data effectively is authoritarian now?

"CORBA, while successful" ....

So they get owned earlier this month, and then a fluff piece appears later this month that doesn't mention any of the findings even tho it calls out the dangers of hoarding vulns.

This is a planted marketing/PR piece.

I've done two successful startups with lisp variants in my career, and continue to do clojure development at Cisco. The advantages of using lisps are real, if you stay focused on the problem domain and stay close to the customer -- you have great agility and flexibility. Woe to those who are tool jockeys and get too infatuated with their tools and code base, because there is a lot of rope to hang yourself and your teammates with.

The first was a Common Lisp web app for resource management, that was recently sold. Not a giant payout, but over it's entire life, starting in 2000, it paid peoples mortgages and put kids thru schools.

The second was a clojure based malware analysis engine, which we sold to Cisco about 3.5 years ago. That was a more conventional startup exit. We have scaled that into a global product. Additionally, we are developing even more clojure products within Cisco, and hiring...

I know from hiring clojure devs for the last 6 years that there are alot of companies, big and small, using it.

ThreatGRID, now part of Cisco, uses clojure in our malware analysis and threat intelligence platform. It's a core part of our analysis engine, which examines all the things malware does and how to detect it on the rest of your systems. We've built a 1980s "expert system" startup using core.logic.

It's also the core of our API service, and the UI built on top of that. We use clojurescript extensively in the UI, and have been moving large parts of it to Om.

It is a key technology for us, letting us build better analysis tools, faster and more performant than other languages. We have clojure code in production both in our SaaS offering, and shipped to many large finance, government, and corporate customers around the world.

Wikileaks is not the one compiling all of my voicemail, sms text messages, and emails, that's the NSA. I don't get to opt out, see it, or reply to it. Talk about people tho think they have the right to anyones data they want.

Also, it's not a tantrum to recognize that the notion of working INSIDE a system that you are trying to change, or perhaps stop from doing nasty things like slaughtering women and children, is not going to respond to you asking politely or petitioning.