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I was fortunate enough to be given the opportunity to learn Clojure on the job. A majority of my work is on the web side (JavaScript, et al.), so learning Clojure was a fun and interesting challenge.

After the initial hurdle of getting used to a Lisp I found the language very liberating. I definitely approach problems very differently than I did prior to learning Clojure, even when flipping back to JavaScript land. I find my approach is vastly different that it was before. The best way to describe my way of thinking is that I'm very "data first" now.

I shared the link to friends as this URL.

Makes sense.

Anyone here have any good book recommendations?

This is great.

That intro video is hilarious.

This is what I do. I charge the watch in the morning when I get to my office and wear it all day (and to sleep, for the silent alarm feature).

I use the Apple Watch's silent alarm feature to wake me up every morning. Just make sure the haptics and sound are turned all the way down, and the watch is set on silent and DnD mode.

Haha yeah I was looking at lenshell not too long ago, amazing that it's still there.

This looks awesome. I was a little later to the game, spent most of my childhood time on AOL 2.5-4.0, writing "progz" in Visual Basic.

His blog says that he is an engineer at Google.

Same, in fact I dropped out of college after the first two years (started immediately after high school). I took a few years off and then went back only to find that I was able to learn things much easier, and with less distraction that I had at a younger age.

Maybe off topic, but any advice on getting better at reading? I find myself to have too short of an attention span and end up dropping bookings quickly.

Discovering guitar is the greatest thing that ever happened to me. I was gifted a guitar at a very young age and haven't been able to put it down since then. Through high school and college I played in various local bands and now it serves as a daily therapy session. In fact, while I'm trying to figure out a complex problem (I work as a software engineer) I often pick up my guitar for inspiration.

This really great, brings me back to my childhood - I used to love to draw islands.

Awesome! So far this is working great with a Dockerized Node application I have. Great job Facebook and the rest who contribute!

I've been working remotely for almost 3 years now, and in my experience it speaks volumes about a company to pay you based on your skill set not based on your geographical locale.

I lived and worked in SF for few years before my wife and I decide to move back to our home town to be closer to family. When I first went remote, I worked for a company who believed in paying people based on their location and not based on their skill level. This made for a rather unpleasant feeling as an employee and ultimately lead to me no longer working for them.

Since then I have joined a company who cares about the individual, and believes in paying people for what they are worth. Overall, my morale is much higher because of it and my loyalty to the company is greater in return.

To answer the question, I make the same amount as any equally skilled engineer at my company who lives in SF (or anywhere else in the country for that matter).

Nice! After clicking the button a few times my first inclination was also to open the console and see how I could make my life easier.

Side comment, but what are they using to randomize the CSS selectors and class names? Interesting approach to further minification.

Agreed, or they should at least offer a self hosted option similar to the Ghost blogging platform.

I thought the same thing.

This author reminds me of the BuzzFeed for JavaScript.

Reminds me of the chat bots I used to write for AOL and AIM "progz".

Great comment. Ride the wave, or watch it from the shore.

There have been several similar posts to this recently. (Acceptance of boredom, melancholy, etc.)

<3 this source code. I think I'll start building sites like this again. At least I know it'll work anywhere.

I'm not sure when "weird" became the stigma around feeding baby, but its unfortunate. My wife and I have a 3 month old, and if our baby is hungry - she breast feeds him. (Mind you she is very conservative about the whole process). Its amazing the people that give strange looks in a restaurant, after all everyone else is eating. Why can't our son?

As weird as it may seem, I just Googled something like "how to get better at reading". And I found some tips, one of this biggest take-aways for me was to re-read something if you find yourself wandering, and make sure you really understand what you're reading. There have been times I've read several pages, or hell even a chapter, and looked back and realized I was zoned out. The important thing is to recognize this and go back, eventually the focus will come naturally.

I use a Kindle to read and one of my favorite features is the ability to look up a word I don't know. I make sure to do this every time I come across a word I don't know or don't understand given the context. If you don't have this ability, use a dictionary or something of the like.

Also a good tip was reading out loud, or mouthing the words while you read. Hope this helps!

Maybe this doesn't answer your question, but I've always believed reading a book is not a race. In my experience, taking my time to understand, or re-reading, something has always helped me retaining knowledge.

I think trying to find ways to retain what you've read versus how fast you've read something will be more beneficial in the long run. In addition, by become better a reader and retaining what you've read, I believe your speed will increase naturally.

My issue was staying focused on what I've read without wandering off somewhere else in my brain. With patience and a little devotion, I was able to overcome that and find the true joy in reading.

Yeah it seems like they are just writing an article for the sake of writing an article.