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For those just getting started in FRP or whom may have not seen the presentations at StangeLoop:

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Agu6jipKfYw - Controlling Time and Space: understanding the many formulations of FRP by Evan Czaplicki (Elm language designer/Prezi)

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XNATGjqM6U - FRP In Practice: Taking a look at Reactive[UI/Cocoa] by Paul Betts (Slack/GitHub)

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPyKHxy7X0w&t=18 - ReactiveUI - It's pretty neat by Brendan Forster (GitHub)

* Currently reading: Edgedancer

* Flowers for Algernon

* Going Rogue: Spells, Swords, & Stealth

* Split the Party: Spells, Swords, & Stealth

* NPCs

* Children of Time

* Death's End

* The Shining

* IT

* All 7+1 books of The Dark Tower

> which often contain multiple times the daily recommended intake of sodium

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/its-time-to-end-t...

Classic article.

It's Time to End the War on Salt - The zealous drive by politicians to limit our salt intake has little basis in science

It's Becoming Clear That No One Actually Read Facebook's IPO Prospectus Or Mark Zuckerberg's Letter To Shareholders
http://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-stock-letter-shareho...

The entire company was structured so he had control, forever. The only reason to buy stock is if you think he will continue to print money. I think it is refreshing to have a company built to be able to completely ignore quarterly profits and activist investors fighting for short term gains.

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Analyst

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- The ability to write clear, digestible and insightful analysis of complex technology – and not take months to do it.

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- Deep and relevant technical expertise in technology infrastructure.

- A personality that both we and our clients enjoy working with. You can call this the no assholes rule.

- The ability to travel regularly to industry events and client sites.
- A passion for developers.

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- A background in statistics, economics or both.

- Exposure to/training with statistical programming languages (R or Python if you must).

- Experience as a developer, whether as a hobby or profession.

- A broad range of technology exposure (as opposed to being
expert in a tiny niche).

- Familiarity with media creation and editing; audio, video or both.

- An affinity for craft beer.

To apply for the position, please submit a cover letter, project samples, resume and anything else you think we should consider to hiring@redmonk.com.

IT Java is uncool, but then IT is uncool even if written in Clojure (though the psychological aspect of using a "cool" language will likely dampen the existential pain of writing yet another book keeping CRUD app since now you are using s-expressions!)

In my experience, people who say silly things about Java -- the technology, which certainly includes the Java Language Semantics, and JVM -- actually do not know what you can do with Java (the language).

So yes, you Lisp nerds have you homoiconic 'mash' of syntax and thus AST manipulation, and we have first class Class Loaders and Byte Code Engineering and the sky is the limit there. Magic.

But the sad reality of programmers' lives is the disconnect between the required cognitive capabilities of workers and the actual (domain) task at hand.

tldr;/ its your job that is uncool not the tech.

House of Leaves - What literature should be. Innovative both in design and in prose. It's very long but you can finish it in a maddening evening, it's hilarious, it's terrifying. Along with Steven King's It, one of two books to give me nightmares. Incredibly complex. It's a puzzle I still haven't fully solved. I consider it the first modern-era novel, and expect others will come like it. When I wrote a novel a year and a half ago, its design was my greatest inspiration.

Finnegans Wake - This book can't be explained until you've seen it. The pinnacle of the English language.

My high school had it as required reading (over summer vacation). I was never a big reader to begin with so this book along with others (Jude the Obscure, A Separate Peace) have always been in a bad light for me in my mind (I guess having a book that I would tested and grilled over first thing in the school year does that). However, as an adult I found reading books such as IT, Silence of the Lambs and The Grapes of Wrath really entertaining. When I have some time I think I'll give this classic another try.

The first thing to realize is that DevOps is an ambiguous term (at least partly by design, it seems).

My belief—shaped by many at the forefront of the DevOps movement—is that it is a cultural focus rather than a technical one. In many ways, it's an extension of agile philosophies, with a focus on fast feedback, transparency, heightened interactions between teams, etc. There is also a heavy focus on automation (CICD), but the automation is there to serve the cultural goals. Just because you do CICD doesn't mean you're necessarily doing DevOps, and you can adopt a lot of DevOps principles without doing full CICD.

Books:

* The Phoenix Project— introduces a lot of concepts (such as lean principles) that are foundational to the movement

* Effective DevOps (Oreilly)

* The DevOps Handbook

Podcasts:

* Arrested DevOps

* DevOps Cafe

Blogs:

* IT Revolution

Events:

* DevOpsDays conferences

* Local meetups

* Velocity conferences

* DevOps Enterprise Summit

Having a good grasp of both development and operations skills is helpful. But it's far from complete. If you solely focus on the technical aspects without examining the cultural, you're missing the foundation of the movement.

I think the simplest response I can give to this is the "above defition" is of a pattern language, not a pattern.

A pattern language is an organized and coherent set of patterns. They are developed holistically to work in relation with each other. They're designed to be combined together - as sequences, in parallel, as contrasts - and also to be as "platform-agnostic" as possible.

For example, Alexander's book helpfully includes a ton of points on how to combine the various patterns in the book, and a healthy "see also:" section to get alternative ideas or just areas of overlap between them all.

And the patterns in the book are about the physical, environmental, and social needs of humans (the problems) and how they can be met trough architecture and infrastructure.

It's very distinct from just "a list of patterns." They're always described in service to the whole, in relation to the others.

For the English language, I would say Aristotle's Rhetoric is closest in spirit; whereas Elements of Style is clearly more a "list of patterns"

Other "pattern language"-style books I can think of are The Prince by Machiavelli; Capital by Marx; 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing by Ries and Trout; Diffusion of Innovations by Rogers; and High Output Management by Andrew Grove.

I would also say the original C2 Wiki comes closest to creating a "bottoms-up" pattern language. Here's the entry on A Pattern Language - https://wiki.c2.com/?PatternLanguage

But these books aren't explicitly set up as pattern language books - nor are many others. Very few books (not even the GoF) are put together so well and as comprehensively as A Pattern Language. It's truly a masterpiece.

Some of the listed titles, since the site seems to be under heavy load:

Books:

* Winston Churchill, A History of the English-Speaking Peoples, Volume I and Volume II

* Philip K. Dick, Minority Report

* Ian Fleming, Diamonds are Forever

* Fred Gibson, Old Yeller

* Billie Holiday, Lady Sings the Blues

* Alan Lerner, My Fair Lady

* Eugene O’Neill, Long Day’s Journey into Night

* John Osborne, Look Back in Anger

* Dodie Smith, 101 Dalmatians

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Movie titles:

* Around the World in 80 Days

* The Best Things in Life are Free

* Forbidden Planet

* Godzilla, King of the Monsters!

* It Conquered the World

* The King and I

* The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956 remake by Alfred Hitchcock
of his 1934 British film)

* Moby Dick

* The Searchers (1956 film version with John Wayne from Alan Le May’s 1954 novel)

* The Ten Commandments (1956 version by Cecil B. DeMille, who also directed a similar film in 1923)

I'd like to zoom in on that bookshelf. I wonder what books are on it. All I can make out easily is Watchmen.

With examination I see "Infected," left self third from the top. I notice IT and The Stand on the left shelf second from the bottom. Must be the Stephen King shelf. Lots of sci-fi on the shelf above that. Textbooks in the shelf on the right...

http://www.randsinrepose.com/assets/randsshelf.jpg

Do you recognize any other books?