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Google+ has been quite a bit of a disaster. They wanted to tie everything to it, and it ended dragging down everything else. Nowadays, for a quick chat, Jit.si seems to be the easiest thing - it just …

If you're not into Emacs, IntelliJ has a sick integration that works through a nREPL called Cursive that is a joy to use https://cursive-ide.com/ …

REPL are obviously a poor substitute for unit tests; but a unit test is a poor substitute for a REPL.

For those who are not into VoIP and telephony, an IVR is the common menu "press 1 for choice A, press 2 for choice B..." you get when calling many services.

While I was a Commodore boy in the 80's, I know what you're talking about and I came across a book that had the same feeling "Clojure for the Brave and True": https://ww…

I use jitsi meet everyday - it has desktop sharing (well, desktop showing) and it usually "just works". Better than skype for the casual chat.

Like what? :-)

FYI - not trying to market any product here. Wombat (though closed-source) is free to use for small sites / hackers - if you just want to run it with a couple of phones, or play with speech synth…

Loway | Java sysadmin | Lugano, Switzerland | ONSITE Loway builds call-center software solutions and is based in the Italian-speaking part of Switzerland. We run a quickly-growing SaaS cloud platform,…

If you want something more ready-to-go, you can use https://www.wombatdialer.com/ - works with Asterisk clusters and requires no explicit programming - you just declare what you want …

Well done!

Enough times that I remember it. Luckily, with modern IDEs, going from fields to accessors is just a "refactoring" menu away.

No: the idea that immutable is a sensible default, and active enforcing of immutability. In Java, e.g., a linked list's cell might be immutable, but its contents are most likely mutable - so bac…

Immutable data structures?

I agree: one of the things I do appreciate in Java is that the compiler does catch those silly things and I don't really have to think about them any more. As a side effect, refactoring is very s…

Sure: https://github.com/arohner/spectrum I think the main advantage of a type system (e.g. Java's) is that it avoids a lot of stupid mistakes; and therefore does help refac…

Dynamically, but there are some libraries out there that are working to bring static analysis on steroids to spec-enabled code. And as spec is opt-in, you can spec just how much (or little) you find …

Amen brother. Unless we want to talk about "apps" in general that - in 95% of cases - could be mobile-optimized web sites.

Any transcripts yet?