pmohun

I've found that HN has become increasingly cynical, and I'm trying to understand why. Not snarky; serious question.

Is it simply because being pessimistic makes you sound smarter?

Assume that you cannot bring anything with you except a notebook and a pen.

You’re able to travel instantaneously between locations and the people there are expecting you.

At the end of the 24 hour period, you are returned to the present day.

What questions do you ask to maximize the utility of information you capture?

What exercises do you use for offsites, team brainstorming sessions, and roadmap planning? Are there particular software tools that help make these sessions easier to run?

I've been eyeing Lisp out of the corner of my eye for years. I know I should learn it and it will likely change the way I think about programming.

What is the best way to learn Lisp in 2020? I tend to learn best when I have a project to work on that plays to the strength of the language.

Some questions: - Should I start with Common Lisp, or some popular dialect (Clojure?) - What are the big patterns that I should be aware of? What is easier to do Lisp than is missing from functional languages like Python? - What are some big projects built in Lisp (other than this site)? - If it's so good, why isn't it more popular?