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gill-bates
·há 2 meses·discuss
Great project! Really cool to see something like this.

On the other hand, and this says nothing about you or your work, I realize I can put to bed my desire to learn and use F# after seeing what it looks like in a real project. The purely functional stuff is beautiful but once you drop in to more imperative/mutable code I find it really ugly to look at. I suppose unfortunately I suspect that in most real projects you will have to. Not sure if it just means I should choose a different functional language to jump in to, or if I should just work on applying functional concepts to the language(s) I already work with (fairly easy since C# is my primary language and has ever-increasing support for the functional paradigm).
gill-bates
·há 3 meses·discuss
I get that. To counter it I usually try to have at least one public repo on my Forgejo instance and link to that on my resume/LinkedIn. It helps that I'm angling for security/infra positions so the self-hosting aspect actually helps but even without that I would imagine it signals something. Maybe not ideal for the most mainstream jobs (whatever that even means...), but I suspect some people will be intrigued by the initiative.

Edit: to the "do you even lift bro", the response becomes "yeah man, I've built my own gym - oh, you go to Planet Fitness? Good luck."
gill-bates
·há 10 meses·discuss
Interesting looking book, but it seems a bit too meta for what I'm looking for. I'm not really looking for an argument for Christianity, but rather arguments from Christianity on modernity. Or did I not understand the role of that book?
gill-bates
·há 10 meses·discuss
Thanks! I'm used to looking at an argument and understanding that it comes with a set of presuppositions that must be accepted for the argument to follow (my academic background is in philosophy). I suppose the position I find myself in is at least toying with those presuppositions. I am finding the arguments that stem from them to be valuable and I can adopt the first principles while thinking about it and I'll leave the question of whether they themselves are right or worth holding for another moment.
gill-bates
·há 10 meses·discuss
In these times I'm finding myself more drawn to reading and trying to understand christian views on a number of modern issues.

Does anyone know where to find more? Where are the modern christian scholars? Are there christian publications easily available? In the universities I found those sources are available, but only in the specific context of studying religion but much less so as another voice on the subject at hand.