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what="almost official Lisp NYC announcement"
see="http://lispnyc.org/
http://www.meetup.com/LispNYC/events/96126262/";
and="http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/Papers/SE-06.pdf
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin
[page was last modified on 4 September 2013 at 02:04]
http://www.businessinsider.com/dan-kaminsky-highlights-flaws-bitcoin-2013-4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQoykhNoBbY
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=277389.0;all";
also="http://nylogic.org/talks/welcome-to-the-homotopy-type-theory-reading-group";
edits="address now specifies which borough of New York City
the meeting is in; some material removed;
some paragraphs reformatted by Emacs">
Subject: New York City Lisp User Group: Erlang by Mahesh
Paolini-Subramanya X-URL: http://lispnyc.org/
corner New York City
Lisp Group LispNYC.org meetings blogs news home
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2013 Summer Programming Contest
We're proud to announce our contest Lisp in Summer Projects ,
over $5000 of prizes and anyone can join in on the fun.
Upcoming related events:
* Jun 1 Lisp in Summer Projects signup begins, everywhere.
* Jun 1-4, European Lisp Symposium 2013 - ELS'13 in Madrid,
Spain
* Jun 2, European Common Lisp Meeting - single day conference
in Madrid, Spain
* Jun 9-12, "30 Years of Smalltalk" the Smalltalk Industry
Conference - STIC'13 in Phoenix, Arizona
* Jun 24 Lisp in Small Projects coding starts!
* Jul 8-10, Lambda Jam: A conference for functional
programmers in Chicago, Illinois
* Sept 18-20, Strange Loop in St. Louis, Missouri
* Sept 25-27, ICFP 2013 in Boston, Massachussetts
* Nov 14-16, Clojure/Conf in Alexandria, Virginia (Washington
DC)
( meeting - Tuesday, September 10, 7:00 PM - Erlang by Mahesh
Paolini-Subramanya )
People get so caught up in the syntactical sugar of languages
that they never actually grok the semantics, let alone the
context and philosophy underlying the whole environment. It
doesn't really matter whether we're talking about something
'old' like Java/Python/Ruby, or 'new' like Dart/Go/F# - any
discussion about the merits tends to boil down to either
simplistic stuff like "The syntax sucks! Hrrr!", or
something"advanced" like "Garbage collection <redacted>".
In the case of Erlang - theres the bit about concurrency and
scaling, and functional programming and actors and stuff, but
what most people don't get is that it is really very simple
Erlang begins and ends with Fault Tolerance.
Fault Tolerance is - formally! - baked into the very genes of
Erlang/OTP - something that ends up being amazingly useful
when you are building any kind of system. Remember, your
clients (and co-workers!) will find new ways to break things,
ways that you could never have imagined in your wildest
dreams.
This, this is the reason to use Erlang. Once you get it, it
completely changes the way you approach development, and you
will find yourself writing "erlang" in whatever language you
happen to be using (Mind you, writing tail-recursive code in
java is a recipe for disaster, but thats another story...)
In this talk, I'll get into this buddha-nature of Erlang/OTP,
pointing out how the various features of the language tie
together into one seamless Fault Tolerant whole. It'll
probably run 45 minutes or so, not counting questions...
Mahesh Paolini-Subramanya is the V.P. of R&D at Ubiquiti
Networks - a manufacturer of disruptive technology platforms
for emerging markets. He has been involved in `Internet
Stuff' since Day Zero (remember Gopher?), and has spent the
recent past building out Erlang-based massively concurrent
Cloud Services and VoIP platforms.
He has the - dubious -honor of being involved in creating the
first web/e-commerce system, the first Java based financial
services platform, as well as the first Erlang-based cloud
PBX, three products he may never live down.
He was previously the CTO of Vocalocity after its merger with
Aptela (where he was a founder and CTO). Before that, he was
V.P. of Development at Neoglyphics Inc, and CTO of Proxicom
where he also led the Technology practice. He holds a B. Tech
from the Indian Institute of Technology - Kanpur, and an
M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Notre
Dame.
Location:
Meetup HQ, 9th Floor
632 Broadway
on the Island of the Manahattoes
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