While reading this, it reminded me of interesting paper on javascript privilege separation, what do you think about it?

https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity12/privilege...

is there TL;DW (too long didnt watch)

As far as one true checklists go, I really like NSA Guide to securing RHEL.

http://www.nsa.gov/ia/_files/os/redhat/NSA_RHEL_5_GUIDE_v4.2...

and TLDR version: http://www.nsa.gov/ia/_files/factsheets/rhel5-pamphlet-i731....

It is starting to get a little bit dated (RHEL 5 is quite old), but general rules still apply and usually they explain their reasoning.

Could we say, DSLs are the new frameworks?

For example for a web-dev in Java you'd use a MVC framework.

In Clojure you get a query DSL to do your model, templating DSL to create your view and routing DSL to specify your controler.

I have never experienced a hackathon, most similar thing that comes to my mind, that I was part of are hackfests on some open-source conferences and those were pretty great.

Usualy a hackfest meant bunch of coders interested in a project sitting in a room for ~5 hours and doing bug fixing, new features, or just discussing. Everything is good in moderation, I guess.

Actually this is how it was when I started at my current position.

We are doing web-testing in clojure, and in past year our little framework evolved into a DSL of a sorts.

On one hand it is great, we a have consturct like (with-client [name connection & body]), that behind the scenes sets up a virtual machine, registers it as a client of our web-service and destroys it after commands in body are done. I can't imagine we would be doing setup and teardown by hand.

On the other hand it took me a month to get into it (two weeks learning the language, two weeks messing around with the framework) ... and there are still lots of things only our lead-tester knows how to fix, after our devs decide to change something we were relying on for testing.

>two weeks learning the language

I am curious, did you already know the JVM? When I learned Clojure, I was also learning the JVM, and for me the JVM was much harder than Clojure. So I would say it took me 6 months to learn Clojure, but much of that time was the time it took to learn about the JVM and all the related Java weirdness.

Either way, 2 weeks is very impressive.

JVM? I knew Java, but most of what I did in java was using autocomplete in Netbeans and cursing Maven, when it didn't work.

What really helped me that, we had "programing paradigm" course in college, where I learned haskell for 3 weeks, what was enough that anonymous functions, map, reduce and using lists for everything didn't feel new.

Well why cross-compile to Emscripten, when you can cross-compile directly for arm,e.t.c (thus leveraging diractly unix/desktop heritage)

I have heard from a guy with same hard-of-hearing problem and he was quite against implants ... his impression was that they are practically impossible to upgrade, and they replace whatever ability of hearing you might have left. Conversation has happened 3 years ago, so maybe things have changed for the better. (Another of his concerns was, that he felt pressured by his MD to get an implant)