6 ms·
Yup. I love the philosophy underlying underscore. The functions are ridiculously simple, but so powerful to use once you grok it.
by threepointone 14y ago
Yup. I love the philosophy underlying underscore. The functions are ridiculously simple, but so powerful to use once you grok it.
- RegEx 14y agoI'm sorry, but can we please stop with the 'grok' thing?
- threepointone 14y agoI apologize, I didn't realize it's offensive to you/others. Seemed like a perfectly cromulent word.
- RegEx 14y agoIt might just be me. I just find it obnoxious.
- lhnn 14y agoDo you know the reference?
- falava 14y agoIt's from Robert A. Heinlein scifi book "Stranger in a Strange Land". In the novel native martians do exist and they are very smart. "Grok" it's the martian word for "water" and "to drink". Water is a scarce resource there, and, like here, very important for life. Drinking is putting water inside you but also occurs that this water becomes part of you. Then, in that society, drinking is used as the metaphor for understand something in a level that becomes part of you. I'm a native spanish speaker and I don't know if that word sounds bad in english, but for me the metaphor is so powerful and beautiful that I like it very much.
- shawndumas 14y agoI have been so conditioned by posting on HN to not reply with the banal, 'this', or, 'good one', that it almost seems wrong to just say, 'thank you for that post'.
- falava 14y agoThanks ;)
- lhnn 14y agoFYI I knew the reference, but was wondering if the agitated OP did. You explained it better than I would have. "To really understand something REALLY well".
- RegEx 14y agoPerhaps it's just been by a series of improbable coincidences that in the years I have read forums, IRC logs, books, and articles, I've only seen the term here on HN.
- lobster_johnson 14y agoCould be a case of Baader-Meinhof [1], or maybe you haven't been socializing in right forums. The word "grok" has been in popular use on Usenet since the early 1990s at least, probably before, since it's from a 1970s Heinlein novel. [1] http://wikibin.org/articles/baader-meinhof-phenomenon.html http://wikibin.org/articles/baader-meinhof-phenomenon.html
- davidarkemp2 14y ago"grok" thing? It's in the OED
- heretohelp 14y ago>The functions are ridiculously simple, but so powerful to use once you grok it. As a Lisp hacker and current learner of Haskell, this makes my spleen rupture. It's just functional programming 101, seriously. That's all it is.
- AlisdairO 14y agoJust to let you know, while you're 100% right, I downvoted you for unnecessary snark.
- threepointone 14y agoAck, didn't mean to offend you either. I like Lisp too (I'm learning Racket). I was just trying to explain how underscore.js makes me feel.
- heretohelp 14y agoMaybe your approach is better for the advocacy of functional programming anyway, makes it less intimidating.