TurboHaskal

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by TurboHaskal 3y ago
In my experience, it used to be 60% former sysadmins that didn't know how to code or approach problems from a software engineering perspective, and 40% SWE who liked doing platform stuff. Now it's actually 80:20 due to software en
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by TurboHaskal 3y ago
Eating whole cake means you consume fat at the same time as the sugar, so the latter is metabolized more safely.
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by TurboHaskal 3y ago
Sugar is 50% fructose and 50% glucose. The user you mention advocates for a higher amount of fruit which has mostly fructose so my take on this is that he prefers his pancreas over his liver.
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by TurboHaskal 3y ago
Thankfully ADHD for adults is being taken more seriously now.
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by TurboHaskal 3y ago
> I too would have loved something more towards ML than C++ I stopped paying attention to the language around 2012-2013 or so when the direction clearly steered towards the latter. You may want to check https://austral-lang.or
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by TurboHaskal 3y ago
My favourite languages are Common Lisp and OCaml but I've found Go surprisingly useful professionally. It's easy to onboard new team members, even those without prior experience, and some made contributions the very first day. The
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by TurboHaskal 3y ago
This is how I start a Go project in 2023. mkdir new-repo vim new-repo/main.go I try to stick to the stdlib as much as possible, which goes surprisingly far.
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by TurboHaskal 3y ago
Oh boy, I remember reading about this for the first time and thinking it was April's fools.
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by TurboHaskal 3y ago
I love the name. What’s wrong with it?
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by TurboHaskal 3y ago
It's not the language that gave me PTSD but the userbase, "best practices" and culture around it. Java itself is great these days.
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by TurboHaskal 4y ago
This is so lovely one of my main reasons to main Common Lisp is to have an excuse to use it. Not even kidding.
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by TurboHaskal 4y ago
> The lack of worker solidarity in tech is really astounding. It's because those that are overpaid relative to others in the industry are very aware of the situation.
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by TurboHaskal 4y ago
16 is sad and very unfortunate. There is a massive outcry and countries passing anti-constitutional laws aimed to protect women that are victims of domestic violence with similar casualty rates. Maybe we should let kids vote so politicians
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by TurboHaskal 4y ago
> I struggle to preceive a critical advantage for Lispworks. CAPI is the reason. If you want to develop a professional GUI application and you want to use Common Lisp, LW is pretty much the only option.
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by TurboHaskal 4y ago
You’re glad it’s a dying way to make money but I remember developing and selling software tools and libraries was fulfilling and a lot of fun. Definitely beats writing hundreds of yaml configuration for open source libraries and fishing for
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by TurboHaskal 4y ago
> We usually don’t bathe every day and listen to our body’s needs. If I did this I'd need to shower every 4h :)
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by TurboHaskal 4y ago
The paper filter helps a lot too.
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by TurboHaskal 4y ago
I'll take an over-engineered enterprisey Java monolith over a Haskell codebase written by type astronauts any time of the week. I mean, at least the former will be somewhat working and with proper IDE support.
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by TurboHaskal 4y ago
No one I know pays for Java licensing. I'm way more worried about the AWS bill from all those Java "micro" services.
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by TurboHaskal 4y ago
It seems for some our industry is not boring and tedious enough.
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by TurboHaskal 4y ago
Mostly power. Phones just don't offer enough to drive demanding headphones or earphones. There are dongles to address this issue, but they can drain the battery pretty fast. I don't want to drain my phone battery just because I&#x
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by TurboHaskal 4y ago
Unfortunately the average developer is alienated beyond repair. A significant % of developers make a living working on tools to address the lack of interactivity and poor feedback loop of mainstream languages, and actual interactivity is to
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by TurboHaskal 4y ago
It’s written in a very OCD style of coding, which I love. Definitely one of the most readable pieces of code I’ve seen in a while.
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by TurboHaskal 4y ago
This is why I do programming tests before hiring SRE/DevOps for our team. I don’t really care how well you know Ansible or Kubernetes, or how long you’ve been operating software components. If you can’t think like a software engineer y
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by TurboHaskal 4y ago
I came to Ruby from Perl, and I love `unless`. One of the first things I do in any Lisp is build my own unless macro unless the dialect already has it :)
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by TurboHaskal 4y ago
I blame GoF for giving us the two worst decades in software. But in my experience, the average loud dev has mutated into the TDD + DDD fanatic. These insufferable simpletons won't only criticize your end result when it doesn't ali
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by TurboHaskal 4y ago
But what about the yet another distributed key store we built?
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by TurboHaskal 4y ago
Did Richard Feynman struggle to pay rent?
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by TurboHaskal 4y ago
> those who have dedicated many hours of their lives digging their own grave I fixed that for you.
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by TurboHaskal 4y ago
> Not everyone needs a language filled with features and abstractions to have > fun programming. Yes, people who need these abstractions to have fun programming are a minority. Unfortunately, I don't get dopamine rushes

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