andrenth

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   On Lisp in 15 Minutes(medium.com)

   5 points by andrenth 7y ago|0 comments
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   by andrenth 7y ago

   There are some books focused on OTP: * Erlang and OTP in Action; * Designing for Scalability with Erlang/OTP: Implement Robust, Fault-Tolerant Systems; * Designing Elixir Systems with OTP (in beta).
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   by andrenth 7y ago

   IIRC the main one is that it could be confusing inside a list, e.g. [foo: bar] vs [foo:bar()]. Someone also mentioned that `foo. bar()` (with a space after the dot) is legal syntax, but `foo: bar()` wouldn't be. I guess you can always
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   by andrenth 7y ago

   I agree, but my point wasn't about the erlang module specifically. Maybe :ets would have been a better example. At one point I suggested in the forums that, inspired by how Elixir understands [foo: bar] as equivalent to [{:foo, bar}],
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   by andrenth 7y ago

   There's a lot in the Erlang stdlib that is not available in a wrapped form from Elixir's. As of now I think you need to know at least a bit of Erlang (e.g. to understand the stdlib docs) to be able to use Elixir more productively.
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   by andrenth 7y ago

   https://github.com/candid82/joker
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   by andrenth 7y ago

   Doesn’t seem to be maintained though (last commit 5 years ago).
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   by andrenth 7y ago

   Maybe the “OK” library [1] could be useful for you. I would also welcome a better built-in idiom for early returns. [1] https://hexdocs.pm/ok/readme.html
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   by andrenth 7y ago

   I think this has a lot of potential if it's able to call Go functions, like Clojure can call Java functions. The language would have a healthy ecosystem of libraries to boot.
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    Ale – A Lisp Environment Written in Go(ale-lang.org)

    149 points by andrenth 7y ago|42 comments
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    by andrenth 7y ago

    The problem is that governments are made of people too, with the same sort of self interest as everybody else.
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    by andrenth 7y ago

    What's your opinion on a sales tax but simultaneously making food and medicine tax-free?
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    by andrenth 7y ago

    Sorry, it’s just that the original comment is so completely nonfactual that I cannot attribute it to anything other than naïveté or ill motives. But I should have articulated that in different words. I do think that the original post should
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    by andrenth 7y ago

    Which civil and social rights have been lost since 1989?
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    by andrenth 7y ago

    The downvoters don’t like to see it mentioned that Glen Greenwald is a liar. The evidence is clear though. In this specific case, he has produced fake evidence, by implicating in his “leak” the names of people who weren’t event involved in
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    by andrenth 7y ago

    Are you really that naive, or actually ill-intentioned? I’ll assume the former. If you actually read these leaks, you’ll see there’s absolutely nothing that even indicates any kind of corruption on the part of Moro or any of the attorneys
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    Improving .deb(lwn.net)

    1 points by andrenth 7y ago|0 comments
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    The New Graveyards of Free Speech(spectator.org)

    1 points by andrenth 7y ago|1 comments
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    by andrenth 7y ago

    Why isn't this called populism?
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    Austerity: When It Works and When It Doesn’t(mises.org)

    1 points by andrenth 7y ago|0 comments
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    by andrenth 7y ago

    This is particularly bad with channels. If you look at a book like "Concurrency in Go", the apparent simplicity of the language leads to patterns are far from trivial, and the lack of generics means that it's impossible to im
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    by andrenth 7y ago

    I share the same concerns. I also love the subject and will buy the book, but I've come to notice that a lot of what's written about mental models is shallow, generic and/or not really actionable.
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    On the Difference Between Forecasting and Real Life Payoffs(academia.edu)

    1 points by andrenth 7y ago|0 comments
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    by andrenth 7y ago

    I think the difference is pretty low considering how much safer and more comfortable current cars are.
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    by andrenth 7y ago

    This has always been the claim, and it’s been historically proven false. The book quote provides a way for you to understand for how long this claim is made (with an exemple from the 18th century), and yet here we are.
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    by andrenth 7y ago

    He probably didn’t dream of auto industry automation either. And yet that industry employs millions of people.
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    by andrenth 7y ago

    I’ve found this paper [1] which has data from 1960 to 1990 in a plot on page 3. The peak is in 1978 but the number range is very similar to today’s numbers (~1 million employees). I’m assuming the numbers in that chart are in manufacturing
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    by andrenth 7y ago

    Thanks! Just adding a link to Butterick’s book, “Beautiful Racket”: https://beautifulracket.com/
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    by andrenth 7y ago

    Thanks. I don’t know Common Lisp, but I guess the knowledge will be transferable.
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    by andrenth 7y ago

    What do you think are good learning resources for learning racket for an experienced (functional) programmer? Is there a book that isn’t focused on learning to program?