brentshields

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by brentshields 7y ago
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by brentshields 11y ago
"So, any minor divergence in features of Clang and Visual C++ will cause you as a developer to have to worry about these compiler differences or limit you to using the smallest subset of the two compiler features" In other words,
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by brentshields 11y ago
Regarding bluffing: I've seen it happen where the company has asked for a pay stub as part of the final paperwork to confirm that the stated current salary was legit. So yeah that could be a downside to bluffing if you want the job.
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by brentshields 13y ago
You can use GADTs for this. For example: data Showable where Showable :: Show a => a -> Showable This allows you to create a polymorphic container like [Showable 5, Showable "hello"] where the polymorphic type is
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by brentshields 13y ago
It's an oversimplification, but the basic philosophical difference from my point of view is that Haskell values correctness above all and Clojure is above all pragmatic. I think all of these major differences in the languages are refl
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by brentshields 13y ago
As someone who knew Haskell first and then learned Clojure, I can tell you that this assumption is incorrect. It's so completely philosophically opposite from Haskell in so many ways that it's a very good mental exercise to really
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by brentshields 13y ago
Nice writeup. There's an error in one of the examples though: (map :name people) evaluates to a lazy sequence, not a vector.