daxfohl

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by daxfohl 10y ago
Hmm, expanding zoom tool across three 4k monitors crashes chrome.
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by daxfohl 10y ago
Though maybe I stand corrected. I revisited that. Here's what I had initially: (include the following stubs to compile): let upload _ = async.Return() let takePhoto i = async.Return [|0uy|] // i stands for "pho
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by daxfohl 10y ago
Yes they are, but I think "for loops" and "mutable lists" a'la Java's ArrayList and Vector and C#'s List<T> don't exist even in IO (I'm not a Haskell expert). That kind of thing has to be
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by daxfohl 10y ago
Agreed, I just recently took some recursive F# code from a photobooth (display countdown, async sleep, take photo, download from camera, recur with new byte[] list)->reverse list, and rewrote it it an imperative loop appending to a norma
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by daxfohl 10y ago
> Because of the way Node works we can attach debuggers, and set breakpoint steps through the code. If you wanted to debug these groovy scripts in the past, you would make some code changes upload it to the edge layer, run it, see if it
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by daxfohl 10y ago
> defining requirements, shipping a product on time, understand tradeoffs You could say that Haskell itself is only good at the first of these. And: that it's common for a Haskell dev to not be good at the first, leads to deeper q
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by daxfohl 10y ago
I use Cursive, and yes it has intellisense equivalent to Cider, but still not good enough. In Scala, Java, C#, F#, C++, I can do `myArray.` and it shows all methods available to arrays. No Clojure editor has anything like this. JetBrains
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by daxfohl 10y ago
Odd, in two years I've never been bit by a single one of these bugs. And if I had, I could probably pretty easily shrug them off. My frustration came from the lack of a type system, and that there's no "myThing." (myThi
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by daxfohl 10y ago
Well there's a difference between dogfooding and self-hosting. The Clojure team uses Clojure all the time. They just don't use all aspects of Clojure on Clojure itself. For quite some time golang specifically set self-hosting
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by daxfohl 10y ago
Agreed. Everything in perspective.
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by daxfohl 10y ago
As an employer I'd look at bootcamp participation as a sign that the applicant doesn't know how to program. Just like all of Sun's nee Oracle's and MS's (well, and Oracle's) cert programs 15 years ago. If yo
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by daxfohl 10y ago
"Love" is a strong word. The syntax is nicer than JavaScript, and I prefer to use it when possible. Though granted JS is making strides and the difference isn't as great as it was 5 years ago. You're part of a MS proje
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by daxfohl 10y ago
> knowing that it's the right type but the wrong data is useless, I care if it's the exact data it's supposed to be Entirely possible people are comparing apples to oranges here. My experience is all based on structured d
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by daxfohl 10y ago
Refactoring. Say you want to make a 1:1 relation into a 1:* relation. You change your core data type from e.g. `type person{address:string}` to `type person{addresses:string[]}`, follow/fix all the red squiggly lines until it compile
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by daxfohl 10y ago
Well, Altair BASIC was their first product.
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by daxfohl 10y ago
That's a little harsh. It was an MVVM framework along the same lines as backbone, ember 1.0, knockout, and pretty much every other framework of the day, plus a lot of extra functionality. It's not really google's fault that
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by daxfohl 10y ago
'could be used with' is really what I meant.
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by daxfohl 10y ago
Ha, I'm on the anti-Angular2 bandwagon due to Angular1. I use React and Typescript and love it. Curious if you've tried React. Or Angular1 (TBH Angular1 was pretty great at the time, but after React I look back at those monstro
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by daxfohl 10y ago
I envisioned it somewhat the opposite way. Gradual types a-la TS tacked onto CoffeeScript. No actual TS integration per-se. Though even better would be if the TS team could figure out a way to factor out the type inference logic so th
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by daxfohl 10y ago
I just wish TS was based on CoffeeScript.
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by daxfohl 10y ago
Thing is, Harrop runs a business using F# and is a known troll against anything competing with F#. His MO is to focus on minutiae and make them sound like bigger deals than they actually are. Then when asked about a limitation of F# typic
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by daxfohl 10y ago
Perhaps try turning it on its head. Ask the interviewer what their salary range is, before they ask you.
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by daxfohl 10y ago
Has anyone tried to beat the interviewer to the punch on the salary question? Put them on the spot by asking their range before they hit you with it?
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by daxfohl 10y ago
Or even more to the point: it punishes those who are geniuses at the subject matter, but not so great at probability. Especially under stress, where the system could be seen as akin to gambling.
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by daxfohl 10y ago
But a possibility of negative infinity begs the question: how certain is the professor of the answer?
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by daxfohl 10y ago
Funny thing is the weights they assigned didn't discourage random guessing at all; they merely made your expected gain from guessing equal with the expected gain from not answering (i.e. zero). So even if you had the very slightest ide
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by daxfohl 10y ago
Indeed. Looked at that, even went so far as to give Datomic a tryout. Everything with built-in versioning turned out to be a leaky abstraction wrt our needs. Turns out there are lots of ways people can think about versioning, that don&#x
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by daxfohl 10y ago
Twice I've fallen into the trap of using a VCS for the "data" layer of an app, because the data needed versioned and hey you can just store it in XML/Json. First time a senior dev overrided my choice, and to my dismay we
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by daxfohl 10y ago
Pfft give me back a 20th century existence, pre-internet, pre-computer, 19th century, Middle Age, Roman, Greek, Egyptian, Mesopotamian, Stone Age, neanderthal, monkey, worm, bacteria, whatever. A bunch of junk we're pouring money into
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by daxfohl 10y ago
It's totally not. You totally never see anyone talking about it, anywhere.

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