embwbam

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by embwbam 3y ago
You don’t need to explain the monad laws to a beginner. They don’t need to know what bind does. All they need to know is how to use do syntax, and enough of how it works to use IO, Maybe, State, and a few others. After they’ve been working
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by embwbam 3y ago
Sorry. I was just going by the literal reading of the infra (under) red.
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by embwbam 3y ago
I find promises and futures in other languages (python, JavaScript, rust) close enough to how monads work to gain a very productive working intuition for them.
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by embwbam 3y ago
Yes that’s exactly what the Maybe monad does! It would look like this in Haskell code doStuff :: Maybe X doStuff = do r1 <- cmd1 r2 <- cmd2 r1 … return rX Which is syntactic sugar for: doStuf
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by embwbam 3y ago
They’re like promises or futures, but limited to chaining only one type of thing: Maybe (optionals) - chain steps and abort if any step is empty. IO - perform IO side effects, and run the next step when this one completes. Just like a async
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by embwbam 3y ago
You can encode a lot more information in higher frequencies. But each frequency has different things that are opaque to it, and travel different distances before dropping off. Wi-Fi is already “really low frequency, really low intensity inf
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by embwbam 3y ago
Lol, you’re not wrong. It’s pretty clear organizations prefer the illusion of getting something quickly to accurate information
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by embwbam 3y ago
In my experience, one can accurately predict development time by correctly working around the planning fallacy. The planning fallacy is something like "Humans are hopelessly optimistic. Even if you think you're planning for the wo
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by embwbam 3y ago
I agree with this sentiment completely. Virtue is ultimately internal. However, when did sacrificing all for 40h a week become the definition of honesty? I think the GP and other expressing the sentiment are pointing out that corporations w
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by embwbam 3y ago
This usually comes up because people procrastinate investing and end up with a large amount of money sitting idle. They have anxiety about how to put it into the markets. Saving with each paycheck isn’t dollar cost averaging. It’s lump sum.
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by embwbam 3y ago
English as a first language. Implicit shared cultural values. Time zones. You are way less work to manage than someone across the world from another culture. Some companies do outsource everything but it’s HARD.
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by embwbam 3y ago
Many banks have high-yield savings accounts, but I think they use them to attract customers, so they don't automatically put you in them if you don't ask. That said, I just looked up wells fargo and I don't see any. Capital O
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by embwbam 4y ago
Oh don’t get me wrong, I’m never going back to a corporate job. I’m just saying there is some boredom. But it’s way better than a bad job. I just found a startup founder who needs some help. I’m putting in like 10-15 hours most weeks, on my
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by embwbam 4y ago
6 months is too short to experience boredom. We have years of things we have been putting off to do. I think it takes 1-2 years before it starts to feel like too much time.
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by embwbam 4y ago
I’m 4 years in and I am getting bored. How do you fill your time? (Honestly, include video games for example) Do you stick to a routine? Don’t get me wrong, I’ve very much enjoyed traveling, climbing, games, people, etc. But I miss programm
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by embwbam 4y ago
I've had jobs like this a couple of times and they've always been my favorite. Unfortunately, later in my career I haven't been able to find or create this again. It seems like you have to stumble onto it from somewhere else
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by embwbam 4y ago
From the article:"The role for fusion would not be, “Oh, we’ve invented it. Let’s not bother building more wind turbines.” It would be, “We’ve invented it. Is this a better way than our alternative options to fill in the gaps and suppl
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by embwbam 4y ago
I read an interesting article saying that all wealth ultimately comes from an energy surplus. Nearly-free limitless energy might launch humanity into a new level of wealth. There was another article I read that any values outside of self-pr
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by embwbam 4y ago
If you're not a fan of the ruby-on-rails / swiss army knife approach that IHP takes, check out Scotty. Add Lucid for Html rendering, and Selda for Postgres. (There are other options for any of these tools if you prefer) - Scot
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by embwbam 4y ago
I think IHP for learning Haskell has the same flaw that Rails always did. You have no idea what is part of the language and what is part of the framework. You'll get stuck once you stray from the golden path. I'd recommend startin
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by embwbam 5y ago
Think of it like human intuition. We haven't developed left-brain logic AI yet, but we are getting closer to training AI to outpace a trained human. They can look at a picture and say "That's a dog". That's an intui
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by embwbam 5y ago
I agree. I've been thinking about this lately, and have implemented something I think is interesting in Haskell. https://github.com/seanhess/juniper It's an implementation of Elm (imagine React if you're
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by embwbam 5y ago
I think unless you have been both religious and atheist, it’s hard to compare which results in better morals and values. It’s a common misconception that having a god free life will result in an immoral or amoral existence. It’s simply not
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by embwbam 5y ago
How might an experienced solo developer work with an experienced marketer? My network has ended up being very thin in that regard. Would you partner on some developer's zany project? Or are you folks available to consult?
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by embwbam 5y ago
I have many rock climbing friends who live on less than 15k a year. They often do it for years, working seasonally 3-5 months a year. the trick is to go somewhere with a very cheap lifestyle. It can be accomplished by living in your car in
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by embwbam 6y ago
I only just learned that MUDs exist from this article, but I've wanted to create some kind of collaborative RPG thing since forever. I'd love to collaborate on something if you're interested
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by embwbam 6y ago
You can open multiple high performance savings account by going to the normal account application online. It has you login partway through the process and then adds it to your account
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by embwbam 6y ago
Practically, I disagree with the GP. A newtype is fine in these cases. You don't have to say you know what to do with negative Lengths if you have a smart constructor that won't let you create one.
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by embwbam 6y ago
> IHP's templating HSX is targeted at people with a react background that are familiar with JSX syntax. In the background it compiles down to blaze-html and can be used together with e.g. forM_ (which we have aliased to forEach). It
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by embwbam 6y ago
This looks well done, but having used Haskell professionally on multiple web projects, I have to take issue with some of the design choices. Templating? Haskell provides such a wonderfully clean way to generate HTML via combinators and do n

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