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Guidelines on Writing a Philosophy Paper(jimpryor.net)
1 points by jasim 6y ago|0 comments
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How to get coaching, mentoring, and attention(jakeseliger.com)
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by jasim 6y ago
I do that a lot with Reason/OCaml. It is surprising how powerful imperative, mutable programming is when most of the code you write is functional, and then you want do something a little difficult in the paradigm, and you make a `ref`,
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Learn Ruby Using CodeNewton(codenewton.com)
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by jasim 6y ago
Encapsulation aided by types and module interfaces. In Reason/OCaml, you can create a module interface (.rei or .mli) which makes the type opaque to functions outside the module. So instead of saying `type t('a) = list('a)`,
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by jasim 6y ago
If you're tired of hearing about the virtues of Smalltalk (like I was at one point) and ask "if it is so good, why isn't it popular?", then watch @deech's talk (Aditya Siram) - "What FP can learn from SmallTalk
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by jasim 6y ago
There is _something_ that one can discover when they try psychedelics. It is a non-normal experience and so by definition will have novel data. Is it useful though? So many people couldn't have been flatly wrong (but they said that abo
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by jasim 6y ago
https://cs.brown.edu/~sk/Publications/Papers/Published/kf-pr... Programming Paradigms and Beyond, Shriram Krishnamurthi and Kathi Fisler: OO is a widely-used term chock-full of ambiguity. At its foundati
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by jasim 6y ago
There has never been a "true" OO language. And if it there was, Smalltalk was not it. Alan Kay did coin the term, but Simula existed long before Smalltalk. The tree of languages that include C++, Java, and C# can be traced back to
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by jasim 6y ago
It is necessary to have a fundamental understanding, and often frameworks, as you said, can cast us to a single shape, making it difficult to see how else the problem could be solved. But life is too short to always start at first-principle
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Bad Fonts(practicaltypography.com)
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Direct Instruction: A Half Century of Research Shows Superior Results(marginalrevolution.com)
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It makes me sad to read that statement - strangers are insulting James Somers (the original author) simply because I posted one of his articles in this forum. He's written articles like https://www.newyorker.com/magazin
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Most book clubs are doing it wrong (2017)(jsomers.net)
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How I learned to draw realistic portraits in 30 days(medium.com)
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OCaml for Scientific Computing: Prologue(ocaml.xyz)
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Down my memory lane – FoxPro and xBase(venkatarangan.com)
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Adding Peephole Optimization to GCC(medium.com)
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by jasim 6y ago
The "Folder Location" option determines the parent directory where the "Creative Cloud Files" folder is stored, which is the actual sync folder. You can verify this by creating an empty directory and moving the sync loca
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Punctuation Marks in Literature(vulture.com)
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What Makes a Good Teacher? (2001)(unicef.org)
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Retrofitting Parallelism onto OCaml(arxiv.org)
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Business as Usual, During Alterations (Science Fiction)(vb-tech.co.za)
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by jasim 7y ago
After Michelangelo died, someone found in his studio a piece of paper on which he had written a note to his apprentice, in the handwriting of his old age: “Draw, Antonio, draw, Antonio, draw and do not waste time.” (The Writing Life by Anni
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Open Letter to Kansas School Board(spaghettimonster.org)
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Don't model data based on the component hierarchy, but model it in the best possible way. But the "best" approach depends - the same trade-offs as in database schema design applies here. If most operations require data joins
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by jasim 7y ago
> On a side note, if some bored person out there wants to make a huge splash in the CSS community, figuring out a way to target a specific DOM element, create the equivalent of an AST and specify a "dictionary", which would be
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by jasim 7y ago
This is a wrong and surface-level reading of the original post. If there are "cases" in a system, then there are going to be "edge-cases" as well. The problem is in classifying certain cases as "edge" and other
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A Modern Architecture for FP(degoes.net)
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Here is a non-trivial production web application (a learning management system) that runs Rails on the back-end, GraphQL for network communication, and Reason on the front-end: https://github.com/svdotCO/pupilfirst

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