jochu

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   by jochu 14y ago

   I believe it's not emacs, it's Sublime Text 2
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   by jochu 14y ago

   I may be misunderstanding you, but from your description, that more describes functors than it does monads. The difference being that in a monad, the `someFunc` you pass in is responsible for creating a new context (of the same monad type).
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   by jochu 15y ago

   Aside from reasons you mentioned, I can imagine it being because it easily allows one to add a sudo or being habit because of it. For example: echo 3 | sudo tee /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches Will allow you to write as root and sudo ec
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   by jochu 15y ago

   For more specifics into the cognitive science behind why this is - another good book, which has lots of wonderful references to studies on this topic (amongst other things), is "Your Brain at Work" by David Rock. Or, for the general overvie
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   by jochu 15y ago

   Sanjoy Mahajan, the author of this article, is the Associate Director at the Teaching and Learning Laboratory @ MIT. If you're interested in education, he has an excellent OCW course [1] where you can hear more about his techniques for teac
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   by jochu 15y ago

   I don't know if I'm misinterpreting Derek Muller, but I didn't get the impression that people had to be confused/overwhelmed to learn. I think it's only necessary when there's incorrect prior knowledge. If interested, here's my take/rant ab