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by justinhj 7y ago
In the Hacker News case there isn't a GET request on the page, it's triggered by the javascript so this would not happen
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by justinhj 7y ago
Following the rules of REST is very important if you are presenting a public API to the world. If it's your own server you can do whatever you want. For example I used to work on servers for games and often there would be a single endp
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by justinhj 7y ago
Canada has it too.
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by justinhj 7y ago
The paper "Imperative Functional Programming" https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/... describes the IO Monad, and compares to two other approaches: Dialogues and Continu
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by justinhj 8y ago
Neat, will check it out
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Higher-Order Type-Level Programming in Haskell [pdf](microsoft.com)
155 points by justinhj 8y ago|17 comments
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by justinhj 8y ago
I think you’re putting the cart before the horse. Why is there a shortage of low skilled workers in a country of 400m? Because you have illegal workers who’ve driven the price of that work below what the market legally supports. If the law
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by justinhj 8y ago
I may be miss-characterizing your point but there have been many times that I’ve sat down at a terminal and not been able to remember how I did something a few months ago. On the job the important thing is knowing the high level goal and th
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by justinhj 8y ago
Just do something and things will work themselves out. There are infinite choices in life.
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If it’s self hosted do you see it as being free software or you’d pay an upfront cost for a license? Would you use a hosted web application if none of your data was uploaded?
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Or perhaps game projects are extremely difficult to manage? You think if it was just a matter of competence then these companies would put billion dollar revenue on the line not hiring the best they can find?
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by justinhj 8y ago
Last year I did all problems in Scala, focusing on using pure fp, scalaz and cats. This year I wanted to bolster my Go and Ruby skills since I'm now working on a project that uses both. I found that Ruby was more fun to work with, so m
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by justinhj 8y ago
Exactly right. People esssentially voted for this model of gaming with their wallets; it proliferated in mobile gaming where the race to the bottom for game pricing meant new revenue models had to arise
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by justinhj 8y ago
This is a good learning opportunity for the kids to use better passwords. Hackers rely on large lists of leaked hashed passwords and usernames. Not sure how good Fortnite security is but it’s easy to enforce longer passwords, delays and acc
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by justinhj 8y ago
This is absolutely right. A mature company should be hiring the best person for each role defined as the person that can do the job the best (of course price is another issue). Hiring people because of some preconceived idea of culture is u
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Fibers are the right solution to improve Ruby performance(codeotaku.com)
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Solving real problems is often boring and or difficult. Tedious mass refactoring, fixing bugs in horribly entangled code you didn’t write, convincing groups of people they need to make a painful change now for a better future, keeping a tea
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by justinhj 8y ago
Just like your response, my evidence is the anecdata of my own experience. I’ve built a large system that 9 engineers use, all of different experience levels. Functional programming gives more understandability not less, you can always unde
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by justinhj 8y ago
Jonathan’s real standout qualities are game design, self promotion and shipping a hit game. As a game dev that has worked on 20 or more games I wouldn’t put one like Braid at the top of my hard to program list. It’s a 2d puzzler. The time m
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by justinhj 8y ago
Scala is sometimes referred to as the Haskellator, in that once you get far enough down the pure functional programming road, you may find yourself wanting to switch to Haskell. Scala doesn't enforce pure functional programming as much
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I guess the problem is one of expectations. It is primarily a DSL for working with emacs, not a general purpose programming language like Common Lisp.
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by justinhj 8y ago
I'm not sure we're using the same emacs lisp. Your list of things that are painful in Elisp: working with lists and maps? For real? Opening files? `find-file is hard? As for hard to find out how to accomplish basic things what abo
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by justinhj 8y ago
It never ceases to amaze me how much there is to emacs and emacs-lisp. After 15 years of daily use I still discover gems like this
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by justinhj 8y ago
I've instinctively done this for the last little while (I'm approaching my 50s). I list the last handful of jobs and no dates on the university courses etc. I don't put a huge list of languages and technology I've used,
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by justinhj 8y ago
I agree with your points entirely, but "culture fit" is a very ugly thing when used to exclude people that cannot be legally discriminated against. There's a reason these employment laws exist; people have a right to a job th
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by justinhj 8y ago
It’s a mistake to replace emacs lisp. For a start everyone’s custom code and configurations would have to be modified or scrapped. Package libraries would have to be ported. Much better to just improve it in a backwards compatible way or wi
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by justinhj 8y ago
I learned assembly language before c which I suspect helped understand pointers. There are plenty of fun ways to learn assembly language. The game Shenzhen IO is one.
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Some of the answers are that technology makes things cheaper, people feel wealth from house prices rising faster than wages, easy access to cheap credit gives another more temporary feeling of wealth
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They're very cool electric scooters with long lasting light batteries, for around $2000 USD. Didn't see a single "pedalled" scooter there.
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I wouldn’t write off China in any industry. Due to legislation and economics of car ownership there are cities where 90 % of the traffic is electric scooters. There is a lot of expertise in building them. In addition Chinese are very keen a

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