kkdaemas

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Admitting That Functional Programming Can Be Awkward (2007)(prog21.dadgum.com)
101 points by kkdaemas 6y ago|144 comments
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Sneakernet(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by kkdaemas 6y ago|0 comments
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by kkdaemas 6y ago
> implementing the hard things on C or C++ This misses the point. I don't care how the language implements the functionality if it meets my performance requirements and it is convenient to use.
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Squeezing More Out of the F# Type System(gresearch.co.uk)
1 points by kkdaemas 6y ago|0 comments
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by kkdaemas 6y ago
With coronavirus restrictions forcing cities to rethink their infrastructure, more people should be aware of this paradox.
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The Downs–Thomson Paradox(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by kkdaemas 6y ago|1 comments
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by kkdaemas 7y ago
When all you have is a hammer...
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by kkdaemas 7y ago
This is also why CMake, even Modern CMake, is so bad. You have to fight tooth and nail for something even remotely maintainable.
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by kkdaemas 7y ago
This wouldn't work. It's like diamonds, the value is in the rarity.
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by kkdaemas 7y ago
Any other ML programmers look at this and see a very verbose discriminated union?
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by kkdaemas 7y ago
This is a very short sighted view. Police forces cannot maintain order in the event of massive unrest and the best way to prevent this is to keep people above the poverty line and the death rates low. Desperation leads to upheaval.
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The Vulnerable World Hypothesis(onlinelibrary.wiley.com)
1 points by kkdaemas 7y ago|1 comments
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by kkdaemas 7y ago
> Wouldn't car dealers raise their prices some value up to $1k because they know anyone coming in that month to buy a car also just received a $1k check from the government? There is still competition between car dealers, so I doubt
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Functional Pearl – Pickler Combinators [pdf](microsoft.com)
1 points by kkdaemas 7y ago|0 comments
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by kkdaemas 7y ago
Some survivors of SARS had significant long-term health complications. It remains to be seen if this will be the same.
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Ask HN: Was the Y2K crisis real?
465 points by kkdaemas 7y ago|371 comments
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We're Not Prepared: Californian Homeless Communities and Coronavirus(theguardian.com)
6 points by kkdaemas 7y ago|1 comments
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by kkdaemas 7y ago
I don't claim that this technique is impossible in OOP; it's just not as natural without discriminated unions and match expressions.
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by kkdaemas 7y ago
You could draw an analogy that monads are to text as defunctionalization is to an AST.
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by kkdaemas 7y ago
I might explain this concept to OOP-minded programmers like this: Sometimes, you can improve your code by having it return a description of what to do, rather than doing the thing directly. This is like in SQL where you might return a query