louthy

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by louthy 3y ago
I think the creative and craft element is some of this (maybe most), but it's also often the case that software engineers are producing code for business domains that they are also not experts in. Most code is for business, and most p
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by louthy 3y ago
Although Croydon is a London borough, it's quite far outside of central London, to the point that it doesn't really feel part of London. It's also quite a deprived area. So that quote is weird on a number of levels!
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by louthy 3y ago
Your description of Blackpool is both eloquent and absolutely spot on! I suggested to my friend that we go there for his stag do; and even for the debauchery of a stag do it felt a bit too grim! To the point that I felt guilty for suggesti
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by louthy 3y ago
Thank you for that. One series that I thought did this really well was the Eric Meijer (father of LINQ in C#) lectures on FP fundamentals [1]. It was very much for OO programmers to get up to speed with FP and it was taught using Haskell.
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by louthy 3y ago
> none of it matters if you hope more people use and understand functional programming On a personal level, I couldn't care less tbh. If people want to learn it, that's great, if not that's also fine. There's plenty
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by louthy 3y ago
How is it any different to someone learning OOP? * Objects * Class * Interface * Polymorphism * Parametric polymorphism * Methods * Method dispatch * Inheritance * Singleton These bear no relationship to the real world usage of these words
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by louthy 3y ago
Sure it's a metaphor and as I state, there's nothing wrong with using the railway analogy, but renaming 'monads' as 'Railway Oriented Programming' is having the effect that newbies to FP-land think that'
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by louthy 3y ago
> Railway Oriented Programming This term needs to die. I have lost count of how many times people have asked me, on my language-ext [1] issues pages, if the library supports "Railway Oriented Programming". The documentation is
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Sam Bankman-Fried headed to jail after bail revoked(bbc.co.uk)
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by louthy 3y ago
> I've seen dozens of theories on how to interview and triage people, but few approaches beat the cost-benefit of supporting decisions based on a degree from a solid institution. This is my exact opposite experience. Degrees are me
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by louthy 3y ago
> DMA Design Which is now Rockstar. Also can't forget Codemasters
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by louthy 3y ago
Core, Psygnosis, Superior Software, ... the list goes on.
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by louthy 3y ago
It isn't Haddock, it's simply inspired by Haddock. It's a library I wrote called best-form [1]. The README gives context: "This is a C# doc-gen tool. It was primarily built to support my Language-Ext project. Which is
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by louthy 3y ago
> but I just want something closer to Scala, but for .Net That's what I have been working toward with my language-ext library [1]. Including a ZIO like effects system [2], Haskell-like Pipes [3], Clojure-like concurrency primitives
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by louthy 3y ago
The irony
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Only Americans call football ‘soccer’
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by louthy 3y ago
It’s 128,000,000,000,000 bald eagles
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by louthy 3y ago
Thank you!
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by louthy 3y ago
For the idiots in the room (me), could you explain why that’s a big deal? Does that make the material more robust and therefore usable in harsher environments?
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by louthy 3y ago
Something D O O economics
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Then you're in for a treat!
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by louthy 3y ago
That's the first series, the second series [1] is a parody of TW. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Look_Around_You#Series_two
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by louthy 3y ago
Love Big Train, some seriously good sketches. Here's some more of my favourites (outside of the ones you've already mentioned). Unfortunately my favourite sketch, 'Cake Factory', isn't on Youtube any more. That wa
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by louthy 3y ago
I didn't forget, I thought that might be a step too far for HN ;)
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by louthy 3y ago
The series of 'Look Around You' that is a pastiche of 'Tomorrows World' is amazing. The 'Music 2000' episode is my favourite [1]. This is an example of the original 80s TV show it was doing the pastiche of [2]
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by louthy 3y ago
Blue Jam is amazing, but it was the TV version of it: Jam, that really blew me away. Dark as anything, surreal, challenging, spectacular use of language, amazing use of music, and video editing techniques … incredible. I remember when it w
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by louthy 3y ago
That's exactly my point. It's not a language feature, it's a library. Haskell, F#, and any other language that supports monads (or as you say, first class continuations), have the ability to do async/await - in a way t
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by louthy 3y ago
async in F# is not a language feature, it’s a library that leverages F# computation expressions (monads). It’s also possible to do async-like behaviour - without the async/await language feature - in C# using LINQ; so you could argue C
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by louthy 3y ago
Better thread on Mastodon [1] [1] https://mathstodon.xyz/@johncarlosbaez/110631013611448277
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by louthy 3y ago
Also the experience is likely to be worse with some medical professional staring at you through the entire trip!

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