m_arnold

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by m_arnold 5y ago
If you want to know: A monoid is just a collection of things that can be associatively "added". Think addition with integers, or append with lists. Members of the dreaded monad can be sequenced, or composed, while taking into acco
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by m_arnold 5y ago
>A good example would be a program that runs fine suddenly now needs a "timeout" on an operation. FP implementations now need to thread the notion of time from somewhere near the top of the implementation the whole way down the
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by m_arnold 5y ago
>I would love to know that there is a panacea that automatically improves productivity. Unfortunately, I haven't seen one in my career, as yet. I suspect you've seen many of them. They're just the ones that are so normal y
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by m_arnold 5y ago
>Haskell is cool, but trying to explain to someone the difference between `.`, `$`, `<|>`, `|>`, `<$>`, `>>=` and more is quite painful. For those who aren't familiar, I'll explain: First of all, these are
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by m_arnold 5y ago
>using your employer’s time to experiment with difficult new concepts and languages when you have a deadline approaching (or long since past) is not cool. Boss makes a dollar, I make a dime, that's why I learn zygohistomorphic prepr
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by m_arnold 5y ago
10 days, IIRC
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by m_arnold 5y ago
Addiction is often a response to life circumstance. Everyone points to the famous experiment in which rats were given access to a button they could push to release happy drugs in their brains. The rats hit the button until they withered awa
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by m_arnold 10y ago
I'd love to see that hold up in court.
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by m_arnold 11y ago
LOCATION: San Francisco, CA REMOTE: No WILLING TO RELOCATE: Yes (US and Canada only, with preference for the west coast) TECHNOLOGIES: Strong in JavaScript, Git, AngularJS, Node.js/Express, HTML, jQuery, Grunt, MySQL, Bookshelf.js, D3.