mike_mikeson

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   by mike_mikeson 13y ago

   There's a whole lot of ignorance going on in there.
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   by mike_mikeson 13y ago

   Option is a monad. All monads are functors. The key characteristic of a functor is that you can map over it. So why does it surprise you to be using map with Option? The Scala docs ( http://www.scala-lang.org/api/current/index.html#scala.Op
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   by mike_mikeson 13y ago

   We should be very very thankful for these questions. They differentiate the people that have really read around and understand what it is that we're doing in CS, and those that have just been to the lectures.
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   by mike_mikeson 13y ago

   But people make technical design decisions in operating systems based on trying to make the operating system as conceptually simple as possible, which is what he means by beautiful, which I hope you would know from reading the literature. I
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   by mike_mikeson 13y ago

   I don't get what your objection is? It's obviously a mini-essay question, a chance to show your opinions and reason about ideas. Seems good to me. Do you not like it because it's not a yes-no question? Welcome to reality, where not all ques