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   by pkinsky 12y ago

   Sounds perfect for that Google employee who spent three months living in his car.
2. 182.▲
   by pkinsky 12y ago

   How do you distinguish between 10*1 years experience and 10 years experience? Is the former assumed until proven otherwise?
3. 183.▲
   by pkinsky 12y ago

   Scala, with a regular smattering of SQL and Haskell for side projects.
4. 184.▲
   by pkinsky 12y ago

   He didn't seem to know who he was talking to when he made those criticisms.
5. 185.▲
   by pkinsky 12y ago

   Thanks for posting this, this looks really interesting. one note: >This blog post tries to show how some re-orderings (that may be done in as part of optimizing a Java program for performance) that intuitively seem illegal are, in fact
6. 186.▲
   by pkinsky 12y ago

   I use Akka Scala/Java JVM actor framework daily, and it manages to get by without bytecode weaving. The lack of type safety is irritating, though.
7. 187.▲
   by pkinsky 12y ago

   Who cares how large their egos are if they're right? Edit: to elaborate, you're mostly arguing about the personalities involved, which I consider irrelevant. Convince me that they're wrong based on the merits of their proposa
8. 188.▲
   by pkinsky 12y ago

   >I'm all for applying theory to enrich the practice of programming but lets be reasonable here. Lists and Options existed way before anyone added monadic sugar on top of it. I like category theory as much as the next guy but lets ju
9. 189.▲
   by pkinsky 12y ago

   It's not a niche language. Household names including Twitter, Meetup, Foursquare, and Coursera run on Scala.
10. 190.▲
    by pkinsky 12y ago

    >Now I'll know where to go when I need monadic and monoidal libraries for serving HTTP requests using nothing but type level hacks. Monadic libraries with classes like Option, Future, and List? Used in elitist features like for comp
11. 191.▲
    by pkinsky 12y ago

    I'm conflicted. Type constructor partial application would be great (the current type lambda syntax is just awful), but I really don't want to see Scala fragmented.
12. 192.▲
    by pkinsky 12y ago

    I wrote a Dvorak practice program in Haskell that uses QuickCheck to generate random pseudo-scala practice sets. https://github.com/pkinsky/dvorak .
13. 193.▲
    by pkinsky 12y ago

    I've always understood it as part of an act, a way to say 'lower the price or I walk' without causing offense. An equivalent response would be 'I would love to give you this deal, but my wife would divorce me for giving
14. 194.▲
    by pkinsky 12y ago

    This can be solved by minimizing blocking code, either by using actors (Erlang, Akka, etc) or just chaining callbacks on futures/promises and using monadic composition to avoid callback hell. For a concrete example, check out my Redis-
15. 195.▲
    by pkinsky 12y ago

    Could you get around this by using many small vacuum-filled spheres instead of one large sphere?
16. 196.▲
    by pkinsky 12y ago

    Cool, have you heard of Guerrilla Queer Bar in Boston? Very similar concept.
17. 197.▲
    by pkinsky 12y ago

    Outlier really is amazing. Here's a direct link to their store: http://outlier.cc/
18. 198.▲
    by pkinsky 12y ago

    I dismissed no allegations. Let me put this as clearly as possible: Assange is a target of multiple powerful intelligence agencies, all with world-class experience executing dirty tricks. Having the figurehead of Wikileaks charged with an a
19. 199.▲
    by pkinsky 12y ago

    Let me expand on my downvote: putting aside the issue of sexual assault entirely, Assange has made enemies of several major intelligence agencies. Leaked documents discuss “the start of an international effort to focus the legal element of
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    by pkinsky 12y ago

    I'm more productive with Scala than I ever was with Java, and Scala is very strongly typed. Statically typed languages aren't always less productive than dynamic languages, but the straightjacket of a language known as Java is.
21. 201.▲
    by pkinsky 12y ago

    Scala has all of those things, plus typeclasses, for comprehensions and scoped duck typing.
22. 202.▲
    by pkinsky 12y ago

    They produced a list of 50 to justify themselves before congress, but only one, a taxi driver sending 10k to Somalia, was deemed valid.
23. 203.▲
    by pkinsky 12y ago

    What's interesting is that torproject is misspelled in anonymizer/tor/tor poject _visit. I suppose bugs are a universal constant.
24. 204.▲
    by pkinsky 12y ago

    I've heard similar stories from people making international calls to China.
25. 205.▲
    by pkinsky 12y ago

    Because if SWIFT were replaced with a decentralized system the US wouldn't be able to exert control via embargo. (an example: http://www.ianwelsh.net/have-sanction-threats-brought-russia... )
26. 206.▲
    by pkinsky 12y ago

    >Social psychology experiments in the laboratory tend to throw up spectacular mind-boggling effects. Many of these fail to replicate and are later discredited. The ones that do replicate are not always generalizable – sometimes an even s
27. 207.▲
    by pkinsky 12y ago

    This is true. Even the recruiter who emailed me to tell me that an SBT skeleton project I cloned for convenience was 'very interesting' got a personal reply.
28. 208.▲
    by pkinsky 12y ago

    I'm guessing the CIA maintains a list of discontinued stupid plans to trot out when they need some good press.
29. 209.▲
    by pkinsky 12y ago

    This looks like it could be entry-in-the-history-books huge, but there's this: "We have not slept for three weeks." Has anyone more knowledgable than me (that is, anyone) looked at this in detail?
30. 210.▲
    by pkinsky 12y ago

    No, that was a certain well known VC.