portal_narlish

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by portal_narlish 6y ago
Strong point! As a non-CS engineering student learning C++ for the first time, the compiler all but turned me off from wanting to be a programmer. No one explained why the compiler was even there, it just seemed like an annoying hindrance
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by portal_narlish 7y ago
Agree. But is it just programmers that don't care about the thinness of their keyboards and want something functional and high performing ? It perplexes me why non-programmer consumers wouldn't want the same. Who is Apple aimin
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by portal_narlish 7y ago
Technically the C preprocessor is purely functional!
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by portal_narlish 7y ago
It seems people are conflating "low adversity score" with "my perfect SAT score is ruined because my family lives in the nice suburbs". I think this is just meant to add some standardized and measured context for admissi
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by portal_narlish 8y ago
JEP draft: Remove NullPointerException from language
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by portal_narlish 8y ago
Capitalism 101
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by portal_narlish 8y ago
1) Syllabus for the accompanying Harvard course https://cs121.boazbarak.org/syllabus/ 2) Author is heavily inspired by Sipser and the previous CS121 course taught by Harry Lewis. So this is your natural follow-up.
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by portal_narlish 8y ago
He also encourages students to make a pull requests when they find errata. I can see the argument that this "open sources" the literature and brings students closer to it. However - students are not experts in the subject matter
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by portal_narlish 8y ago
I just took CS121 recently and echo this. Theoretical CS is really a broad topic to cover in a semester. The early sections on computability theory, CFGs, regex are really good. Once it gets into complexity classes things kind of stop makin
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by portal_narlish 8y ago
How are the "algebraic data types" algebraic if they don't express any relation to each other? This seems like a cool syntactic layer for people that are already writing Python and wishing for a more functional style. However
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by portal_narlish 8y ago
This seems psychotic. Why not put the same energy into rewriting this code correctly in a statically typed functional language?
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by portal_narlish 8y ago
What about hackathons? Open source sprees? Meeting people from your language/framework/trade IRL and forming relationships?
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by portal_narlish 8y ago
It's starch, dairy and processed/cured meat regardless how you make it. Usually meetups serve from counter takeout chains which makes it even worse. There is no argument for pizza not being a junk food.
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by portal_narlish 8y ago
Why is it called LambdaSchool when they teach "JavaScript, Python and C"? Clicked hoping to see a functional programming oriented bootcamp. We need one of those.
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by portal_narlish 8y ago
This is a common paradigm in object-functional programming, as it further emphasizes the duality of functions and the data they return. Scala allows one to do this, however one could ostensibly pack a bunch of side effects into a method and
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by portal_narlish 8y ago
I refer to this as the "spaghetti law of attraction". The burden of refactoring things gets higher and higher and no one wants to touch it. So they just add another try-catch block and do some side effect and get the PR merged.
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by portal_narlish 8y ago
I sometimes wonder if programmers instinctively overcomplicate things in interest of collective job security. Some of the stuff I've seen in (particularly awful) Java code bases is perplexing to the point where it seems intentional.
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by portal_narlish 8y ago
Data scientist, programmer and software engineer are different things. They are not disjoint by any means, but this guy is conflating them in a way that's totally wrong. Software engineers have to engineer things . They deal with prod
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by portal_narlish 8y ago
didn't they deprecate the gateway last year?
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by portal_narlish 8y ago
This type of signaling is very real and present in functional programming languages specifically. Java programmers feel insecure because they're not writing Scala, the Scala people wish they were as functional as the Haskell people, th
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by portal_narlish 8y ago
Your story sounds too familiar. I worked at a snake oil startup for almost 2 years, essentially a "Theranos" for food (google "vegan mayo scandal" to get the incredible whole story). The CEO dramatically changed the focu
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Bike Share Oversupply in China(theatlantic.com)
2 points by portal_narlish 8y ago|1 comments
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by portal_narlish 8y ago
I get so many robocalls I don't even bother with call notifications anymore. If they're a friend, they'll probably text instead. If it's a business matter, they'll leave a message.
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by portal_narlish 8y ago
Regardless of efficacy, it's the law in SF to wear a helmet on those things
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by portal_narlish 8y ago
It indeed seems like the companies are playing dumb w.r.t. sidewalk riding and helmets. Are they really assuming people will be walking around with helmets just to ride a scooter for .5 mi? And it's definitely scarier to ride in the st
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Of Variance and Functors(typelevel.org)
1 points by portal_narlish 9y ago|0 comments
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Functors, Applicatives and Monads in pictures(adit.io)
2 points by portal_narlish 9y ago|1 comments
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by portal_narlish 9y ago
they were never the refs -- CEO has controlled the board's vote since 2015
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by portal_narlish 9y ago
The brogrammer archetype is an interesting phenomenon in Silicon Valley, and he shares similarities with his East Coast cousin the finance/banking bro. I believe he is the product of "learned manhood" and status gained throug
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by portal_narlish 9y ago
Crazy Taxi is already out and it's surprisingly good.

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