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by runT1ME 8y ago
I agree. It has the flexibility of Scala without the extra power/abstractions Scalaa gives you. I don't love Scala's flexibility but I put up with it because of its power, the trade off isn't worth it for C# to me.
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by runT1ME 8y ago
>It reads the value of X on replica R2, which does not yet reflect W(X). Why does someone want this functionality? Do you expect, say, Oracle to work this way? I honestly don't see this as a useful feature in a database that's
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by runT1ME 8y ago
I would be very curious to see what barriers to entry AirBnB has developed vs. say, Uber. While both are marketplaces, Uber benefits tremendously from understanding traffic patterns, from seeing how people ride, from being able to give dri
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by runT1ME 8y ago
A couple things... salary is a small part of overall compensation. A 10% or more cash bonus is the minimum as well as some equity (which may or may not be worth something). Health care is also free for most tech workers or if not free, a b
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by runT1ME 8y ago
Async is strictly more limited than the more generic LINQ comprehension syntax.
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by runT1ME 8y ago
You don't need HKTs to implement 'do' notation. A good example is LINQ query syntax from C#! You actually have full blown monadic comprehension that you can use to easily write 'flattened' (ie, no async pyramid of
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by runT1ME 8y ago
>They just use Scala because it's a better Java that boosts their productivity. I spent three years on the 2nd largest Scala 'team' in the U.S (first as an engineer, then leading a sub team), the problem is that using Scal
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by runT1ME 9y ago
I would take SOAP/WSDL over barely documented restful APIs and JSON...
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by runT1ME 9y ago
I honestly don’t feel this way most of the time when doing pure FP. There are a few tools I wish were better but my code reuse is astounding, the refactor-ability is high, and it is easy to jump into unfamiliar code bases. Just mho from t
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by runT1ME 9y ago
As a maintainer of one of the aforementioned libraries, I think the amount of dogma the proponents of them have is a bit overblown. :) At Verizon I worked in projects that were pure FP/heavy Scalaz, as well as working in scala project
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by runT1ME 9y ago
What is the single biggest bottleneck your team has in terms of delivering new features? If you could spend a month fixing/refactoring/changing any component of the system, what would it be? What % of time is spent on planning&#x2
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by runT1ME 9y ago
I think there are two acceptable answers in addition from the obvious possibility of bad management. 1. Many engineers do not work on core products. Many of these companies operate like quasi accelerators at times: hire smart engineers sin
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by runT1ME 9y ago
Have you looked at Scalaz's Task? It's used all over Verizon, it solves a lot of these issues that people run into with Futures (on how it handles errors in a lawful way).
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by runT1ME 9y ago
in most states, mortgages are no recourse. If I borrow a million bucks and default on it, I lose the house and take a credit hit, even if I have millions in the bank. If I borrow a million dollars (margin) to invest in equities and I need t
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by runT1ME 9y ago
>Even the parts of Haskell that have the flavor of category theory aren't really all that much like category theory. Can you expound on this? Just because the type classes defined in Haskell can't represent a wider range of cat
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by runT1ME 9y ago
The biggest risk to Apple is the overall economy tanking, and if that happens, the Fed will lower rates. This causes inflation which eats away at the debt by making the amount 'owed' less (relative to the old value of the dollar)
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by runT1ME 9y ago
Because Facebook/Twitter/Instagram is blocked at a lot of work places, while LinkedIn is not...
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by runT1ME 9y ago
>, we actually have been below target inflation for years no, we have crafted something called CPI, that charts how much consumer goods cost, and tracked below the target for that. Meanwhile, coastal RE, equities, business valuations a
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by runT1ME 9y ago
Thanks for the reply. Don't you negate some of the advantages of CRDTs by mandating casually consistent environments? Can you speak to that more?
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by runT1ME 9y ago
Nice, good explanation. And one way to look at the State Monad is when you always want the 'latest version' of an immutable 'value' that keeps getting new versions. :)
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by runT1ME 9y ago
CRDTs accumulate garbage, and need a global "sync" to GC. How do you mitigate this from having performance impacts?
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by runT1ME 9y ago
Studying CS? I live in Irvine and my father is from Mexico. :) I'm always happy to meet new tech folk around here and/or chat if you're interested. Contact info in profile.
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by runT1ME 9y ago
http://lambdaconf.us/ ^ Fantastic conference btw. Very beginner friendly, welcoming, and intelligent speakers and attendees. Talks are all rated by general background knowledge needed, and an unparalleled 'hallway tr
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by runT1ME 9y ago
The question becomes does the outsourcing firms they engage have the talent to build what they want (is top talent really applying to IBM/Accenture/etc?), and is the overhead of outsourcing (both monetary and time wise) going to a
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by runT1ME 9y ago
You didn't ask, but Scala has by far the most commercial usage , far ahead of the three mentioned. It's quite different than Clojure and Elixir, but anything you can do in Kotlin you can do in Scala, and it will look and feel the
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by runT1ME 9y ago
> Sure, but let's say I was OK with a single point of failure. I cannot imagine designing a system for production use where anyone is OK with a single point of failure being a single instance of a machine. I mean if we're pl
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by runT1ME 9y ago
You need a server, which is a single point of failure. If you want redundancy, you now need a quorum in the event of a split brain. CRDTs have the advantage of not needing a quorum in event of a split brain. There is no way to 'lose
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by runT1ME 9y ago
>"Some of the biggest errors are subtle failures in the implementation of business logic Static typing can prevent errors in business logic. >various memory leak problems - locking issues - race conditions All are bugs that stati
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by runT1ME 9y ago
What kind of errrors do you think are not caught with static typing? Usually people who say this aren't familiar with languages that have type classes...
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by runT1ME 9y ago
>software engineer jobs will be blue collar, $40-$60k a year jobs, by 2030. There have always been 'blue collar' engineering jobs. When I started in the tech industry I was making $13 an hour writing HTML and a bit of SQL here

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