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by runT1ME 9y ago
We use Hazelcast at Verizon Labs for a couple services, and one of the issues we ran into is how much work it takes to replicate split brain to test various and custom merge policies. When reading that the distributed map implements the C
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by runT1ME 9y ago
Yea, puzzling out some scalaz code takes investment. On the other hand, the library is used for web apps, network servers, database based applications, streaming libraries etc. It's incredibly multipurpose, more so than even Spring
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by runT1ME 9y ago
>They seem to have huge potential for hard to follow code as you need to mentally unpack and remember more layers of abstraction That's the beauty of abstraction without side effects, you don't need to unpack anything. If you
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by runT1ME 9y ago
> An awful lot of energy was wasted memorizing various tricks and conventions to make do with loops, slices and maps where in other languages you'd just call a generic method. I feel the same way going from languages with HKTs back
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by runT1ME 9y ago
Yes, surely it's a coincidence that two of the most powerful statically typed languages have the least defects.
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by runT1ME 9y ago
Well, if FB doesn't want to do massive wealth transfer to real estate developers and current land owners it would benefit them to get involved. Part of the reason salaries are immensely disproportionate to the rest of the country is co
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by runT1ME 9y ago
What do you mean you run the Open Source process at yahoo? Hopefully Verizon's open source legacy will become even bigger and make it easier for these kinds of innovations to happen. We've had some success a few cities over in Ver
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by runT1ME 9y ago
I'm a Scala fan, so know that up front, but I don't think Scala is unreadable outside of language fanatics, but the language itself is definitely more complicated than Java/Kotlin/Go etc. We've had a lot of succes
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by runT1ME 9y ago
Why does SO seem to completely omit "backend engineers". I don't work on web stuff, I write network applications/cloud services. There are a lot of folks similar doing that at amazom, google, etc. Does this seem like a h
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by runT1ME 9y ago
As a huge fan of Scala, Ceylon is one of the other languages I'm keeping an eye on and hope succeeds. It is much more ambitious and forward thinking than Kotlin, and subsequently see it having a much longer future than Kotlin.
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by runT1ME 9y ago
Oh yeah, 1. IDE experience is much better. 2. I like the fact that F# emphasizes the functional aspects, it's a bit of a 'tighter' language than Scala (despite the two crucial missing pieces) and so I think people could learn
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by runT1ME 9y ago
My previous job was working for a .NET shop that powered tons of automotive search engines etc. across the web. We moved to more and more functional concepts using C# as the team learned about them and had a lot of success with them. At a
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by runT1ME 9y ago
It sounds like we're agreeing? Low interest rates == more monetary supply == inflation.
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by runT1ME 9y ago
>Reduced of inflation allows accumulated wealth to mean more over time, whereas higher inflation puts pressure on workers to demand (and obtain) wage increases and keeps the inequality in check. You have this backwards. Inflation allows
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by runT1ME 9y ago
Don't confuse CPI with inflation.
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by runT1ME 9y ago
Take the helmets off. Players would no longer run at each other head first, and be forced to grapple a bit more. Concussions are en extreme rarity in grappling/wrestling sports. They can still happen, but it's a freak accident r
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by runT1ME 9y ago
LambdaConf is small midwest conference focused on Functional Programming. Wonderful mix of beginner workshops, advanced talks and everything in between. Childcare on site, nice venue, wonderful food and a lot of really enthusiastic people
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by runT1ME 9y ago
Anathem.
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by runT1ME 9y ago
>What I appreciate most about Go is that I am sure that I can look at 99% of the Go code written in the world and I can understand it immediately. No you really can't. You can look at any given line of code and tell me what it do
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by runT1ME 9y ago
Thanks for the kind words. My suggestion, if you're willing to work in the U.S, look for a company that is actually doing FP (Verizon, Comcast, Stripe, some teams at Facebook, some teams at Twitter) and try to work there. Also, prog
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by runT1ME 9y ago
So, there are Scala teams doing functional programming. Have you worked for them and ended up not happy? It seems that it would be much easier to get good enough to join the team you want and appreciates you than to switch careers. Are y
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by runT1ME 9y ago
Anecdotal to me of course, but I felt much better after I started getting adequate protein. I am still sore if I go really hard in the gym, but most days I feel very good after lifting if I take enough whey protein. Previously to my ext
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by runT1ME 9y ago
Nominal wages have increased since 1970. Where did the money go? It's not hard, it's basic math: deficit spending necessitates printing money (done in various ways, notably QE) , which eats away spending power.
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by runT1ME 9y ago
> I've never had a non-trivial debug issue caused by trouble using semaphores, mutexes Sure, those are easy, but they don't scale. You'll often want non-blocking instead of semaphores for higher levels of parallelism and
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by runT1ME 9y ago
I started out on a 3 month contract with the understanding there would be a good chance it would either end in 3 months or I would move to the Bay Area after to renew. I flew to the office quite frequently. I worked hard to prove myself, a
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by runT1ME 9y ago
I think you're severely overestimating how much an office worker makes or you underestimate how much a decent programmer makes. Though likely both.
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by runT1ME 9y ago
What profession would you advise young people go into, if you are dissuading them from one of the few careers that can pay a living wage right out of the bat with almost unlimited upside potential (second only to law/medicine).
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by runT1ME 9y ago
Scala has a collections library that heavily emphasizes immutable/persistent data sructures. You aren't forces to use them but it is idiomatic Scala to be "pure"/non mutating.
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by runT1ME 9y ago
If you're a MS/.NET leaning person, why not F#?
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by runT1ME 9y ago
Scala has parallel collections that allow for this, looks exactly the same syntax too.

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