yingw787

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   by yingw787 7y ago

   I think I like IRC as much as the next guy (probably more). But I also like talking to friends who aren't in tech, like those from childhood, high school, or college, and who went into medical school or business or who simply write cod
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   by yingw787 7y ago

   Have you considered just using FB messenger @ messenger.com? You can log in with your email address instead of your Facebook account. You can also use it while your Facebook account is deactivated (I deactivated mine). No news feed, no ads,
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   Pioneering as a Process Person(bytes.yingw787.com)

   1 points by yingw787 7y ago|0 comments
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   by yingw787 7y ago

   I’ve been eying FreeBSD for my next project once feature parity is finalized and I begin to lock down the build chain for long term storage. I think one nice thing about FreeBSD is how the entire ecosystem is maintained by the same team of
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   by yingw787 7y ago

   Wow that all sounds so amazing! Thank you very much for sharing!
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   by yingw787 7y ago

   Woahhh you lived in Afghanistan? That’s really cool! Is there anywhere I can read about your experience there / contact to talk more?
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   by yingw787 7y ago

   This is soooo cool! I’m excited for them to keep lowering the cost of access to space. Maybe one day it will be a few thousand dollars, and I can buy a satellite to hack around with.
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   by yingw787 7y ago

   For those who don’t know what a monoid is, like me three months ago, I believe a monoid is something that implements monoidal operations, which are binary associative operations with an identity. Integers have monoidal operations like addit
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   by yingw787 7y ago

   Oh this is funny. Very, very funny :P Thank you kind sir, you made my day!
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    by yingw787 7y ago

    I don't understand your implication. Are you saying that an unaffiliated writer who is sponsored one time by Bosch wouldn't have an inclination of positive bias towards his financial benefactor, as opposed to a PR / marketing
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    by yingw787 7y ago

    Yeah, that's a big no-no for credibility. At least for me, I have to trust a stranger before I could ever convert on a pitch, and stating any financial obligations or fiduciary duties or conflicts of interest upfront or early on is far
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    by yingw787 7y ago

    I think issues like this belie the fact that the real concern is executing on voter turnout and building alignment between different branches of the party (party leaders, grassroots leaders, primary candidates, old and new voters, etc). I t
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    by yingw787 7y ago

    Is that what a board is for, though? I agree that additional perspective could help Facebook address systemic faults but I'm not sure adding somebody to the board is how you go about doing it. I'm not familiar with principles and
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    by yingw787 7y ago

    I got my Guardians of Liberty card this year, third one after donating $15 / mo to the ACLU for two or three years. The cards keep getting better, maybe if I keep donating I can get like a silver or platinum card like those credit card
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    by yingw787 7y ago

    Thank you! I’m on sabbatical so I was reading full time. I believe John (the guy who wrote the set of notes I credited) started writing them two years ago, and did two passes over the book. I also skipped a bunch of exercises nearer the end
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    by yingw787 7y ago

    It’s under wraps right now (mostly because I can’t look people who believed in me in the eye if I fail) but it’s a tiny CRM for software engineers. Feel free to subscribe to my mailing list on the blog for more information, or email me at m
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    by yingw787 7y ago

    Thank you very much for sharing it there! The more the merrier :)
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    by yingw787 7y ago

    I actually wrote a monad tutorial last year: https://bytes.yingw787.com/posts/2019/12/06/monads/ After reading about monads...honestly no, there is no way to simplify it. Without understanding the t
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    by yingw787 7y ago

    If you mean Javascript to Erlang, probably not for the foreseeable future. I want to learn to ship product for a bit, and hopefully I can talk about that :)
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    by yingw787 7y ago

    I think it’s definitely hard for practitioners to adjust to FP, especially when under the pressure to ship. I think a great opportunity to look for ways to apply FP would be in small utilities or libraries. I’m planning my next project in P
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    by yingw787 7y ago

    This is a very interesting perspective! I’ve never thought about dynamic languages as a single typed static language. Thank you for sharing!
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    by yingw787 7y ago

    You are of course entitled to your own opinion, but I would say that’s unfairly harsh towards Haskell. GHC Haskell not only compiles down to a binary, it can also transpile to C—-, both of which can run performantly. I started off FP with l
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    by yingw787 7y ago

    On lobste.rs somebody pointed out that undefined satisfies the Curry Howard correspondence for Haskell, and I was wondering whether the proper analogue for Python would be NoneType in that case. Comment here: https://lobste.rs&#x
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    by yingw787 7y ago

    I would say I have a beginners understanding of Haskell (proof: https://bytes.yingw787.com/posts/2020/01/30/a_review_of_hask... ) and IMHE Haskell is an academic research language for good reason. For mos
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    A Pythonista's Review of Haskell(bytes.yingw787.com)

    112 points by yingw787 7y ago|102 comments
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    by yingw787 7y ago

    It’s refreshing to hear this from an authority figure. My personal website https://yingw787.com has the Socratic creed “the only thing I know is that I know nothing”. I try to live up to that ideal and not let my pride and ego g
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    by yingw787 7y ago

    On a tangential note, I saw this graphic on Reddit that shows the venerable PS2 still having the largest number of console sales of all time: https://i.redd.it/24zu04bbtvc41.png I loved my PS2, and I loved going to play N64
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    by yingw787 7y ago

    I think it's really important to learn how to laugh. Laugh every today. Laugh at dumb things. Don't get cardiovascular disease or creases in your face or go bald because you're too proud to have a sense of humor. I need to wo
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    by yingw787 7y ago

    Wow, this man sounds like a really good sport and knows how to enjoy the present :) I wish I could be more like that.
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    by yingw787 7y ago

    @bradfitz congratulations on a long, productive tenure at Google! Looking forward to what you do next!