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by zachrose 7y ago
In other words you’re concerned that some Array methods mutate the array (push, pop) and some don’t (map, concat)? If so then yeah, that can be annoying and/or confusing.
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Math and Mysticism(avant.org)
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Just care less. Don't worry too much about doing the perfect thing or building your product the right way. Whatever organization has hired you and your peers is by definition less knowledgeable, critical, and aesthetically sensitive th
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by zachrose 7y ago
Some video editors seek to be the right tool for amateurs wanting to make simple edits. What I take away from “professional” in this context is that it targets professional workflows and capabilities.
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by zachrose 7y ago
True, but isn’t it also true that a catamorphism on any other data structure still operates one piece at a time? If so, I think this would imply that you _could_ concert your tree or whatever to an array and still get your result with Array
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by zachrose 7y ago
I believe the fancy math word for this “building up” of a value from a “smaller” initial condition is “anamorphism.” Most interview-style programming problems are catamorphisms, or “boiling down” an initial condition to “smaller” result. (F
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by zachrose 7y ago
I’m impressed by the author’s crawling of 112 million webpages, but I can’t help but wonder if it’s really necessary. Surely the same distribution could be found with a smaller sample?
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by zachrose 7y ago
Does this have any implications for trusting trust?
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by zachrose 7y ago
For starters, we don’t all consider it ethical for a state to execute prisoners. One thing the U.S. could do would be to end capital punishment in our own country. Bluntly, it would have all the moral leadership of sanctions and none of the
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by zachrose 7y ago
You've already hit the nail on the head. Facebook is providing a friendly user interface to do normal people stuff. To the users who aren't technically sophisticated or haven't thought deeply about any of this, sucking up the
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by zachrose 7y ago
Do these people actually say, “this is a silver bullet” or is that your interpretation? Does this mean is pat undersells you on Y you might be more receptive?
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by zachrose 7y ago
This touches on another thing, which is “Thing X is known to be imperfect, Pat says thing Y is better. Nobody else on the team has tried Y but we have all these aphorisms like ‘no silver bullet’ that lead us to think Y can’t be that good.”
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by zachrose 7y ago
Forget the bike, what color of shed are you going to keep it in?
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Project Binky, from Bad Obsession Motorsport Two rally car fabricators and lifelong friends in Shropshire who, over the last five years, have been fitting an AWD turbo Celica into the rusted out shell of an old Mini, while adding an air con
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by zachrose 7y ago
Ukulele version: https://youtube.com/watch?v=YrUwqc0sF7U
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by zachrose 7y ago
I’ve used “single source of truth” to explain what I like about Redux/the Elm Architecture. Yeah it shouldn’t mean anything about access or indirection but it’s still a decent idea, no?
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by zachrose 7y ago
Is your single page app not yet designed to be satellite compatible?
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by zachrose 8y ago
I wish the ideas of the Elm Architecture (or React/Redux) could be brought to the browser. Primarily, an atomic single source of truth (serializable data) for window.document and a way to connect that state to the DOM through pure func
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by zachrose 8y ago
"There should be one — and preferably only one — obvious way to do it." Clearly they hadn't read the Zen of Python.
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by zachrose 8y ago
At first glance I thought the "resources" here might be Uber drivers, which would be interesting. Is this thing/Apache Mesos abstract enough to allow for such a use?
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by zachrose 8y ago
Interesting. Out of curiosity, is there any correlation between programming paradigms and the predictability of of low-level details? I would imagine that a “boring” C program with one big chunk of mutable state would be predictable in this
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by zachrose 8y ago
What do you mean by "as unpredictable as possible"? From the perspective of an application developer I want that dynamic representation to also be predictable.
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by zachrose 8y ago
From what I understand there are a number of reasons. One of them is that domestic oil and gas production was on the decline until the tech for horizontal drilling and fracking started the shale boom of the last 10-12 years. Combined with d
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by zachrose 8y ago
single-page web app doing n times the amount of work it should be doing because components are synced over an event bus with bindings set up wrong in a way that nobody has bothered to debug
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by zachrose 8y ago
The Mezzanine by Nicholson Baker. It’s a slim, experimental novel with a narrator who spends every second of the book noticing smaller and smaller details about the world around him—such as the burrs on the underside of a soda can tab openi
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by zachrose 8y ago
But where does that put manufactured homes?
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My question with rules engines is, “how do you test and deploy changes to the rules?” If you go through the same process as the rest of your software, then why not just use code? If you have a different process, how do you make sure your ru
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by zachrose 8y ago
Most of the Pacific Northwest (save for some suburbs) is walkable if you’re willing to gear up for 9 months of rain every year.
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by zachrose 8y ago
Last time I checked eBay and did the math, a first gen iPhone new in box has appreciated something like 14% year over year for over a decade.
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