chridou

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by chridou 4y ago
First thing I was thinking of when I saw the picture was: Is that Bart Simpson?
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by chridou 6y ago
I do. I remember adding a lot of buffer time just in case I wouldn't be able to find my way. It is much more convenient now with G-Maps and other providers. I also remember how expensive the maps for the early navigation systems were
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by chridou 6y ago
Well, you somehow got me. When I mentioned the "everything F[_]ed" in my top post I thought I'd made it clear that I knew the commonalities. And I have to admit that I find these commonalities very fascinating. I can still re
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by chridou 6y ago
Thank you for sharing your experience. Back then when I used Scala this was really turning me off Scala. Good that it all settled and that the Scala community can focus on the more important tasks again.
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by chridou 6y ago
> why not use a fold/reduce in order to get as much parallelism as possible for free? I always wondered how this would then be configured in a convenient way. I mean, there are situations where you can not just let the compiler para
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by chridou 6y ago
> I suspect that the above reflects a very personal experience rather than something general. Isn't the FP community in the Scala world at war?
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by chridou 6y ago
> Option, Result, and Future are all both Functors (map) and Monads (and_then). No. They are Option and Result and Future. > You've probably used them without even knowing, because we didn't give it some weird, unlearnable c
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by chridou 6y ago
Even though I see that these language capabilities remove restrictions I hope that HKTs and with them Functors, Monads, etc. will never make it into Rust. The thing I like most about Rust is that it is still a practical language where I can
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by chridou 6y ago
I agree with you and would even go a bit further. Actually the word "boring" is completely misused in my opinion. It is all about choosing the right solution. This has nothing to do with things being boring or fancy. The word bori
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by chridou 6y ago
> However, for most people, using Rust for these purposes is absolutely not recommended. Who are these "most people"? Can you get more specific here? > Java/Kotlin paired with reactive streams makes these tasks super ea
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by chridou 6y ago
> In order to have a meaningful discussion, let me expand on what I mean by "boring". This is the problem with how boring is used. According to Wiktionary it just means "unable to engage or hold the interest". So how
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by chridou 6y ago
> to have found the perfect abstraction, or ... Didn't even know that I was writing about the perfect abstraction. Mediocre environments are where you will not find much code of high quality even though every GoF pattern seems to ha
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by chridou 6y ago
I never understood why people are looking for things which are boring and I think it is mostly employers who do. They should look for something which is good and solves their problems. I don't know how something with the attribute bori
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by chridou 6y ago
Please do not take this (Knuths statement) out of context. It is necessary read the whole text to understand this sentence. It has nothing to do with whether performance matters.