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by etrepum 4y ago
Just a small note on the shot-scraper post (very cool stuff!): You can use Array.from(xs, fn) instead of Array.from(xs).map(fn). Same semantics but it happens in one pass with less garbage.
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by etrepum 12y ago
Mission Bit doesn't have permanent classrooms. All of the equipment needs to be portable and standalone, so laptops are a requirement. Small HDMI computers such as Raspberry Pi are no longer cheap once you start looking at adding a key
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by etrepum 13y ago
I found Erlang a lot easier to learn than Haskell. I don't really find them to be very similar, especially because they have a completely different evaluation strategy. The syntax and semantics are also quite different. Specifically, H
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by etrepum 13y ago
Erlang requires a fair amount of boilerplate for a small project (rebar, app file, application behaviour, gen_server behaviour, etc.) and escript doesn't work very well. It lacks a good way to do abstract data types (records don't
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Learn Haskell with exercism.io(bob.ippoli.to)
2 points by etrepum 13y ago|0 comments
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Teaching an intro coding class to High School students with CodeCosmos(bob.ippoli.to)
4 points by etrepum 13y ago|0 comments
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How I built CodeCosmos(bob.ippoli.to)
2 points by etrepum 13y ago|0 comments
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Why I made CodeCosmos(bob.ippoli.to)
2 points by etrepum 13y ago|0 comments
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by etrepum 13y ago
Sadly it's not possible to have CouchDB make that happen for you! You can very easily allow unauthenticated requests to create users, but there's no way to create those per-user databases without writing some trusted code that run
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Getting Started with Haskell(bob.ippoli.to)
4 points by etrepum 14y ago|0 comments
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by etrepum 14y ago
Jameson and I spent Mochi's first summer (2005) on Maui, where we built the majority of MochiBot and MochiKit. Worked great for us, although we didn't keep California time or do any planking.