maxhallinan

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by maxhallinan 4y ago
Ohio, Kentucky's neighbor to the north, also has a rich archaeological record. The Ohio Archaeological Society's journal is archived here: https://kb.osu.edu/handle/1811/55832 Fascinating read for anyone
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The Personal PhD(davidklaing.com)
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How Does CallCC Work?(maxhallinan.com)
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A Subtle Mistake About How to Acquire Useful Career Skills(calnewport.com)
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by maxhallinan 7y ago
You might be interested in StarLogo. [1] It's a Logo dialect designed for simulating decentralized systems and emergent behavior. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StarLogo
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How does the continuation monad work?(maxhallinan.com)
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by maxhallinan 7y ago
How do you find processes that can be automated? I've often thought that there must be a ton of this stuff in various industries where programmers aren't typically embedded.
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What is datatype-generic programming?(maxhallinan.com)
1 points by maxhallinan 7y ago|0 comments
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What Is a Logo-Like Language?(maxhallinan.com)
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Daily Demos: a ritual for raising kids that create(bryanbraun.com)
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by maxhallinan 7y ago
What's the link?
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How Does Free Make Any Functor a Monad?(maxhallinan.com)
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by maxhallinan 7y ago
I like statically typed functional languages but I'm interested in understanding why people dislike them.
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Ask HN: What do you dislike about statically typed functional programming?
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Start with Just a Few Things(maxhallinan.com)
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Start with Just a Few Things: Thinking in Lisp(maxhallinan.com)
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by maxhallinan 7y ago
Location: Munich, Germany Remote: Yes (remote only) Willing to relocate: n/a Technologies: JavaScript, TypeScript, Elm, Haskell Email: maxhallinan <at> gmail.com I'm looking for small web development contract
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by maxhallinan 8y ago
Thanks!
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by maxhallinan 8y ago
Where does this community of hobbyist language designers gather online?
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by maxhallinan 8y ago
How does the Aesthetic Usability Effect account for the success of websites like Amazon, Wikipedia, Craigslist, Hacker News, classic Reddit, and LinkedIn, to name a few? There seems to be no correlation between aesthetic quality and use of
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by maxhallinan 8y ago
Computer science is a specific treatment of these topics that is based in formalism. Compare John McCarthy's "Recursive Functions of Symbolic Expressions and Their Computation by Machine, Part I" and Paul Graham's "
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by maxhallinan 8y ago
Ok, I think I read more into your first comment than you actually said. >many routes are just not focusing on the higher level design skills that I think are needed to make good libraries/frameworks/DSL's. I have observed
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by maxhallinan 8y ago
> A developer who knows how to code and hack may not have the skill/design knowledge to properly create a language/DSL, perhaps making a monster in the process. A well trained computer scientist (academic, self taught, doesn&#x
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Thinking in a Language(maxhallinan.com)
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Thinking in a Language(maxhallinan.com)
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by maxhallinan 8y ago
You're right: there isn't much substance in my comment. I just meant to qualify the parent comment by saying that not everyone found this to be a "Best talk of 2018". A lot of good arguments for both sides were made in o
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by maxhallinan 8y ago
I thought this was one of the notably bad talks this year. The whole premise that a function of Maybe a should be a function of a without an API change is neither intuitive to me nor really justified by Hickey. Different things are differen
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by maxhallinan 8y ago
Brainfuck certainly is small. I think it might also be an example of what I had in mind. Brainfuck could be a little language for the idea of a Turing machine. Perhaps by writing Brainfuck programs, one better understands the mechanics of t
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by maxhallinan 8y ago
Thanks for mentioning Racket. I'm aware of the language but didn't know it know it was designed specifically for "language-oriented programming".
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by maxhallinan 8y ago
You're right, these languages have a slightly different aim but it's exactly the same motivation.

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