schwurb

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by schwurb 4y ago
That "Show your steps"-tipp is great, will try it out! Any other tipps for getting more correct (I know that LLMs are essentially autocomplete) output? Additionally: I wonder whether instructions like "think carefully" o
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by schwurb 4y ago
I find CT highly fascinating, worked through parts of 7 Sketches in Composability and have a functional programming background. I see the appeal, but I came to the conclusion that my time is better spent observing, learning about and design
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by schwurb 4y ago
Thank you! I knew about psychological safety, but the other points are new to me, will check them out.
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Ask HN: Tipps for establishing feedback culture (task allocation and growth)
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by schwurb 4y ago
Perfect timing! Last week I struggled to write documentation that would leave me satisfied - this framework explains why: I tried to write a reference, how-to and explanation at the same time. And it also offers the solution: Split it into
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by schwurb 4y ago
What you are describing is a Functor, one the two other important Haskell "design-patterns" (Functor - Applicative - Monad). "Mappable" is a good name insofar as it is more familiar to new folks. However, I like the math
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by schwurb 4y ago
I am gonna be heavily opinionated, take my words with a bit of salt ;) Here it goes: 1. One understood monads when one is able to write a monadic interface that behaves like any intermediate haskell would expect it to behave. This is not a
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by schwurb 4y ago
I offer a simple explanation elsewhere in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31652379
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by schwurb 4y ago
For 99% of people, monads are best understood by a) using and writing many monadic interfaces and b) forgetting about the whole mathematical background. What a monad offers is: "1: Do A. After A is done, you can inspect the result of A
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by schwurb 5y ago
What you are doing is prototyping. Which is a good thing. However, writing stuff down is also another form of prototyping, which different tradeoffs. With coding, you are confined to formal syntax and semantics, but if the code (even partia
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by schwurb 5y ago
> After reading one Python book you can write solid programs in Python. Okay, so our goal is to write a solid program. Let's see... > Not so in Haskell, you would need to understand also the extensions of the language which are p
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by schwurb 5y ago
Adressing the whitespread conception "It is hard to programm in Haskell because it is pure": If you can write python, you can write Haskell. Don't believe me? 1. Write your program completely in the IO Monad, in a huge do-blo
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by schwurb 5y ago
Great article! Love the story approach.
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by schwurb 5y ago
Can you exclude that this is a mental health issue? Something like ADHD, autism, sensory overstimulation might lower your productivity in subtle ways. This is also true for some kinds of bodily malfunction.
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by schwurb 5y ago
I came up with this trick (reviewing other PRs, after thinking how I would to it) to speed up learning technology at my working place where we don't have enough man power to do mentoring.
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by schwurb 5y ago
> I'm sure there's a lesson there somewhere. There sure is: Having one goal and being able to allocate all/most resources towards that goal. The problem is that this is not sustainable. Times of crisis usually ends and the
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by schwurb 7y ago
So does buying more lottery tickets. Surely, the odds at being lucky are better than in playing lottery. However, they are much less predictable than people assume. We tend to systematically overestimate our own influence and underestimate
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by schwurb 7y ago
Starcraft saved my A-levels, when I realized that school can be considered a game with points and stuff... Turns out that lecture participation had a great ROI! Now, if my future product will have any success, then part of it will be due to
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by schwurb 7y ago
You could characterize Racket as THE lisp when it comes to well-behaved and well-researched metaprograming.
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by schwurb 7y ago
> #define while if // saves cpu cycles lol, thanks for the laugh!
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by schwurb 7y ago
I feel that the christian God fits this bill especially well, when you look at him a bit more abstractly: He is able to give purpose (does care and is something absolute rather than mending to what one particular human beliefs), is interest
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by schwurb 7y ago
I concluded this early in my life, which makes me a minority amongst beliefers. I believe in God and that creatìon shows occasional traces of his genious, but I don't think they are unambigous enough to warrant the christian god as a n
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by schwurb 7y ago
If there was no foul play - good. Who cares about breaking a stupid record? That kid won't be able to break records all his life, so good on him dealing with a "failed" milestone now. We have way too many prodigies milked for
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by schwurb 7y ago
Improvement treadmill can be seen as a subtle form of procrastination.
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by schwurb 7y ago
No need to give up on your favorite text editor: Spacemacs offers all the amazing IDE capabilities (Vimscript is simply a bad language compared to elisp) while still being one of the best VI-emulators around.
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by schwurb 7y ago
I use it and love every bit. I also does not feel sluggish to me, despite being normaly sensitive to anything in the way of fast development cycles.
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by schwurb 7y ago
Add Flutter to the bunch - having a fast interpreter is especially pleasing when the result is an instant visual change the app running on an emulated android phone.
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by schwurb 7y ago
> But when it is addressed directly, the focus turns to the victim and trying to identify what is wrong with them, not with the group. This is because it is the only effective way to change anything. The victim has to recognize their sit
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by schwurb 7y ago
Sure thing! In all honesty, that was something that I heart from my mother. (She works in psychology, but she is not an academic. So I should probably retract the "well" in "well-researched") But a quick research turned
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by schwurb 7y ago
Hey there! I am sorry for what you have been through so far. Since I am to go soon, I will keep it short: 1) I heavily suggest going into counceling. The change of behaviour and self concept needed might be too much to manage on your own. 2

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