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mlitchardon Dynamic Languages Are Static Languages (2011)

I shall stick with fay https://github.com/faylang/fay/wiki and the like.

mlitchardon Design Patterns in Haskell

I found this useful when trying to communicate with OOP programmers.

mlitchardon Dynamic Languages Are Static Languages (2011)

10,000 lines of bubblegum and chicken wire is not fun. At all.

mlitchardon Dynamic Languages Are Static Languages (2011)

"It is much easier to quickly prototype or experiment in a dynamic language."

I disagree. I can say what I mean with types, and if I didn't mean what I said, refactoring is a breeze.

"You don't have to stop and figure out your types for every function and then go back and change them every time you figure out there is a better way to represent the data."

You don't have to do this in languages like Haskell either. Type inference will help you most of the time when figuring out a function's type, and you don't have to use the type system as it was intended at first. You can have a prototype with Strings and Lists, the compiler won't be able to help you much though.

mlitchardon Gigster (YC S15) Does The Dev Work To Turn Your Idea Into An App

Twist ending - Selling mailing lists is the actual business.

mlitchardon Gigster (YC S15) Does The Dev Work To Turn Your Idea Into An App

Exactly. Given the choice between inventing the future and writing the next myface-for-hamsters, which would you do?

mlitchardon Gigster (YC S15) Does The Dev Work To Turn Your Idea Into An App

Clown car + yakkity sax

mlitchardon Monads in JavaScript

Food for thought David, thanks!

mlitchardon Monads in JavaScript

I feel like this rush to adopt functional language features in non-functional languages is like deciding to shoehorn a jet engine onto your hot-air balloon. Yes, it can be done but ... see PLT_HULK.

mlitchardon Stephen Hawking and Yuri Milner Announce $100M Initiative to Seek ET

Yeah there's a horrorshow idea to contemplate. Humanity is the Elder Race. Yikes!

mlitchardon I taught myself Python on the Internet and so can you

That's amazing. The Raspberry Pi Foundation is doing good work.

mlitchardon Mostly Adequate Guide to Functional Programming in JavaScript

I often wondered that too. Here's something you may find useful. I know I did. :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhuHCtR3xq8

mlitchardon Interview: Larry Wall

I'm a bear of very little brain, could you explain the recursive properties of this sentence? I don't see them.

mlitchardon Ask HN: Which functional programming language is the popular enterprise choice?

I guess you'd need to define what you mean by functional language. That term gets thrown around a lot, to the point of meaninglessness. If you mean referentially transparent then neither Scala nor F# are referentially transparent.

mlitchardon Ask HN: Does anyone else feel stupid reading Hacker News?

Sometimes, when I read the state-of-the-art cs articles, can't hardly understand anything.

But then there's the "lol startup ruby app lol javascript framework!" type articles that convinces me to stay in the deep end of the pool, even if it feels like drowning.

mlitchardon Understanding Mathematical Notation as Code

Mention? The title led me to believe that was the topic.

mlitchardon Math as code

Expressing numerical calculations as code,specifically. I was hoping for something to do with category theory.

mlitchardon What millenials would do with additional funds

Wow, talking about controlling the narrative. They forgot one possible answer "He loved Big Brother."

mlitchardon Ask HN: What were you doing when you were 20?

I was being married, writing poetry and discovering the bohemian life. Oh yeah also scholarship student at local college, involved with running the mac lab in the humanities department, and generally making a nuisance of myself.

mlitchardon Ask HN: Where does consciousness come from?

What is your basis for claiming consciousness is an illusion?

mlitchardon Ask HN: Where does consciousness come from?

1) How do you know animals don't have conscious awareness. What about Coco the gorilla? What about dolphins?

2) Humans are animals. Humans have conscious awareness. So, some animals have conscious awareness. Which ones?

mlitchardon Rust 1.1 Stable, the Community Subteam, and RustCamp

https://hackage.haskell.org/package/atom

Imagine atom, written in idris, and compiling to rust. Things like that.

mlitchardon Rust 1.1 Stable, the Community Subteam, and RustCamp

What I like about rust is how I think it will go together really well with a language like idris. The idea is, whatever rust cannot guarantee an idris-to-rust transpiler can. People should have a much easier time making solid low-level code in the future.

mlitchardon The Young T.S. Eliot: A rediscovery of an emerging poet

T.S. Eliot was my first window into the horror of modern warfare. From him, I learned about other poets and writers of his generation. If I did some analysis, I'd wager I'd find his influence on my own poetry. Wouldn't surprise me in the least.

mlitchardon Show HN: Servasm – Literate web server in x86 assembler

At first I was thinking "For the love of bog why?", but then I started reading, and couldn't stop reading.

mlitchardon Blow Up the Tax Code and Start Over

Yes, and if he even comes close to getting the nomination it will signal a huge change in American politics.

mlitchardon Developer Interviews Are Broken, and You Can't Fix It

I'm now imagining the Monsanto approach getting more and more constrained at each stage. Meaning, phone screen is subject to least scrutiny and one becomes more and more scrutinized as the interview proceeds. This doesn't sound bad at all. I may be biased, I like that company.

mlitchardon Lost Stories from Hunter S. Thompson's Stint as a Foreign Correspondent

Well, Nixon was pretty annoyed with him. But that makes him the exact opposite of a terrible person.

mlitchardon Frag: A Quake3 engine in Haskell

I love frag. Have you seen Nikki and The Robots? https://github.com/nikki-and-the-robots/nikki

mlitchardon Ask HN: Is it necessary to be a CS major be successful in the tech sector?

Eugene, I'm going to pass along advice that was given to me years ago. Do the hard thing.