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The next sentence in the quote hasn't aged so well - "What weather they shall have is not ours to rule."

Most importantly, this means my type system N-queens solution now works for an 8x8 chessboard (actually up to 10x10) instead of complaining about recursion depth:

https://www.richard-towers.com/2023/03/11/typescripting-the-...

Doesn't seem to be any discernable improvement on the Zoom Cat Lawyer.

You can also play around with the code in the TypeScript playground:

https://www.typescriptlang.org/play?#code/PTAEEkDsAsEMBsCmAa...

Ah, thank you so much! Great spot.

I've corrected this, and credited you in the errata - https://www.richard-towers.com/2023/03/11/typescripting-the-...

I don't think there's any way to do iteration in the type system (other than recursion), so there's no way around it.

I considered forking the compiler to set a deeper limit, but at some point Typescript itself is going to stack overflow. Also that probably goes a bit beyond what Criss is expecting in an interview...

I wondered if anyone would spot this :)

There's a recursion depth limit of 500 on the TypeScript compiler, which prevents this solution working for N > 7

Even Aphyr's original Haskell solution only demonstrates N = 6, so in some sense this is an improvement on the state of the art for type-level N Queens solutions /s

The series is actually by Aphyr: https://aphyr.com/tags/interviews

This post is a pastiche of https://aphyr.com/posts/342-typing-the-technical-interview

The runes are mostly "just because", but there is a reason.

Ideally, I would have written:

  type Nil = unique symbol

Which would ensure the Nil type wouldn't match with anything but itself. Unfortunately, the compiler doesn't allow unique symbol other than on const variables initialised with Symbol(). So I needed some meaningless symbols.

I could also have done

  type Nil = "nil"

But then it would have looked like the string meant something.

If you've got any experience or interest in programming, I'd recommend having a stab at Google Summer of Code[0].

[0] - https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/

One of my new years resolutions was to learn to type faster. To get some practice I started taking notes in all the meetings I attend. This wasn't common practice in my team before, but I've found it to be really useful. I've lost track of the number of times someone's said "didn't we talk about this in that meeting a couple of weeks back" and I've been able to point them at my notes.

I've found a really simple way of authoring and sharing notes is to write them in Org mode and then push them to a wiki on github. Github understands how to render Org markup nicely, so you get a nicely formatted wiki pretty much for free.

As an added benefit I can now touch type :)

If you have control of your nameservers you can use cloudflare's free TLS offering and keep your current webhost.

Surround support was just added in IdeaVim 0.46. From the release notes:

Support for vim-surround commands ys, cs, ds, S, enable it with set surround in your ~/.ideavimrc

Looks like it's just an optimization. If you change to

  let test_curry x  y =  x + y + x

You get the expected output

  function f(param) {
    return test_curry(32, param);
  }

You could call your js function with a string, and rather than a compile time error you'd get broken behaviour at runtime.

At least in new versions of Chrome, NodeList is iterable, so you can use forEach and map on it.

https://medium.com/@devlucky/nodelist-object-is-finally-an-i...

Some nice intuitive stuff in the help, too.

  :help paragraph

  [...] The default is "IPLPPPQPP TPHPLIPpLpItpplpipbp" [...]

(they're nroff macros, but pretty baffling to a beginner)

Perhaps Tōkaidō Shinkansen would be a better example? 331 trains / day, 391 thousand passengers / day according to: http://english.jr-central.co.jp/company/ir/annualreport/_pdf... (pdf)

Yup, see @pauljz's comment above - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10375297

Regarding [7] and [8], Snowden has explicitly denied that he is the source for the GCHQ Oman leak - http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/23/uk-gove....

Agreed, both of those are better. Hopefully one will gain traction.

Thanks for the link, good to know people are thinking about the naming issues.

Is this just criticism of the "isomorphic" term?

I'm not a fan of it either ("isomorphic" already has a different well-defined meaning in CS), but it does seem to have some traction now.

Perhaps you have an alternative term you'd prefer these frameworks used?

Yes:

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Nitpick: strictly speaking setting cookies is not part of ECMAScript, it's part of the DOM api.

The phrase "it makes for really boring dinner conversation" does though.

As @Joeboy points out, the title is a play on "The loneliness of the long distance runner", so it's not literally about loneliness.

Did you see the "Secure Beneath the Watchful Eyes" adverts? Pretty scary:

http://imgur.com/oR4iFYs

I've just been looking for JavaScript work in the UK. Certainly the majority (maybe not 90%, but definitely > 50%) of jobs mention Angular. It's difficult to tell how many of these are just "put something cool on the advert to attract the hipsters" and how many are actual "we use or will use angular heavily in production" though.

Interestingly it looks like the "sways" do a lot of their layout calculations on the server. Resizing the window triggers a call back that returns what looks like a bunch of styling information (this div goes here, with this Z index, etc.) which would ordinarily be left to the browser.

Perhaps this allows them achieve more than they could with the browser's layout engine? Certainly an interesting approach.

(edit: wording)