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Senkwich

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About Senkwich

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Software Engineer in Austin, TX

http://senkbeil.org

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    For work, I have a Mac with chunkwm as the tiling manager to give it nearly an i3 feel. It's surprising how far tiling has come on that platform. Linux I'm using XMonad, although I…

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    Comment #8487603

    Using this while developing my website. It works pretty well, although seems to have issues on various browsers (like Safari) where there is no scrolling. The main issue I had was …

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    Comment #7877956

    Those were my fears with sticking with something like Scala. I just know I would fall back on imperative programming rather than being forced to understand functional programming. …

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    Thanks for the comment! I wish this site let initial posts be more than 2000 characters so I could have gone into more detail. The main reason I am hesitant to work with Scala/SBT …

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    Comment #7877720

    Thanks for the links. Even if I'm a vim guy, I know it isn't realistic to expect everything to work with it. I'll check out the links later today. Also, is there a reason you jumpe…

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    Due to the 2000 character limit, I had to trim the above. Here's the excess for those interested. -- My experience with functional languages is very limited. My university required…

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    How do I approach functional languages?

    tl;dr how do I approach learning a functional language for real-world development where I can get my hands dirty quickly without much setup and can work without a heavy IDE to faci…

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    Comment #7073379

    Donated. Hope it helps.