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Good on you for exercising, but this is really sad. We don’t live on Mars. I hope your city / district can find a way to create pleasant outdoor spaces.

If the podiatrist in the article is to be believed, humanity never would have made it out of the Stone Age.

Born To Run is an adventure/travel book. I don’t know why people read it as pop sci.

A Boy and His Dog is another one.

You can de-color an async function by blocking.

Did you set out to find a vulnerability or just stumble on it? If setting out to find a vulnerability, how do you get started? What is the “open ide, write print(“hello world”)” fo…

Colored functions is only a problem in JS

What’s the deal with templates? I make new projects infrequently. Templates save me little time. I spend far more time struggling to fix broken code, fitting existing code to new r…

I’d call those books competent. They didn’t advance the art form but the prose supported a fun story and was never distracting.

> Immutability by default is not a requirement for functional programming (I mean... if it were, Haskell would be obviously not FP since the 'default' entrypoint is very mutable). …

Part of the appeal of an iGizmo is not sending so much data to Google. I really doubt this is happening, and if it is, Apple will be hosting the models.

This loads faster than native apps serving local content on my device.

Very few classes model a real world entity in my experience. Maybe that was the plan but it’s just not the reality of OOP in the industry.

I’m arguing it’s not FP when you take an OOP language and bolt on lambdas. Lambdas are necessary but not sufficient. You need expression orientation, immutability by default, persi…

If something works in a distro, it automatically works in a Dockerfile based on that distro. There is no extra packaging effort required.

What the post misses is that lots of packages are not available on Nix, but everything is available on Docker automatically. If what you need is available, however, then it can be …

OOP is about bundling state and behaviour into units that hide their internal mechanisms by some kind of interface. Records can have no state - compared to regular classes - so the…

> Functional programming means functions are first class citizens and can be constructed on the fly. FP is much more than this one language feature.

C# LINQ, being a round-about implementation of do-notation, is a pretty advanced FP feature, and beyond most mainstream languages. C# is certainly a step up over Java etc. However,…

https://github.com/codemix/ts-sql

Typescript has far more powerful type constructs than Java.

TS has a powerful type system that behaves in strange and counter intuitive ways, particular for people coming from JS. It doesn’t even have a spec, really. I would prefer somethin…

What mainstream languages have a good suite of FP features though? If you try to write mostly pure code in Java I’m afraid you’re in for a bad time, despite the (big!) improvements…

Loops and conditionals are a totally alien concept to non programmers. I really don’t think the syntax is the issue.

Never understood why Python is considered easier to learn than JavaScript to be honest.