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If you want to know: A monoid is just a collection of things that can be associatively "added". Think addition with integers, or append with lists. Members of the dreaded monad can…

>A good example would be a program that runs fine suddenly now needs a "timeout" on an operation. FP implementations now need to thread the notion of time from somewhere near the t…

>I would love to know that there is a panacea that automatically improves productivity. Unfortunately, I haven't seen one in my career, as yet. I suspect you've seen many of them. …

>Haskell is cool, but trying to explain to someone the difference between `.`, `$`, ` `, `|>`, ` `, `>>=` and more is quite painful. For those who aren't familiar, I'll explain: Fi…

>using your employer’s time to experiment with difficult new concepts and languages when you have a deadline approaching (or long since past) is not cool. Boss makes a dollar, I ma…

10 days, IIRC

Addiction is often a response to life circumstance. Everyone points to the famous experiment in which rats were given access to a button they could push to release happy drugs in t…

I'd love to see that hold up in court.

LOCATION: San Francisco, CA REMOTE: No WILLING TO RELOCATE: Yes (US and Canada only, with preference for the west coast) TECHNOLOGIES: Strong in JavaScript, Git, AngularJS, Node.js…