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At that point you're left with two benefits: 1) Organizing your codebase so that it is easy to find which functions operate on which data 2) Controlling access to those methods on …

So you're filtering specifically for timeslots where the end date is null and therefore guaranteeing that you return a timeslot dated to now?

FP has also benefited from a hype cycle, and FP does improve code in a lot of ways. Making your data immutable makes it easier to reason about, and pure functions prevent surprises…

Sometimes it sounds like bay area programmers think how expensive their area is, is how it is for programmers elsewhere. I also get paid around the same range in NYC, but my mortga…

"Turn around time to get a server spun up was ~6-8 weeks." -> ok this one threw me for a loop. I can literally get an EC2 server spun up within minutes inside Amazon. But as others…

I think this is absolutely it. A lot of best practices go down the drain when the compiler compiles the bytecode. As such a lot of best practices are about people, not the computer…

It seems reductionist to say Amazon primarily wraps around open source. What about EC2? S3? Glue? DynamoDB? Many of the services that provide the most value are services Amazon has…

Regardless of whether or not gravitons actually exist, it is feasible that the US government will want to signal to adversaries that they do have this technology. After all, a dete…

Old Testament version of Christianity? You mean Judaism?

Types are just labels that a parse has already been done and doesn't need to be done again. Use them when you don't need to parse again, don't when you do want to parse again.

Eh I can see where you are coming from, but I don't necessarily agree with that. At least here in the US, corporations never accepted to unions as legitimate. It always took giant …

The drip is definitely correlation until proven to be causation. So it is possible the drop was a function of a common underlying cause. The reason no other explanation makes sense…

Graph created by the Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/resizer/7IbsRIhRFbTYRuEjla6ki... You can see union membership was on the decline since the 1950s, but it accele…

For sure

A fairly simple explanation that for some reason I don't see a lot of is the drop in union membership density around this time period. Such a drop would decrease bargaining power a…

Totally agree, that’s a good point.

That example seems a bit odd as a design. You’re throwing an exception to represent a no result, but suppressing it to convert the exception to a none. Monads give you the convenie…

What if you need to access 5 resources in a row, any of which can throw exceptions? A monad centralizes the repeated logic in its flatMap function.

A monad really is just a wrapper around a value, with flatMap and return. For some kinds of monads, like maybe, that’s all you need. But, some other kinds of monads need more logic…

I really like how this article builds up from a simple real life use case. Shameless plug for my own article that did something similar about a week ago: https://medium.com/@ameltz…

Thank you for being fair-minded on city vs suburban living. Too bad the top post is the usual city-hate.

I've dealt with whole teams of these kinds of people. They also get extremely defensive about anything they don't know. Even worse, this was particularly the case around proper tes…

That's not quite right, and the author is reaching for a valid definition, but it also not quite getting it right (entropy is hard). Entropy is defined as: "It quantifies the numbe…

Another possibility is that the galaxy (and universe) is full of life, but the speed of light makes it impossible for life across the galaxy to interact.