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That "Show your steps"-tipp is great, will try it out! Any other tipps for getting more correct (I know that LLMs are essentially autocomplete) output? Additionally: I wonder wheth…

I find CT highly fascinating, worked through parts of 7 Sketches in Composability and have a functional programming background. I see the appeal, but I came to the conclusion that …

Thank you! I knew about psychological safety, but the other points are new to me, will check them out.

I work in a small startup and really like working there. However, we are lacking when it comes to feedback. Who gets to work on what is often not a team decision and there is no pr…

Perfect timing! Last week I struggled to write documentation that would leave me satisfied - this framework explains why: I tried to write a reference, how-to and explanation at th…

What you are describing is a Functor, one the two other important Haskell "design-patterns" (Functor - Applicative - Monad). "Mappable" is a good name insofar as it is more familia…

I am gonna be heavily opinionated, take my words with a bit of salt ;) Here it goes: 1. One understood monads when one is able to write a monadic interface that behaves like any in…

I offer a simple explanation elsewhere in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31652379

For 99% of people, monads are best understood by a) using and writing many monadic interfaces and b) forgetting about the whole mathematical background. What a monad offers is: "1:…

What you are doing is prototyping. Which is a good thing. However, writing stuff down is also another form of prototyping, which different tradeoffs. With coding, you are confined …

> After reading one Python book you can write solid programs in Python. Okay, so our goal is to write a solid program. Let's see... > Not so in Haskell, you would need to understan…

Adressing the whitespread conception "It is hard to programm in Haskell because it is pure": If you can write python, you can write Haskell. Don't believe me? 1. Write your program…

Great article! Love the story approach.

Can you exclude that this is a mental health issue? Something like ADHD, autism, sensory overstimulation might lower your productivity in subtle ways. This is also true for some ki…

I came up with this trick (reviewing other PRs, after thinking how I would to it) to speed up learning technology at my working place where we don't have enough man power to do men…

> I'm sure there's a lesson there somewhere. There sure is: Having one goal and being able to allocate all/most resources towards that goal. The problem is that this is not sustain…

So does buying more lottery tickets. Surely, the odds at being lucky are better than in playing lottery. However, they are much less predictable than people assume. We tend to syst…

Starcraft saved my A-levels, when I realized that school can be considered a game with points and stuff... Turns out that lecture participation had a great ROI! Now, if my future p…

You could characterize Racket as THE lisp when it comes to well-behaved and well-researched metaprograming.

> #define while if // saves cpu cycles lol, thanks for the laugh!

I feel that the christian God fits this bill especially well, when you look at him a bit more abstractly: He is able to give purpose (does care and is something absolute rather tha…

I concluded this early in my life, which makes me a minority amongst beliefers. I believe in God and that creatìon shows occasional traces of his genious, but I don't think they ar…

If there was no foul play - good. Who cares about breaking a stupid record? That kid won't be able to break records all his life, so good on him dealing with a "failed" milestone n…

Improvement treadmill can be seen as a subtle form of procrastination.

No need to give up on your favorite text editor: Spacemacs offers all the amazing IDE capabilities (Vimscript is simply a bad language compared to elisp) while still being one of t…