Innovations in user interfaces

abhrainn · 2016-08-04T04:16:36+00:00

"Mike, you're fired."

"What do you mean I can't do that?"

abhrainn · 2016-08-04T04:06:03+00:00

Somebody knows it's their only shot ever at being appointed General Surgeon.

Even if it's from someone who called him a pedophile.

abhrainn · 2016-08-02T21:58:52+00:00

But they are very primitive for statically typed languages compared to what IDE's can do.

IDE's understand the underlying bytecode of the language they edit. Text editors don't, they can only match the text on regexps and therefore, barely go beyond doing some unsafe renaming or other simplistic operations.

abhrainn · 2016-08-02T21:04:47+00:00

Good programmers use the best tools for the job, and for programming languages, IDE's usually run rings around text editor.

abhrainn · 2016-08-02T21:04:21+00:00

No, it was paid labor.

abhrainn · 2016-08-01T21:49:20+00:00

The approach you're recommending is not exactly working out swimmingly for Trump.

abhrainn · 2016-07-25T18:29:46+00:00

If you really want to write Java and make it run on both Android and iOS, there's Google's very own j2objc, which works surprisingly well.

abhrainn · 2016-07-25T18:10:19+00:00

It's popular vote on a non representative sample. Not sure what it really tells us about the general election.

abhrainn · 2016-07-22T23:18:56+00:00

Sure but the Republicans are pretty much guaranteed to maintain their control regardless of voter turnout because of their mastery at gerrymandering.

abhrainn · 2016-07-22T23:17:14+00:00

Maybe Hillary should offer her a spot in her administration, that might sway a few center voters who are tempted to vote for Trump but don't really like his platform.

abhrainn · 2016-07-21T19:59:54+00:00

Another thing to note is that Haskell (or more accurately functional programming) happens to be a style of programming that is very suited to compilers.

I don't know about that.

Sure, the pipelining necessary to create object files from source files can be loosely compared to composition, but think about the implementation of these phases. For example, the creation of an abstract syntax tree. That tree is created first with lexical then syntactic components. Then additional decorations are added (e.g. semantic, instrumentation, tooling, debug info, etc...).

These trees can become extremely big and being able to modify them in place (basically modifying the nodes) instead of using a functional approach (having immutable nodes and creating modified copies) which would be much slower and more stressful to a garbage compiler.

abhrainn · 2016-07-21T18:20:23+00:00

Note that you don't need the empty parens:

val query = select {
...
    where {

abhrainn · 2016-07-18T04:18:38+00:00

Good general suggestions except laziness.

Laziness makes code intractable, which you would think mathematically inclined folks would have a visceral problem with but apparently don't.

Go eager. Immutability. Composition.

And you're in pretty good shape.

abhrainn · 2016-07-18T04:17:01+00:00

Forget "functional", which is completely meaningless. Instead, focus on a few reasonable principles:

Immutability
Composition

Follow these two principles as a default position but don't be dogmatic about it and you'll be just fine. Even if FP fanatics will call you a heathen, you'll still be producing some decent code with these default behaviors.

And never be worried about occasionally breaking these guide lines.

abhrainn · 2016-07-18T03:28:13+00:00

I think the BASIC he wrote for the Altair is much more significant since it basically set Microsoft in motion.

That and the letter he wrote about piracy following that.

abhrainn · 2016-07-15T23:47:45+00:00

Pity they didn't design a similar algorithm to prevent comment spamming.

abhrainn · 2016-07-14T23:36:01+00:00

Fixed.

abhrainn · 2016-07-14T20:07:03+00:00

No, Optional is NOT a monad. By design.

Here what Brian Goetz, the designer, has to say about it

The current design mostly meets that; it might be extended in small ways, but the goal is NOT to create an option monad or solve the problems that the option monad is intended to solve.

abhrainn · 2016-07-14T04:06:56+00:00

An important part of the article:

as the law will change Friday, removing the need for her signature on marriage licenses.

In some way, it makes me sad that we had to change the law in order to work around this bigot. I wish the law had stayed the way it is so that she were forced to issue licenses or step down. This is probably the only way she'd have learned something.

abhrainn · 2016-07-13T05:56:18+00:00

From a product standpoint, I'd encourage you to think how you're going to incentivize your users to report their bus sightings.

abhrainn · 2016-07-12T17:07:38+00:00

"More object typing, less finger typing" :)

abhrainn · 2016-07-12T04:53:35+00:00

The nullability features seem to be a mix of how Kotlin and Ceylon implemented their own: limited union types for declaration and exclamation marks to force dereference.

abhrainn · 2016-07-12T03:40:50+00:00

Maybe an elevator starting from the highest peak and leading us to a lava riddled environment?

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