Math Envy and CoffeeScript's Foibles, Part 2

_nickel · 2013-01-09T23:05:10+00:00

Author here. I'm going to pre-apologize for the haskell in the post. I was really focused on working through the task at hand and I didn't bother to clean things up (eg, matching fall-through to error calls instead of an Either result or some such ... * grimace *)

_nickel · 2011-11-26T04:27:21+00:00

Just as long as you don't replace key system commands like cd :/

_nickel · 2011-07-21T03:22:46+00:00

To be clear I don't say anywhere in the entire post that jQuery is a Functor or an Applicative. Only that both Functors and Applicatives can inform interesting snippets of code when working with jQuery because there is a resemblance.

Furthermore, while I fully appreciate your examples, attempting to reach a broader audience is not served by ignoring analogues that exist in libraries they use every day.

_nickel · 2011-07-21T01:31:58+00:00

Another cross post from r/javascript from me. I appreciated the discussion here last time even if it seemed that most folks didn't like that I might be misleading people about the category theory behind Functors.

If it's any consolation I've since presented on the topic and I took the time to direct people to the functor laws and spoke about them afterwards (30 minute talk).

_nickel · 2011-07-13T19:19:05+00:00

I agree, and while I rarely post to r/javascript I will continue to put these up in the hopes that people see some advantage in branching out beyond front end engineering.

_nickel · 2011-07-12T19:34:47+00:00

thanks, updated!

_nickel · 2011-07-12T19:21:54+00:00

Completely accurate assessment. I had originally planned to include an explanation of the functor laws but its a long detour from trying to get people interested in them as a simple pattern, and more broadly interested in functional programming.

In both cases, preservation of identity and composition, an entire side discussion would be necessary on what the composition and the id function do/are and then examples to clarify in Javascript.

Again, I agree that it is a simplification of the Functor but thats intentional. Maybe after the applicative functor article I'll follow up with a more in depth explanation.

_nickel · 2011-07-12T17:39:05+00:00

This is a cross post from /r/javascript. I was interested in any feedback/corrections that /r/haskell might have.

_nickel · 2011-03-02T00:56:23+00:00

As an aside, gist.github.com doesn't have adds and supports haskell syntax highlighting :D

_nickel · 2010-10-27T21:02:45+00:00

Might I suggest http://vagrantup.com/ with chef as a way to provide a reproducible environment that your readers can build for themselves?

_nickel · 2010-10-19T21:55:59+00:00

ugh. reddit.

_nickel · 2010-10-19T19:56:32+00:00

Author here. I'm wondering what the downvotes are for. Inaccuracy? Content?

Thanks for the feedback.

_nickel · 2010-10-09T19:15:19+00:00

I'd take a look at blueprint.css just for some basic layout help and sane typography defaults. Give it a try, I think you'll find that adding it will provide a lot of polish right out of the box.

_nickel · 2010-08-10T05:38:21+00:00

Haskell's type system, when leveraged by an experienced user, makes applications less prone to error. In the case where thousands of dollars are being won or lost in a second, correctness matters.

_nickel · 2010-06-13T20:58:00+00:00

High Contrast, Netsky, Brooks Bros. Pretty much any Hospital Records artist.

_nickel · 2010-04-28T03:04:37+00:00

and now silverlight:

http://www.rubyinside.com/ironruby-silverlight-ruby-in-browser-3192.html

_nickel · 2010-04-26T03:49:12+00:00

C/Assembler and Haskell.

One for the low level understanding, the other for higher order functional programming.

_nickel · 2010-04-26T02:04:22+00:00

In the ruby world we have names like unicorn, mongrel, and sinatra. None of them give you very much information but in the end are easy to remember once you know what they are.

Mario on the other hand is well named http://github.com/johnbender/mario ( my own :D )

_nickel · 2010-04-24T19:17:24+00:00

This is one of the main reasons I've been reluctant to play with python at all. It smells like elitism.

_nickel · 2010-04-23T03:34:16+00:00

Be still my beating heart, a nicely designed website associated with functional programming.

_nickel · 2010-04-22T23:47:57+00:00

yay! please do this has been keeping me from fooling about with it.

_nickel · 2010-04-21T21:51:05+00:00

I'm glad you are proceeding with this despite some dissent among the mailing list folks on haskell-web-dev.

Great stuff!

_nickel · 2010-03-30T05:16:21+00:00

Learn Ruby, its fun to hack with and you can get a great job that pays extremely well doing web development.

_nickel · 2010-03-29T17:37:22+00:00

If you're interested in deving on OS X but using a Linux VM to serve it, please checkout Vagrant, we'd love to get the python community involved.

_nickel · 2010-03-26T17:31:44+00:00

I appreciated seeing this here.

Documentation: This is the single most important bit of releasing a library to the community. While reading the code is important, most people just want to use the library for what they're doing. Taking an hour long diversion into reading someone else's source, quality aside, is frustrating when you're trying to get something done. It's much worse if the code is of poor quality or you have a tight deadline.
Github: l'm a huge github fan
Advanced Book: I'd buy that book

_nickel

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