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Lab Rat Code | Sliding up the banister

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Sliding up the banister. Sneaking up on functional programming. My older son has gone back to school to study IT, and we occasionally discuss his courses or internship (though not his homework). As a graphic artist, musician, gamer, and box-builder, he is an experienced user, but thinking as a programmer is new to him. Therefore I find his perspective on programming an interesting counterpoint to my own:. Our backgrounds (artistic versus mathematical) provided different sets of expectations and metaphors.

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All ya gotta do… | Sliding up the banister

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Sliding up the banister. Sneaking up on functional programming. All ya gotta do…. My older son (also a programmer) called my attention to a bit of JavaScript trivia that illustrates nicely the consequences of subtle interactions among independent, well-intentioned decisions (console transcripts courtesy of node.js. Everyone agrees that programming languages should give the programmer more control, convenience, and flexibility, right? So all of the following sound like good ideas, don’t they? 1 / 0) 4) * ...

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Protect Innocence against Persecuting Assault | Sliding up the banister

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Sliding up the banister. Sneaking up on functional programming. Protect Innocence against Persecuting Assault. Convenience stores sometimes get robbed. That’s wrong. But suppose lobbyists for the convenience store industry got congress to pass legislation that would authorize the stores to:. Keep assault weapons under the counters;. Use them at will under a “shoot first, ask questions later” policy; and. That is the equivalent of what the backers of SOPA / PIPA are attempting to do. Lab Rat Code ». Sad t...

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Technical deficit spending | Sliding up the banister

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Sliding up the banister. Sneaking up on functional programming. Hungry and in a hurry, I dropped into the diner and ordered eggs and toast. The server returned shortly with an electric skillet, a toaster, two whole eggs, and two slices of bread. As I cracked the eggs into the skillet, the server came back along the counter with a bag of coffee beans and a grinder, asking, “Want coffee with that? The concept of technical. Harder for the ones who will bear those costs to see the debt growing. 8221; to refe...

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Review of Best iPad Apps: The Guide for Discriminating Downloaders by Peter Meyers | Sliding up the banister

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Sliding up the banister. Sneaking up on functional programming. Review of Best iPad Apps: The Guide for Discriminating Downloaders. 8220;Horseless carriage.” Hold that thought. I got my iPad as a tool to accomplish things with more mobility and efficiency, not to spend time wandering virtual supermarket aisles looking for the shiniest variation on a theme. Given that, I was immediately attracted by this title. From O’Reilly. Both the author. Have the right credentials and reputation to address my need.

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fnpl | Putting the Vowels back in Fnctnl Prgrmmng Lngugs | Page 2

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Putting the Vowels back in Fnctnl Prgrmmng Lngugs. April 9, 2008. Is a lazy list that only produces values as needed. Inspired by the primes example. In the documentation, here’s a quick cut at producing the Hamming numbers. The Hamming numbers are the values ( 2. The “obvious” recursive definition is:. H = {1} ∪ {2 × h h ∈ H} ∪ {3 × h h ∈ H} ∪ {5 × h h ∈ H}. As Johnny Carson used to say, “That raises the question…”. Here’s a function to merge three ordered streams:. With those definitions in hand….

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Stop Oligopolies and Paranoia, America | Sliding up the banister

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Sliding up the banister. Sneaking up on functional programming. Stop Oligopolies and Paranoia, America. There was a time when saying, “. This is a nation governed by law. 8220;, brought honor and pride. That statement was associated with many others, such as, “. All persons are equal before the law. Legislative corruption threatens to replace the bright vision of rule by law with the dark specter of power for sale to the highest bidder. Uncontrolled lobbying and so-called “campaign contribution...I do no...

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Why Data Structures Matter | Sliding up the banister

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Sliding up the banister. Sneaking up on functional programming. Why Data Structures Matter. Our experience on Day 0 of JPR11. Yielded a nice example of the need to choose an appropriate implementation of an abstract concept. As I mentioned in the previous post, we experimented with Michael Barker’s Scala implementation. Of Guy Steele’s parallelizable word-splitting algorithm. Slides 51-67). Here’s the core of the issue. 1 2) 3) 4) 5) 6) 7) 8. 1 (2 (3 (4 (5 (6 (7 8) ) ). 1 2) (3 4) ( 5 6) (7 8). Comparing...

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JPR 2011 Day 0 | Sliding up the banister

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Sliding up the banister. Sneaking up on functional programming. JPR 2011 Day 0. Despite the winter storm and avalanche warnings in the Crested Butte area, the flight into Gunnison went off without a hitch. The last few miles of descent were as bumpy as an old dirt road, but the sky was mostly clear, as were the roads leaving the airport. A few miles uphill, the story was a bit different, but our Alpine Express. Driver got us to our door smoothly and safely. We talked about Guy Steele’s. The end-of-day se...