lachezar

thomasfuchs, 3 months ago to random

Having programmed computers for almost 40 years now the best advice I have for programmers is: what you’re doing is primarily a social job, not a technical one.

lachezar, 5 months ago to programming

Great articles about Caliban from its creator:

#GraphQL in #Scala: Advanced Schema Generation

https://blog.pierre-ricadat.com/graphql-in-scala-advanced-schema-generation

lachezar, 5 months ago to haskell

TIL: Applicative was described in a paper just 15 years ago.

I've always thought that all the theory bits in FP were discovered much long ago, but I keep being surprised.

https://www.staff.city.ac.uk/~ross/papers/Applicative.html

#FunctionalPrograming #haskell #scala

lachezar, 6 months ago to Java

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I made the mistake to go on a interview for #Java role and here are some of my salty post-interview notes:

• It seems the interviewer was inclined to see some pre-historic Java.
• Sealed interfaces and records (any kind of ADTs) were deemed "too complicated" (by the interviewer).
• Data transformations with Stream seem to be "too complicated" (for the interviewer).
• Postgres has json and jsonb column type support for over a decade now, but this is still news for people :-/

RickiTarr, 6 months ago to random

What is a word that you had read, but after hearing it spoken aloud, you realized you were pronouncing completely wrong in your head?

Mine is pretty Embarrassing, and is just one of many!

MISLED! I'm not even sure how to type this out for it to make sense, but it was something like:

Myz-ulled

lachezar, 6 months ago to programming

I wish #Scala 3 opaque types had an easy way to derive the operations of the underlying type. Something like #Haskell deriving newtype with the ability to point out which operations you want.

lachezar, 7 months ago to Kotlin

I tried a bit of #Kotlin today. It is a good language and definitely a "better java", but it is not #Scala

Idk why does Kotlin need so many Scope functions, given that they do almost the same thing 🤔

https://kotlinlang.org/docs/scope-functions.html

lachezar, 7 months ago to programming

It turns out sometime last year the flag "-Wnonunit-statement" was added to #Scala 2.13.9 that is also available in Scala 3.

The flag enables a check that an expression's value is not ignored (it needs to be used).

No need of a linter (if a linter was ever capable to do that check at all)!

malwaretech, 8 months ago to random

I'm always shocked by how expensive basic European experiences are in the US. One of my favorite things is high street shops. You have a bunch of stores with apartments above them, so you can always live within walking distance of basically everything. In the US they separate things into commercial and residential districts so you have to drive everywhere.

Areas that allow mixing residential and commercial buildings are so rare that supply & demand sends costs through the roof. In Europe living in an apartment above stores is a budget option for people who can't afford homes, in the US you basically have to be wealthy and often those apartments cost as much as an entire house.