MattJOlson

This is a litte muse on "continuous refactoring" a la Martin Fowler,
 what I've seen as typical OO in an enterprise setting, and the yawning
 gulf between them.

So there are a lot of appealing refactoring patterns like "first make
 the change easy, then make the easy change" and so on. These often
 seem to be out of reach for developers in the field, even those who
 are aware of these Best Practices and want to implement them, mostly
 because "make the change easy" seems like a daunting amount of work.
 Then you get into the typical antipatterns of "asking your manager if

MattJOlson

LOTRO early game

1. pick a race and class
really this shouldn't matter too much, play what you like. for noobs,
 Hunter is your classic DPS monster, Champion is DPSy and survivable
 too, and Guardian is DPSy enough to landscape bash and has more
 interesting mechanics

what race you pick determines your tutorial environment, assuming the
 default four Ered Luin is much more interesting than Archet Dale IMO.

MattJOlson

pantry staples:
- yellow onions
- garlic
- brown rice
- red kidney beans
- canned sardines
- olive oil
- white wine vinegar

fridge staples (veg):

MattJOlson

https://writings.quilt.org/2014/05/12/distributed-systems-and-the-end-of-the-api/

Distributed systems

"A distributed system is one where a machine I've never heard of can cause my program to fail" - Leslie Lamport

Cute, but "my program" is kind of quaint now, isn't it?

"...multiple processes that must communicate to perform work" - hmm, hmm, let me tell you about disk controllers. Oh wait, that's your point... almost, "an air-gapped computer" is considered nondistributed, but well whatever.

MattJOlson

References

• Kenji: https://www.seriouseats.com/2017/05/how-to-make-red-beans-and-rice.html
• Chef John: https://foodwishes.blogspot.ca/2015/02/mardi-gras-special-red-beans-and-rice.html
• Herbsaint/Donald Link (Off the Menu p. 148)

First attempt

Prep list

• 1 sweet onion, fine dice (just under 2c)
• 4 ribs celery, fine dice (about 1.5c)
• 2 poblanos, fine dice (just over 1.5c)

MattJOlson

Okay, let's look at one of the Haskellbook end-of-chapter exercises from chapter 10.

myAny :: (a -> Bool) -> [a] -> Bool
myAny f xs = foldr (||) False $ map f xs
myAny f = foldr (||) False . map f
myAny = (foldr (||) False .) . map

First one's pretty obvious, right? But we want to go pointfree. (.)