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introduction

ScalaCheck 1.14.0 was just released with support for deterministic testing using seeds. Some folks have asked for examples, so I wanted to produce a Gist to help people use this feature.

simple example

These examples will assume the following imports:

earthgecko

#!/bin/bash
# bash generate random alphanumeric string
#

# bash generate random 32 character alphanumeric string (upper and lowercase) and 
NEW_UUID=$(cat /dev/urandom | tr -dc 'a-zA-Z0-9' | fold -w 32 | head -n 1)

# bash generate random 32 character alphanumeric string (lowercase only)
cat /dev/urandom | tr -dc 'a-z0-9' | fold -w 32 | head -n 1

djspiewak

Understanding Comparative Benchmarks

I'm going to do something that I don't normally do, which is to say I'm going to talk about comparative benchmarks. In general, I try to confine performance discussion to absolute metrics as much as possible, or comparisons to other well-defined neutral reference points. This is precisely why Cats Effect's readme mentions a comparison to a fixed thread pool, rather doing comparisons with other asynchronous runtimes like Akka or ZIO. Comparisons in general devolve very quickly into emotional marketing.

But, just once, today we're going to talk about the emotional marketing. In particular, we're going to look at Cats Effect 3 and ZIO 2. Now, for context, as of this writing ZIO 2 has released their first milestone; they have not released a final 2.0 version. This implies straight off the bat that we're comparing apples to oranges a bit, since Cats Effect 3 has been out and in production for months. However, there has been a post going around which cites various compar

djspiewak

Fibers

Fibers are an abstraction over sequential computation, similar to threads but at a higher level. There are two ways to think about this model: by example, and abstractly from first principles. We'll start with the example.

(credit here is very much due to Fabio Labella, who's incredible Scala World talk describes these ideas far better than I can)

Callback Sequentialization

Consider the following three functions

smarter

Generalized Algebraic Data Types in Scala

Basic GADTs

Here's an ADT which is not a GADT, in Haskell:

data Expr = IntExpr Int | BoolExpr Bool

OlivierBlanvillain

Revisiting Tagless Final Interpreters

Tageless Final interpreters are an alternative to the traditional Algebraic Data Type (and generalized ADT) based implementation of the interpreter pattern. This document presents the Tageless Final approach with Scala, and shows how Dotty with it's recently added implicits functions makes the approach even more appealing. All examples are direct translations of their Haskell version presented in the Typed Tagless Final Interpreters: Lecture Notes (section 2).

The interpreter pattern has recently received a lot of attention in the Scala community. A lot of efforts have been invested in trying to address the biggest shortcomings of ADT/GADT based solutions: extensibility. One can first look at cats' Inject typeclass for an implementation of [Data Type à la Carte](http://www.cs.ru.nl/~W.Swierstra/Publications/DataTypesA

nicktoumpelis

git checkout --orphan temp_master
git rm -rf .

git commit --allow-empty -m 'Make initial root commit'
git rebase --onto temp_master --root master
git branch -D temp_master

jdegoes

Applied Functional Programming with Scala - Notes

Copyright © 2016-2018 Fantasyland Institute of Learning. All rights reserved.

1. Mastering Functions

A function is a mapping from one set, called a domain, to another set, called the codomain. A function associates every element in the domain with exactly one element in the codomain. In Scala, both domain and codomain are types.

val square : Int => Int = x => x * x

Monroe88

## Override config for setting CRT resolutions per core or per game.
## Place this in $rgui_config_directory/[Core Name]/[Core Name].cfg or $rgui_config_directory/[Core Name]/[Content Filename].cfg to have it loaded automatically when override loading is enabled
## e.g $rgui_config_directory/MAME/mslug.cfg or $rgui_config_directory/Mednafen PSX/Mednafen PSX.cfg

# Fullscreen resolution. Resolution of 0 uses the resolution of the desktop.
# Note, you must create the modeline in your OS video driver settings for this to work.
video_fullscreen_x = 3840
video_fullscreen_y = 480

# Refresh rate of the resolution mode.

djspiewak

Collections Redesign Proposal

I'm going to start off by motivating what I'm doing here. And I want to be clear that I'm not "dissing" the existing collections implementation or anything as unproductively negative as that. It was a really good experiment, it was a huge step forward given what we knew back in 2.8, but now it's time to learn from that experiment and do better. This proposal uses what I believe are the lessons we can learn about what worked, what didn't work, and what is and isn't important about collections in Scala.

This is going to start out sounding really negative and pervasively dismissive, but bear with me! There's a point to all my ranting. I want to be really clear about my motivations for the proposal being the way that it is.

Problems

Generic Interfaces