isaacs

# Hello, and welcome to makefile basics.
#
# You will learn why `make` is so great, and why, despite its "weird" syntax,
# it is actually a highly expressive, efficient, and powerful way to build
# programs.
#
# Once you're done here, go to
# http://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/make.html
# to learn SOOOO much more.

prakhar1989

Rich Hickey on becoming a better developer

Rich Hickey • 3 years ago

Sorry, I have to disagree with the entire premise here.

A wide variety of experiences might lead to well-roundedness, but not to greatness, nor even goodness. By constantly switching from one thing to another you are always reaching above your comfort zone, yes, but doing so by resetting your skill and knowledge level to zero.

Mastery comes from a combination of at least several of the following:

patrickt

A Quick and Dirty Lens primer

Why does Lens exist? Well, Haskell records suck, for a number of reasons. I will enumerate them using this sample record.

data User = User { login    :: Text
                 , password :: ByteString
                 , email    :: Text
                 , created  :: UTCTime
 }

paf31

This blog post series has moved here.

You might also be interested in the 2016 version.

henrik

Yosemite upgrade notes

From a (mostly) Ruby on Rails developer.

After doing the below everything seems to work (some of it worked before doing anything), including Ruby, Gems, RVM, Homebrew, VirtualBox/Vagrant VMs, Pow, tmux, git, vim.

0. Did a full-disk backup that I can restore from
1. Moved out /usr/local to avoid super slow install, per option 1 in https://jimlindley.com/blog/yosemite-upgrade-homebrew-tips/: sudo mv /usr/local ~/local
2. Upgraded to Yosemite
3. Restored /usr/local, per option 1 in https://jimlindley.com/blog/yosemite-upgrade-homebrew-tips/: sudo mv ~/local /usr

reborg

# List of all the valid pdf URLs ever posted to the #Clojure IRC channel.
#
# Many of them are interesting CS papers others are not that useful. What I've done:
#
# 1. crawled an IRC history archive for the channel
# 2. extract pdf list in a file with: grep -riIohE 'https?://[^[:space:]]+pdf' * > pdf-links.txt
# 3. remove dupes: cat pdf-links.txt | sort | uniq > pdf-links-uniq.txt
# 4. filter only HTTP 200: cat pdf-links-uniq.txt | xargs curl -o /dev/null --connect-timeout 2 --silent --head --write-out '%{http_code} %{url_effective}\n' | grep "^200" > valid-pdf-links.txt
# 
# Now your choice to download them all or not. If you want, use: cat valid-pdf-links.txt | awk '{print $2}' | xargs wget

kachayev

Channels Are Not Enough

... or Why Pipelining Is Not That Easy

Golang Concurrency Patterns for brave and smart.

By @kachayev

Intro

kachayev

Parsing CSS file with monadic parser in Clojure

Inspired by "Parsing CSS with Parsec".

Just quick notes and code that you can play with in REPL.

By @kachayev

0. Intro

lkuper

"Consensus is impossible" is a gloss for "there's always an execution that doesn't terminate".

Once you've internalized that you can't distinguish slow nodes from dead nodes, how do you deal with that?

"When you're engaged in a battle of wits with a Sicilian and death is on the line, you certainly need to think about epistemic logic."

A correct distributed program achieves (nontrivial) distributed property X. So we need to ask:

1. is X even attainable?
2. what's the cheapest* protocol that gets me X? (* according to some cost metric)

rob-brown

ElixirConf 2014

Dave Thomas—Opening Keynote

Twitter | Slides

Think different(ly)

Get out of your rut and learn new ways to think.