rauchg

require-from-twitter

Since Twitter doesn't have an edit button, it's a suitable host for JavaScript modules.

How to use

Source tweet: https://twitter.com/rauchg/status/712799807073419264

const leftPad = await requireFromTwitter('712799807073419264');

skiadas

The thing that students have the hardest time on when learning functional programming is how to process a recursive structure while maintaining some sort of "state", the result if you will. I'll attempt here to demystify the process.

Functional programming languages almost always use a lot of recursively defined structures. Depending on the language those can be implemented in various ways, but in any case the end result is the same. A structure of this type is either an "atom", i.e. an irreducible thing, or a "compound" consisting of substructures of the same form.

For example a "list" is either an Empty/Nil list (the "atom") or it is formed as a Cons of a value and another list (compound form). That other "sublist" can itself be empty or another cons and so on and so forth. A tree is similar. It is either empty, or it consists of a triple of a value and two sub-trees, left and right.

Almost every problem we encounter is a question about doing something with all entries in a structure. To solve these prob

eamelink

import play.api.libs.iteratee._
import scala.concurrent.ExecutionContext.Implicits.global
import scala.concurrent._
import scala.concurrent.duration._
import play.api.libs.concurrent.Promise

object iteratees {

  // Implicit conversion to add 'await' to a Future
  implicit class WFuture[A](val inner: Future[A]) extends AnyVal {

entaroadun

Movies Recommendation:

• MovieLens - Movie Recommendation Data Sets http://www.grouplens.org/node/73
• Yahoo! - Movie, Music, and Images Ratings Data Sets http://webscope.sandbox.yahoo.com/catalog.php?datatype=r
• Jester - Movie Ratings Data Sets (Collaborative Filtering Dataset) http://www.ieor.berkeley.edu/~goldberg/jester-data/
• Cornell University - Movie-review data for use in sentiment-analysis experiments http://www.cs.cornell.edu/people/pabo/movie-review-data/

Music Recommendation:

• Last.fm - Music Recommendation Data Sets http://www.dtic.upf.edu/~ocelma/MusicRecommendationDataset/index.html

joshwand

ganked from unreadable scribd doc here: http://cleancoder.posterous.com/what-killed-waterfall-could-kill-agile

What Killed Waterfall could Kill Agile.

Robert C. Martin
20 Nov, 2010

In 1970 a software engineer named Dr. Winston W. Royce wrote a seminal paper entitled Managing the Development of Large Software Systems. This paper described the software process that Royce felt was appropriate for large-scale systems. As a designer for the Aerospace industry, he was uniquely qualified.

He began the paper by setting up a straw-man process to knock down. He described this naïve process as “grandiose”. He depicted it with a simple diagram on an early page of his paper. Then the paper methodically tears this “grandiose” process apart. In the end, Royce proposed a far more nuanced and insightful approach, leaving the reader to giggle at the silliness of the “grandiose” model.

jakebellacera

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