philandstuff

Kush, an introduction to schedulers

about me

• I work for GDS
• Cabinet Office
• we started by building GOV.UK
  • replaced older sites like direct gov, business link
• we’re not just fixing websites
  • we also build and run digital services
  • working with depts across the country
  • eg: register to vote

jadeallenx

tl;dr You should watch this.

It's interesting to me that a significant number of talks in this year's Strange Loop conference referenced a 1966 paper by Peter Landin called (somewhat tongue in cheek) "The Next 700 Programming Languages". In this paper, Landin describes a programming language which he says in a footnote might be aptly called "Church without the lambda" - but which in the paper is called "If You See What I Mean" (ISWIM).

Alvaro's talk delved deeply into the question of "What is the semantics or meaning of a program?" Alvaro's thesis is that the meaning of a program is to produce desired outcomes from a computing system but that current languages focus on

TheBB

Emacs packages, features, files, layers, extensions, auto-loading, require, provide, use-package… All these terms getting you confused? Let’s clear up a few things.

Files

Emacs files contains code that can be evaluated. When evaluated, the functions, macros and modes defined in that file become available to the current Emacs session. Henceforth, this will be termed as loading a file.

One major problem is to ensure that all the correct files are loaded, and in the

ohanhi

Learning FP the hard way: Experiences on the Elm language

by Ossi Hanhinen, @ohanhi

with the support of Futurice 💚.

Licensed under CC BY 4.0.

Editorial note

swannodette

(defui Artist
  static IQuery
  (query [cl _]
    [:db/id :artist/name])
  Object
  (render [{:keys [props]}]
    (dom/div nil (:artist/name props))))

(defui ArtistList
  static IQuery

wincent

2015-01-29 Unofficial Relay FAQ

Compilation of questions and answers about Relay from React.js Conf.

Disclaimer: I work on Relay at Facebook. Relay is a complex system on which we're iterating aggressively. I'll do my best here to provide accurate, useful answers, but the details are subject to change. I may also be wrong. Feedback and additional questions are welcome.

What is Relay?

Relay is a new framework from Facebook that provides data-fetching functionality for React applications. It was announced at React.js Conf (January 2015).

oakes

Contents

• Why care about Rust?
• The Toolchain
• Creating a New Project
• Modules
• Crates
• Types
• References
• Mutability

gist:00b4c39f022d00943a64

(defvar my-helm-source-do-ag
  `((name . "the silver searcher")
    (candidates-process . helm-ag--do-ag-candidate-process)
    (persistent-action . helm-ag-persistent-action)
    (action . (("Open File" . helm-ag--action-find-file)
               ("Open File Other Window" . helm-ag--action--find-file-other-window)))
    (no-matchplugin)
    (nohighlight)
    (requires-pattern . 2)
    (candidate-number-limit . 200)))

paf31

This blog post series has moved here.

You might also be interested in the 2016 version.

loganlinn

(ns schema-client.schema-extensions
  "Schemas representing abstract classes and subclasses"
  (:use plumbing.core)
  (:require
   [clojure.string :as str]
   [plumbing.map :as map]
   [schema.core :as s]
   [schema.utils :as utils]
   [schema.macros :as sm]))