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Vanessa McHale

@vamchale

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Mainly Haskell, sometimes J/k/BQN (?)

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Joined April 2018
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I don't use git. I don't even store code in files. I just remember it and re-type every time.
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mfs using machine learning like
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. @elonmusk I want LaTeX support in my tweets I will pay 8 doller
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haskell programmer trying to write "Hello, World"
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dynamically typed languages:
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how to spot good code on github: • no readme • 1-2 contributors • default avatar
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“open source is broken” is a funny thing to say when what’s broken is companies' consumption of open source
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trying to write safe c
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how to write a compiler according to compiler tutorials: 1. Write the lexer 2. Write a parser that uses the output of the lexer 3. Skip typechecking 4. ??? 5. "Code generation" 6. Skip linking/assembling Congratulations! You now have a working compiler
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how to write a garbage collector in bash: rm -rf ~/my-code/
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/r/rust commenters are nearly 30 times as likely to comment in /r/hentai than redditors in general
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half of all open-source infrastructure is handled by guys like this
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Rome wasn’t built in a day because they didn’t use agile
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if tensorflow is so good why isn't there an elevensorflow
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the $1200 macbook pro has 8GB RAM - the same as the $75 raspberry pi
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“you can do functional programming in any language”
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Fucking nailed it.
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you know it’s Legit open source when DragonflyBSD is a tier 1 support platform and Windows is experimental
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can Rust do THIS?
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I don’t use A/B testing. I just make the right decision in the first place.
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"how do you do this in Haskell" 0 responses "HI I FOUND SOMETHING THAT'S IMPOSSIBLE TO DO IN HASKELL" 100 responses
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under communism there will be no MySQL
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vim needs a stories feature
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lmao @ the go compiler requiring internet access
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high school: "when are we ever going to use this in the real world" 2020: if you misunderstand conditional probability you kill grandma
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the most egregious thing wrong with mainstream CI is that you are writing bash-scripts-inside-yaml
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the official #programming language tier list
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can someone please tell @Pornhub about the four-color theorem
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turns out proof assistants are more useful when you're proving something that's true
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- pattern matching on literals hits a parser bug in elm - someone reports this - evan responds by saying "Why are you doing this? Instead of fake examples, can you explain how this comes up?" (not kidding)
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self-hosting BQN compiler
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average developer writes one bug per 1000 lines of code. single-letter variable names -> more code per line -> no bugs
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C++ should be illegal for <18 like cigarettes
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not wrong
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lmao
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secured by algebraic data types
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fmap id
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dynamic typists
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if your language has a working compiler it's too mainstream.
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using dynamic types is like drunk driving
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TeX distributions kinda figured out packaging when they just shipped 5.5GB of everything you could ever need
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How to increment a variable in #C
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found the bug it was right where I'd put a FIXME 5 months ago
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why doesn't haskell have an ide I'm willing to pay $0 and I have no relevant expertise but I will yell at "the community" for not being friendly enough to beginners
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haskell vs scala
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I will start a 10x bootcamp that teaches you how to be rude to people on stackoverflow.
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I hate when something on my computer takes several seconds. Everything should happen in milliseconds.
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taylor swift as programming languages:
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apparently Oleg uses neither snake case nor camel case but rather... apostrophes in the middle of identifiers? (it's an ML!)
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I don’t need code completion cause all my variable names are single letters
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people make excuses like "Java is the right tool for the job" "C# is more pragmatic than Haskell" but no one ever designs a new language inspired by Java or C#
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missing topics in compiler textbooks: • type inference • pattern match compilation • pattern match exhaustiveness checking
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society if C had a package manager
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mean girls: +/ % # median girls: -: @ (+/) @ ((<. , >.) @ (-:@<:@#) { /:~) mode girls: ~. #~ (= >./) @ (#/.~)
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typecheckers when you present them with an ill-typed program:
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facebook interviewers
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I don't argue about camel case vs. snake case cause I always use single-letter variable names
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programming languages checklist 2021
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I'm drunk with power (figured out LaTeX macros)
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me looking down on python users
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comments welcome
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I am going to defeat Python
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I wrote a compiler for a language and the language is bad but I like programming in it
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gonna learn awk so I can be happy.
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what's the equivalent of 'googled' for duckduckgo? duckduckwent?
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"Go 1.17 implements a new way of passing function arguments and results using registers instead of the stack." did they really not have that all this time?? wtf.
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IQ jumped to 600 just by reading this
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xp source code is a goldmine
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Haskell is so good !⃝ 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗰𝗹𝗮𝗶𝗺 𝗶𝘀 𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗽𝘂𝘁𝗲𝗱
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