"Star chamber" is a fabulous term that would seem to describe the situation quite well. Thanks, added to my internal dictionary!
Imagine if someone wanted to play music in an orchestra, but couldn't read music because it was "too confusing", but they'd never even tried to learn. They would be laughed out the door. I'm not sure why so many laymen…
That's fantastic. It's a shame there isn't more stuff written (and especially, videos/streams) about K, but I get the feeling that will improve since there are a good few open-source K-like implementations (at least…
> Your words betray your ignorance. Common Lisp has a type system. Have you ever written it? Do you actually know anything about it? Moreover, macros are a plus - you clearly have not actually used Lisp macros, [...]…
I didn't even "interview", just took one of their tests out of curiosity to see how I did. The announcement was especially unwelcome news given that I'm not even looking for another job.
I would dispute the idea that "if they were a lazy coder in TypeScript, they'll be lazy in Elm". The fact that Elm forces you to at least think for a moment about how handle the failure case is a good thing. Even if…
"Star chamber" is a fabulous term that would seem to describe the situation quite well. Thanks, added to my internal dictionary!
Imagine if someone wanted to play music in an orchestra, but couldn't read music because it was "too confusing", but they'd never even tried to learn. They would be laughed out the door. I'm not sure why so many laymen…
That's fantastic. It's a shame there isn't more stuff written (and especially, videos/streams) about K, but I get the feeling that will improve since there are a good few open-source K-like implementations (at least…
> Your words betray your ignorance. Common Lisp has a type system. Have you ever written it? Do you actually know anything about it? Moreover, macros are a plus - you clearly have not actually used Lisp macros, [...]…
I didn't even "interview", just took one of their tests out of curiosity to see how I did. The announcement was especially unwelcome news given that I'm not even looking for another job.
I would dispute the idea that "if they were a lazy coder in TypeScript, they'll be lazy in Elm". The fact that Elm forces you to at least think for a moment about how handle the failure case is a good thing. Even if…