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Rich-Hickey-fanclub
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Rich-Hickey-fanclub
"every time I watch one of his talks I feel like someone has gone in and organized my brain"
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"every time I watch one of his talks I feel like someone has gone in and organized my brain"
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I recommend: https://github.com/tallesl/Rich-Hickey-fanclub/blob/master/R... I find I learn a lot as a developer who doesn't use Clojure
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Observed mentions: 2015-10-20 14:04:16 UTC to 2022-01-22 08:23:52 UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| 2015 | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
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16 sources>How do people that don't have PhDs bridge the gap in their knowledge from what's commonly taught/used (OOP and it's design patterns) to thinking in terms of monads/monoids/functors/etc. ?
I can just speak for myself. Started programming via vocational training (apprenticeship for the title 'computer science expert' in germany) about 4 years ago.
Learned programming with python, which I loved for the productivity it gave me, the whole superpower yadiya. Was assigned some webrelated tasks, so I got in touch with javascript.
My style in these languages was actually 'functional' without me knowing about functional programming - but only to some extent. Mutability, nonstatic typing etc.
So, wanting to become a better programmer, I googled things like "advanced python", which yielded things like decorators, generators and metaclasses. In some
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video about map, filter and reduce something in me clicked - I didn't want to hide attributes and state in classes and objects anymore. It's not modular, it's not atomic, it's not beautiful.
I came across Rich Hickeys talks [1] and immediately saw that I'm ...home. The paradigms just click with me, I can't imagine falling back to impurity and oop (unless it can't be avoided for whatever reasons). (I still don't write clojure though, for now I'm still enjoying playing around in python and haskell where I can (you may substitute python with js))
And, honestly - if you have the curiosity to learn Haskell, do you really need a phd? I've taught myself bits of maths in the last four years (higher mathematics - number theory (not tech related, just curiosity), graph theory, category theory etc), just driven by curiosity. That being said: If you'd ask me about these topics on the street, I wouldn't claim to be a mathematician, far from it. I just satisfied my curiosity.
I want to understand. Not some math or haskell in specific, but life, logic, control flow, systems theory... Having this urge, diving deeper into mathematical concepts once you need them doesn't feel like a burden. I don't even have my A-levels, so I'm probably as far from a phd as you'll find on HN, but that wouldn't stop me from exploring, from learning, from progress.
Sorry if that was too personal and too much text, I just felt like I'm in the rare position to be able to answer something in depth on HN :-)
[1] https://github.com/tallesl/Rich-Hickey-fanclub#talks
Some more links that I used:
Functor, aplicative, and monad:
https://typeslogicscats.gitlab.io/posts/functor-applicative-...
Category theory for programmers:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8LbkfSSR58&list=PLbgaMIhjbm...
another angle:
while Clojure is a Lisp with its own distinct flavor it gives you …
* a large community of practitioners and professionals (great for asking questions, finding collaborators, …)
* easy access to libraries in the js/jvm/.net ecosystems
* a style that relies more on data and transformations of data (illuminating simplicity)
in any case: it is worth digging deeper, one thing that kept me away was not knowing where to start (analysis paralysis). in hindsight picking any Lisp would have been great (instead of postponing).
Find a thread and start pulling :)
Rich Hickey’s talks were a great entry point for me
https://github.com/tallesl/Rich-Hickey-fanclub
e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rI8tNMsozo0
(the “Simplicity Matters” keynote at Rails Conf 2012)
edit: Land of Lisp is a great book as well
In The Roots of Lisp (2001)I recommend:
https://github.com/tallesl/Rich-Hickey-fanclub/blob/master/R...
I find I learn a lot as a developer who doesn't use Clojure
In Ask HN: How to learn best practices when you have no one to teach you?Collection about Rich Hickey's Works
46 points · Open discussionMore Rich Hickey: https://github.com/tallesl/Rich-Hickey-fanclub
In Ask HN: What is your favourite tech talk?Hints for Computer System Design, Butler Lampson.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/...
End-to-End Arguments in System Design,
http://web.mit.edu/Saltzer/www/publications/endtoend/endtoen...
I think Rich Hickey (of Clojure) makes lovely points about application system design. I know you are looking for papers, but Rich's talks have influenced me greatly of late.
https://github.com/tallesl/Rich-Hickey-fanclub
In Ask HN: CS papers for software architecture and design?Simple Made Easy is a great introduction to the Rich Hickey Fanclub [1] ;)
Other recommendations for early viewing are "Hammock Driven Development", "The Value of Values" and "The Design of Datomic".
[1] https://github.com/tallesl/Rich-Hickey-fanclub
In Simple Made Easy (2011)The answer to 1&2 combined is "watch talks by Rich Hickey": https://github.com/tallesl/Rich-Hickey-fanclub
Once the messages set in, any ClojureScript-specific tutorial will be a breeze.
In ClojureScript is the most-used functional language that compiles to JavaScripthttps://github.com/tallesl/Rich-Hickey-fanclub
Start with, in order:
Hammock Driven Development,
Simple Made Easy,
The Value of Values,
The Database as a Value,
In Ask HN: What's your favorite tech talk?Showing the 15 most recent of 16 sources. Enable JavaScript to search and browse every indexed mention.