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Re:A sticky problem that evaporated by pixelbash on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @04:30AM (#21978378)
I used to get a bit frustrated when I'd look up some esoteric programming term and find a convoluted description of what was ultimately a simple concept that I was already using.
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Re:A sticky problem that evaporated by saagarjha on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @04:31AM (#21978380)
Nonsense, monads are actually quite simple. Think of them like a…
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Re:A sticky problem that evaporated by choeger on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @06:21AM (#21978944)
... endofunctor ...
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Re:A sticky problem that evaporated by StavrosK on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @07:35AM (#21979340)
(monoid)
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Re:A sticky problem that evaporated by TeMPOraL on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @04:53AM (#21978483)
I still am. Also, when I discover that esoteric term #1 used in a subfield A is the same thing as esoteric term #2 used by a subfield B, but either they never talked to each other, or someone decided they want to be different.
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Re:A sticky problem that evaporated by feintruled on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @07:45AM (#21979407)
This was me with patterns. Relatively straightforward techniques dressed up in grandiose terminology, I found them hard to grasp until I got some real world examples.
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