Alex @SleepPrayCode

Whatever-stack engineer. Functional programming gets me excited too easily… Joined November 2023

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Alex @SleepPrayCode

2 years ago

@sabine_s_ Visual Studio to Notepad.. Wow, what happened there?

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I am so tired of forgetting to await promises in #TypeScript! Happens so rarely yet it does happen. Seems like it should be the other way around: promises being awaited by default (what you want most of the time) + a keyword to run promises in the background.

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Alex @SleepPrayCode

3 years ago

@id_functor Wow, I had heard of ReScript before but never gave it a proper look. It looks really promising, I will really consider it for my next project.

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3 years ago

Anyone else trying to switch away from #TypeScript but keep coming back to it because of its ecosystem and sheer developer productivity while it provides at least some minimum type safety?

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Alex @SleepPrayCode

3 years ago

@yawaramin Don't know if it's useful for your case, but you could also display your decimal number as integer * 10^-{fraction part digit count}. So then the integer part could just use normal locale formatting.

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Alex @SleepPrayCode

3 years ago

@alexelcu Hi, I am wondering how long execution took for part 2? I am not familiar with Scala but it seems your solution runs in linear time due to the counting of the range.

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Alex @SleepPrayCode

3 years ago

#AdventOfCode Day 6 in #fsharp! There you go, I survived another day. Today I knew Part 2 would try to sneak on me with ranges of data that are impossible to compute so I dusted off my high school maths and pulled off an O(1) solution.

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Alex @SleepPrayCode

3 years ago

@emil_priver Wow, that seems like a really well balanced schedule. When I have to put my family into the equation it all becomes quite messy. Don’t get me wrong, I love them to bits but I’ll have some days where I don’t work at all and others where I work around the clock to make up for it.

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Alex @SleepPrayCode

3 years ago

Being self-employed made me feel really self-conscious about spending too much time on #AdventOfCode. I think I am going to take it slower, maybe solve 1-2 challenges a week instead of one everyday. How do you balance coding for work and coding for fun?

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Alex @SleepPrayCode

3 years ago

Ideally for Part 2 I should have made the mapping functions work with ranges instead of single numbers.

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Alex @SleepPrayCode

3 years ago

AoC Day 5 made me feel so high when I got to parse the maps into functions and magically compose them into a single function.. and the so low when I couldn't find the energy to do something smart for part 2 and just used brute force. Took 15 minutes to run. #AdventOfCode #fsharp

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Alex @SleepPrayCode

3 years ago

@emil_priver @sabine_s_ I know the question isn't for me, but many functional languages use the terms "head" and "tail" for the first element and the rest of the list respectively. Hence List.hd and List.tl. At least it's better than car and cdr in Lisp -> irreal.org/blog/?p=8500

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Alex @SleepPrayCode

3 years ago

My #fsharp solution to #AdventOfCode Day 4. Part 2 took me by surprise but was quite entertaining to reason about. #OCaml people, feel free to check it out.

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Alex @SleepPrayCode

3 years ago

@mrclbschff Check out my F# solution? Close enough to OCaml. x.com/SleepPrayCode/…

Alex @SleepPrayCode

3 years ago

#AdventOfCode #fsharp Day 3 was quite fun and the coordinate system stuff reminded me a lot of graphics programming. What do the #OCaml people think of my code?

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Alex @SleepPrayCode

3 years ago

#AdventOfCode #fsharp Day 3 was quite fun and the coordinate system stuff reminded me a lot of graphics programming. What do the #OCaml people think of my code?

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Alex @SleepPrayCode

3 years ago

#AdventOfCode #fsharp Day 2 felt so much better than Day 1. I managed to avoid using Regular Expressions too! See my code for Part 1 and 2 below.

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Alex @SleepPrayCode

3 years ago

#AdventOfCode #fsharp I seriously could not believe how difficult Day 1 Part 2 was. Part 1 felt normal for a Day 1 but then Part 2 felt so ugly and deceiving. The fact that they don't make clear "eighthree" should parse as "83" and not "8hree" and so on.