Alex Larsen alex0112

How to think about Monads

UPDATE 2021: I wrote this long before I wrote my book Functional Programming Made Easier: A Step-by-step Guide. For a much more in depth discussion on Monads see Chapter 18.

Initially, Monads are the biggest, scariest thing about Functional Programming and especially Haskell. I've used monads for quite some time now, but I didn't have a very good model for what they really are. I read Philip Wadler's paper Monads for functional programming and I still didnt quite see the pattern.

It wasn't until I read the blog post You Could Have Invented Monads! (And Maybe You Already Have.) that I started to see things more clearly.

This is a distillation of those works and most likely an oversimplification in an attempt to make things easier to understand. Nuance can come later. What we need when first le

Turning `emacs` into a Python IDE

## Create a new config/initialisation file

Create a user-level initialisation file init.el:

touch .emacs.d/init.el

Chmod codes cheat sheet

How to use chmod codes in UNIX:

There are three types of permissions in files and folders in unix
1. Read (r)
2. Write (w)
3. Execute (x)
And, there is a classification of users called UGO (explained bellow):
U ~> User (usually, you)

Don't use VPN services.

No, seriously, don't. You're probably reading this because you've asked what VPN service to use, and this is the answer.

Note: The content in this post does not apply to using VPN for their intended purpose; that is, as a virtual private (internal) network. It only applies to using it as a glorified proxy, which is what every third-party "VPN provider" does.

A Russian translation of this article can be found here, contributed by Timur Demin.
A Turkish translation can be found here, contributed by agyild.
There's also this article about VPN services, which is honestly better written (and has more cat pictures!) than my article.

Capybara Actions

# Anchor
click_link 'Save'

# Button
click_button 'awesome'

# Both above

Each of these commands will run an ad hoc http static server in your current (or specified) directory, available at http://localhost:8000. Use this power wisely.

Discussion on reddit.

Python 2.x

$ python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8000

	import requests
	import bs4
	import re
	import json
	from textblob import TextBlob

	def getLyricSentiment(lyrics):
	lyrics = re.sub('\s+',' ',lyrics)
	return TextBlob(lyrics).sentiment.polarity

	#!/bin/bash

	USER=${1:-sebble}

	STARS=$(curl -sI https://api.github.com/users/$USER/starred?per_page=1\|egrep '^Link'\|egrep -o 'page=[0-9]+'\|tail -1\|cut -c6-)
	PAGES=$((658/100+1))

	echo You have $STARS starred repositories.
	echo

	defimpl Kipatest.Can, for: Kipatest.User do
	use Kipatest.Web, :model

	def can?(%User{} = subject, :owner, %User{} = user) do
	user.id == subject.id
	end
	end