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Why not both?

With the recent announcement of cats-effect, a relevant question from the past resurfaces: why does IO, which is otherwise quite Task-like, not define both or race? To be clear, the type signatures of these functions would be as follows:

object IO {
  def both[A, B](ioa: IO[A], iob: IO[B])(implicit EC: ExecutionContext): IO[(A, B)] = ???
  def race[A, B](ioa: IO[A], iob: IO[B])(implicit EC: ExecutionContext): IO[Either[A, B]] = ???
}

Applied Functional Programming with Scala - Notes

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1. Mastering Functions

A function is a mapping from one set, called a domain, to another set, called the codomain. A function associates every element in the domain with exactly one element in the codomain. In Scala, both domain and codomain are types.

val square : Int => Int = x => x * x
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djspiewak / streams-tutorial.md
Created March 22, 2015 19:55
Introduction to scalaz-stream

Introduction to scalaz-stream

Every application ever written can be viewed as some sort of transformation on data. Data can come from different sources, such as a network or a file or user input or the Large Hadron Collider. It can come from many sources all at once to be merged and aggregated in interesting ways, and it can be produced into many different output sinks, such as a network or files or graphical user interfaces. You might produce your output all at once, as a big data dump at the end of the world (right before your program shuts down), or you might produce it more incrementally. Every application fits into this model.

The scalaz-stream project is an attempt to make it easy to construct, test and scale programs that fit within this model (which is to say, everything). It does this by providing an abstraction around a "stream" of data, which is really just this notion of some number of data being sequentially pulled out of some unspecified data source. On top of this abstraction, sca

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staltz / introrx.md
Last active May 9, 2025 12:50
The introduction to Reactive Programming you've been missing
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ianbarber / gist:5170508
Last active September 4, 2024 05:58
Example Sign In activity for Google Sign-In on Android that retrieves an authorization code for use with server side authentication. See http://www.riskcompletefailure.com/2016/07/server-side-google-api-access-from.html for more background and links.
package com.example.anothersignintest;
import com.google.android.gms.auth.api.Auth;
import com.google.android.gms.auth.api.signin.GoogleSignInAccount;
import com.google.android.gms.auth.api.signin.GoogleSignInOptions;
import com.google.android.gms.auth.api.signin.GoogleSignInResult;
import com.google.android.gms.common.ConnectionResult;
import com.google.android.gms.common.api.GoogleApiClient;
import com.google.android.gms.common.api.OptionalPendingResult;
import com.google.android.gms.common.api.ResultCallback;
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sbine / Main.sublime-menu
Created November 14, 2012 17:54
Custom 3-pane Sublime Text window layouts
[{
"id": "view",
"children": [{
"id": "layout",
"children": [
{
"command": "set_layout",
"caption" : "Custom: 3 Pane (2T 1B)",
"mnemonic": "C",
"args": {
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piscisaureus / pr.md
Created August 13, 2012 16:12
Checkout github pull requests locally

Locate the section for your github remote in the .git/config file. It looks like this:

[remote "origin"]
	fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
	url = [email protected]:joyent/node.git

Now add the line fetch = +refs/pull/*/head:refs/remotes/origin/pr/* to this section. Obviously, change the github url to match your project's URL. It ends up looking like this:

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glennblock / fork forced sync
Created March 4, 2012 19:27
Force your forked repo to be the same as upstream.
git fetch upstream
git reset --hard upstream/master