staltz

The introduction to Reactive Programming you've been missing

(by @andrestaltz)

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This tutorial as a series of videos

If you prefer to watch video tutorials with live-coding, then check out this series I recorded with the same contents as in this article: Egghead.io - Introduction to Reactive Programming.

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jamesyang124

#!/bin/ruby --verion => 2.0.0-p353

Self

In Ruby, self is a special variable that always references the current object.

• Inside class or module definition, self refer to the Class or Module object.
• Inside instance method, self refer to future instance object.
• Inside class method, self refer to the class.i

marcelog

-module(generic_proxy).

-export([run/0]).

-define(PORT_FROM, 63790).
-define(PORT_TO, 6379).
-define(BACKLOG, 10000).

run() ->
  {ok, Socket} = gen_tcp:listen(0, [

jackrusher

Hofstadter on Lisp

In the mid-80s, while reading through my roommate's collection of Scientific American back issues, I encountered this introduction to Lisp written by Douglas Hofstadter. I found it very charming at the time, and provide it here (somewhat illegally) for the edification of a new generation of Lispers.

In a testament to the timelessness of Lisp, you can still run all the examples below in emacs if you install these aliases:

(defalias 'plus #'+)
(defalias 'quotient #'/)
(defalias 'times #'*)
(defalias 'difference #'-)

ryanb

My issues with Modules

In researching topics for RailsCasts I often read code in Rails and other gems. This is a great exercise to do. Not only will you pick up some coding tips, but it can help you better understand what makes code readable.

A common practice to organize code in gems is to divide it into modules. When this is done extensively I find it becomes very difficult to read. Before I explain further, a quick detour on instance_eval.

You can find instance_eval used in many DSLs: from routes to state machines. Here's an example from Thinking Sphinx.

class Article < ActiveRecord::Base

michiakig

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;   Copyright (c) Rich Hickey. All rights reserved.
;   The use and distribution terms for this software are covered by the
;   Common Public License 1.0 (http://opensource.org/licenses/cpl.php)
;   which can be found in the file CPL.TXT at the root of this distribution.
;   By using this software in any fashion, you are agreeing to be bound by
;   the terms of this license.
;   You must not remove this notice, or any other, from this software.

;dimensions of square world

richhickey

;; The Computer Language Benchmarks Game
;; http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/
;
;; Adapted from the Java -server version
;
;; contributed by Marko Kocic
;; modified by Kenneth Jonsson, restructured to allow usage of 'pmap'
;; modified by Andy Fingerhut to use faster primitive math ops, and
;; deftype instead of defrecord for smaller tree nodes.
;; https://github.com/jafingerhut/clojure-benchmarks/blob/master/binarytrees/binarytrees.clj-4.clj modified by RH for 1.3