djg

Papers I like Pt. 1 Papers I like Pt. 2

Let's start meta:

1. Lamport - State the Problem Before Describing the Solution (1978). … 1-page memo. Read it.
2. Herlihy - Wait-free synchronization (1991) … Truly seminal. Lucid + enough good ideas for 4 papers easily.
3. Cook - How complex systems fail (1998) … 4 pages that anyone working on/with complex systems should read.

pjstadig

The Pledge

One thing that always made me a little sad about transducers was how map lost its ability to iterate multiple collections in parallel. This is actually my favorite feature of map. For example:

(map + (range 5) (range 5 10))
=> (5 7 9 11 13)

One somewhat practical use of this is if you want to compare two sequences, pairwise, using a comparator. Though I wish that every? took multiple collections, this is an adequate substitute:

jeremyheiler

Antonym List

Note: The table headings (positive/negative) are not necessarily meaningful.

Positive	Negative
acquire	release
add	remove (e.g. an item), subtract (arithmetic)
advance	retreat
allocate	deallocate (correct), free (common)
allow	deny