clojure-uk 2019-05-23 | Slack Archive

I’ve heard tons of horrific and worrying stories so non of it is a surprise anymore. We all thought it might get better then my friend got murdered in April……

seancorfield06:05:04

It's a whole bunch of shit, to be honest, no matter what "side" you're on.

jasonbell06:05:38

@seancorfield Oh for sure. I did a lot of freelance press photography in 2006-2008 so I heard all sorts of nonsense.

seancorfield06:05:39

I was born in 62 in N.I. We moved back to the mainland in '69. It was all shit back then.

jasonbell06:05:00

but getting the most hardened of IRA supporters to sing into a hairbrush was a high point. “What’s in it for me Jase?“, “The difference between page 1 and page 3, you’re call.“, “Give me that hairbrush…”

jasonbell06:05:05

Yup

seancorfield06:05:17

LOL :rolling_on_the_floor_laughing:

seancorfield06:05:37

Weird times.

jasonbell06:05:21

indeed

seancorfield06:05:37

Americans are totally freaked out by all of this BTW.

jasonbell06:05:26

Not a surprise.

alexlynham06:05:25

Morning

alexlynham06:05:35

Remember to vote today

dharrigan06:05:29

Hmmmmm

dharrigan06:05:27

I wouldn't know who to vote for

thomas07:05:05

morning

thomas07:05:14

I have already voted today on a pro-Europe party.

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dharrigan07:05:15

I may vote Lib Dems, but I can never in my heart forgive them for their betrayal of students

practicalli-john09:05:44

It's funny that people forget that Labour introduced student tuition fees. Then the LibDems managed to minimise the rise of tuition fees as a minor partner in a coalition government. The the Conservatives all voted to hike the fees up to 9k a year.

practicalli-john09:05:14

Had more people voted for LibDems then they could have been in charge of government and scrapped tuition fees.

practicalli-john09:05:44

And your initial statement does neglected all the other things the LibDems did to minimise the impact of austerity (kept it lower impact than Labours pledge). I could go on, but don't want to rant (too much)

dharrigan07:05:40

Some wounds just cut too deep

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Ben Hammond07:05:15

at some point, emoticon will have to become recognised as an official written language

Ben Hammond07:05:43

but noone will be able to agree on what all the glyphs mean

dharrigan07:05:05

Didn't Egypt figure it out a few thousand years ago?

3Jane07:05:30

yeah, and they switched to alphabetic

dharrigan07:05:41

🙂

3Jane07:05:49

created by associating glyphs with sounds of their words 😄

3Jane07:05:20

everything old is new again 🎵 but now that we have computers to remember and write things for us, writing in glyphs is a saner proposition

3Jane07:05:33

random question, does anyone know someone from Arm?

3Jane08:05:09

@seancorfield re what to do in August, idk what you find entertaining but there's usually historical recreation battles running in the countryside 😄

dominicm08:05:02

The Stoke on Trent art Museum has a Staffordshire hoard display

otfrom08:05:55

voted today

danm08:05:20

Good

alexlynham08:05:41

in my area not voting means you get tommy robinson

danm08:05:08

Milkshakes at the ready

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thomas08:05:51

I love the smell of milkshakes in the morning....

dharrigan08:05:47

Found this on b3ta yesterday - made me chuckle:

dharrigan08:05:58

milkshake appropriate

3Jane08:05:16

well now I'm hungry 😄 ok, off to vote o/

thomas09:05:06

ttfn... and enjoy your milkshake!

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practicalli-john09:05:13

Interesting website in case you are making any voting decisions today https://www.helpsavedemocracy.com/brexit

practicalli-john09:05:08

I voted LibDems and happy to see them in the top two in the polling. I hope there is a high voter turn out so that parties without policies get fewer seats.

practicalli-john09:05:38

If you don't vote today, it does means more publicity for Nigel Farage...

guy09:05:46

Morning folks!

guy09:05:53

Happy Thursday 😄

Ben Hammond11:05:41

also https://www.explaintrade.com/blogs/2019/5/20/brexit-interviewer-guide

practicalli-john11:05:20

If you need extra incentive to vote LibDems today... https://twitter.com/jr0cket/status/1131517703951388673

thomas11:05:04

on the Guardian are reports of EU nationals in the UK who are not allowed to vote :face_with_symbols_on_mouth:

practicalli-john11:05:49

Stopping people voting is a very Brexit type of democracy 😞

thomas12:05:00

indeed

dharrigan12:05:22

I know completely off topic, but man, really enjoying REPL driven development - being able to hit a REST API, examine the results, tweak the function, re-eval, and retry is really a nice experience.

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dharrigan12:05:41

Sorry for interrupting the politics 🙂

guy12:05:17

😄

guy12:05:42

A classic repl gotya is the difference between using map in the repl and map in code

guy12:05:16

When i first started using clojure i would always make the lazy mistake and use map in repl then wonder why i would get some [email protected] or something like that in my code 😂

guy12:05:02

So just remembering repl evaluates your map so its not lazy is something even now i remember 😂

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guy12:05:10

(hopefully that makes sense :thinking_face: )

dharrigan12:05:32

That's a handy hint!

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dharrigan12:05:33

thanks!

practicalli-john12:05:15

@guy sorry, not following you. Do you have an example to try?

practicalli-john12:05:39

I rarely use the REPL buffer (window) directly, wondering if I am missing something

guy12:05:18

mmm im trying to come up with an example and its not working 😂. I think it was more to do with my work flow i guess when i first started.

guy12:05:00

I’ll see if i can recreate it and ill ping you @jr0cket

guy12:05:26

I think this is a sorta contrived example but

guy12:05:53

(->>  [1 2 3 -3] 
     (map identity)
     (filter pos?))
=> (1 2 3)

I do something like this in my repl and as a newbie i was like oh cool it does what i want

guy12:05:24

Then i would have done something like this

guy12:05:00

(defn guy-fn [coll]
  (let [result (->> coll
                    (map identity)
                    (filter pos?))]  
  (println result)
  (str result)))
=> #'user/guy-fn
(guy-fn [1 2 3 -4])
(1 2 3)
=> "[email protected]"

guy12:05:32

So i just take the code i had used in my repl without thinking and am surprised that it was a lazyseq if that makes sense?

guy12:05:06

It used to get me all the time starting out with clojure because of the understanding of what functions are lazy and eager, but in the repl it sort of doesn’t matter ( i know it does but yeah)

guy12:05:31

Either way it might just be something that only happened to me, but i remember it catching me off guard quite a few times 😂

guy12:05:37

@jr0cket hope that makes sense?

thomas13:05:05

is there a function who's whole purpose is just to be eager and otherwise just a NOP?

thomas13:05:57

In the past I have just used println for that... but that isn't ideal as it generates lots of stuff potentially.

practicalli-john13:05:37

I have created code that results that are just a reference to something that will lazy evaluate. I typically put that in a function definition to fix most things (although not all)

practicalli-john13:05:57

Most of Clojure is eagerly evaluated, I think its mainly around sequences where its specifically lazy, especially of course lazy-seq. The do family of funcitons might help eagerly evaluate things, but I need to go and read some more about that...

practicalli-john13:05:03

@guy I see what you mean now, thanks

zyxmn13:05:39

@guy Story of my life

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practicalli-john14:05:31

If you call your example as an in-line function, then it returns the answer

((fn [coll]
   (let [result (filter pos? (map identity coll))]
     result)) [1 2 3 -3])

practicalli-john14:05:49

unless you wrap the answer in a str call

((fn [coll]
   (let [result (filter pos? (map identity coll))]
     (str result))) [1 2 3 -3])

practicalli-john14:05:12

@thomas "Lazy sequences can be forcefully realized with clojure.core/dorun and clojure.core/doall. The difference between the two is that dorun throws away all results and is supposed to be used for side effects, while doall returns computed values:" There is a nice write up here: http://clojure-doc.org/articles/language/laziness.html

guy14:05:58

Yeah its even worse because the first i would do as noob is use println to debug

guy14:05:14

But because println evaluates? the form it would give the right answer

guy14:05:42

Either way that was defo a learning by mistakes sort of time 😄

dharrigan14:05:28

I'll have to get a few slides together

zyxmn15:05:52

@dharrigan would you be posting the slides anywhere public when you are done 😛 ? I misread as you already had a presentation ready

rickmoynihan15:05:34

@thomas There are a bunch of functions/tricks in those cases… doall/`dorun` that @jr0cket mentioned. Also run! is like an eager map of a procedure over a collection. i.e. where you want a side effect for each value, rather than a return value. Other tricks to eliminate laziness in a sequence are to wrap a vec over it, or use into etc which can help isolate/eliminate computations in the lazy seqs from being measured.

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dharrigan15:05:39

Maybe, depends 🙂 It's going to be a simple set of slides, using the

dharrigan15:05:46

And this

dharrigan15:05:04

Mostly, it'll be showing a program and repling like a mad repily type of person

dharrigan15:05:20

I have a nice (I hope!) demo of a port of a kotlin program to clojure that works. I'm going to have a branch with some of the features removed and show how I can "add" them back in again by using the repl

dharrigan15:05:28

to restore the functionality

dharrigan15:05:48

before that, I'll start with some basic "LISP 101" stuff and why Clojure is all warm and cuddly

zyxmn15:05:24

awww no giphy integration in this channel 😞

zyxmn15:05:33

@dharrigan I wish you luck !

dharrigan15:05:41

dominicm17:05:38

Sent looks awesome

dharrigan18:05:53

It's great - used it before, it's just as minimal as I like it 🙂

practicalli-john18:05:42

@dharrigan good luck with your presentation tomorrow. You remindedm me that mine are a little out of date now, I should update / delete them http://jr0cket.co.uk/slides/

mccraigmccraig18:05:26

what is sent @dharrigan?

dominicm18:05:10

@mccraigmccraig And this

dharrigan18:05:13

It's a little program that displays slides, that utilise a minimalistic way of presentation.

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