Yevgeniy Brikman
brikis98.blogspot.com · Personal blog · on HN since 2013
Yevgeniy Brikman writes about programming paradigms, Scala and the Play framework, documentation, developer productivity, and essential tech talks.
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- 1Don't learn to code. Learn to think3 people · 64 points · first shared 2014 · 17 comments on HN
- 2Tech Talks for Every Programmer3 people · 16 points · first shared 2014 · discussion on HN
- 3Programming paradigms that change how you think about coding2 people · 528 points · first shared 2014 · 199 comments on HN
- 4You are what you document2 people · 76 points · first shared 2014 · 20 comments on HN
- 5The 10x developer is not a myth2 people · 36 points · first shared 2013 · 15 comments on HN
- 6Turning imperative Java code into functional Scala code2 people · 2 points · first shared 2013 · discussion on HN
- 7The Ultimate Guide to Getting Started with the Play Framework2 people · 2 points · first shared 2014 · discussion on HN
- 8Bitcoin by analogy1 people · 101 points · first shared 2014 · 47 comments on HN
- 9Play, Scala, and Iteratees vs. Node.js and Socket.io1 people · 87 points · first shared 2013 · 24 comments on HN
- 10Shit recruiters say1 people · 21 points · first shared 2013 · 12 comments on HN
- 11Play, Scala, and Iteratees vs. Node.js, JavaScript, and Socket.io1 people · 16 points · first shared 2013 · 2 comments on HN
- 12Node.js vs. Play Framework1 people · 12 points · first shared 2014 · discussion on HN
- 13Are static typing and functional programming winning?1 people · 5 points · first shared 2015 · 4 comments on HN
- 14What my grandfather taught me about happiness1 people · 4 points · first shared 2013 · discussion on HN
- 15Play, Scala, and Iteratees vs. Node.js, JavaScript, and Socket.io1 people · 3 points · first shared 2013 · discussion on HN
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joshpadnick · 2014-08-27
This is essentially the "Computer Science vs. Programming" debate, although Uni gives some programming experience and Pluralsight gives some computer science. Yevgeniy Brikman maintains a great blog and wrote about this[1].
[1] http://brikis98.blogspot.com/2014/05/dont-learn-to-code-learn-to-think…
danso · 2014-04-22
This didn't seem interesting to me, because there's so many ways to scrape a site, in every high level language, that learning one more way to do it is going to be a diminished return...and I also didn't know that "Factor" was a language.
The OP's template could have some more info on what Factor is, but there's a few links, including this wiki for it: http://concatenative.org/wiki/view/Factor/Learning
I honestly didn't know what a "concatenative" language was until I saw that "Six programming paradigms that will change how you think about coding" post that fronted HN last week:
http://brikis98.blogspot.in/2014/04/six-programming-paradigms-that-wil…
So this is just a long way of saying...after just learning about concatenative languages, I'm really interested in what that paradigm brings to a common task...maybe there aren't productivity gains, but I love learning different philosophies of coding, and thanks to the OP for showing one practical example.
arobertson · 2014-12-19
brikis98 · 2014-10-06
Here is a guide to documentation I wrote a little while back: http://brikis98.blogspot.com/2014/05/you-are-what-you-document.html
eeperson · 2013-12-05
A comment in the article, from one of the Play developers, provides a good explanation about what iteratees provide that is not provided by rx: http://brikis98.blogspot.com/2013/11/play-scala-and-iteratees-vs-nodej…
tilltheis · 2013-12-04
James Roper wrote a comment describing why Play's iteratees are so complex in comparison: http://brikis98.blogspot.de/2013/11/play-scala-and-iteratees-vs-nodejs…
dcre · 2013-09-29
I'll save everyone the trouble.
"Yeah it is!"
"No it isn't!"
"Yeah it is!"
"No it isn't!"
I do like your other article about converting imperative list processing code into functional style, though.
http://brikis98.blogspot.com/2013/05/10-recipes-for-turning-imperative…