July 20, 2019 – GeePawHill.org

Using Kotlin for Data Builders

Change, Coaching, Kotlin / July 20, 2019 / 4 minutes of reading

In Kotlin, functions whose last argument is a lambda, i call them end-lambda’s, make natural expressions of tree-shaped data builders. Say you’re building Performances, where a Performance includes (possibly) the list of songs being performed. making shit up here, it might look like: performance { song { } song { } } First thing you notice: this thing is building some tree-shaped data, and it’s tree-shaped. None of this "song1= … song2= … performance = Performance(song1, song2) shit. If you’re […]

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Great Geeks Are Great Humans

You can’t be a great geek w/o being a great human. I get how the tradition says you can. I get how much you wish it were so. You can’t be a great geek w/o being a great human. Being a great human is fabulously hard. It’s the hardest thing humans have ever conceived of. So, raise your game. I need to raise my game. We need to raise our game. You beat the first boss handily. You found the