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01:53 pdurbin I got a nice reminder of MINASWAN (Matz Is Nice And So We Are Nice) by listening to http://theshipshow.com/2013/07/practical-object-oo-and-cat-design-with-sandi-metz/
06:28 ironcamel i'm doing a hackerrank contest for the first time: https://www.hackerrank.com/contests/aug13
06:28 ironcamel anyone else happen to be doing this contest as well?
10:56 pdurbin ironcamel: no, but good for you :)
20:08 pdurbin "There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." -- C. A. R. Hoare
20:09 pdurbin I first saw this in a Scala talk I attended a few weeks ago.
20:09 pdurbin the slides were just posted: http://www.mbarsinai.com/blog/2013/08/04/invitation-to-scala/
20:16 pdurbin he did a really cool concurrency demo... I want to say he used a function called "par" but I don't see it in https://github.com/michbarsinai/InvitationToScala
20:17 pdurbin anyway, he was running some code against /usr/share/dict/words as seen at https://github.com/michbarsinai/InvitationToScala/blob/master/script.md
20:19 pdurbin and all he did was add "par" (or something) to it and it lit up all his cores (visible via an activity monitor) and went way faster
23:39 pdurbin "To perform the same operation in parallel, one must simply invoke the par method on the sequential collection" -- http://docs.scala-lang.org/overviews/parallel-collections/overview.html

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