The Eric Normand Podcast

242 Episodes

1. How do you implement lazy evaluation?

   Published: 5/9/2019
2. What is lazy evaluation?

   Published: 5/6/2019
3. How is recursion like a for loop?

   Published: 5/2/2019
4. Why do programmers put up with so much pain?

   Published: 4/29/2019
5. Can you always find a layer of meaning in which your problem is easier?

   Published: 4/25/2019
6. What is point-free style?

   Published: 4/22/2019
7. What is referential transparency?

   Published: 4/18/2019
8. Why you shouldn’t hide your data

   Published: 4/15/2019
9. What are higher-order functions?

   Published: 4/11/2019
10. What is function composition?

    Published: 4/8/2019
11. What does it mean for a function to have a zero?

    Published: 4/4/2019
12. What is a function’s identity?

    Published: 4/1/2019
13. Why do promises make async JavaScript better than callbacks?

    Published: 3/28/2019
14. What are first-class functions?

    Published: 3/25/2019
15. Where to find time to learn functional programming?

    Published: 3/21/2019
16. Do locks slow down your code?

    Published: 3/18/2019
17. What is idempotence?

    Published: 3/14/2019
18. What is commutativity and why is it so useful in distributed systems?

    Published: 3/11/2019
19. What is associativity and why is it useful in parallel programming?

    Published: 3/7/2019
20. What are timelines and what do they have to do with functional programming?

    Published: 3/4/2019