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theanonymousone ◴[03 Jul 25 06:10 UTC] No.44452116[source]▶

I will die with the crushing embarrassment of not being able describe what a monad is, despite being a so-called (and apparently fake) programmer since the age of 10.

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1. perlgeek ◴[03 Jul 25 06:40 UTC] No.44452290[source]▶

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There's nothing embarrassing about not knowing the details of a sub-field you're not deeply involved in.

Like, why would you embarrassed about not understanding the details of MPLS networking if you're not a network engineer who works with MPLS?

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A list is a monad