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grok

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I doubt many Rubyists really understand or grok what that means.

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Quick take

get the meaning of something; "Do you comprehend the meaning of this letter?"

Meaning at a glance

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verb

get the meaning of something; "Do you comprehend the meaning of this letter?"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for grok.

Example sentences

1

I doubt many Rubyists really understand or grok what that means.

2

Google is not going to pay by the hour for a developer to stare at a function until they grok it; they want a feature.

3

But I grok pair-programming: it's the same kind of coding you did in college where a couple of people would sit around figuring out a problem.

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A 12 credit semester might mean 80 hours outside of class writing code, reading books, trying desperately to grok complex data structured and mind-bending math.

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Scala is probably not a big enough leap to discipline yourself to grok functional just b/c it's so easy to relapse into non-functional patterns and Scala will happily comply.

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There is no unifying principle to help you grok the language* The Community is all about quick hacky fixes to already broken code and this approach seems to flow from the core developers out.* It's not type safe, not even at runtime.

Frequently asked questions

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How do you use grok in a sentence?

I doubt many Rubyists really understand or grok what that means.

What does grok mean?

get the meaning of something; "Do you comprehend the meaning of this letter?"

What part of speech is grok?

grok is commonly used as verb.