danielmason

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by danielmason 8y ago
This might be broadly true. But I think in the context of what tptatek is talking about -- that is, getting low-ceremony mileage out of React -- it's not. The reason is React's main abstractions of declarative components and one-w
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by danielmason 8y ago
As someone who's pretty far down the rabbit hole on a bunch of these fronts, I think this is wonderful advice. Many of these are tools to solve very specific problems, and you should make sure you have those problems first. The only th
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by danielmason 10y ago
Thanks, that's very helpful!
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by danielmason 10y ago
Reason describes itself as "a meta language toolchain to build systems rapidly", which seems a little vague to me. Am I understanding correctly that Reason is both a (kind of) alternative compiler for OCaml's build toolchain
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by danielmason 11y ago
I'm sympathetic to the worst-of-both-worlds problem, but can this actually be true? In the case of types, constraints actually are the benefit, right? Do you mean that if you don't have compile-time assurance for 100% of the code,
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by danielmason 11y ago
I'm not sure I understand what you mean by "the client loses most the advantages of your library being in TypeScript in the first place." Your library still exposes a more clearly-defined API by making types explicit. And say
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by danielmason 11y ago
Are you being serious? That's exactly what's being implied. Which part of tangentially involved in tech juxtaposed with unlike women with Math, CS, or EE degrees would lead you to read that differently?
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by danielmason 11y ago
Doesn't the OO approach just move the work of the switch statement into the class declaration of the model? In practice, OO is about encapsulation, and FP is not. So it's probably not too surprising that the author chose not mix m
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by danielmason 11y ago
There's a reasoning behind this. You may not agree with it, but it's good to fully understand the problem it's trying to solve. There are two problems with your suggested approach -- specificity and coupling. The rules of CSS
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by danielmason 15y ago
I'm sorry not to add value to the discussion, but I wanted to say the back-and-forth has been a very educational look at some of the practical trade-offs that framework designers have to make.
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by danielmason 15y ago
That's sort of what I was trying to say, except maybe I have a more pessimistic estimation of how many organizations are open to being convinced. Of course you have to sell yourself, but it still matters who's able to buy. Startups may have
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by danielmason 15y ago
Same, except I don't really enjoy writing documentation. :) I posted my full thoughts in a separate post, but I'm looking for a job, and every job description I read makes me feel like I'm at a crossroads where I have to pick something to g
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by danielmason 15y ago
I might be considered a larval Designineer. I started off as a visual designer, then learned HTML and CSS, then Javascript, then out of necessity began maintaining an old ASP Classic codebase. As soon as I started to understand the code I w
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by danielmason 15y ago
I suspect the scarcity of your skillset is the main contributor to your relative scarcity of opportunities. At a previous company I helped found, we realized that we were trying to find people who were pretty good designers, front-end devel
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by danielmason 15y ago
"What a human would write" isn't the purpose of the comparison. "This gets put in, this comes out" is. Did you not read the heading on the overview page? It doesn't even say "comparison" anywhere. The second paragraph talks at length about
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by danielmason 15y ago
That seems like a pretty empty criticism when the article itself is basically a dust-cover synopsis of his book. He's illustrating particular points using representative commonly-held irrational beliefs, not laying out a point-by-point case
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by danielmason 16y ago
It seems like most messages of this type try to pretend that it's not about money. The worst is when a company uses lines like "mutually beneficial" or "we're confident this will be better for our customers." When I read that, I'm not just
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by danielmason 16y ago
You do not and can not know how what I was calling a Theity cares. It is itself a very primitive idea that the caring must manifest as heavyweight, visibly-obvious intervention into everyday life. It turns out my aside does address this
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by danielmason 16y ago
I'm inferring a distinction that Kurzweil doesn't make explicit, but I'd guess he regards "theism" as a claim that the creator possesses specific (highly anthopomorphic) traits, eg. love, or personal interest in our lives. I doubt he would
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by danielmason 16y ago
Question for you -- is it a breach of etiquette to respond to something several days old? If so, I apologize, but I was away for a bit and I found your response interesting. The reason I responded to your initial post is that it seemed to s
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by danielmason 16y ago
To put it simply, he's trying to get his finger out of a Chinese-finger-trap by pulling, which makes him a moron because every 5-year old will tell you to give up and push your fingers together because its... you guessed it... POINTLESS, j
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by danielmason 16y ago
There's no doubt that some of the most successful sites have been pretty ugly. But to imitate the ugliness smacks of cargo cultism -- reproducing side effects in hopes of receiving a similar result. To me, the commonality shared by the site
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by danielmason 16y ago
Coming from a user interface design background, I thought this article posited a couple of false dichotomies which were perplexingly echoed in the comments here. Their suggestions appeared to be targeted at either amateurs, ad professionals
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by danielmason 16y ago
"The reason these words are abused is because they work..." Isn't this just an example of a bandwagon effect cognitive bias? How does the ubiquitous nature of bad copy make it any more effective? If anything, that's 180 degrees from true. I
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by danielmason 17y ago
I'm going to add a cautionary note about RingCentral. I hesitate to make my first post a negative one, but they've inspired me to feel strongly enough to break the lurker barrier. My experience with RingCentral has been almost unilaterally