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by firlefans 5y ago
I don't think you can apply the same principles to OO and FP but in terms of refactoring, my experience is that pure functional code is a joy to test and maintain. Small pure functions (again functions can only be pure functions, other
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by firlefans 5y ago
I personally found F# to be a decent alternative to Elm for small browser apps with Fable, Elmish/Feliz, Feliz.Plotly etc. You can generate typed interfaces for any libs you're missing which have a typescript interface using ts
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by firlefans 5y ago
jet.com used it heavily for backend dev, grew quickly, were acquired by Walmart, 560million+ in funding: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/jet Even if you'd consider them the Jane Street of F#, it's a
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by firlefans 9y ago
I found this project to be easy to use, it produces SVG output with d3: https://github.com/magjac/d3-graphviz
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by firlefans 9y ago
It's true that it's easier to write and arguably harder to read code when types are not specified, or at least it's handy for public interfaces between modules. Luckily this is easy to do and often done: https://fs
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by firlefans 10y ago
Can you clarify what you mean? It gets subducted by plate tectonics and becomes steam when heated, presumably it's still there..
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by firlefans 10y ago
This article (which contains nothing but speculation) has been posted here already at least once.
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by firlefans 11y ago
Remote US only or remote EU also?
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by firlefans 11y ago
Way to ruin the fun for the rest of us ;)
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by firlefans 11y ago
More interesting to my mind is this (Diamondback Ruby): http://www.cs.umd.edu/projects/PL/druby/ Some features: -------------- Type inference: DRuby uses inference to model most of Ruby’s idioms as precisely
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by firlefans 12y ago
I'm finding it hard to tell the difference between: https://twitter.com/boredelonmusk and https://twitter.com/elonmusk
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by firlefans 12y ago
Flash still powers Youtube for most users, Silverlight for Netflix and Unity's plugin is required for most 3D games on Chrome's Marketplace (not sure where else to look for successful HTML5 games).
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by firlefans 13y ago
By usability you surely mean something other than the traditional sense of the word. Exactly what was usable about the Reader interface?
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by firlefans 13y ago
There are actually several other casual gaming startups in Hamburg e.g. Bigpoint GmbH which followed a more American model of growing as fast as possible and selling out early, so I don't think it's a German/European thing ne
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by firlefans 13y ago
Any performance benchmarks of Pixate vs procedural code or vs similar DSLs, e.g. Teacup, Formation in Rubymotion?
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by firlefans 13y ago
The author claims that C has "an order of magnitude more expressiveness" than assembly with no basis for the statement, but ok. He then throws all the "compile-to-JS" languages together even specifically mentioning Sibilant which has macros
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by firlefans 14y ago
"It's been a year since we've filed for bankruptcy and we're still there." - I work in a company that strives to follow such a model, and it honestly struggles to achieve the kind of efficiency most companies take for granted. I dearly hope
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by firlefans 14y ago
Firstly: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4627.txt "An implementation may set limits on the size of texts that it accepts. " - How does that "support" streaming? My argument is that most people don't need it most of the time (I can't prove this
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by firlefans 14y ago
It is perfectly acceptable to design a library with a simplified, restricted interface that covers the majority of use cases, but not all. e.g. requests vs urllib2 For me, that's a win for common sense. I have never even considered streamin
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by firlefans 14y ago
...we may have very few humans left of that era
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by firlefans 14y ago
"its because they did something smart" So intelligence == 'achievement'? That makes no sense. As for nonsense, ok I'll retract that, it is an interesting but highly implausible topic that gets a large amount of discussion relative to it's
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by firlefans 14y ago
There are so many reasons not to do this. The potential site reliability risk of relying on someone else's free CDN (page not loading/loading slowly) far outweighs the slight benefit of CDN acceleration. When you CloudFront/Akamai your c
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by firlefans 14y ago
Why do smart people love to debate the most implausible nonsense? Time travel through singularities anyone?
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by firlefans 14y ago
The world's already got a few of these to my knowledge, Brightcove launched one last week with native plugins..I personally would love to see a fully native version of this. People want real UIKit/Android components, not an approximation of
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by firlefans 14y ago
Also wondering about this, would be v. cool to play with it on iOS.
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by firlefans 14y ago
"Python is fast enough for our site and allows us to produce maintainable features in record times, with a minimum of developers," said Cuong Do, Software Architect, YouTube.com. There are many dynamic user driven sites which have scaled we
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by firlefans 14y ago
You say array, I say heterogenous vector, let's call the whole thing off!
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by firlefans 14y ago
I guess, but this seems like something that could become a best practice for library authors, and it'd be fairly trivial to retrofit or fork existing libs with annotations.
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by firlefans 14y ago
I am not sure about the motivation for this project but this article helps explain why some folks are interested in type systems as detachable (pluggable) components, separate from languages: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?d
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by firlefans 14y ago
They're implemented using the same data structure and given the language semantics (keys can be any scalar type intermingled horribly), how would you improve that?

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