thewix

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by thewix 3y ago
That's the point. They are by far the largest player in the game, and can ( and do) use their size to squash competition. You don't have to use their marketplace but as a small business you don't have many options that can co
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by thewix 3y ago
Got anything to back that up? Businesses managed to thrive before when taxes were considerably higher. How do you account for the Gilded Age? How were those monopolies different than today and how did taxes and bureaucracy exacerbate issues
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by thewix 3y ago
Cept the part about Amazon not letting you sell your goods cheaper elsewhere. That keeps the price inflated and is anti-competitive since it squashes competition from other marketplaces, not because their platform is better, mind you, but b
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by thewix 3y ago
This would be my preference. I like `Either`or some other container type, but a simple union that makes exceptions explicit works also.
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by thewix 3y ago
Though not JSX, with TSX you get type checking with your markup.
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by thewix 3y ago
When I was trying to learn monads no one ever gave me an example of mapping a list-returning function to a list. Everyone went on about 'effects', monad laws, etc. For some of us it's best to work backwards from something con
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by thewix 3y ago
This is probably the biggest problem with FP, and I love FP, and use fp-ts which is marred in category theory. It took me a while to understand concepts that are really quite simple but explained very academically. Remember, [Monada are jus
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by thewix 3y ago
I prefer functional. Procedural is not restrained enough and allows for mutable global state. This can go off the rails when multiple people are in the code. Functional stresses composition so functions should stay small, and ADTs allow for
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by thewix 3y ago
This is why I use codec libraries like zod or io-ts (purify has them built in also) at my boundaries.
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by thewix 3y ago
Sorry, I should have said JSONB. Do you still consider a table with a single JSONB column SQL or NoSQL? Sure, it may be contained within a RDBMS but you are treating it more like a document store than a relationship database.
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by thewix 3y ago
You get JSON types with postgres. If you aren't sharing data between tables then json is fine
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by thewix 3y ago
Common in the States too. I'm from Eastern MA and work in Boston. If I order a "vodka, soda" it sounds normal, but if I say "vodka AND soda" then "vodka" becomes "vodkar". My accent is a pretty s
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by thewix 3y ago
Gotcha. I may have to give HTMX a try again. Though, I worked on a HAL-based, full RESTful service back in 2016 and I'm not sure how eager I am to go back. REST was ok for the read-side of things, but for writing I find RPC/comman
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by thewix 3y ago
Doesn't HTMX work via HATEOAS so would require a full RESTful backend?
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by thewix 3y ago
It should be: start with a well architected monolith, and then slice things into microservices when you need to. Fowler and many Microservice evangelists even say to start with a monolith first, because you don't know the correct slice
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by thewix 3y ago
I feel the same way. I started my career in the mid-00s in Enterprise software writing .NET. We used to have many conversations around modeling, patterns, testing, etc. I work at a Node shop now and none of that happens. I am trying to intr
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by thewix 3y ago
My world changed when I started thinking in a strongly typed way (not just using string and number) and representing state changes as different types rather than interpreting than through property values. Once you do that then your code bec
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by thewix 3y ago
Exceptions should absolutely be a part of an interface and it stops you from leaking implementation details. If I have an IRepository interface then none of the methods should ever throw SqlException, HttpException, or anything like that. Y