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   by aszen 6y ago

   Is there any application that provides similar features but can be integrated into an existing web application. We want our users to be able to do similar things for their internal reporting within our own application. The kind of integrat
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   by aszen 6y ago

   If you are interested in fp and like building web application uis then I suggest you start learning elm (elm-lang.org). It's a beautifully small language , easy to learn with great error messages by the compiler. You can learn tk build
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   by aszen 6y ago

   On your point about compiler enforcing legitimate values, the way I see it is that if u don't get the right values from the outside world you should immediately exit the program with a nice error message. As the data moves further down
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   by aszen 6y ago

   I think many of these points are valid for a type system like Java's but they hold less ground for other languages a. Yes tests are still needed but you need far less of them thanks to type you can focus testing on the critical logic i
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   by aszen 6y ago

   I had this realisation too, after spending countless hours searching the code bases with regexes to try to extract valuable information. Right now we have ide's that provide rich language support but they only expose extremely basic tr
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   by aszen 6y ago

   The only reason you would want packages from different distro's is if they have a different version. With nix you can install packages with different versions, you can also install old packages by going back in nixpkgs history and bui
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   by aszen 6y ago

   Another solid alternative is to install the nix package manager[0] and get access to thousands of packages. I have stopped installing stuff from apt and thankfully my system never breaks now. [0] https://github.com/NixOS&#x2
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   by aszen 6y ago

   It's actually time travelling through the various UI states ur web application will go through. It's really awesome for debugging complex ui interactions but not for actual line by line code debugging
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   by aszen 6y ago

   The tooling is solid, the lsp server provides auto completions and edit by edit syntax checking in major editors like vim, Emacs and vscode, there is a good formatting tool in elm-format, a built in repl which is basic but works fast. A tes
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    by aszen 6y ago

    Limitations like Tuples in elm are restricted to just two elements, because the author feels tuples greater than length of two should be better modelled as a named record. Nested record updates are also not supported, so u have to write fun
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    by aszen 6y ago

    I think the main difference apart from syntax and lack of higher order functionality is that with elm you have to embrace the language restrictions and not try to fight them. The lack of advanced features can be frustrating for an experienc
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    by aszen 6y ago

    I have experience with elm, and since you are teaching students I would suggest you to go with it. There is no beating it's compiler for error messages, tooling and extensive beginner friendliness. Elm is how I learned functional progr
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    by aszen 6y ago

    Looks very promising, very clojure like in terms of syntax. The integration with composer is a good idea, and so is the interop with php. It can have a very bright future if it can leverage the existing enormous php ecosystem. Although I w
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    by aszen 6y ago

    Kind of sad to see GitHub doesn't use GitHub itself to deploy and monitor their releases.
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    by aszen 6y ago

    To create that ideal dsl one has to both know the domain well enough and have the technical skills which is a rare combination so i'm rather sceptical of this claim. Besides any dsl can only help with well understood repeatable problem
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    by aszen 6y ago

    Thanks for the suggestion, thoroughly enjoyed watching it
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    by aszen 6y ago

    See the video here https://youtu.be/z0mb0NteYjg
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    by aszen 6y ago

    This ELI5 is actually not a good summary, the article is way more nuanced than this simplistic summary would suggest. In an effective organisation middle managers are not incompetent rather they are clueless , they entangle their destiny wi
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    by aszen 6y ago

    The article deserves a good reading especially the middle part (look at the many comments in the article to understand different perspectives). Gist of it is People who are focused on doing good work and performing well in an effective orga
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    by aszen 6y ago

    Thanks for sharing this, I'm at the start of my career and reading this definitely makes me less clueless than before. I have a very idealized world view and this reading shattered that quite a bit.
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    by aszen 6y ago

    And what about job satisfaction, not doing an actual good job and spending miserable time doing leetcode is not going to add much worth to my day to day happiness. I instead always suggest to do a good job regardless (note that doesn't
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    by aszen 6y ago

    Thanks that is very interesting, I would imagine having all the data in one schema, and then few other schemas containing views and functions grouped together logically.
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    by aszen 6y ago

    Becuase of lack of tooling there is tons of duplicate logic in SQL based systems, I see the same logic repeated across queries which already exists in some view but no knows about it so it ends up being repeated. Lack of abstractions like
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    by aszen 6y ago

    I'm very curious about this pattern, but does the tooling exist to make this feasible across a team. One of the big problems with SQL views is their lack of discoverability. The lack of tooling also plagues SQL based systems, I would
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    by aszen 6y ago

    Is this a joke, US has already used Nuclear weapons offensively twice and has the most destructive offensive nuclear capability in the world.
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    by aszen 6y ago

    For those who are interested in what actual things the author knows, read https://overreacted.io/the-elements-of-ui-engineering/ Reading it I feel that creative problem solving is more important than simply knowing stu
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    by aszen 6y ago

    Very well said, there are times we lose the bigger picture of our lives and instead start wasting times with pointless stuff just to escape the reality of our lives.
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    by aszen 6y ago

    I would say it works surprisingly well 90% of the time. The main help type hints give to the compiler is that it can generate better error messages for when things do go wrong, apart from that there is no major difference. As I mentioned ea
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    by aszen 6y ago

    Yes, just pointing out the trade offs here. Btw many functional languages have quite good interactive experiences, (ocaml, f sharp, Haskell , clojure all have decent repl's). Usually they work instantly for small sized projects.
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    by aszen 6y ago

    Not really, rust is unusable for interactive programming because of this reason. I understand that's not rust target domain but still there's downsides to be had with their approach.