fluid_ident

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1. 1.▲
   by fluid_ident 2y ago

   Jet.com. They were a (little) competitor to amazon before they were bought by Wally-mart. They are replacing the F# with Java though: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39592760
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   by fluid_ident 2y ago

   I really miss working in F#, such a productive language. But I still enjoy keeping tabs on the updates. I always thought the tooling was quite good, given the size of the community and Microsoft's apparent apathy towards it at times. T
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   by fluid_ident 3y ago

   > How do you know you're getting it right early on? I think that's definitely the key question. If it's the sort of situation where you've been given all the requirements up front - which does happen in certain domain
4. 4.▲
   by fluid_ident 3y ago

   Sage advice. So often major architectural decisions are made in haste because of YAGNI arguments or business pressure. But a high-level design that can cope with stress and volatility is so cheap to do early, and so expensive to try to back
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   by fluid_ident 5y ago

   This. I really miss it when working outside of F#. I work on scientific code bases with a lot of different units and have been burned by improper conversions. Even with a high automated test coverage and good naming practices, such problems