insulanian

14 ms·

91.
by insulanian 8y ago
Next version of F# is bringing anonymous records, which can give similar experience to your structural typing examples.
92.
by insulanian 8y ago
Interesting how 1 lakh is written: 1,00,000
93.
by insulanian 8y ago
What is special about this course? Why is it trending on HN?
94.
by insulanian 8y ago
> In practice, back-end team tend to strive on "technical purity" and would ask the front-end team to take any hacks/workarounds necessary to deliver "compelling" user-experience. The key is to design the DTOs (w
95.
by insulanian 8y ago
It was not one application. Since we moved to SPA we have started multiple new applications having very different use cases.
96.
by insulanian 8y ago
I'm not convinced. We were using MVC for years and tried different approaches, but the API code is incomparably cleaner when it doesn't deal with client concerns.
97.
by insulanian 8y ago
Well, in our case moving from server side MVC to SPA approach has drastically increased productivity and stability of our applications. MVC approach was a hairball of code where 2/3 was dealing with synchronization of state between cli
98.
by insulanian 8y ago
Separate frontend from backend development and make it even two teams. This makes it much more robust and loosely coupled because both sides protect the interface from each other.
99.
by insulanian 8y ago
Why do you have to use the query builder?
100.
by insulanian 8y ago
This 100x! I don't understand how people can work on a complex codebase without a strong static type system. I've tried it once, and still remember the lack of confidence after every non-trivial refactoring.
101.
by insulanian 8y ago
Sorry for the typo :)
102.
by insulanian 8y ago
I remember being excited about The Machine [1] from HP: "The Machine will be a complete replacement for current computer system architectures. There will be a new operating system, a new type of memory (memristors), and super-fast buse
103.
by insulanian 8y ago
>We change the schema in a way that is still compatible with the old version of the schema. Sure, this won’t work in many cases, but in some. In my experience, doing DB migrations w/o downtime is rarely worth it and involves big ris
104.
Is ASP.NET Core Now a Mature Platform?(rehansaeed.com)
68 points by insulanian 8y ago|64 comments
105.
by insulanian 8y ago
My favourite F# features: - Single-case discriminated unions. I feel so unprotected when working in C# due to IDs usually being primitive types. You're never sure if you'll accidentally flip two `int` parameters in a method call.
106.
by insulanian 8y ago
Writing F# in JetBrains Rider on a Mac, and running it in Ubuntu based Docker image in AWS. My colleagues are working on Windows with Visual Studio and Ubuntu with VS Code. True multi-platform, multi-tool development on the same codebase. W
107.
by insulanian 8y ago
There are similar efforts on .NET Core side [1]. [1] https://github.com/dotnet/corert/blob/master/Documentation/i...
108.
Unix is Dead(nanovms.com)
8 points by insulanian 8y ago|0 comments
109.
by insulanian 8y ago
Used Windows for years, from 3.11 to 7. Switched to Mac couple of years ago. I don't think I would consider using Windows ever again, unless they go back to 7 and create a new reasonable iteration out of it. Everything after 7 is just
110.
Git process that works – say no to GitFlow(reallifeprogramming.com)
4 points by insulanian 8y ago|0 comments
111.
by insulanian 8y ago
That's a speculation.
112.
Satoshi Nakamoto made a post after years of silence?(p2pfoundation.ning.com)
78 points by insulanian 8y ago|82 comments
113.
Stop Teaching C++(ibob.github.io)
5 points by insulanian 8y ago|0 comments
114.
by insulanian 8y ago
F# doesn't actually have HKTs either, unfortunately.
115.
by insulanian 8y ago
Can someone familiar with both Rust and F# (or OCaml) type systems write few words about the expressiveness aspect of the language? What would I miss in Rust if coming from the F# background?
116.
by insulanian 8y ago
One has to be born with an eye for details... Well done!
117.
What is your least favorite thing about Haskell in 2018?(medium.com)
2 points by insulanian 8y ago|0 comments
118.
Ten reasons not to use a statically typed functional programming language(fsharpforfunandprofit.com)
3 points by insulanian 8y ago|2 comments
119.
by insulanian 8y ago
Windows 7 was the best version they shipped and the last worth installing.
120.
Announcing elba, package manager for Idris(dcao.gitlab.io)
3 points by insulanian 8y ago|0 comments

More ›