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by jact 1y ago
In my use case, I just use content negotiation/headers to return xml, json, or HTML from the same URI. All of it comes from XSLT or xquery, sometimes Python in other projects. Doing it on the client side doesn’t really seem so necessar
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ReScript's Generalized Algebraic Data Types(rescript-lang.org)
2 points by jact 1y ago|0 comments
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by jact 1y ago
The distaste for the OCaml object system is mostly misplaced in the community. While first class modules can mostly replace them — sometimes you really need open recursion. Object types are also a very useful feature used by core librarie
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by jact 1y ago
This is highly misleading: https://danluu.com/keyboard-v-mouse/
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by jact 1y ago
No product except tulips :^)
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by jact 1y ago
It is “just code.” It’s good at what it does too. Although for my purposes, I find myself reaching for xquery a lot more often which is a very good and elegant programming language and template language although it was billed as “SQL for
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by jact 1y ago
XSLT versions are backwards compatible.
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by jact 1y ago
It certainly isn’t impossible to write good code in Go. Perhaps the code base I was working on was bad — it didn’t seem obvious to me that it was. Go is not a bad language in the way that brainfuck is a bad language. I think Java and C# off
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by jact 1y ago
I think with C or C++ devs, those who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones. I would criticize Go from the point of view of more modern languages that have powerful type systems like the ML family, Erlang/Elixir or even the up an
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by jact 1y ago
I worked briefly on extending an Go static site generator someone wrote for a client. The code was very clear and easy to read, but difficult to extend due to the many rough edges with the language. Simple changes required altering a lot of
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by jact 1y ago
OCaml’s object system is unfairly maligned by its users. It’s unfortunate because object types allow for some of the most useful kinds of polymorphism and people don’t reach for them often enough. However, OCaml’s first class modules are fr
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by jact 1y ago
This is profaning the temple of St iGNUcius
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by jact 1y ago
I think that many of the problems of this are solved by abstract types and good module interfaces to interacting with those types. If the business logic changes, the internal type representation can be modified or a new module that fills th
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by jact 1y ago
Some media really is objectionable.
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by jact 1y ago
This is true — which is why simple version control should be de rigueur in any important application where it’s feasible. The move to put everything in /the cloud is irritating but probably in part driven by this consumer complaint. No
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by jact 1y ago
They don’t have arbitrary power - power is never exercised unilaterally. I can’t imagine they would succeed for very long at say, shutting down all the grocery stores in the world. They wouldn’t even dare try from the hell they would have t
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by jact 1y ago
We certainly sanction hate speech because of the psychological and physical damage it causes to its victims. Pornography is harmful to everyone involved, from producer to consumer. In the case of video games that don’t depict real people th
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by jact 1y ago
Am I the only one who thinks this is a good thing? Pornography and obscenity should not be protected speech. It’s violence against human dignity akin to hate speech.
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by jact 1y ago
Yes, this is extremely accurate. Many people are very afraid to explore or experiment with any software program out of fear of breaking things.
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by jact 1y ago
Nothing I said was nonsense or a non-sequitor. You’re citing a bunch of historical myths to support your point, so I am pointing those out. As for your point itself, I don’t think “religion” is a meaningful category. It’s unclear to me Chri
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by jact 1y ago
Hypatia’s murder had very little to do with religious conflict against a free thinker and everything to do with class alexandrian class politics. https://historyforatheists.com/2020/07/the-great-myths-9-hyp... Bru
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by jact 1y ago
Can confirm that cool kids are definitely using Fossil
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by jact 1y ago
Dune is a very powerful and good build system — it can do some very magical and useful things. The only problem is most of these useful features are very poorly documented…
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On Pruning(alexragus.com)
1 points by jact 2y ago|0 comments
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by jact 2y ago
Is this a joke? We are supposed to get excited about the (alleged) best minds of our generation spending their talents on better ways to kill people? The idea that beatniks and college professors control America now is something asserted by