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   WordStar: A writer’s word processor(arstechnica.com)

   4 points by jasim 9y ago|0 comments
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   by jasim 9y ago

   FoxTales: Behind the Scenes at Fox Software by Kerry Nietz. It is about the development of FoxPro, the late 80s massively successful xBase clone that was acquired by Microsoft. Programmers At Work by Susan Lammers is a series of interviews
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   20 Years of Adobe Photoshop(thoughtco.com)

   72 points by jasim 9y ago|61 comments
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   by jasim 9y ago

   I've been looking for a way to import passwords from Chrome into Firefox, and was unable to find it. It is the only thing preventing me from using Firefox. Can you point to some place have any link where this is documented? (I'm
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   by jasim 9y ago

   No true Scotsman. You might be speaking about those cases where people write large god classes, pervasively side-effectful code, zero API design, and a general lack of pure abstractions - then their tests would equally be bad. Tests are cod
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   by jasim 9y ago

   Call it Kinakuta, untangle it from religion and misogyny, have more universities than mega-malls, and setup a democracy. "“Perhaps I can make an analogy to Go—though chess would work just as well. Because of our history, we Kinakutans
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   by jasim 9y ago

   Thanks for the reply, it was very informative. I've programmed in dynamic languages for most of my career (about a decade now), and have always missed types. I picked up OCaml (Reason flavoured) recently, and I've been able to enj
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   by jasim 9y ago

   This was one of the questions (unarticulated at the time) that kept me away from value-based (immutable) programming for a long time. The answer is straight forward: you use unique identifiers instead of references. A lot of your code would
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   by jasim 9y ago

   If you have used a statically typed language in the ML family (OCaml, Haskell etc.), could you contrast the development experience between the two?
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    Typed JavaScript with TypeScript, Flow, and Elm [pdf](jfokus.se)

    2 points by jasim 9y ago|0 comments
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    Biddle: self-hosted application distribution for Node.js(github.com)

    1 points by jasim 9y ago|0 comments
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    The Expression Problem (1998)(daimi.au.dk)

    1 points by jasim 9y ago|0 comments
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    Will Computers Redefine the Roots of Math?(quantamagazine.org)

    5 points by jasim 9y ago|0 comments
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    On Software(medium.com)

    1 points by jasim 9y ago|0 comments
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    by jasim 9y ago

    There is a lot of upvote/downvote see-saw going on for my comment, so I appreciate you taking the time to actually respond. I think there is a strawman in claiming atheists answer that "there is not a why". We've already
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    by jasim 9y ago

    Replace all occurrences of "science" in the article with "scientific method", and the entire article becomes a non sequitur. This is a classic case of painting science as a noun; as an inanimate, fixed concept which is u
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    by jasim 9y ago

    From time to time there returns upon the cautious thinker, the conclusion that, considered simply as a question of probabilities, it is decidedly unlikely that his views upon any debatable topic are correct. Here are thousands around me hol
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    by jasim 9y ago

    You can use a global set of variables for typography, colors, borders, box-shadows, and spacings. This could be CSS variables, SASS, or Javascript variables in CSS-in-JS. Typography and colors are something almost everyone tries to keep wit
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    Creating Yin and Yang Loaders on the Web(css-tricks.com)

    1 points by jasim 9y ago|0 comments
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    by jasim 9y ago

    I am a newcomer (started around 6 months ago), and it was not a smooth ride, but that was simply because of a lack of documentation. It has changed a lot since then - more people are writing about it, the Reason homepage itself has got a fa
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    by jasim 9y ago

    Ah yes, I missed mentioning F#. It is a great language have heard only good things about Fable. I'd be happy to be writing any Typed Functional language - the differences between them are inconsequential compared to anything outside th
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    by jasim 9y ago

    > I just don't have enough problems to scrap everything for a completely new language. I was not recommending that at all. I tried out Typed FP only after a project with a lot of complex data transformations (which is a sweet spot f
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    by jasim 9y ago

    There is a specific niche that BuckleScript and Reason can fill, and that is the sort of front-end projects that use React+Redux+ImmutableJS+TypeScript/Flow. Instead of bolting on typing into Javascript (Flow and TS both do a good job
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    by jasim 9y ago

    There is Ocsigen ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocsigen ) which lets you write OCaml on the front-end and back-end, and is a fully-featured self-contained server. There is also Opium ( https://github.com/
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    by jasim 9y ago

    BuckleScript is an OCaml to JS compiler. So you can convert your code into JS and run it from Node. Or, you can simply compile it into native OCaml binary and run it just like you run a C or GoLang binary. The choice would depend on whether
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    BuckleScript: An OCaml to JavaScript compiler(yawar.blogspot.com)

    154 points by jasim 9y ago|84 comments
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    by jasim 9y ago

    I'll tell you my experience. I never liked the arguments about reduced bugs or concise code. As a programmer the reason I would use F# (or OCaml, or Haskell, or Elm, or PureScript) is because it increases by day-to-day well-being. I&#x
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    by jasim 9y ago

    How can you help someone see the beauty and benefit of Typed FP without asking them to just trust you and spend a few months with it? I used to dismiss this as academic noodling till I got tired of OO and started going back to my procedural
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    Scala Rationale [pdf](scala-lang.org)

    3 points by jasim 9y ago|0 comments
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    Static Typing Where Possible, Dynamic Typing When Needed (2004) [pdf](ics.uci.edu)

    25 points by jasim 9y ago|23 comments