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by jasim 9y ago
Yes they talk about death in the self-serving "how can anything in this life be important when there's an eternity of unimaginable bliss and continued, but changed, eternal life ahead?" sense.
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by jasim 9y ago
Death is probably the most philosophical moment of our lives, but unfortunately it leaves us no time to contemplate it. Among the few things I appreciate about religion is how it tries to bring our lives into perspective by incessantly remi
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Dijkstra on Haskell and Java(chrisdone.com)
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by jasim 9y ago
Thanks very much!
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by jasim 9y ago
That's a very helpful walk through, thank you. I'm very naive about this and would appreciate any more thoughts - If you hit a sustained 20% net profitability with just this funding, would you be able to avoid raising more? Would
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by jasim 10y ago
https://svelte.technology/ is what you're looking for. I haven't ever used it because I find React quite adequate. I share your concern about the complex runtime layer that React introduces, and it is getting even
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by jasim 10y ago
> If you consider 40LOC complex I don't understand why you work as a dev. Goodness, your snark that questions the parent's competence is not only unwarranted, it is based on an incomplete understanding of the value of abstracti
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by jasim 10y ago
If your web-app has even a modicum of complexity on the client side, the vanilla DOM based solution is going to get unwieldy real fast. Consider a simple list of elements to which you can add or delete items. With vanilla DOM, you’ll have t
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by jasim 10y ago
There is a huge number of web programming jobs out there, and so would be easy to get into. Figure out a back-end language and web framework you like - I'd recommend Python+Django or Ruby+Rails - and build a web app in it - if you spen
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The Philosophy of Cooking(theatlantic.com)
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by jasim 10y ago
And the OCaml-as-JS community is small and very welcoming. How often can you get first-class support from the compiler makers as a newbie? Hongbo Zhang and Jordan Walke and Cheng Lou are all on the Discord channel and are extremely helpful.
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by jasim 10y ago
The concept of 'semantic classnames', even if propagated by w3.org has caused as much grief as the concept of 'separation of concerns' between HTML & CSS fad. The reason we need semantics in HTML is to make the marku
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by jasim 10y ago
Those features sound really nice. Any links/screenshots?
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Education of a Programmer(medium.com)
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by jasim 10y ago
You'll get programmers from developing countries with a good 10 years on them for $70k if you can build a company around a completely async remote culture. And I'm not talking about fad-following framework-crazed devs, but rugged
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Inside Paradox, the strangest company in video games(eurogamer.net)
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by jasim 10y ago
Agree generally, but the future of web app development is looking more and more like a hundred languages and frameworks. Here's someone who built a 50k LoC web app in Haskell - both client and server in the same codebase - and very hap
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Haskell success story: single codebase for front-end and back-end(reddit.com)
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by jasim 10y ago
Any programmer who can put a loop together can learn OCaml and Haskell and Idris and Agda and APL. It is just that it takes time and effort. It won't be a cakewalk like when we first began to learn imperative programming - learn throug
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The Atomic/Functional CSS Movement(johnpolacek.com)
1 points by jasim 10y ago|1 comments
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Education of a Programmer(medium.com)
3 points by jasim 10y ago|0 comments
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by jasim 10y ago
"I began to worry that, by focusing on exposition, I was failing to do the best work I could. Often, my work felt illegitimate in some way" This could be worthy of discussion and how the author has responded to it is commendable.
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Playing with BuckleScript(blog.paulme.ng)
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by jasim 10y ago
"There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in." The status quo is _always_ broken. Change is unceasing. Assumptions that are true today need not remain so in the future. This can happen to any product, busines
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by jasim 10y ago
I'm building a tool that does exactly what you said -- it creates all the HTML and CSS from designs, saving immense amount of time doing the rote work of transcribing the designs into code. With design tools supporting reusable abstrac
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by jasim 10y ago
Thanks for letting us into your lovely personal computing story. I often ruminate about the graveyard of dying software - the BASICs, the COBOLs, the xBases, the Delphis and the PowerBuilders, to name just the few I know. And the immense am
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by jasim 10y ago
Give me my procedures, conditionals, and loops, and I shall move mountains. Assembler (Prince of Persia): https://github.com/jmechner/Prince-of-Persia-Apple-II BASIC: http://softwareengineering.stackexchange
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by jasim 10y ago
It is written mostly by a single programmer, while building a cross-platform development platform for iOS and Android, while building a company around the vision.
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Designing with Modules: Real World OCaml(realworldocaml.org)
4 points by jasim 10y ago|1 comments
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Jenga: a library for building build systems(github.com)
2 points by jasim 10y ago|0 comments

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