samhh

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by samhh 6y ago
Sum types and newtypes behind smart constructors are better ways of accomplishing what you'd usually use union types for, I think?
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by samhh 6y ago
Ha, similar. Try encouraging your team to adopt the likes of fp-ts and newtype-ts piecemeal, it's certainly not as good as the likes of PureScript but it can at least enable you to utilise composition, Option et al, etc.
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by samhh 7y ago
Firstly, there's a nuance here that readability is heavily dependent upon the language. A language where recursion is the recommended approach to these sorts of problems will have far better syntax for doing so, such as in Haskell. Sec
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by samhh 7y ago
On the other hand, you can pretty much just learn Haskell to learn PureScript. All of the differences fit onto a single small docs page: https://github.com/purescript/documentation/blob/master/lang...
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by samhh 7y ago
I think it's unfair to categorise TypeScript as the easiest for interop if you've asserted that static type safety is important to you. If the typings aren't already available you'll need to create a type declaration for
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by samhh 7y ago
I have a side project called Bukubrow. It's a WebExtension that plugs into Buku, a CLI bookmark manager. I'm currently rewriting it in PureScript. It's hard to get pure functional programming's foot in the door at work -
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by samhh 7y ago
It's not very strongly typed at all, and it absolutely doesn't force you into the OOP paradigm. Why don't I consider it strongly typed?: Structurally subtyped as opposed to nominal typing, the pervasiveness of any, allowance
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by samhh 7y ago
If the strings are static you can define a type that's a union of string literals, create a tuple containing them all, and then a type guard function that simply checks the argument against the array. If the strings are dynamic then yo
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by samhh 7y ago
There is both null and undefined in JavaScript. Additionally, an empty array coerces to true because it's an object and objects are always truthy. Personally I'd prefer that not even null/undefined coerced to false, or could
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by samhh 7y ago
Mainland Europe. Come on, it was obvious what I meant.
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by samhh 7y ago
I agree, and I grew up in a country where they're very rare (UK) and still don't have one. I love holidaying in Europe. Bidets, bidets everywhere.
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by samhh 7y ago
I began working from home and essentially opted out of it. I feel more and more like Larry David in Curb every day.
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by samhh 7y ago
I dislike the apparent inability to label groups of changes with `git stash`, so instead before leaving a branch with in-progress changes I'll commit them all as "WIP". Then, when I return to the branch, I'll check if th
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by samhh 7y ago
This new API is additive and not a breaking change, much like React's addition of hooks.
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by samhh 7y ago
> with no real gain Did you read the linked motivations?
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by samhh 7y ago
"[TypeScript] seems to encourage complex types instead of simpler contracts." Having refactored a few different codebases across two different businesses and my own personal projects, I must say subjectively that this is the oppos
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by samhh 7y ago
You should never have unexpected exceptions if you embrace static typing and one of the many libraries that take this idea and do it better, for example `purify-ts`. It also comes with methods included for statements that might throw such a
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by samhh 7y ago
Yes, there are both manual whitelists and blacklists. There are also easily accessible options for disabling the adblocker permanently or temporarily, in the latter case on a timer of your choosing e.g. for 5 minutes.
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by samhh 7y ago
I was put in touch with a business by a recruiter. I stated my salary expectations, received the typical "that's a little high..." from the recruiter; as per usual, the offers I received justified my stance. They offered me 1
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by samhh 8y ago
I chose to rewrite my portfolio site in Gatsby and deploy it to Netlify with my custom domain pointed to it. It's a big improvement in ease of use versus how I used to do it with a Node server hosted on DigitalOcean, as good as I found