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Thanks very much :D

This looks pretty promising from the table of contents! It was also written by one of the main authors of GHC, the most widely-used Haskell compiler.

Elm is heavily focused on user-friendliness and offers a sort of full framework for developing frontend applications, whereas PureScript is focused on producing readable, easily in…

Not sure if this is related to the Hawthorne effect, but I could easily see more traffic with liking just due to the fact that it's new and fancy. Maybe a significant number of peo…

I did something similar for about two weeks, where I'd choose an article every day and write my own notes about it: http://kovach.me/notes.html They were all about a single topic t…

Well, sort of. One of the big focuses of functional programming is _minimizing_ state; in other words, only what must be passed around should be. Sure, you'll end up having a large…

I'm not saying side-effecting IO is the _only_ thing that motivates the idea behind Monads, it's just one of the big ones. I mentioned more than just that, and the use cases you me…

The big problem with monad tutorials is that you can't talk about them without understanding the motivation behind them, and that comes from purely functional languages (i.e. Haske…

IIRC, you have to pay a subscription to shop on Jet in the first place. Every new shopper brings in recurring revenue.

Case in point: Express is now owned by strongloop and is still (no pun intended) going strong.

On the main project I'm working on, the reason we have develop/master is mainly for hotfixes. We deploy once a week, but if we need to get something out the door quickly, we make a…

Category Theory is all about composing things and being able to reason about them mathematically. In programs, we compose lots of things (functions, types, objects, systems...), an…

Why is the most common job title "Software Engineer" at the top, but "Software Developer" is listed as the first job analyzed? Were they grouped together?

Suddenly, I feel like I should spend a heck of a lot more time reading classic papers, books etc.

I thought it was an homage to You Don't Know Jack ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Don%27t_Know_Jack_%28video_... ). I read the title as "You Don't Know Jack Squat," haha. I don'…