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This might be broadly true. But I think in the context of what tptatek is talking about -- that is, getting low-ceremony mileage out of React -- it's not. The reason is React's mai…

As someone who's pretty far down the rabbit hole on a bunch of these fronts, I think this is wonderful advice. Many of these are tools to solve very specific problems, and you shou…

Thanks, that's very helpful!

Reason describes itself as "a meta language toolchain to build systems rapidly", which seems a little vague to me. Am I understanding correctly that Reason is both a (kind of) alte…

I'm sympathetic to the worst-of-both-worlds problem, but can this actually be true? In the case of types, constraints actually are the benefit, right? Do you mean that if you don't…

I'm not sure I understand what you mean by "the client loses most the advantages of your library being in TypeScript in the first place." Your library still exposes a more clearly-…

Are you being serious? That's exactly what's being implied. Which part of tangentially involved in tech juxtaposed with unlike women with Math, CS, or EE degrees would lead you to …

Doesn't the OO approach just move the work of the switch statement into the class declaration of the model? In practice, OO is about encapsulation, and FP is not. So it's probably …

There's a reasoning behind this. You may not agree with it, but it's good to fully understand the problem it's trying to solve. There are two problems with your suggested approach …

I'm sorry not to add value to the discussion, but I wanted to say the back-and-forth has been a very educational look at some of the practical trade-offs that framework designers h…

That's sort of what I was trying to say, except maybe I have a more pessimistic estimation of how many organizations are open to being convinced. Of course you have to sell yoursel…

Same, except I don't really enjoy writing documentation. :) I posted my full thoughts in a separate post, but I'm looking for a job, and every job description I read makes me feel …

I might be considered a larval Designineer. I started off as a visual designer, then learned HTML and CSS, then Javascript, then out of necessity began maintaining an old ASP Class…

I suspect the scarcity of your skillset is the main contributor to your relative scarcity of opportunities. At a previous company I helped found, we realized that we were trying to…

"What a human would write" isn't the purpose of the comparison. "This gets put in, this comes out" is. Did you not read the heading on the overview page? It doesn't even say "compa…

That seems like a pretty empty criticism when the article itself is basically a dust-cover synopsis of his book. He's illustrating particular points using representative commonly-h…

It seems like most messages of this type try to pretend that it's not about money. The worst is when a company uses lines like "mutually beneficial" or "we're confident this will b…

You do not and can not know how what I was calling a Theity cares. It is itself a very primitive idea that the caring must manifest as heavyweight, visibly-obvious intervention int…

I'm inferring a distinction that Kurzweil doesn't make explicit, but I'd guess he regards "theism" as a claim that the creator possesses specific (highly anthopomorphic) traits, eg…

Question for you -- is it a breach of etiquette to respond to something several days old? If so, I apologize, but I was away for a bit and I found your response interesting. The re…

To put it simply, he's trying to get his finger out of a Chinese-finger-trap by pulling, which makes him a moron because every 5-year old will tell you to give up and push your fin…

There's no doubt that some of the most successful sites have been pretty ugly. But to imitate the ugliness smacks of cargo cultism -- reproducing side effects in hopes of receiving…

Coming from a user interface design background, I thought this article posited a couple of false dichotomies which were perplexingly echoed in the comments here. Their suggestions …

"The reason these words are abused is because they work..." Isn't this just an example of a bandwagon effect cognitive bias? How does the ubiquitous nature of bad copy make it any …

I'm going to add a cautionary note about RingCentral. I hesitate to make my first post a negative one, but they've inspired me to feel strongly enough to break the lurker barrier. …