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    Comment #46160975

    Is this as big as I think it is?

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    Comment #46003528

    Effect systems are a trend that will go away. You can't statically guarantee that only, for example, the DB has side effects in a function. So what's the point? Haskell got it righ…

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    Comment #45916127

    Most big corporates have their own inner sourced css components library. So when you get design feedback you wouldn't be directly editing the style in one self contained web applic…

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    Comment #45874122

    >comparative advantage Makes a lot of sense in textbooks. But in the real world, when politics is involved, the whole theory breaks down. What does your text book say about China h…

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    Comment #45808799

    Thanks, very clear explanation.

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    Comment #45801574

    So it seems the thesis of some pretty in the know mathematicians is that the secret of dependent types is knowing when not to use them. Is that necessarily an argument against Lean…

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    Comment #45801514

    >It has been some time I worked seriously in a dependently-typed language, but I recall coming to the conclusion that dependent types are best used as little as possible, for exact…

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    Comment #45618558

    React is dead easy to create a component and get going with whatever you want to create. But as your application grows it is really difficult to test. The React testing library sou…

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    Comment #45618497

    I preferred class based components. The pretend functional programming style of hooks is quite imperative when you prick a little beneath the surface, so classes were probably the …

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    Comment #45614901

    > is quite convenient It's not principally about convenience though is it? It's about defining the semantics of your program through the DSL. Then you can verify the program logic,…

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    Comment #45603669

    They must be making a lot of money!

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    Comment #45062831

    How many of these projects are actually merged to master and live though? I noticed the phrase "worked on" a lot, as opposed to shipped.

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    Comment #44532547

    If you have an effect ReadsFromDB, you can't enforce statically that someone will not come along and change the ReadsFromDB effect to write to the db. That's why I think Haskell go…

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    Comment #43397688

    So why is barData being recomputed? Does anyone understand how React compiler works enough to answer this?