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Alfredo Di Napoli

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Alfredo Di Napoli's personal blog at alfredodinapoli.com covers programming. Since 2012, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “Fun with Dependent Types in Haskell”. The last post was in 2018, but the archive is still widely read.

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2012–2016first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2014

Alfredo Di Napoli — Senior Haskell engineer in Rome. Functional programming, type systems, distributed systems.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Fun with Dependent Types in Haskell
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-10-13

What Hacker News says?

  1. > Go model a square and a rectangle in your favorite statically typed language. Okay. data Shape = Square Int | Rectangle Int Int deriving (Show) > You will find that square extends rectangle and setting the length on a square also sets the width. Why? I don't really see a need for square to extend a rectangle. > So if I have a collection of rectangles which contains an unknown number of squares of which I set the w…

    Comment linking /posts/2014-10-13-fun-with-dependent-types-in-haskell.html

    on “John Carmack: Functional programming in C++ (2012)”
  2. Submitted Fun with Dependent Types in Haskell as a story · 75 points

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  3. Submitted How I deploy Haskell Code as a story · 62 points

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  4. Submitted My Road to Haskell as a story · 4 points

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  5. Submitted (Haskell) State is pure as a story · 3 points

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  6. Submitted Paginators are Mealy Machines in disguise as a story · 2 points

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  7. Submitted [Haskell] State is pure as a story · 2 points

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  8. Submitted I love to be a window repairer as a story · 1 points

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