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REA Group Ltd
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REA Group Ltd is the company blog at rea.tech, writing about programming and career. Since 2016, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times, most often “The worst thing in our Scala code: Futures”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-14, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
REA Group's post on how they used category theory to solve a practical software problem. Commenters link it as an example of category theory applied in industry, without judging the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Learn from REA Group's brightest tech minds as they share what's happening in the technology space.
Most-linked posts?
- The worst thing in our Scala code: Futures2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-07-15
- /how-we-used-category-theory-to-solve-a-problem-in-java/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-04-03
What Hacker News says?
[This][0] is an example of it but I suppose this is just the tip of the iceberg. [0]: http://rea.tech/how-we-used-category-theory-to-solve-a-probl...
Comment linking /how-we-used-category-theory-to-solve-a-problem-in-java/
on “Category Theory for Programmers (2014)”Submitted Use the decorator pattern for clean I/O boundaries as a story · 2 points
HN discussionhttp://rea.tech/how-we-used-category-theory-to-solve-a-probl...
Comment linking /how-we-used-category-theory-to-solve-a-problem-in-java/
on “Category Theory for Programmers (2014)”Submitted Getting to gender parity without the awks as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The worst thing in our Scala code: Futures as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted To Kill a Mockingtest as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How We (Mostly) Survived the Stormy Apocalypse (AWS Outage) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The abject failure of weak typing as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Game of Lambdas as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Not Good Enough as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The worst thing in our Scala code: Futures as a story · 1 points
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