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Spiros Eliopoulos
Personal blog · computationallyendowed.com/blog · on HN as seliopouprogrammingeconomics
Spiros Eliopoulos writes Computationally Endowed, a personal blog at computationallyendowed.com about programming and economics. Since 2013, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “MVC in a Reactive World”. The last post was in 2015, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog's reactive UI essay, which treats a view as a function of model state updated by handlers, to support points about React, Flux and immutable frontends.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Spiros Eliopoulos. Blog Posts, Projects, Past Gigs, & Publications.
Most-linked posts?
- MVC in a Reactive World3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2014-07-28
- Bitcoin Deflation and Economic Activity3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2013-11-27
- A Logical Interpretation of the Cap Theorem (2015)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-09-21
- Ifs and &&s and Plan 9's Source Code2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-05-24
What Hacker News says?
I'm a huge fan of ReactJS, however it isn't a perfect or optimal implementation of it's concepts. Having a purely functional frontend, with immutability is key. ReactJS is leaky in it's mix of imperative and declarative code. FluxJS also suffers from this same issue. ReactJS is the gateway drug to frontend nirvana. For more info: http://computationallyendowed.com/blog/2014/07/20/reactive-m... (MVC in a Reactive Worl…
Comment linking /blog/2014/07/20/reactive-mvc.html
on “No more JavaScript frameworks”Submitted Ifs and &&s and Plan 9's Source Code as a story · 190 points
HN discussionBecause the those "defenders of the status quo" are RIGHT in this case, even though the idea of an uncontrolled crypto-currency is something that would do society a lot of good right now. Just not bitcoin . The travesty of all this is that the bitcoin True Believers - so desperate to make it work - are making such a target of themselves, we now have people trying to ban all crypto-currency[1]. That might be a worthw…
Comment linking /blog/2013/11/27/bitcoin-deflation.html
on “Sen. Manchin demands complete US ban on Bitcoin”Submitted Bitcoin Deflation and Economic Activity as a story · 55 points
HN discussionThat's actually the exact opposite of what he says. He says that CA can be vacuously satisfied by a system by simply going unavailable. It makes totally sense, but is a pathological behavior. It's a confusion that many people have about CAP, which I tried to clarify in a blog post[0] a couple months ago, in response to some other articles were going around at the time. [0]: http://computationallyendowed.com/blog/201…
Comment linking /blog/2015/07/09/cap-theorem-logic.html
on “A Critique of the CAP Theorem”Submitted Bounded Panning in D3 as a story · 55 points
HN discussionWhile Flux advocates for a totally new application architecture, it's one that still seems to fit the MVC architecture, especially when expressed using reactive concepts. I wrote a similar blog post to this one except using Elm as the reactive system[0], D3 for composable views[1], and MVC as the application architecture[2]. Once you have a reactive system and a declarative representation for your interface, applica…
Comment linking /blog/2014/07/20/reactive-mvc.html
on “Om and Flux”Submitted MVC in a Reactive World as a story · 14 points
HN discussionInstead of the down voting nonsense, read this: http://computationallyendowed.com/blog/2014/07/20/reactive-m... Basically: view m0 = r0 view (m1 = handler e0 m0) = r1 view (m2 = handler e1 m1) = r2 Or just down vote and learn nothing.
Comment linking /blog/2014/07/20/reactive-mvc.html
on “Don't React (Presentation - Use arrows to navigate)”Submitted A Logical Interpretation of the Cap Theorem (2015) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionNominal GDP, as the name implies, aims to be a measure of production in an economy. This means that shuffling around assets should not count towards nominal GDP. As no real production is happening through the use of Bitcoin (and there isn't really a Bitcoin economy to speak of in the traditional sense)[0], the majority of Bitcoin transactions are speculative, which means people are just shuffling around assets. Tran…
Comment linking /blog/2013/11/27/bitcoin-deflation.html
on “Can Bitcoin's Price Ever Be Stable?”Reminds me of the inverse of the goto error pattern. http://computationallyendowed.com/blog/2012/12/03/ifs-and-an...
Comment linking /blog/2012/12/03/ifs-and-ands-and-plan-9s-source-code.html
on “Goto fail”