| The book is on Amazon, but this submission had those keywords, plus it's a PDF. Of course it is of contemporary relevance; functional programming (FP) is all the rage. The tricky bit are questions like How does this jive with existing JS functional constructs like "fantasy land," for example. How to "recruit" more folks to FP, or even a hybrid approach of objects interacting functionally Game jams using more FP-like data structures? Or more HN submissions like that. The harder things to evaluate are a lot of other topics, news-like but investigative and curious, or sites that are essentially selling a service (versus teaching the mechanism behind it). For SaaS stuff, since HN is about startups, I have to let it slide. But the hacking piece is when one person accomplishes something with persistent decomposition of sequential problems, or does something clever using tools or ideas from a different context. |