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When combined they yield a treasure map

I don't know if this is helpful, but for the introductory course in programming at University we followed an earlier edition of this free book: https://greenteapress.com/wp/think-python-2e/

Backend services are about more than serving data, wouldn't you say?

The mus and sigmas in this paper on risk modelling would not make Nicholas Taleb very happy

It's a difficult analogy to make, in particular when you forget to consider the ocean of milk underneath you from all the libraries and frameworks you are using. Then the difference between 4 small bottles or 1 big bottle seems less significant.

Dear Norway. We stand ready to hook you up intravenously. You just say the word.

Sincerely, Denmark. The Lurpak country.

These are the kinds of observations we need to find the gaps in our current understanding of physics.

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Logo looks like Hivestreaming. https://www.hivestreaming.com

tl;dr: Languages offer ways of composing side effects. Delay is just another side effect and "reactive" isn't that special.