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All of this evidence demonstrates that reddit the company seems like a welcoming community, but the key to their success lies in
how reddit the website is good at developing the feeling of community.  This is achieved by the subreddit system, which lets any
user create a new subreddit for users to submit links to.  Two months into the founding of reddit, the two co-founders, Alexis
Ohanian and Steve Huffman, had an argument over how to let people categorize their submissions to reddit.com.  Their two
candidates were searchable tags, which were very popular athte time, and subreddits, a system where users could make their own
subsections of the site to submit to.  The concept which Huffman said to Ohanian to explain the purpose of subreddits was:

Let’s say somebody submits a story about how the Nets aren’t doing well and we’re using the tag system.  “Nets not performing up
to pre-season expectations this year. #Nets #Brooklyn #NYC #NBA”  The problem is that each of those groups could have a
completely differe

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/**
 * Type guard; only returns `true` if object shape has a non-null
 * `data` value and `err` has a null value.
 * @param val 
 */
export function isSuccessResponse(val:any): val is SuccessResponse {
  return (
    isObject(val) && 
    val.data && 
    val.err === null

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export function LoginScreen(props) {
  const [loginArgs, setLoginArgs] = React.useState(Login.newArgs());
  
  async function submitLogin() {
    const res:Login.Response = await DappbotAPI.auth.login.call(loginArgs);
    ...
  }
  
  return (
    ...

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import AllStripeTypes from 'stripe';

export namespace StripeTypes {
  export type Customer = AllStripeTypes.customers.ICustomer;
  export type Card = AllStripeTypes.ICard;

  export type Subscription = AllStripeTypes.subscriptions.ISubscription;
  export type SubscriptionState = AllStripeTypes.subscriptions.SubscriptionStatus;

  export type Invoice = AllStripeTypes.invoices.IInvoice;

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import API from '@eximchain/dappbot-api-client';
import Payment, { StripeTypes } from '@eximchain/dappbot-types/spec/methods/payment';

// Nested namespaces make for legible collision-free names
const res:Payment.Read.Response = await API.payment.read.call();

// Helper namespace cuts down on extra text
const subscription:StripeTypes.Subscription = res.data.subscription;

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import { Login } from '@eximchain/dappbot-types/spec/methods/auth';
import request from 'request-promise-native';

const baseApiUrl = 'https://api.dapp.bot';

async function loginToDappbot(creds:Login.Args):Login.Result {

  const res:Login.Response = await request({
    headers : { 'Content-Type' : 'application/json' },
    method : Login.HTTP,

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import { XOR } from 'ts-xor';
import { ApiResponse } from '../../responses';

export namespace Login {

  export const HTTP:HttpMethods.POST = 'POST';
  export const Path = `${authBasePath}/${ResourcePaths.login}`

  export interface Args {
    username: string,

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export interface SomeData {
  foo: string
  bar: string
}

export function newSomeData(): SomeData {
  return {
    foo: 'example',
    bar: 'object'
  }

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// This line takes all of the exports from that
// file and wraps them into a single namespace.
// If we didn't do this "* as User" syntax here,
// then a consumer would have to do it in order
// to get a convenient namespace.
import * as User from './user';

// This line directly surfaces all of its non-default
// exports from right here, so that users can just
// grab one item from there, e.g.:

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{
  "main" : "../../build/user/index.js",
  "types": "./index.ts"
}