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by boothead 13y ago
Haste is looking more and more awesome! However, we've taken the route of clojurescript/om for building on top of a Haskell web app. cljs just seems a bit more "there" as a compiles to js language. I would have loved to
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by boothead 13y ago
I about 50% agree with you here. The factor that you're forgetting is the filter effect: Haskell is not adopted, it's learned after a thankless (there are no jobs) process of deep study. This means that the quality of available ta
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by boothead 13y ago
Why SF? From what I've seen the London tech scene is really kicking off now. Some of the better funded start ups here are even starting to compete with finance jobs salary wise. And on finance: There are loads of jobs that industry in
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by boothead 13y ago
If ocaml is a language waiting for a killer app, this might be it: http://www.openmirage.org/ There was a presentation at the FP eXchange in London last Friday about mirage and many a mind was blown!
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by boothead 13y ago
That is the most fucked up thing I've read for a long time. For a "health" system to be designed to suck everything out of a person of someone who's already dying is vile.
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by boothead 13y ago
If you can drop a bunch of tablets in a village and kids can get themselves up to speed with no supervision, I sure that these problems are insurmountable :-) The more I read about learning, the more I think structure, testing and to a less
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by boothead 13y ago
If there somewhere I can acquire some of these? I'd absolutely love to get them into the hands of my daughter and her classmates!
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by boothead 13y ago
I'm 37 in May. I have been: A marquee erector A chemical toilette attendant A barman A bouncer (prefer the term doorman) A commando A telecoms engineer A programmer of various different languages Now I'm the CTO of a start up and
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by boothead 13y ago
I actually am considering clojurescript for the front end of my Haskell app.
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by boothead 13y ago
Also I heard that http://pusher.com/ have or will have a bit of Haskell in production: http://pusher.com/jobs/platform_engineer
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by boothead 13y ago
I'm CTO of a team of Haskellers in London. We're not hiring at the moment, but if you ping me on ben <at> dlstartup dot com I'll keep your CV around. Otherwise there are 5-6 haskell startups and probably others on the f
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by boothead 13y ago
http://www.ledger-cli.org/ has a port in Haskell ( http://hledger.org/ that from what I've heard will be the main branch in future.
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by boothead 13y ago
Actually I thought of another reason why Haskell matters. My HN score has gone up over 60 points in the last few days from only 4 comments here about Haskell. It's really a very efficient tool to have in your arsenal :-)
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by boothead 13y ago
Haskell also matters from a business point of view! I can tell you that hiring Haskellers immediately connects you with the top of the food chain in terms of hiring.
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by boothead 13y ago
I most definitely don't! :-) I was trying to simplify to get a cross the point that the Haskell ecosystem contains small and very well factored abstractions, without busting out the mathjax and technical terms. I find the key understan
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by boothead 13y ago
So we started with a git subtree merge of all the dependent projects and then a script to build a docker container, with physical infrastructure managed by ansible. It now looks more like we're going to use NixOs and NixOps - which are
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by boothead 13y ago
Not this time I'm afraid. The format was 3 short talks so we didn't bother videoing.
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by boothead 13y ago
What you find if you're doing it right is not only that you get the safety of static typing, but also that the types often lead you towards to solution. Abstractions in Haskell are smaller, more universal and composable than those of s
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by boothead 13y ago
I gave a talk at a Haskell meetup in London this week that covered some of this - the slides won't really be useful standalone, but I could probably re purpose them to a blog post fairly easily if you're interested?
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by boothead 13y ago
Currently heading up a team of awesomely smart people building our back end in Haskell on snap. AMA!
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by boothead 13y ago
http://import.io/ ?
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by boothead 13y ago
How about Apple TV, ipad, android etc? Any plans for those platforms?
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by boothead 13y ago
Yes, move on wasn't really the right terminology perhaps I really meant embrace as well :-)
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by boothead 13y ago
I wonder where most people go from python? As has been mentioned in other threads (specifically the comments on Ian Bicking's recent blog post) many seem to be moving on. Where are you all going? Personally after having been a python d
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by boothead 13y ago
The way I do it is to have a base ubuntu image -> base haskell-platform -> base installation of all dependencies (libpq etc and cabal deps) -> my app. The image "above" the app is built periodically and the app is built b
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by boothead 13y ago
Here's my docker file for running a postgres 9.3 with plv8 FROM boothead/saucy ENV DEBIAN_FRONTEND noninteractive # Add repository and install PostgreSQL 9.3 RUN echo "deb http://apt.p
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by boothead 13y ago
Perhaps (s)he's surfing from the pornographic portion of the internet and the UK Government blocked the information superhighway in both directions just to be sure?
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by boothead 13y ago
Yep :-)
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by boothead 13y ago
Yep, I met Helen at my Dad's house a couple of months ago and she mentioned you. In fact I believe your folks are going round to Dad's (Chris's) place soon. Small word huh?!
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by boothead 13y ago
From my handy "Copy writing for Geeks Checklist": Is your copy about them, not you? Did you position your product? eg.: Copywriting For Geeks. Sweeps is a mixer, not a soft drink. Do you focus on the single most powerful desire of

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