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by boothead 11y ago
One recommendation from a perhaps unexpected quarter for new working styles is Gen. Stan McChrystal's superb book "Team of Teams". It covers his tenure running special forces in Iraq and how he rebuilt his organization into o
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by boothead 11y ago
I have read "the book" mentioned (Reinventing Organizations) and it's amazing. Another book to read would be Maverick by Ricardo Semler. The companies covered, from a wide range of different sectors, industries and countries
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by boothead 11y ago
I feel like this is some kind of meta comment about the tech industry :-)
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by boothead 11y ago
Convolution is a comonad. http://kukuruku.co/hub/haskell/cellular-automata-using-comon... I love it when there's a nugget of rigor behind things like this that can be pulled out and applied elsewhere!
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by boothead 11y ago
Actually, that Haskell developers are hard to hire is one of the biggest myths going. Supply of Haskell developers massively outstrips demand at the moment. In my experience Haskell also neatly address the other two points of people and arc
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by boothead 11y ago
Personally, for infrastructure level stuff like that and if I was starting from scratch, I would chose Haskell. At the scale of Uber and given that there would be a lot of legacy hanging around, I would probably chose to build on top of the
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by boothead 11y ago
This sounds very much like two little pigs arguing about the merits of straw vs twigs when they should be building in brick to me.
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by boothead 11y ago
This must be related to how Pluralistic Ignorance [1] arises? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluralistic_ignorance
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by boothead 11y ago
Optimal would be sailing round the Caribbean with plenty of runs ashore in exotic locations. Subobtimal would be somewhere in the Southern Ocean in a force 10. :-)
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Ask HN: Ergonomic office chair recommendations
2 points by boothead 11y ago|0 comments
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by boothead 11y ago
I'm a former Royal Marine, and I don't think ever played uckers. Not sure how widespread it is nowadays, but I think it might still be played at sea.
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by boothead 11y ago
I bought the 1st or 2nd gen (over 2 yrs ago now) It's a really good machine, but I found Dell pretty terrible to deal with. I want there to be an alternative for that reason, but the latest XPS 13 ubuntu machine still looks about the b
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by boothead 11y ago
I think you mean "The Machine Stops". I just did a search for The Machine Sleeps and I got a bunch of white noise generators and a book about sleep apnea :-)
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by boothead 11y ago
I would guess that you'd corroborate my characterization of hiring Haskellers as an embarrassment of riches then? :-)
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by boothead 11y ago
It would seem that for people reasons Haskell isn't a good choice. However I would say that right now, for people reasons, Haskell is one of the best choices you could make. Haskell is a very good flag for the kinds of people that make
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by boothead 11y ago
I'm not defending anyone - I'm seeking to understand your point of view better. But language like "Marshaled his supporters" makes me wonder if there's something else I've missed. I use XMonad and quite like it
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by boothead 11y ago
The thing is that it's not a "weak response", it really is people's opinion. I've experienced some cases where I've been spoken to a bit sharply, and some where people have come across a bit impatient when I ha
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by boothead 11y ago
What do you make of LVars? [1] Programs written using a deterministic-by-construction model of parallel computation are guaranteed to always produce the same observable results, offering programmers freedom from subtle, hard-to-reproduce no
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by boothead 11y ago
> * recalling C++ & Java, not crazy about the idea of going back to having to specify types for everything. This is a big misconception. The type system in Haskell becomes much more of a tool than a hindrance. Although you will tend
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by boothead 11y ago
Which is why I view haskell's community as one of its main, less tangible qualities. :-) edit clarity - Apparently my brain is too Haskelled today for writing English
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by boothead 11y ago
I think this is because the abstractions are so abstract. When functionality is glued together with very general combinators and operators there's not really much to grab hold of unless you understand the abstractions.
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by boothead 11y ago
Why would you do down this route now that elastic search exists? The article doesn't seem to mention alternatives so I'd be interested to know if the two approaches were compared or if some limitation of ES led to going down this
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by boothead 11y ago
Great to hear that Leksah is coming along. I'm a happy emacs user, but I think a good IDE environment can only help adoption.
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State of the Haskell ecosystem(github.com)
148 points by boothead 11y ago|71 comments
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by boothead 11y ago
I try not to let positive feed go to my head by focussing on people better than me and knowing how much room there is for improvement. I try to take negative feedback as a gift pointing to the right improvements to aim for.
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by boothead 11y ago
... Indeed you do :-)
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by boothead 11y ago
Looks like the weather is going to be too overcast in the south of England :-(
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by boothead 11y ago
I didn't explain properly. I meant that I think the things that should be stored are things like. CustomerCreated { stuff } CustomerMadeOrder { custId, stuff } ItemAddedToOrder { orderId, stuff } etc.. This is the event s
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by boothead 11y ago
I have come to believe that storing your data as the semantic events that happen rather than the state at a given point in time is the way to go. From what I've seen change data capture is the opposite process of trying to extract an e
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by boothead 11y ago
I'm currently listening to an account of the de-centralized command structure Gen Stanley Mcchrystal put in place to combat Al Quaeda in Iraq and the taliban in Afghanistan. One thing that is clear is that in a fast paced environment (

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