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by chrisdone 11y ago
At some point I just stopped buying anything that isn't fresh or obviously a food I recognize. I live in a modern first-world country with a decent salary, I enjoy walking to the shop a couple to a few times per week, I'm not slav
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by chrisdone 11y ago
I don't think morality has anything to do with this, unless you want to bring a marketing issue onto a high-ground that it frankly doesn't deserve. What body of ethics has anything to say about this? I think part of the issue is t
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by chrisdone 11y ago
Most people know it's not a real sieve of Eratosthenes and just a demonstration of Haskell concepts but there will always be people excited to educate others regardless of the context.
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by chrisdone 12y ago
Regarding the “Income & Happiness” section the following section of a talk by Will Self comes to mind, on quantifying people's happiness and feelings: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFNOWnklxAA&t=7m00s
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by chrisdone 12y ago
I had and continue to have a lot of laughs with Pratchett. One of my favourite ones which I only a couple of years ago re-listened on Audiobook while walking about town and was giggling outloud uncontrollably was this quote: > ...if you
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by chrisdone 12y ago
I think "auf wiedersehen" is the same as au revoir, no? re-voir is to "re-see". I'm familiar with this contraction from Italian arrivederci - a (to/towards) ri- (again) veder (to see) ci (we) - "till we se
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by chrisdone 12y ago
This idea is old. A few years ago someone claimed "Facebook is not cool anymore, now your parents are on it" and predicted an exodus of teenagers leaving. Didn't happen. Facebook is useful because it's full of people. It
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by chrisdone 12y ago
That's because I'm waiting for the photographer to get me the full size version. This one I cribbed a low-res version of the net, but it's easily one of the best Haskell conference photos in its original form.
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by chrisdone 12y ago
You did nothing wrong, the hundreds of active users due to announcement buzz is a little outside the scope of the sandbox's capabilities, it has some race condition under heavy load. We considered spending time optimizing this in antic
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by chrisdone 12y ago
Huh, thanks for noticing. I have a retina display but on Linux Chrome and Firefox both ignore any kind of global font size settings for their tabs, so the icons are tiny and look crisp, didn't realise. That kind of thing bugs me too. T
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by chrisdone 12y ago
Oh, that is evil.
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by chrisdone 12y ago
People just like sharing that kind of thing. When I made this little page http://chrisdone.com/z because I couldn't be bothered thinking of a better name, there were dozens of people commenting and emailing me expressi
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by chrisdone 12y ago
The tutorial is 5 years old, so I guess that makes me a hipster tutorial writer because I was doing it back when it wasn't fashionable? =p
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by chrisdone 12y ago
> This redesign appears to take the position: the first page on haskell.org is for people who are brand new to the language, not for people who are already learning the language or currently use the language. Correct! See here for a comp
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by chrisdone 12y ago
"areola"
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by chrisdone 12y ago
Also available in ircbrowse form: http://ircbrowse.net/browse/lisp?id=8939107&events_per_page=...
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by chrisdone 12y ago
Records is the thing that any Haskeller will "up-front honestly" tell you is a gripe with the language.
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by chrisdone 12y ago
I'm very glad that only game writers are using Tcl for scripting their games. It's a godawful language I'd never want to maintain any real software in. Python and Ruby are bad, but Tcl is a degenerate joke. Let's please
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by chrisdone 12y ago
But you're not a thousand companies who have built their business on Python 2 and have no interest in rewriting working code when they don't have to. Your "scripts" are pretty much irrelevant.
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by chrisdone 12y ago
> The whole point about Perl 6 is that it breaks backwards compatibility I think this is is a contributor to why Perl 6 will never amount to anything. That boat has sailed. Python 3 broke backwards compatibility and to my knowledge ever
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by chrisdone 12y ago
> At the same time we are asking for the government to protect us. Speak for yourself.
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by chrisdone 12y ago
Couldn't have put it better. I was among the millions participating in one of history's largest pre-emptive protests—against the Iraq War¹—and I really felt that the people had spoken. Our message was loud and clear and they would
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by chrisdone 12y ago
I don't anticipate Brits will be hitting the streets in the name of right to privacy and net neutrality as the French have done for right to free speech, though. We are a cowardly, dull bunch, with little regard for our liberty, I&#x27
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by chrisdone 12y ago
Call me cynical, but the first thing that springs to mind with these kind of opening up is the sign of a company no longer with the bullying power to not care about being open. Rather than these changes occurring because a hierarchy of mana
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by chrisdone 12y ago
America, Britain, France, Italy, etc. education systems built upon "getting results" seem to end up ruining the subject they're trying to teach.
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by chrisdone 12y ago
That's quite a myopic reaction.
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by chrisdone 12y ago
And what a glorious year it was, too!
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by chrisdone 12y ago
I feel the same way about games that he feels about jigsaws. They're fun enough but they're inherently contrived and produce no real value. I read books and watch movies for narrative experiences. While there's a growing mino
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by chrisdone 12y ago
I think if you're the kind of user who just wants an editor that does things for you, you'd be better off sticking with what you have already chosen that satisfies your list of features. Deciding to use Emacs for its features is a
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by chrisdone 12y ago
Wow! There is so much going on here. I can't believe you're not logging! * First it starts out as a simple maze puzzle game. * Then it there're weird layouts where people are clicking stuff, and pathways are opening up rand

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