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by dan00 14y ago
"I think it's GHC 7.4, which allows something similar for Haskell, to have the typing checked at runtime, to allow this kind of experimentation." It will be in GHC 7.6.1 and the extension is '-XDelayErrors'. http://hackage.haskell.org/trac
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by dan00 14y ago
"It is experimentation and change that is slow in static typing." It's all about the expressiveness of the language. If you can express more with less code, than it's also easier to change, to experiment. If you change something in a dynami
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by dan00 15y ago
"One thing I'd like to comment on is that I think you should revise your use of unsafeThaw/unsafeFreeze: you don't easily get guarantees of determinism when using these unsafe functions." Unfortunately that seems to be the only way to get a
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by dan00 15y ago
Hi Jasper, well, I'm also guilty of a Haskell dcpu16 emulator ;). The memory access using Memory should be pretty fast, but what is the overhead of the MonadEmulator type class, of their load/store functions? I used a Vector of unboxed Word
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by dan00 15y ago
"I can't upvote you enough. Too often programmers conflate "functional programming" with "availability of an O(1) array data type". The former does not imply lack of the latter, and (as you stated) lack of the latter does not imply the form
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by dan00 15y ago
The value of just playing around is underestimated. A lot of discoveries have been made by people just playing around.
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by dan00 15y ago
"I like to think of it in terms of communication bandwidth. The written word is low bandwidth, but if executed well, theoretically the ideas can be consumed more succinctly." I don't think there's a difference in bandwidth, but that an essa
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by dan00 15y ago
foo x y = x >>= \a -> case a of Leaf -> .. Branch aleft aright -> .. Hanging lambdas yes, but I don't see the advantage of putting the beginning of the case into the same line. foo x y = x
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by dan00 15y ago
For me it's TV. Especially bad for me is watching before going to bed. TV keeps me awake, stimulates me. After watching I've problems falling asleep, and the sleep itself isn't recreative. I don't feel really awake after such a night.
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by dan00 15y ago
Before 90s he was a cool geek, famous millionaire guy, consuming too much clothes. He had always trendy fashion look. He bought one of most expensive cars when he was in his 20s. A Porsche then Mercedes. In his dashing days at Apple and Ne
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by dan00 15y ago
This is a paradox. People create/produce because they want: 1. to be powerful. Being powerful makes them able to consume more, hence being more happy. People do everything to be more comfortable. Some people produce, are creative, because
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by dan00 15y ago
Wuala has many, perhaps all of your desired properties. The two killer features for me are client side encryption and selective syncing, you can separate define for each client which folders are synced. Wuala even supports streaming of file
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by dan00 15y ago
I had to giggle, looking at the quite large interface of 'Entity.h'. Also Carmack has to do it in this "ugly" way. In a way that's relieving.
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by dan00 15y ago
What is the point of a black out against restrictions, if you can still do everything, if you can't feel it, by being restricted?
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by dan00 15y ago
These two are quite nice, the first one is the base of the second one: https://github.com/leonidas/codeblog/blob/master/2012/2012-0... https://github.com/leonidas/codeblog/blob/master/2012/2012-0...
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by dan00 15y ago
My conclusion until now is, that FRP can look beautiful and expressive for manageable, simple problems, and ugly and hairy for complicated stuff.
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by dan00 15y ago
"There is more value in starting something than in finishing it." I see your point about learning and agree with it, but I don't think that in starting something is more value than in finishing it. Starting is pretty easy, because new thing
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by dan00 15y ago
"It makes me think that the karma system itself might be fatally flawed for its lack of scalability." The motivation to be part of an online community should be the enjoyment at the discussions and not the number of points. I hate the point
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by dan00 15y ago
"Whatever your motivation, jealousy, a general misunderstanding of the station of women in many third world countries or any other thing that might have prompted you to write what you wrote here: Let me tell you straight from the heart that
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by dan00 15y ago
"Since I don't have any experience with it, what do you think is the reason that it's not used very often for building large enterprise applications (or maybe it is, and I just don't know about them)?" Well, I don't know if it's even clear
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by dan00 15y ago
"The refactoring capabilities of modern-day IDEs help immensely with reducing the amount of work one has to do to make syntactic changes over the whole codebase. So the argument that developers tend to over-engineer when coding in Java to a
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by dan00 15y ago
There's a reason why this happens more often in languages like Java. Because of the verbosity of the language, it's just painful to rewrite anything, even if the current solution isn't that much over engineered. So there might be a greater
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by dan00 15y ago
That's a great idea! I think your employer should do the same for you.
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by dan00 15y ago
The dumbest people are the most judging ones. They only see themselves, can't put themselves in other positions, can't accept other positions, and have to call everything dumb which they can't relate to.
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by dan00 15y ago
"A language can't be fast; a language is a notation. Only implementations can be fast or, perhaps, generate fast code." That's not entirely true. A language semantic limits the possible implementations. And yes, I know about the sufficientl
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by dan00 15y ago
"... those men will have moved on to a more advanced strategy to make more." Yes, I think it will go this way. A perfect fit is also the article about the neuroenhancers on hacker news. If you don't want to get behind, you will have to take
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by dan00 15y ago
I'm just sick of stuff like this. An employer is expecting that an employee is loyal, but nevertheless he's trying to noble the potential employee from the beginning. But you would be dumb doing it the other way, right? Sorry, but this kind
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by dan00 15y ago
"I don't understand why people do this. I mean, overcommit to activities which would unlikely produce money or fame." In a quite fucked up society, everything seems to be used to become more fucked up. Perhaps all these activites are just
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by dan00 15y ago
mutt + gmail + offlineimap
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by dan00 15y ago
I had a really nice config runnig Gnome2 + XMonad. I tried for hours to get this config running again nicely with Ubuntu 11.10, without much luck. Then I stepped back and thought for what I'm needing or want a desktop: automounting + wifi.

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