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by dons 14y ago
Australia's favorite standover-man impersonator on yc - well, there you go!
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by dons 14y ago
Is Haskell taught in college at any Chilean university? Without it being taught to undergrads, it will be hard to find devs locally.
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by dons 14y ago
The threads do not volunteer. They are pre-empted by an external authority - the runtime system. They have no choice in the matter.
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by dons 14y ago
Numerical algorithms suffer from a paucity of types. So either you enrich your numerical type hierarchy, or you prove an implementation matches a model, e.g. for fibonacci http://stackoverflow.com/a/8434107/83805
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by dons 14y ago
If you're hoping to catch a specification error, don't use a type like `Integer -> Integer`, which doesn't capture the specification except in a most general sense. Just as you should write good tests, that actually test for useful prop
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by dons 14y ago
> the function doesn't care about the type, but just whether it implements a next() method? You're describing an "existential" type.
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by dons 14y ago
It should be possible to dramatically lower the cost of protein produced this way. It is just so much more efficient to grow corn, soy and pea protein and then consume it directly, rather than feeding it to cattle first, to harvest a fracti
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Waldo - the Haskell powered codebase behind xkcd’s Umwelt comic(reddit.com)
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by dons 14y ago
GHC uses pre-emptive thread switching, not co-operative thread switching. Threads are forced by the runtime to be switched out -- they have no choice in the matter -- based on rts interrupts. Typically, threads will be switched when they al
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ARM is now a fully supported target platform for GHC Haskell(haskell.org)
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by dons 14y ago
HP on Ubuntu is listed here : http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=haskell-platform In the case of Ubuntu, they're just downstream consumers of the Debian Haskell packaging team's efforts, and as a result are sometimes out of sync,
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by dons 14y ago
The research group I was part of worked on single address space OS's from the early 90s to the late 00's, http://www.ertos.nicta.com.au/research/old/mungi//manifesto.... , and yep, these ideas have been around for a long time.
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by dons 14y ago
Was thinking of this article earlier this week: http://lwn.net/Articles/498289/ (which I'm presuming is some MRAM thing)
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by dons 14y ago
Convergence. When we all have persistent, solid state drives, your filesystem will be your heap and GC...
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by dons 14y ago
> the UML meta-meta-model that's not computer science; that's software engineering "theory". Algorithms; data structures; type systems; however ...
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by dons 14y ago
In computer science, polymorphism is a programming language feature that allows values of different data types to be handled in a uniform manner. This may be ad hoc polymorphism (often synonymous with overloading) - or parametric polymorphi
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by dons 14y ago
Programming language benchmark data.
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by dons 14y ago
http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u64q/benchmark.php?test=al... Median speedup for the same problem in Clojure was 12x over Ruby. and 14x for Haskell; ... and 25x in Java .. and 35x in C++...
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Simon Peyton Jones on the new Cloud Haskell extensions to GHC(skillsmatter.com)
3 points by dons 14y ago|0 comments
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by dons 14y ago
Dude, ion3!? That hurts ;)
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Implementing a templating library in Haskell using quasi quotations(quasimal.com)
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Parse market data fast by rolling your own Haskell primops(breaks.for.alienz.org)
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by dons 14y ago
It's possible that you don't roll your own custom trees and other data types because your language of choice doesn't make using your own data structures easy.
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by dons 14y ago
Prod builds would explicitly disable this (and other dangerous flags) with `-Wall -Werror` and friends. Shipping with this on is like shipping with incomplete patterns, which would be caught by `-Wall`. Summary: useful for developing, capit
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by dons 14y ago
> Why have the bloody Haskell-Platform if you can't keep up with the compiler releases. The HP doesn't chase the compiler. It is supposed to mean stable 6 monthly dev cycles, independent of what GHC HQ is up to. It is explicitly not abo
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Defer Haskell type errors to runtime: new GHC 7.6 developers' flag(hackage.haskell.org)
68 points by dons 14y ago|46 comments
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Keter: the new web app deployment system for Haskell(yesodweb.com)
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OReilly to publish new book on parallel and concurrent Haskell by Simon Marlow(haskell.org)
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by dons 14y ago
It's a mindset that's rarely taught: if you have a problem, and you're not writing code to find the solution, you're probably wasting effort.
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by dons 14y ago
AKA learn to code; even if its Excel or DrScheme.

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