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by efnx 10y ago
Harrop is known in the Haskell community for being a hater. Most of his remarks here are opinion, which is fine. Lots of people don't like Haskell - that's also fine, but pieces like these hurt the community because it will both p
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by efnx 10y ago
The hard part is figuring out what that should look like. There are hardly any purely functional game libraries (graphics, physics, sound) so to say that an entire engine sounds horrible makes no sense. What would that horrible even look li
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by efnx 10y ago
It's disappointing to see this post makes no mention of any ML style functional language or even Rust. It's hard to take a post with this kind of title (and predictions) seriously when it doesn't even mention the big (relativ
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by efnx 11y ago
It seems to me that web design trends tend to change faster than most people's patience for maintaining their personal site, so it makes sense that anyone with a sufficient amount of work to do who is not a web designer would choose a
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Odin Part Two – Joystick Control(zyghost.com)
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by efnx 11y ago
Ahh - I thought you may have read my articles on HN or Reddit - how self centered of me :) Yes, there's no 'Renderable' typeclass but there are 'Primitive's. There are no laws that the 'Primitive' typecla
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by efnx 11y ago
Hey, you're talking about my library Renderable - and I'm totally up to finding a more idiomatic way to express the problem. It just so happened that type classes were the easiest way to do that.
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Refactoring Our Haskell FRP from GLFW to SDL2(zyghost.com)
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Learning Me a Haskell FRP Game Infrastructure(zyghost.com)
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by efnx 11y ago
House, an experimental Haskell operating system is exactly that. If I had a lot of time on my hands I would love to revive that project. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_(operating_system)
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by efnx 11y ago
These outcomes assume you can live rich (having ~98 coins) in the same space as poor pirates without them stabbing you and taking your coins! Real pirates would distribute more evenly for fear of death after distribution.
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by efnx 11y ago
This is significantly more interesting than writing a PHP game server. Haskell is different enough from C like languages that you can't borrow patterns from existing implementations. There's a lot of unexplored territory in Haskel
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by efnx 11y ago
Sometimes it's a matter of time, not money. If you're prototyping a complicated set of parts you'll quickly find that ordering parts from a service results in a days long development cycle instead of minutes. I print many sma
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by efnx 11y ago
Why is this allowed?
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by efnx 11y ago
Ahh - that makes more sense. Still, this practice wouldn't make much sense for the ML family of languages.
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by efnx 11y ago
Not being able to pass functions as values is a show stopper - it's arguably the single most important tenet of functional languages.
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Purely functional datatypes that can be rendered(zyghost.com)
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by efnx 11y ago
The shitty part about this method is verifying hurricanes ten times worse than Katrina. I'd rather show people the printout ;)
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by efnx 11y ago
If you loaded the assets over the network on demand then you could get the file size down dramatically. People just expect that when you download a game to your phone or tablet that you'll be able to play offline. Apple TV is stationar
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by efnx 11y ago
Me too. Very, very good game. It's the only real RPG I connected with, and one of the few games that I hold close.
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by efnx 11y ago
Besides this being rad - you can see in the Alda repl screeny that the author has earthbound behind it. I love that game.
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by efnx 11y ago
That's pretty cool, I wonder if it takes much force to move and what happens if you move both at the same time.
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by efnx 11y ago
Yeah, they're pretty nasty. My model is from 1993. I've been using these rests since ~ 2011. That's what happens after intense use every day for years :(
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by efnx 11y ago
Thanks, I'll try that!
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by efnx 11y ago
Great advice.
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by efnx 11y ago
Author here - that's actually pretty close to what I have in mind. Coupling the mouse and the keyboard would be sweet, but I think the switches are a bit funky. Like on a regular keyboard it still takes each finger two movements to cli
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by efnx 11y ago
OP author here. My source at the now defunct Datahand company had told me that at the end of the company's life they produced very low-quality units. 50% of the units did not function properly, so it's possible that was a factor
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My Keyboard(zyghost.com)
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by efnx 11y ago
Sometimes I really wish I could write nice dependently typed Haskell, but then I think it would be easier and more beneficial to just learn Agda or Idris.
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by efnx 11y ago
Unless you have an aphid infestation. Here in Northern California ants farm aphids and are damn good at it. Your plants will have aphids all over them.

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