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by endgame 9y ago
Have you been following the royal commission into banking that the current Australian government was dragged into, kicking and screaming all the way? The system around the world needs to be bleached clean by some harsh sunlight and broken a
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by endgame 9y ago
> If you take FP to its logical conclusion, FP is a slippery slope that eventually leads to Monad-Transformer centric designs. I don't understand what you mean by this, and I write production haskell for a living. We don't have
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by endgame 9y ago
And ESDX arrow keys. What was up with that?
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by endgame 9y ago
God's number is 20: http://www.cube20.org/
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by endgame 9y ago
I don't know if GP did, but I did not read it as such.
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by endgame 9y ago
I see Slack is now big enough that they can stop pretending to care about interoperability, and essentially pulled a Google Talk on us all. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
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by endgame 9y ago
> JoJo Wood, clog-maker Nominative determinism at work.
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by endgame 9y ago
Did you know that Space Jam is one of Servo's test cases? https://ask.metafilter.com/302664/How-does-the-Space-Jam-web...
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by endgame 9y ago
I've spent so many hours on so many alts on IRE games. I don't know whether to thank you or curse you.
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by endgame 9y ago
After reading about the house mapping of some robotic vacuum cleaners I'm hesitant to let one into my home.
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by endgame 9y ago
If it's AML, then Patreon should come out and say it's AML, and point to the rules they have to comply with. Not write feelgood fuzzy bullshit that actually ends up with them taking a huge slice of the pie.
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by endgame 9y ago
One thing that has helped me: beeminder (I don't work for them). I have a goal that tracks reddit(etc)-free days, of which I need to do several each week or they take some of my money. This has been pretty effective, in that I've
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by endgame 9y ago
He who controls the book of faces.
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by endgame 9y ago
The challenge is that your talk has to be _really_ good to get viewed, because most people will want to skim the slide deck before deciding whether or not to watch it. I quite like Ed Kmett's talks that often consist of him typing into
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by endgame 9y ago
> (as an aside: why is JavaScript required now?) Because it was "improved" (rebuilt) recently.
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by endgame 9y ago
I can't believe that I found a copy for 50c in a second-hand store. I call it my "most precious item" because it has the highest price:enjoyment ratio of anything I own.
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by endgame 9y ago
And sometimes also because it can cut away reality, help people see the crux of a situation or debate and take that perspective back into the real world.
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by endgame 9y ago
That game was incredibly prescient. I was going to link to its page on Paean to SMAC but it turns out that quote is from "Global Energy Theory", a tech that didn't make it into the final game (but had data set up for it). So
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by endgame 9y ago
Junk food messes with what you want, despite you wanting to want different things.
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by endgame 9y ago
Yes, and the whole io-commands-as-values thing that outdoes anything the Command Design Pattern is capable of, and all that. But given that the meme of haskell-has-no-side-effects exists, the Haskell Police State is funny.
651.
by endgame 9y ago
As an avid haskeller with a lot of respect for lisp, I've gotta say I really love the depiction of the Republic of Haskell as a police state, where side effects receive no mercy.
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by endgame 9y ago
That's a lot of hoops for them to jump through, and I wish they succeed. At what point do you say "this is at least a step forward and I'll buy their stuff even though it might not be perfect"?
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by endgame 9y ago
While they probably work on discrete campaigns, you may have meant "discreetly".
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by endgame 9y ago
What a bizarre API. You might get some mileage out of writing a helper function like `readParser :: Read a => String -> Parser a` which can call `readMaybe` and inspect the result.
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by endgame 9y ago
* Consider using `Text` instead of `String`, as `String` is a linked-list of `Char` and quite inefficient * Consider refining some of your fields into more constrained types. Sort orders probably only have a couple of valid values, and migh
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by endgame 9y ago
People always quote this for all sorts of causes, but the fact that you're at one stage doesn't mean you're going to move to the next: - First they ignore you. Nobody ever notices you. - First they ignore you, then they laugh
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by endgame 9y ago
I'm not surprised, because get things lost to history all the time, but do you have a source?
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by endgame 9y ago
Maybe this will finally be the "Three Mile Island Incident of Data" that Maciej Cegłowski talks about? If not, I don't know what will. http://idlewords.com/talks/haunted_by_data.htm
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by endgame 9y ago
Deleting offensive code was an "accidental feature" of ghc at one point: https://twitter.com/bos31337/status/116372971509121025 > The best ghc bug ever involved a dev version of the compiler deleting
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by endgame 9y ago
You're right about the cost to acquire, the resources to hold (in space, which translates to cost via rent, mortgage payments or land tax), but you miss the cost to dispose of it (mostly emotional costs, but paying to recycle heavy met

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