enigmo

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by enigmo 14y ago
Last week I was standing behind a couple guys wearing New Relic shirts and I overheard a conversation like this: Larry) We just got a brand new 9TB storage array for the intranet Moe) Wow 9TB is really huge! Larry) I know right, b
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by enigmo 14y ago
That's missing a `nub` or something to get the unique keys. You can also combine the maps first and the results will come out sorted and unique already.... since we're golfing: go :: (Show k, Ord k) => Map k v -> Map k v -&#62
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by enigmo 14y ago
And in many static languages...
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by enigmo 14y ago
Type-inference doesn't provide anything related to parallel maps, though Haskell's type system can verify that they're safe. Switching an arbitrary loop to a parallel one in C#, Scala, Java, whatever, is certainly a crapshoot. The real bene
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by enigmo 14y ago
> This is great for homework, but in the real life, IO needs to be performed throughout your entire application, and unsafePerformIO is just not an option. Large Haskell applications benefit from different overall design than the typica
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by enigmo 14y ago
It's particularly hard to shoehorn in after the fact. Certain development models (e.g. replicated state machines) make it much easier... mix in some magic Paxos dust and it can handle machine failures as well. Sadly the better implementatio
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by enigmo 14y ago
That doesn't sound like a very good way to build a sustainable business.
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by enigmo 14y ago
The right tool for the job is one that will be supported by other developers after you leave.
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by enigmo 14y ago
I didn't really believe Github's inflated line counts (125klocs) and was curious was sloccount would say... I'm a bit surprised with the results. The sheer quantity of C/C++, brainless coding over a few days, was impressive. Experience buys
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by enigmo 14y ago
It sounds more like a tale of an employee writing software in a language that the management didn't buy into and no one else in the company knows. If one of our employees started writing code in <some other language> instead of Hask
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by enigmo 14y ago
We manufacture alpha mining equipment for the financial markets.