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Maybe Your Zoloft Stopped Working Because of a Liver Failure(slatestarcodex.com)
2 points by ff_ 7y ago|1 comments
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by ff_ 7y ago
Just yesterday afternoon I picked up my old laptop from 2015, and thanks to NixOS [0] + versioning my home folder [1] in a couple of hours (of mostly waiting for the thing to finish downloading stuff) I had my usual setup running with every
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by ff_ 7y ago
The facts the article refers to happened two weeks ago and have since been resolved, taking further steps to reduce the chance of this happening again in the future (e.g. by vendoring a lot of code)
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by ff_ 7y ago
Yep, we use the Haskell implementation as a library in Spago [0] and automatically migrating the configuration from old versions is a breeze as we can just manipulate the AST by pattern matching on it, e.g. see [1] The above is quite standa
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by ff_ 7y ago
From a cursory look to SANE and SCL it looks like Dhall still offers some more: - functions - a powerful typesystem - remote (HTTP) imports with sha256 checksums
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Dhall: A Non-Repetitive Alternative to YAML(dhall-lang.org)
193 points by ff_ 7y ago|177 comments
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by ff_ 7y ago
It really didn't take long for libraries to catch up, we already released a Package Set compatible with 0.13, two days after the release. That's a set of the most used ~200 libraries in the ecosystem. https://github.com
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by ff_ 7y ago
Here's a wrapper for express: https://github.com/nkly/purescript-express Examples: https://github.com/nkly/purescript-express/tree/master/examp...
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by ff_ 7y ago
Agreed. Documentation is hard in all languages though, and it usually gets fixed slowly over time as langs mature. If you had dependency problems you were likely using bower (where dependencies are "resolved", and this leads to br
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by ff_ 7y ago
AFAIK it's strongly discouraged: https://github.com/elm/projects/blob/master/roadmap.md#can-i...
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by ff_ 7y ago
One of the biggest reasons for me is that you can run it on the backend too (on NodeJS, or Erlang, or some other VM - yes, there are several backends available)
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by ff_ 7y ago
Most of if is already wrapped in a well-maintained package: https://pursuit.purescript.org/packages/purescript-web-dom/2... But doing FFI and just using JS when needed is very easy: https://github.com&#
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by ff_ 7y ago
I think this is pretty ok news: if Maps gets too annoying to use an increasing amount of people will start using alternatives, which will get better because of this, and in the end it will make it easier to live a Google-free life.
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by ff_ 8y ago
This is easy to say and not unheard of, but in organizations it is common (in my experience at least) that if you say too often "this is hard and might take some time", people will just start to bypass you (and/or your input&
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by ff_ 8y ago
This is an interesting paper, and I'd like a replication today, 25y after: I believe Haskell has matured a lot in all of this time. As an experiment, some months ago we prototyped a new service in Haskell at work. We timeboxed a week f
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Finland passes enhanced surveillance bills without a vote(yle.fi)
61 points by ff_ 8y ago|19 comments
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by ff_ 8y ago
I believe a "Helsinki HN meetup" would be super crowded
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by ff_ 8y ago
I cannot access it as well, but it should be "Cosmodrome"
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by ff_ 8y ago
Here's a nice explanation on why using "reasonably powerful languages" has many disadvantages: https://github.com/dhall-lang/dhall-lang/wiki/Safety-guarant... Also you might be familiar with th
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Dhall: A Non-Repetitive Alternative to YAML(dhall-lang.org)
3 points by ff_ 8y ago|0 comments
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by ff_ 8y ago
This is a great analysis, but it's missing a fundamental point: why do we have a problem with these approximations of a programming language or just using a programming language to template stuff? Because your build then becomes an act
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by ff_ 8y ago
Amazing, thanks a lot!
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by ff_ 8y ago
I'm also following a GTD-like approach (and I strongly second the recommendation on the book) My Trello board has the following columns: - MAYBE - for things that I'll maybe do - BACKLOG - for things that I decided I'll do at
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by ff_ 8y ago
Super interesting! Do you happen to have an Italian translation/version of the paper?
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by ff_ 8y ago
Indeed it was Moxie: https://moxie.org/blog/we-should-all-have-something-to-hide/
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by ff_ 8y ago
I'm you but 6 years later :) I actually dropped out of Poli and moved to Helsinki, and most of my friends scattered around Europe. Did you see this thread? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18045294 Your post has a
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by ff_ 8y ago
Also the + operator is typed with Num; from a Haskell repl: λ> :t (+) (+) :: Num a => a -> a -> a In case of average we need /: λ> :t (/) (/) :: Fractional a => a -> a -> a So our typ
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by ff_ 8y ago
I don't know about OCaml, but Haskell has typeclasses (which look like "polymorphic interfaces"?) so you can define functions generically and put a typeclass constraint to make them work on a certain class of types. E.g. your
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by ff_ 8y ago
This, so much. After some 3y spend doing Clojure, having a Haskell codebase is a totally new level of stress reduction. All of a sudden you can stop worrying about "what am I getting in this function" and actually concentrate on t
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by ff_ 8y ago
Same here in Finland!

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