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   by gtani 15y ago

   (this may be daunting; if one's not reasonably versed in haskell basics, read last 5 chapters of http://learnyouahaskell.com/chapters
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   by gtani 15y ago

   IBM APL2 was the 3rd or so language I learned. At Merrill, I remember workspaces with tens of thousands of LoC, possibly over 100K. Also we used to have "each" contests and obscurified APL contests, where nobody could read anybody else's
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   by gtani 15y ago

   While the cloudSearch config does look kind of clunky compared to SOLR, it is kind of FUDDY if you're implying that cloudsearch won't let you configure these at all: tokenizers, stemmers, scoring, ISO latin to ASCII mapping, stuff like that
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   by gtani 15y ago

   Similar/analogous (I believe these all have significant differences)to F# MailboxProcessor, akka actors, erlang/BEAM processes and userspace/green threads in e.g. GHC,
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   Emerging languages: Tour of horizon (dozens of languages/libs [pdf, 51 slide](slideshare.net)

   2 points by gtani 15y ago|0 comments
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   by gtani 15y ago

   Haskell is like a venus flytrap, mwahaha
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   by gtani 15y ago

   There's been a lot of projects, of which the ocamlnet/netmulticore and Jane St async's are (I think, but not very confidently) the only current. Others are: poly/ML, ocamlP3, OC4MC, functory, JoCaml coThreads, LWT http://www.reddit.com/r/
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   by gtani 15y ago

   there's always this (#include standard disclaimer that some languages' submissions have been heavily optimized, others have not, and none of them may work like your apps; languages with modern type systems do prety well: ATS, scala, GHC, cl
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   by gtani 15y ago

   The Breadcrumbs are helpful, if you missed the links http://acm.wustl.edu/functional/hs-breads.php ------------ Note: most of the GHCi idiosyncrasies were ironed out in 7.4 but you can't cut/paste code into it AFAIK: http://hackage.haske
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    Building New Systems for Scientists : collaboration tools, open publishing(thefundable.blogspot.com)

    1 points by gtani 15y ago|0 comments
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    by gtani 15y ago

    In US Costco's, where i mostly buy non-apple they mostly stock HP, Toshiba and Dell laptops. 6G RAM, duo core I5 is typically $600-700. Cloudwise EC2 is trending down, Heroku starts free with reasonable limits, and VPS with 500M memory at
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    by gtani 15y ago

    If you can wait til Apr 22 (by Amazon's release dates), there will be 2 more clojure books which I'm pretty confident will be excellent, in addition to 2 Manning books which are also great. http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_0_9?url=se
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    by gtani 15y ago

    Maybe not general knowledge, but OP author wasa designer fo D language, is on a C++ subcommittee and has a lot invested in that language: http://bartoszmilewski.com/2012/04/06/lang-next-trip-report/
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    by gtani 15y ago

    Sorry. Somebody, not me, fixed it
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    by gtani 15y ago

    http://code.haskell.org/~dons/talks/padl-keynote-2012-01-24....
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    by gtani 15y ago

    Haskell is very fun, and well tutorialized now (2nd half of Thompson book is very good tutorial(2nd ed, $5), there are small speed bumps: I needed a little better glossary than book provides for "invariant", "witness", other terms folks sli
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    by gtani 15y ago

    read this, in Hungarian http://gergo.erdi.hu/blog/2011-05-16-i%27m_leaving_on_a_jet_... google translate: rapid help deszantosokként trapped in the trade analysts,
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    Parallelism and the Limits of (programming) Languages (whilefalse.blogspot.com)

    62 points by gtani 15y ago|22 comments
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    by gtani 15y ago

    Very open ended question. The trickiest thing for me is the GHC "instance" extensions: TypeSynonymInstances, -XUndecidableInstances, Flexible, Overlapping, etc -------------- I think there's general agreement that cabal has limitations: h
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    by gtani 15y ago

    There's lots of wiki pages . Among the links i liked the Wash Univ of St. Louis breadcrumbs and these cheats. Also the Hutton, Thompson, "school of expression" and "road to logic" books: http://blog.codeslower.com/static/CheatSheet.pdf
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    by gtani 15y ago

    to help you decide what to watch (this blog didn't garner much karma here (for another submitter)) http://bartoszmilewski.com/2012/04/06/lang-next-trip-report/
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    by gtani 15y ago

    Good analysis of providing source code, datasets and potential burdens on reviewers and authors. http://nlpers.blogspot.com/2011/03/some-thoughts-on-suppleme...
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    Lang.NEXT Conference Trip Report: C++, java, go, C#(bartoszmilewski.com)

    2 points by gtani 15y ago|0 comments
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    by gtani 15y ago

    this was good: http://lemire.me/blog/archives/2011/08/15/better-job-ads/
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    by gtani 15y ago

    Every second or third serious Lisp hacker will roll his own implementation of lazy evaluation, functional purity, arrows, pattern matching, type inferencing, and the rest. Seems to describe clojure pretty well, tho I d
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    by gtani 15y ago

    related (last June) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2713463
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    by gtani 15y ago

    concurrency stuff You're talking about at least 3 distinct models: direct thread management, with improved locking routines (java.util.concurrent, see recent Prismatic thread on HN), actors/green threads (Akka and erlang BEAM), and STM/gu
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    by gtani 15y ago

    Interesting read: skimmed/bookmarked. I think it's the 2 surfers outpaddling the shark scenario: you don't have to be great at hiring, just slightly better than other companies in your demographic(geographic and "itch yoru scratching". You
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    by gtani 15y ago

    that was a good one: http://web.archive.org/web/20101102120728/http://measuringme...
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    by gtani 15y ago

    I checked (FMI, For My Info, the non-open pieces are the launcher, Iced Trea vs. javaWS, and fonts which are replaced by FreeType in OpenJDK http://www.reddit.com/r/scala/comments/m1dks/poor_performanc...