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by how_gauche 9y ago
> A data structure cannot be functional. I understand what he's trying to say, and agree with most of it, but the word "functional" is purely wrong. What he wants to say is "good". But not all "functional pr
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by how_gauche 9y ago
Similar dynamic programming idea from Zhang + Shasha 1992: http://www.cs.nyu.edu/shasha/papers/treebook3.pdf
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by how_gauche 11y ago
> I am still to find a sys admin that likes systemd. Here's another one: I spent 18 mos in Google Site Reliability Engineering (and did a lot of pager work at startups before that) prior to transferring to software engineering, I th
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by how_gauche 11y ago
This paper isn't from 2011, it was presented at the 2001 Haskell Workshop.
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by how_gauche 12y ago
The reason people care about speed here is the reason people care about speed in all infrastructure projects: every millisecond of the timeslice spent doing work inside the transport is a millisecond you're not accomplishing applicatio
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by how_gauche 13y ago
> if anyone has successfully overcome this please reach out! I was bullied a lot when I was younger. I was small to begin with, but I skipped a grade and consequently hit puberty about 18 months behind all of the other kids. Growing up i
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by how_gauche 13y ago
It's the best book about data structures in functional programming, as relevant today as when it was published almost fifteen (gasp) years ago. You can get a flavor of the book by reading Okasaki's PhD thesis: http://ww
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by how_gauche 13y ago
It's still several months away from being released.
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by how_gauche 14y ago
PLEASE tell me you didn't just compare monochrome output from "ls" with female genital mutilation. Please.
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by how_gauche 16y ago
A system upgrade borked the server, sorry (i.e. libev got upgraded from libev.so.3 -> .4 and I had to relink the server).
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by how_gauche 16y ago
Yes, when Oracle buys Google the absolutely bog-standard BSD license text accompanying this open source project will spontaneously transmute into a mystical poem written in ancient Aramaic. This poem, when read backwards, will summon the de
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by how_gauche 16y ago
In the case of a single author, the copyright holder has all the same rights he/she used to have (including to re-license under a proprietary or different open source license), except the right to revoke the open-source license already gran
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by how_gauche 16y ago
Yes, stuck forever, because there is absolutely no way I could pick up a telephone and have a pleasant conversation with the person responsible for making that decision. He lives in a cold granite tower guarded by dragons and evil wizards.
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by how_gauche 16y ago
Re: your ridiculous "some animals are more equal than others" claptrap: the reason I gave Google its own line in the license file rather than adding it to CONTRIBUTORS like all of the other copyright holders (myself included) is because Goo
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by how_gauche 16y ago
Given that fully three quarters of the comments I've read can be paraphrased as "isn't it mean for the big bad multinational to steal the poor hacker's code just so he can get a paycheck", over a one-line commit message , it most certainly
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by how_gauche 16y ago
Hello, I see the righteous indignation engine is fully spinning up on my behalf. No need: I can take care of myself, thanks. I posted this on the github thread, but: * Google has a slightly paperwork-heavy process I could have gone through
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by how_gauche 16y ago
I don't work in California.
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by how_gauche 16y ago
So if the ritual components aren't spelled out in the version history in exactly the right order, the voodoo spell doesn't work? Or is your OCD just wasting a bunch of your time?
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by how_gauche 16y ago
I personally like http://hackage.haskell.org/package/HStringTemplate for that.
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by how_gauche 16y ago
> Check out attoparsec-iteratee http://hackage.haskell.org/package/attoparsec-iteratee for an example of iteratee usage: it turns a fast bytestring parser into one that's based on iteratees, which will probably end up being even fast
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by how_gauche 16y ago
Sorry you feel that way, at least it's optional. The idea is that we are interesting in doing DOM-level transformations bound to html tags and there just isn't a robust HTML5 DOM parser available for Haskell.
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by how_gauche 17y ago
I often use this algorithm: 1. write a function in pointed style 2. run it through pointfree 3. is it shorter/easier to read? then use pointfree's definition This is really a personal shortcoming though because after 20+ years of writing co
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by how_gauche 17y ago
A true classic!
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by how_gauche 17y ago
I'd never use Github if money was on the line, it's down all the time and source code is core competency stuff, you do it in-house. Gitosis + gitweb aren't that difficult to set up. There's also "Gitorious" but I tried to use it once and sp
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by how_gauche 17y ago
Try stretching out your hamstrings. A lot of lower back pain is actually caused by shortened hamstrings pulling the pelvis and lower back out of alignment.
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by how_gauche 18y ago
GRE is completely inapplicable to grad school, I'm pretty sure it's used with a cutoff to thin out the applicant pool. I didn't study for mine one iota and did pretty well (got into Yale) -- I think if I'd spent some time preparing I could'
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by how_gauche 18y ago
Move to Dubai? I'm a Canadian living in Toronto and I know headhunters who are trying to find people HERE to relocate there. Salary seems very competitive also.
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by how_gauche 18y ago
I'm an old hand in Emacs and new to the Macintosh, so I use Cocoa Emacs.app because it's closest to the "standard" distribution, and override the Mac keybindings. I avoid using the mouse (those things are very bad for the wrists), so my .em
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by how_gauche 18y ago
How are you planning on making money, exactly?
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by how_gauche 18y ago
Dear idiots: it's summer in the northern hemisphere. People are outside, or on vacation.

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