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by ionfish 17y ago
I think you're confusing friendliness with subservience.
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by ionfish 17y ago
You could do that pretty easily by rolling some custom templates, yes.
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by ionfish 17y ago
This issue was discussed a while back in the context of hiring Haskell programmers. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=468493
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by ionfish 17y ago
While I agree unreservedly with this, it's probably worth pointing out for the benefit of those who haven't gone through the process themselves that bootstrapping cabal-install is a five-minute job (or less, depending on how many dependenci
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by ionfish 17y ago
"Future releases of the platform will include more tools and libraries to meet developer need." In other words, tell the Platform team it's needed, and get other people to do the same. Even better, write the database interface you'd like to
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by ionfish 17y ago
I just steal those tiny biros from betting shops.
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by ionfish 17y ago
There are a limited number of good names in the world! :) To nitpick slightly, I wouldn't call my library a product. If you have any suggestions for alternative names I'd be happy to hear them.
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by ionfish 17y ago
I'm developing a CSS generator called Stylish. It's pretty rudimentary right now, but progress is relatively quick (for me, anyway). Code: http://github.com/ionfish/stylish Docs: http://ionfish.github.com/stylish
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by ionfish 18y ago
Meanwhile, in crowded London, a 90-minute commute is far from rare...
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by ionfish 18y ago
How so? Rubygems is just a distribution and packaging system; it doesn't do anything special as regards changing the APIs of Ruby's core objects. Ill-considered metaprogramming can be carried out in Ruby regardless of how the code gets load
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by ionfish 18y ago
Graham Hutton has written a couple of papers on monadic parser combinators: http://cs.nott.ac.uk/~gmh/bib.html#pearl http://cs.nott.ac.uk/~gmh/bib.html#monparsing He also discusses them in chapter 8 of Programming in Haskell ; the code
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by ionfish 18y ago
To be honest, reading Reg's posts lately you get the impression that this happens all the time . Obviously it does happen a certain amount, hence the various people (quite understandably) complaining about it, but probably not as often as
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by ionfish 18y ago
It uses it for the pagination, which is both irritating and pointless. The only advantage gained by doing this is speed--and they could have that by making the links go to anchors within the page. This kind of thing is far from rare, but it
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by ionfish 18y ago
Sometimes is a long way from never. The relevant phrase here is "not to program in"; you clearly agree with me that this is a mistaken attitude.
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by ionfish 18y ago
I've always found that attitude slightly strange. Having expended a lot of time and effort learning a functional language, why not program in it?
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by ionfish 18y ago
Commit logs can give you at least some idea of this stuff, surely, and they tend to be available for a lot of open source projects.
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by ionfish 18y ago
Worth reading this response: http://crookedtimber.org/2009/04/13/zomg-facebook-use-and-st...
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by ionfish 18y ago
It was also a suggested addition to ECMAScript 4, although I think it's out now.
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by ionfish 18y ago
It's like The End of History; a silly title for a silly piece of writing.
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Meeting Japan's cyber homeless(news.bbc.co.uk)
20 points by ionfish 18y ago|13 comments
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by ionfish 18y ago
Yeah, if you download the page and serve it locally as text/html it renders ok. It's probably ISO-8895-1 or similar.
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by ionfish 18y ago
> That kind of environment takes its toll, psychologically. This is very true. I am starting to seriously contemplate leaving the country, because it's becoming such an oppressive environment.
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Heist (Scheme in Ruby) 0.2 adds proper list support, better documentation(blog.jcoglan.com)
10 points by ionfish 18y ago|5 comments
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Jason Fried: Get Satisfaction is "awfully close to blackmail"(37signals.com)
291 points by ionfish 18y ago|142 comments
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by ionfish 18y ago
There are a number of useful tips in this article about when, and how, to use strict evaluation in Haskell. http://users.aber.ac.uk/afc/stricthaskell.html
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by ionfish 18y ago
What makes you think that clean and creative are design attributes in opposition to one another? I've seen a number of comments like yours on this thread, and to be honest I'm quite dubious about this attitude. It smacks of the whole "desig
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by ionfish 18y ago
In general it appears that it's just roads that aren't publicly accessible which one can't go down. It's not just Downing Street, for example, but a bunch of pedestrianised places, presumably for the obvious reason that the Street View car
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by ionfish 18y ago
Perhaps some of the other Rails developers around here could satisfy my curiosity: when do you do the work (minor or major) to update your applications to use new releases? When the first or second RC comes out, or only once the 'official',
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by ionfish 18y ago
Shigeru Ban has done a lot with cardboard; his WikiPedia entry doesn't really do him justice, but the Phaidon book on his work is pretty good. http://www.arcspace.com/books/ban/ban_book.html
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by ionfish 18y ago
I've never heard of an open-source solution that has gone through formal usability tests. WordPress has. http://wordpress.org/development/2008/10/usability-testing-r...

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