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by jarrett 12y ago
> virtually every developer I know well enough to know what they prefer uses either Linux or Windows Interesting. It must be clustered, as you say. I use a Mac largely because there are a handful of professional apps that don't run
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by jarrett 12y ago
To make this discussion more concrete, here are some problems I've thus far found on the Mac: - GHC ships with the wrong compiler path for (some version s of?) OS X, causing various C-related stuff to fail. https://gist.gith
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by jarrett 12y ago
> Maybe the Mac/Haskell overlap is just too small? Probably so. Though I would suggest that the neither one is a small niche in itself. Mac especially--it's the favored platform for every developer I know except one. Yes, it&#x
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by jarrett 12y ago
Is there still plenty of coal that's easy to extract with primitive technology? If so, why hasn't it already been mined? (I would think the low-hanging fruit would go first.)
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by jarrett 12y ago
I believe historically that was achieved with stone tools. So you make some stone axes, hatchets, adzes, chisels, etc. You use those to bootstrap a basic metallurgy setup, including chopping the trees for charcoal. I think energy is the big
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by jarrett 12y ago
The sandbox sounds great. I haven't been able to get Cabal 1.8 to install on a Mac, but I'd love to try it.
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by jarrett 12y ago
I hear that, and I hope that project works out. But I'm still interested in developing native apps. There's a reason so many professional applications (games, intensive apps like Photoshop and Blender, etc) are still native. You m
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by jarrett 12y ago
Manual is OK if there's at least a clear path to getting something to install. I don't see that path, though. My biggest issue is that I don't have the expertise to debug an obscure Haskell compilation error. I won't dev
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by jarrett 12y ago
I'd love to, but Haskell Platform ships with an old version of Cabal that doesn't have sandboxes. The new version of Cabal itself doesn't compile on the Mac. (In keeping with the theme of "nothing compiles.") Edit:
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by jarrett 12y ago
Sometimes I do. Often, if a Haskell package doesn't have a Github repo, I don't know how to contact the developers or submit a bug report. Is there a standard place on Hackage or in ghc-pkg where one can find that info?
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by jarrett 12y ago
Yes. It does not compile on my Mavericks machine. Same with every graphics package I've tried.
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by jarrett 12y ago
On a related note: The article (quite reasonably) avoids discussion of the graphics library, but I want to know more about that side of things. I wish graphics got more attention in the Haskell ecosystem in general. The options right now ar
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by jarrett 12y ago
I think the package ecosystem is a big barrier. I code on OS X, and it seems like half the Haskell packages I try to install fail to compile. I always get super motivated to do my next project in Haskell, but then give up when I can't
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by jarrett 12y ago
I think the parent comment is saying that 1Password would record the rules per site, not maintain a global list of rules that satisfies all sites. The latter would indeed yield an empty set, as some sites require a special character and som
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by jarrett 12y ago
Along similar lines, I've wondered whether an enterprising scientist could glamorize the search for null results by deliberately targeting previously published papers. So you don't just formulate random hypotheses, test them, and
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by jarrett 12y ago
But it's not a binary choice between a) excluding everyone without LinkedIn and b) spending an infinite amount on search. Surely, there are affordable ways to evaluate engineering candidates other than their LinkedIn profiles. For exam
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by jarrett 12y ago
Well yes, all of those criteria are bad business, if taken as absolutes. They can all be factors, for sure. But as absolute requirements, they just weed out good candidates. > I have come to the conclusion that most companies don'
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by jarrett 12y ago
:) To devil's advocate myself, though: Where does this logic end? On the extreme end of the spectrum, we can agree that a doctor who skips the disinfectant is categorically a bad hire. But what about less extreme cases? Where do we dra
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by jarrett 12y ago
Oh absolutely, if it delivers value to you in those ways, by all means use it. I don't think it would help me personally in that regard, but if it did, I might reconsider. I suspect that LinkedIn is more useful to some people than othe
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by jarrett 12y ago
> I have a lot of resumes to scan and this metric works most of the time. Works in what sense? Does it reliably help you make the best hires? Are you sure? (I hypothesize that it does not, and you might not even know it.) Yes, every hiri
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by jarrett 12y ago
> why would you hire a web developer that didn't have their own domain? As stated in my other comments, I'm in the not-Linked-In camp. But still, I must take issue with the above. I happen to own a number of domain names, but I
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by jarrett 12y ago
> I assume you're either very junior, shady, or clueless, and none of those is good. I'm quite certain I'm none of those things. I'm gainfully employed and well-respected. Yet I'm not on LinkedIn. Why? Because I
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by jarrett 12y ago
I have to wonder if he was thinking about, for example, a reusable implementation of a hash table. And if we was, why in the world wouldn't he want that. Running with the hash table example: I use them many, many times a day, and if
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by jarrett 12y ago
> and not also the existence of a database with the right schema, the ability to connect to it I like testing those things on which my model depends. It gives me much more confidence. Why wouldn't I want to test them? > as well a
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by jarrett 12y ago
> Doctors rejected hand washing for a long time because there was no theory behind why it would improve patient care The germ theory of disease and experiments supporting the theory predate medical sanitation. (Pasteur's work did co
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by jarrett 12y ago
It's a valid question. The article takes the following premise: Parapsychology gets positive results following the scientific method as defined by prevailing norms in the scientific community. So why can't we draw the conclusion t
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by jarrett 12y ago
> It's pretty easy to get burned going either direction Quite true, though I'd argue that YAGNI is still true as a probabilistic maxim. You'll make the "will I need it" decision many thousands of times in your ca
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by jarrett 12y ago
> there is a benefit to default values, and that's a unified design throughout the web. If only browsers provided better defaults. As it stands, very few people would consider the browser defaults acceptable. > it's no surpr
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by jarrett 12y ago
Yep. Namely: typeface, font size, line height, margins, font color, background color. Those are some pretty basic properties you'll want to set for even the most minimal design. CSS is how you set them. (I suspect that almost nobody wo
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by jarrett 12y ago
> Certainly it's crummy and dishonest For those of us who are less familiar with dsploit, can you explain why it's crummy and dishonest? All I know about it I got from reading the project's summary just now. Ostensibly, it

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