jewbacca

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by jewbacca 16y ago
... whoa, that's pretty cool. Also, I feel like a douchebag. Thanks for building and sharing this stuff at all. Where's that binary at? Also, what's this about MacPorts? I only ever tried using cabal (as installed with Haskell Platform)
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by jewbacca 16y ago
What sucks is that Hackage has been down all day (and is down not infrequently) and I've needed it desperately. Also, Don Stewart's (evangelized by OP) 'Download' package won't build on OS X, with a different cryptic error message than it
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by jewbacca 16y ago
Original Source (acknowledged in the article, though its embed links a YouTube flamewar): http://www.ctbto.org/specials/1945-1998-by-isao-hashimoto/
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by jewbacca 16y ago
This seems like a kind of hack-y laziness, specifically in the form of a poor man's exception. It's no more "magic" than an if statement or any other kind of block. I would probably use this plenty if I were to use Ruby (Haskell has spoil
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by jewbacca 16y ago
I had a really great experience. I once pressed a series of buttons while at home in my underwear, giving a stranger enough cash for a nice night out or two. A few days later, I woke up at noon, drank some coffee, had a slightly fitful na
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by jewbacca 16y ago
WARNING: This is the blind leading the blind. I was already well-upvoted for my previous post before realizing (thanks to you, tkahn) that my definition of bind was actually fmap (I think). Crying out for authority here; help us out HN. -
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by jewbacca 16y ago
Haskell has that exact same definition for its Maybe type here [1]: data Maybe a = Nothing | Just a After which it defines the monad operations on that type instance Monad Maybe where [...] This says "the Maybe type is a m
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by jewbacca 16y ago
Link to Simon PJ's own copy, with accurate extension: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/simonpj/papers...
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by jewbacca 16y ago
Relative to whatever's evolved to be the youtube standard level? I generally keep my speakers tuned to that, suspect many do. If the relative volume of two videos is not consistent between viewers, maybe it's a matter of equalizer filteri
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by jewbacca 16y ago
Minor but terribly important point: get a better microphone. And increase the volume. These videos are the only public interface to your project right now. Otherwise: I've been a huge fan of your writing since I discovered your blog and I
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by jewbacca 16y ago
Well specifically, he's the maintainer of INTERCAL[1], an esoteric/outright evil programming language that, from his request (if I'm not being too credulous; it's at least plausible), Knuth must find amusing. Of course he's not a Computer
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by jewbacca 16y ago
He's Eric S. Raymond (widely known as ESR)[1], a major contributor to and early public advocate of the open-source community[2], originator and maintainer of much enduring 80s and 90s hacker humour[3], sometimes shit-disturber[4], and liber
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by jewbacca 16y ago
It's written in Scheme. Awesome.
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by jewbacca 16y ago
I'm pulling this mostly out of my ass, but I'm pretty sure that to call a fashion model misvalued because of her facial attractiveness is misunderstanding fashion models. Fashion models are not Maxim models; I'd imagine they're actually act
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by jewbacca 16y ago
I've had this happen to me with Tetris and not batted an eye. When it happened with Nethack, though... I freaked out and didn't play again for a year. That shit was scary.
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by jewbacca 16y ago
The extent of my experience on the topic is in half-comprehending hobbyist's awe and the inclusion of okmij on my "personal heroes and demigods" list. The only word I could half-heartedly associate with this structure is the incredibly lam
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by jewbacca 16y ago
I don't think I've ever read a rant about code smells which couldn't be trivially fixed with basic functional programming principles.
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by jewbacca 16y ago
They're really simple, slight variations yield drastically different behaviour, and some setups are Turing-equivalent (given some liberties of interpretation). This is Wolfram's argument on why they would stand with the Riemann-Zeta functi
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by jewbacca 16y ago
I'm pretty stoked that Microsoft is no longer evil/complacent and is innovating (again?). This is of course not the beginning of this turnaround, nor even the first time Microsoft-as-Good has reached me for unabstract personal benefit[1],
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by jewbacca 16y ago
Russia is trying this with Skolkovo [1]. They're even equipping it with an (supposedly, though I wonder where they'll be drawing their manpower from) independent police system to try to isolate it from the institutional corruption that's u
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by jewbacca 16y ago
Also, who the hell actually sees the Google homepage anymore?
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by jewbacca 16y ago
One thing I would love (though Facebook's privacy will NEVER get this lax) would be a script to download and archive everything I've ever been involved with -- every comments thread, every wall correspondence, every private message. This w