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by ky3 14y ago
Total functions embed into partial ones, which is why we have a partiality monad. The opposite arrow doesn't exist, which is why we don't have a totality monad. Now lazy and eager are properly adjectives that govern beta reduction, that i
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by ky3 14y ago
> How can this paradigm be used to build predictable software that works as intended when we have no guarantee when and where an expression will be evaluated? s/an expression will be evaluated/commands are fired/ reveals the latent im
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by ky3 14y ago
One man's concision is another man's line noise: http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/13l9vj/getting_star...
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by ky3 14y ago
Dan Doel [1], who works with Edward Kmett, gets it too. And there's the inimitable Luke Palmer [2], whose blog contains nuggets of gold for those who care to dig through the archives. [1] http://www.reddit.com/user/doliorules [2] http:
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What keeps developers from adopting functional languages?(infoq.com)
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by ky3 14y ago
takes notes for future marketing endeavours Lol. :) Didn't you notice the multiple david vs goliath references? Or the challenger vs incumbent dimension? Conflict makes for a good story makes for frontpage news. Moreover, the 50/50 text/v
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by ky3 14y ago
(This must be the comeuppance for talking abstractly about abstractions. Heh.) For starters I shan't cop-out and claim Haskell is primarily a research vehicle. So it's succeeding in some sense. We'll live. So here's my take: Most people yie
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by ky3 14y ago
"Practical problems" is one of those expressions that mean different things to different people, emphatically so in the Haskell community. The response is that far from treating the problems as mundane, the community actually sees the probl
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by ky3 14y ago
Lol. :) Jokes aside, there are dichotomic interpretations of "studying geometry." There is studying geometry for its own sake, otiose learning if you will, just like the ancient Greeks did. And then there's studying it to pass an exam, th
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by ky3 14y ago
If the salaries really go to $400k, saving up a million in the five years seems possible How good are you against peer pressure? Everybody else is living it up; you sure you can get by being the only one bringing PBJ for lunch?
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by ky3 14y ago
It's not about ebook marketing. It's not even about marketing at all. The silent battle is between taking glam money (angels and VCs) versus rolling your own. It's between sexy, techcrunch-y, big-name funding versus toiling in the pits unl
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by ky3 14y ago
How does one come up with something to sell? That's backwards. Try: How do I come up with a community to serve? And then you add on: How do I come up with a community that's within my ability to serve and demonstrates willingness to excha
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by ky3 14y ago
But with the little time as stated previously in development, I shouldn't hold my breath. It sucks when the tool you rely on doesn't get as much love as it deserves. Fwiw, Amy devotes a huge chunk of time she would otherwise spend on Frec
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by ky3 14y ago
Quite frankly, the reason I haven't raised my rate is that I live a comfortable lifestyle. Earlier you say, I do feel like it is time to raise my rate, though, and the next project I start I will. Could Brennan's $49 ebook resolve the t
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by ky3 14y ago
God, I'm so envious reading all these comments -- patio11 struck a gold mine of the golden mean! You know you've priced okay when (1) people bitch it's too high and (2) people bitch it's too low. You know you've MVP'ed when (1) people bitch
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by ky3 14y ago
I wouldn't feel confident writing something that might not necessarily do exactly what it said on the tin for everyone reading it. In that case you'd never write it. The discussion isn't over some magic book of spells here. It's about an
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by ky3 14y ago
The flip side to opportunity cost is the hidden benefit of launching a successful ebook. It's SO not just $15k. Think about all that crippling anxiety over building something no one wants. Or the psychological wounds still bleeding raw from
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by ky3 14y ago
More litigation = more justice in the USA.
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by ky3 14y ago
No one has mentioned reptile lamps yet? Medical UVB is expensive and probably can't be bought without a license of some sort. Reptile lamps you can buy from a local pet store or online. But nothing beats the real sun (and greenery and fresh
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by ky3 14y ago
Java vs. Haskell not-so-much. But it's mostly in such comparisons that "closures" and "first-class functions" are brought up. If you check out /r/haskell you'd be hard pressed to find those terms. I hardly ever think of closures qua closu
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by ky3 14y ago
You are right that perhaps the best ways to validate a product is to ask real people - like asking quite bluntly "Would you pay $30 per month for this product, with this certain USP?", or even "Would you pay me $100 upfront to build this p
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by ky3 14y ago
The 26 seconds he got at the end does parse all the headers while skipping the raw blobs. It's quite amazing.
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by ky3 14y ago
I outlined the journal must-haves if you're conducting a programming experiment: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4448853
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by ky3 14y ago
Something needs to be said about taking notes, and there's no shortage of good advice on writing a lab report that will reap rewards for years to come. The report needs to explain (1) WHY you're doing the experiment, (2) HOW it's going to b
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Believing in Computer Science(existentialtype.wordpress.com)
1 points by ky3 14y ago|0 comments
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by ky3 14y ago
> But what I see happening in the Haskell space for example (and even further in languages such as Agda) are attempts to distill things down to their elements. To find the true semantics behind a problem. ... I really do believe softwar
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by ky3 14y ago
It's not a bug, it's a feature! The reader gets involved in the making of the book, the writer gets a way to talk with their best customers, everyone wins. A savvy author trumps a crappy publisher any time.
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by ky3 14y ago
> knowing none of the future audience in person I'd seriously think about that 30x500 course if I were you. (Thibault is alum.) The biggest chunk of the course is devoted to making sure there's a "commitment to cash" BEFORE spending a d
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by ky3 14y ago
a.k.a. You're not their customer. Ergo, to be successful, you're not your customer.
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by ky3 14y ago
> So, if you're selling software to,say, bolt & screw manufacturers in the Southeast, you need to know what's going on with bolt & screw manufacturers in the Southeast, what the trends are, what problems they face, and how to ta

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