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by merijnv 13y ago
Word of warning, though. While this article looks pretty decent it's skipping over lots of tiny details that are covered in LYAH, which may lead to annoying gaps in your knowledge/understanding later.
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by merijnv 13y ago
]p does, though. That pastes with adjust indentation.
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by merijnv 13y ago
I think those people are the vocal minority. In my experience most interviewers will go out of your way to get you to feel comfortable and relax during the interview process.
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by merijnv 13y ago
Here in the UK I've noticed that accessing YouTube directly is slow, laggy and choppy. But when I accidentally visited while using a SOCKS proxy running over a VPS in the US it was snappy. After some more testing it seems that my local
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by merijnv 13y ago
Not quite the same, but box-and-whisker plots ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Box_plot ) are good for visualising distributions. They show the mean, minimum, maximum and the first and second quartiles. Since they show th
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by merijnv 13y ago
You would be correct, I have seriously looked into doing this type of thing and/or modifying the Vim codebase. My conclusion after a few hours is that the Vim codebase is a horrific unsalvageable mess of nested ifdef's. IMHO reimp
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by merijnv 13y ago
Valgrind supports suppression of reports, if valgrind can't track past ioctl, they should add a suppression file to their repo that supresses these warnings, making valgrind output useful again.
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by merijnv 13y ago
FreeBSD is not just a kernel, it also ships with a userland, which includes a C compiler (obviously). In other words, FreeBSD ships with a gcc binary, which means FreeBSD is distributing gcc, which means all clauses in the GPLv3 apply to th
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by merijnv 13y ago
FWIW, there is currently a GSoC project supervised by SPJ that is working on making overloadable fields available in GHC.
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by merijnv 13y ago
> I like things that are straight forward and obvious when I program. So do I, which is why I program in Haskell rather than the other languages which make me worry about a ton of irrelevant things like the global state of my program and
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by merijnv 13y ago
IIyama, twice I've had an IIyama screen die on me, once within warranty (due to the high volume of electric devices dying I installed a surge protector, since then no problems) and once outside of warranty. Both times they send a couri
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by merijnv 13y ago
Using the Steam DRM is optional for developers. There are DRM free games on Steam, which means that even if Steam is down, they will still work. That said, I've never had problems with DRMed Steam games not working if the internet is down (
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by merijnv 13y ago
GHC uses a per-version package database, so that should never be possible for different GHC versions. For example, I have the 7.4 from platform installed in /usr/bin/ghc (the normal location for Platform installs on OSX) and 7.7 installed i
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by merijnv 13y ago
What stopped you from installing ghc-7.6 yourself? I've been using 7.4 (from Platform) and 7.6 in parallel for over half a year without problem.
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by merijnv 13y ago
I don't know about the grand parent, but personally I store that one in my brain. It's about 32 (maybe more?) characters and quite complex, but it's the only passphrase I need to use regularly so it's etched into my mind.
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by merijnv 13y ago
> you can use SVN with GitHub if you really want to. How is that remotely relevant? Mercurial is a great DVCS with a user experience that is (in my opinion) far superior to git. SVN on the other hand is...I don't think I need to rehash
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by merijnv 13y ago
Not just Carmack, Tim Sweeney (Epic Games) has held a presentation at POPL discussing the value of functional programming for games: http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~dpw/popl/06/Tim-POPL.ppt
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by merijnv 14y ago
I actually started designing statically typed Python, since it seemed a fun exercise. Halfway in I realised I was effectively redesigning Haskell with slightly different syntax and stopped.
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by merijnv 14y ago
Well, in magic circles the game is often abbreviated as MtG, the t usually being lowercase because many people don't capitalise "the" when writing out "Magic the Gathering". (even though the WotC themselves do capitalise it on the cards). W
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by merijnv 14y ago
I'm using hg even with github. The hg-git extension from the github guys works surprisingly well for me. The only downsides I've found that push/pull of very large repos tends to be a bit slow and the conversion to/from git will clobber fil
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by merijnv 14y ago
The thing with both GPL and CDDL is that they both put restrictions on how you are allowed to distribute the program/source. i.e. you can't legally distribute code that has both GPL and CDDL parts. However, neither license puts restrictio
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by merijnv 14y ago
Bah, I just noticed I completely forgot to include the link for the lazy: http://blog.sigfpe.com/2006/08/you-could-have-invented-monad...
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by merijnv 14y ago
The majority of monad "tutorials" are notoriously terrible. Have you read "You Could Have Invented Monads! (And Maybe You Already Have.)"? If no, you should try it, it's a rather nice article. If yes, where did you get stuck with trying to
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by merijnv 14y ago
The writer of a patch is the copyright holder of that patch, as a result you cannot legally distribute your code with the patch applied unless you have a valid license from the patch writer (Because part of the code is copyrighted by the
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by merijnv 14y ago
It depends on what you mean by statically typed language. If you mean other stuff like SML/Ocaml, I agree. If you include C/C++/Java/C# in your definition "statically typed", then I beg to differ. I have considerable experience in C, Java a
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by merijnv 14y ago
Yes, it literally translates to toys, but it is also a combination of "speel" which literally translates to "play" and "goed" which translates to either "goods" (most likely candidate here as origin for the combination that means "toys") or
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by merijnv 14y ago
bcrypt is a hashing algorithm for securely hashing passwords, this is something you want to be slow, yes. However, the discussion in the link is about encryption, which you want to be fast . A popular webserver serving HTTPS to thousands o
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by merijnv 14y ago
The grandparent is right, the problem with multi-core is the L1 and L2 bottlenecking operations. The cache consistency protocols used to keep memory consistent between cores introduce more and more overhead as you introduce more cores. This
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by merijnv 14y ago
I disagree, benefitting from 48 cores on the SCC would be easy, if the other (solvable) problems plaguing the SCC wouldn't get in the way. The bigger issues plaguing the SCC were: The use of old P54C core, while understandable from hardware
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by merijnv 14y ago
Because scientists are aggressively selective in what they read (you have to be, given the volume of text produced) and skip large parts of the paper to see if they're interesting. A very common paper reading approach is: 1. Read abstra

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