pilgrim689

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by pilgrim689 14y ago
It's not written by the same guy. Fred Hébert for the Erlang one, Miran Lipovaca for the Haskell one.
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by pilgrim689 14y ago
I can't recommend http://learnyouahaskell.com/chapters enough. It was my first book coming from imperative to functional. It blew my mind. Plus, if you're looking to learn specifically functional programming, you don't get more functional
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by pilgrim689 14y ago
I'm only familiar with the QNX microkernel from working in safety-critical systems. I'm really excited for the possibility of an open source microkernel getting some mainstream attention, since the benefits (modularity, reliability, maintai
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by pilgrim689 14y ago
I'm not sure who you're addressing, because I never argued against that... in my original comment: "[some people] rather something that "just works""
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by pilgrim689 14y ago
Of course it's not a good thing... If you want to hack on your system only to find out that it's all been prepackaged and filled with bells and whistles that can't be removed, there ain't much hacking you can do!
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by pilgrim689 14y ago
I think he could have taken the time he wasted Googling for duct-tape solutions and used it to read deeper documentation. Then, he wouldn't be so tired. Nonetheless, he wanted something that just worked, which Ubuntu didn't; so the take-awa
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by pilgrim689 14y ago
Reading this from an Arch Linux machine with everything configured to my liking from the system initialisation to package management to window management to terminal emulators feels very strange. Why would I ever want to give up knowing exa
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by pilgrim689 14y ago
"it seems like a good basis for a future secure Unix" There's QNX for that: http://www.qnx.com/products/neutrino-rtos/secure-kernel.html It's used in industries such as automotive, nuclear, etc. Perhaps you meant "future secure open-sour
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by pilgrim689 14y ago
"He is not "the most wanted man in the world"." It is obviously not meant to be taken literally. He is, though, wanted by the US, the Brits, the Swedes... Who would you say, off the top of your head, has a higher "wanted" status today?
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by pilgrim689 14y ago
... or recent travels or instruments they play or people they've seen or concerts they went to or adventures they've had or sports they play or side projects or dates or ...
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by pilgrim689 14y ago
The judge would tell you that "prior art" is irrelevant here. This isn't about patents or copyrights. They are filing for a trademark...
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by pilgrim689 14y ago
I'm a beginner Haskeller and I'm really enjoying this blog so far. After reading through a few tutorials, it's refreshing to get some theoretical background to it all. It helps make the language more intuitive, even if it's not teaching con
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by pilgrim689 14y ago
May I ask where?
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by pilgrim689 14y ago
Erlang has decades of use in fast, robust, large telecommunication systems. Haskell promises more robustness than any other platform as well as performance sometimes comparable to C. Its downside is just that steep learning curve though. So
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by pilgrim689 14y ago
I'm not an expert so someone please correct me, but I believe the answer is roughly: if the frame rate is lower than the "rate that your eye sees", then your brain replaces the frames that are missing with a blur so that the motion still lo
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by pilgrim689 14y ago
I'm really curious about the article " http://www.yesodweb.com/blog/2012/10/yesod-fay-js " that is linked to in the "Fay in the Wild" section. Does anyone know how hard it would be to integrate AngularJS with Fay as described? Sounds like
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by pilgrim689 14y ago
Interesting how he starts from the components and then rolls up to the main logic, whereas I would start at the main logic then drill down into the routines it uses.
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by pilgrim689 14y ago
It's not bad... it's just much more light-weight (essentially). So, the bigger the project, the more you're going to feel Backbone strain relative to AngularJS. However, for small projects, you probably don't need such big guns... but if yo
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by pilgrim689 14y ago
Which country did you try it in, Japan or China? I'm curious to hear how a use of this actually turned out.
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by pilgrim689 14y ago
Care to expand a bit? I'm curious.
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by pilgrim689 14y ago
I don't understand this comment. Why are we looking for one single all-mighty "female computer hero"? Can't we recognize the different women in computer science and appreciate their contributions individually without trying to put one above
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by pilgrim689 14y ago
(wasnt me!) Our opposite experiences just goes to show that UI qualities are subjective, and until someone releases scientific studies (none of this "many users" crap) that go against Microsoft's own user testing, I don't see why they shoul
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by pilgrim689 14y ago
That depends on what you want to show, of course. What kind of example do you have in mind? What kind of information are you showing? Here are some examples of non-button rectangles: http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store/app/weather-cloc
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by pilgrim689 14y ago
That's not a tile. Also, the first time I saw that text, I knew I could click it. I can't explain how they did it, but somehow being able to click it was just consistent with how everything else works. That's just me though, supposedly this
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by pilgrim689 14y ago
That's a strawman. No one said: "don't put anything in a rectangle that isn't a button".
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by pilgrim689 14y ago
These are called style guidelines and iOS has them too [1]. If you don't adhere to some of them, you won't even get your app in the App Store. So you need to design your app in an "iOS" way, just like here Windows Phone devs should design i
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by pilgrim689 14y ago
"I feel that the complete lack of distinction between clickable/tappable tiles and non-interactive ones is a very real problem" Really? Where is this problem? I know the tiles on my phone can all be tapped, without any exception (WP7).
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by pilgrim689 14y ago
Our ancestors did not own smartphones, so the broad evolution argument is kind of garbage. User interfaces need to be researched before we can make conclusions on skeuomorphism vs "pure digital". Furthermore, the author talks about affordan
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by pilgrim689 14y ago
I think the problem is that we're all interpreting this differently... I'm not saying you should force relationships at all. I'm saying cutting someone off just because they're going through a rough patch is no way to treat a human. You can
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by pilgrim689 14y ago
"If someone is a drag on me, I cut them out. If someone lifts me up, I bring them closer. " That is incredibly selfish. Sometimes the person doing the lifting is the one being "brought down", so you're essentially depending on the fact that

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