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by plesn 16y ago
Are there more code snippets that the "chat" one ? From my (very shallow) understanding/guessing this provides: 1) statically typed records with some high level web-friendly types (automatically serializable to json). There is a "User" type
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by plesn 16y ago
Beautiful language and beautiful library for web programming. It imports all the practical stuff from heavy theory and mixes it in a coherent environement. I've seen at least : monads for effects, functionnal reactive programming for reacti
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by plesn 16y ago
Interesting post showing 2 approaches both leading to good composition. The Scala version is particularly noteworthy, as it is quite a good example of OOP which gets rid of inheritence as a pattern of code extension and uses mixin and funct
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by plesn 16y ago
Ok, so I (think I) agree with you that the following poperties make it compelling to test/develop/refactor code: purity / statelessness, algebraic properties of programs (transforms…), high level (brevity). Where I (think I) disagree, is th
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by plesn 16y ago
FP code can still be in mismatch with your thoughts about it, so functionnal programming does not magically "just work", nor does "it works or it doesn't work" (except in the dumb sense of this sentence which applies to all code). You still
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by plesn 16y ago
mmh, no. Functional programing is declarative, but I does not mean I don't declare utterly wrong and nonsensical things to my compiler. That's why I have not only a type system, but also testing tools even for pure code: see Quickcheck in H
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by plesn 16y ago
So web browsers keep trying to do right what Windows-like window managers messed up. (and I think they still need one think: the ability to split the view to compare tabs)
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by plesn 16y ago
The way programmers see each other was especially good in the "language matrix" : http://i.imgur.com/1gF1j.jpg
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by plesn 16y ago
This is the original dons' blog post (easier to read on the web than slides) : http://donsbot.wordpress.com/2007/03/10/practical-haskell-sh... An interesting read !
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by plesn 16y ago
Exactly. The two moments of the cycle are: killer feature and protocols. When a feature goes mainstream, it neads to be openly standartized (Take GUI toolkits, take instant messenging). Then another feature/innovation moves the "battle" els
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by plesn 16y ago
loved the bank example !
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by plesn 16y ago
Be happier, find or borrow everything.
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Three digital myths(mondediplo.com)
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by plesn 16y ago
My personal first "contextualisation" about the food industry was a book called "A Diet for a Small Planet" (the reedition, not the original one). I liked it because it was the first time I saw some data and graphs about how and why (hint:
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by plesn 16y ago
So sharing music, seeds or medicines with others can be more evil than insulting them.
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by plesn 16y ago
You did most of the work : fact selection, and fact presentation/interpretation. Otherwise, seeing "Netherlands:0, Spain:1" on a headline is a biased news. I can see it as noise (non-important entertainment massively supported by ads I'm pa
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by plesn 16y ago
The problem is I don't consider "Le Monde" as a quality newspaper anymore: why would I buy it? What's its added value compared to information I cat get for free? It has a very serious tone but is in fact a very consensual newspaper (and usu
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by plesn 16y ago
Same thing on 1 page ? I hate feeling controlled by the content I read…
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by plesn 16y ago
Good point, but the debate is still in the "C++ vs Python" bounds. Haskell has Hindley-Milner and Quickcheck and I think the debate is elsewhere: the cost of abstractions and tools (just read another doc/paper to understand how to do this)
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by plesn 16y ago
Nothing will give you definitive answers: email is decentralized but computer-litterate and privacy-aware people use gmail and regularly send important emails to gmail users... I agree with you that there should be some way to "quite easily
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by plesn 16y ago
Of course you can't prevent people from copying stuff. But you can control who you want to trust. If the interface allows easily grouping people, you can easily publish your political thoughts with your friends and your children photos with
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by plesn 16y ago
There are also parser combinator libraries in several languages. Haskell's Parsec is quite a pleasure to work with. Even if the one in your language is quite beta it should be enough for such a toy project.
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by plesn 16y ago
Oh, so that's a disadvantage for VP8 against h264 on current cards. I wonder how well such a decoding can perform implemented on OpenCL/CUDA vs the pure "supported" version..
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by plesn 16y ago
The VAAPI for GPU accelered video decoding on Linux is really interesting. I don't know enough about video to understand how low-level it is from the MPEG2 exemple on their web site: does it have to be a codec already supported by your vide
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by plesn 16y ago
I find this article not only strongly biased (both in the presentation of the actors of the debate and in the poor addressing of the arguments themself) but also completely missing the core of the debate. Opponents are depicted as driven by
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by plesn 16y ago
Does someone have a link to the video he is talking about from the Google I/O conference ?
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by plesn 16y ago
Basically, this sums up to two things criticized: 1) the decentralized architecture: people won't install servers 2) not concrete enough: they only pile buzzwords and money for now. See also the 37signals criticism http://37signals.com/svn
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by plesn 16y ago
It's more like a compiler: bootstrapping is not complete yet though, the bacteria produced should be able to produce the rest of the entire cell.
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by plesn 16y ago
I agree open has become newspeak and we have to be more precise: - published : you can use it to get some data and it is documented - transparent or reversible : you can get your data back - interoperable : you can implement the API on
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by plesn 16y ago
I wonder if the LED of the webcam was on when they where spyed (and more generally if you can disable those by software).

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