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by reirob 15y ago
I read the paper. It is great for beginners of Haskell or enthusiasts that want to learn how it started and why particular choices have been made. Although this paper is from 2007 it covers so much of the bases in Haskell. For example I did
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by reirob 15y ago
The question is not why Moody's thinks that U.S. still deserves AAA, but how long it will take until Moody's will have to downgrade U.S.
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by reirob 15y ago
From what I've seen in the video the bamboo bikes are mountain bikes with quite good components, so I guess they are going to target the more expensive market segment. As for repairing a broken bamboo frame I can imagine it is easier than r
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by reirob 15y ago
I stumbled about articles in big German media about this, however nothing on Hacker News and other "non-institutional" sources about hacking! How comes? Is it some propaganda using the media to create a new enemy and prepare a new cyber war
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by reirob 15y ago
I had a look at the Cheat Sheet - many thanks it is exactly what I need. I have some basics with Haskell and as you said it is a nightmare to figure out what the operators are doing. I am still working through Real World Haskell, the book i
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by reirob 15y ago
I hope this will not increase the water consumption...
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by reirob 15y ago
Very nice article. It is centred about observing the past. But as evolution is going on, things change and I think that we are living in an era where things are changing and society will less favour the capability to compete but more to cop
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by reirob 15y ago
Fully agree.
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by reirob 15y ago
Most people in EU invest their money in real estate or some other hard value. But contrary to US, most people do not handle their economics for the retirement by themselves - this is handled by the governments. So there is really not much t
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by reirob 15y ago
"Moody’s has recently indicated that it may downgrade Italy’s debt due to macroeconomic structural weaknesses and the surrounding economic turmoil of its neighbors. Just last Thursday, Moody’s said it might downgrade 13 Itali
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by reirob 15y ago
Yes, this could be an explanation. But why would the Greek government provide the money to the banks? I mean they could invest the money (that they've got from EU and IWF) in infrastructure and economy and then declare default. If I underst
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by reirob 15y ago
Who knows, maybe Greece is about to get as much money as they can from the EU in order to default after? What would happen in this case?
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by reirob 15y ago
Some quotes from the article: [...] What’s most hilarious about this is the fact that the embassy is citing the DMCA as a ten year success. Bruce Lehman, the architect of the DMCA, acknowledged as far back as 2007 that the DMCA was
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New Zealands Three Strikes Law was Pushed, Bought and Paid for by the US(zeropaid.com)
3 points by reirob 15y ago|2 comments
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by reirob 15y ago
curl -s http://news.ycombinator.com/news | \ tidy -quiet -asxml -numeric -utf8 -file /dev/null | \ xmlstarlet sel \ -N x=http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml \ -t -m "//x:tr[x:td[1][@class='title']]" \ -v "normalize-space(x:td[3][@clas
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by reirob 15y ago
Thanks for pointing this out. I forgot to precise that I am using XPath on Unix/Cygwin command line or in Shell scripts. Here an example of extracting the Hacker News title;url;points;user data: curl -s http://news.ycombinator.com/news
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by reirob 15y ago
When I need to extract data from HTML I use XPath. But to do so I have to use the combination of following tools iconv: necessary only when the page is NOT encoded in UTF-8 tidy: used to convert from HTML to XHTML which is XML. I call it as
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by reirob 15y ago
Very very interesting. Especially for people speaking several languages. Here some of my personal interpretation on the graphs - I am speaking German, French, Russian: * German: The many links to German sites I would tend to explain (a) by
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by reirob 15y ago
Nice, though requires some concentration to work through the article. I still wonder if there are tools that are part of GHC allowing to easily analyze time and memory consumption and detecting possible space leaks without manually analyzin
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US nuke regulators weaken safety rules to keep old reactors running(news.yahoo.com)
75 points by reirob 15y ago|35 comments
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by reirob 15y ago
Hello dear hacker fellow, I fully understand how you feel - I've got to the same state you are, with a difference that it came 10 years later than for you. I've got the same feelings about being unsatisfied, not challenged enough, feeling n
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by reirob 15y ago
Zed, I am also trying to learn Haskell and I must admit I have a hard time with it, so I am kind off jealous about you finding it not too hard and having the ability to learn so fast. Even though I used over 5 languages in the last 20 years
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by reirob 15y ago
I really do not think that it is that black and white. First it is not about people who do not like Linux on the desktop but about people who used Linux on the desktop for many years, promoted it at their schools, at their companies, to the
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by reirob 15y ago
I do not know why I should install OS X on non-Apple hardware, besides maybe safe some money. But with Linux it is already a pain to buy some basic multi-purpose printer/scanner. I went through this last time and believe me, the cost of the
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by reirob 15y ago
Very good article - both Part I and II. I completely understand the feelings of the author and I appreciate his constructive advices after so much pain. I am using/used Linux since '95. On my family's laptop Ubuntu 10.10 is still running, b
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by reirob 15y ago
The answer is at the end of the article. The short answeris: that the solar industrie has processes to recycle 100% all the panels. I agree that it would be nice to know more about this, especially if the panels are really recycled - after
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by reirob 15y ago
Very enlightening. I did not know that solar panels can last from 25 to 40 years and that only in 1 to 2 years the produced energy pays off the carbon footprint needed for producing the panels.
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Bitcoin can cause brain damage(i.imgur.com)
6 points by reirob 15y ago|0 comments
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by reirob 15y ago
Very nice description of the Android architecture. I understand that all the applications have to be written in Java. But how did Firefox port its browser to Android? I doubt they have ported it from C++ to Java. At least from the article I
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WIKILEAKS: U.S. Fought To Lower Minimum Wage In Haiti for products to stay cheap(businessinsider.com)
8 points by reirob 15y ago|0 comments

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