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by sbergot 9y ago
I would guess that some people imagine a business model for websites where the user pays with computational power. Using GPU would be a way to make this worthwhile.
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by sbergot 9y ago
I have witnessed at least 3 people that were in a manager position and had unacceptable behavior. What lawnchair_larry described matches almost perfectly my perception of them. One of them would casually explain in conversations the softwar
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by sbergot 9y ago
"sorry, contributor is not available in your country" (france)
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by sbergot 9y ago
Haskell threaded runtime can have poorer performances than the non-threaded one on single threaded programs.
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by sbergot 9y ago
Agreed. It also introduces an element of surprise. And also gives you a source of narra "constrains" while you are playing. This tends to help everyone come up with interesting ideas. I lean toward games like dungeon world ( http:
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by sbergot 10y ago
Not the OP but here are my 2 cents: partial classes should only be used when you have a mix of generated and hand written code. Any other usage should be forbidden. It requires some education but it is useful for this usecase.
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by sbergot 10y ago
s/in-memory-map/cache-server/g if you happen to have a load balancer without sticky session.
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by sbergot 11y ago
azerty is a cultural thing. You learn to use them as a kid, and so most french are used to them. How can someone feels frustrated by something that feels completely natural? Pro tip: alt+shift switchs the layout between azerty and qwerty
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by sbergot 11y ago
> Advertising in the sense of something that can force itself on the attention of a reader will disappear because it will be too easy to read via a program that screens out undesirable material [10] > [10] This hasn’t really happened
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by sbergot 11y ago
> a language with no mutable types If we are talking about haskell, mutability is absolutely an option when it is the only way to write fast code. This is exactly what is done here: http://www.serpentine.com/blog/201
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by sbergot 12y ago
You wouldn't use Newtonian mechanics in any serious discussion? This is a strange claim.
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by sbergot 12y ago
`main` is the entry point of the program. Its type is `IO ()`. It is a warning to omit a type signature in a top level definition, so in a normal program you would have a `main :: IO ()` type definition. The `IO` allows any kind of effect.
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by sbergot 12y ago
You are right. In this case effects are not isolated. But in this particular script, there are no interesting things to move into a pure function. It does not mean that it wouldn't be the case in a more complex script. Like everything,
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by sbergot 12y ago
It is a bit easy to dismiss everything haskell related as only useful for "academic research". In fact I am not sure how do you make this link between this post and research at all. Now if you don't know about haskell and wan
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by sbergot 12y ago
Be sure that this arm race is happening. How do you find the overall quality of web media today? Are you satisfied? As a business, once you realize that 1% of your users are watching ads, what are you going to do? You can either go for a pa
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by sbergot 12y ago
I agree with about when you say that businesses should not ignore the fact that adblock is wildy used when making decisions. Imagine now that if a working drm solution existed for films, it would be ok to download the unprotected ones for f
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by sbergot 12y ago
It is interesting to interpret not using adblock as capitalist duty. I see it more as a way to respect the terms of the content producer. "But the page is bloated and unusable with ads". Then refuse the contract. Use another servi
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by sbergot 12y ago
I understand this feeling, but it goes away after a bit of practice. In java/go/c#, there are lots of statement and small expressions. In haskell expressions tends to be longer and are broken down in multiple local definitions (wi
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by sbergot 12y ago
I disagree. You are merely used to different conventions. In haskell, symbols starting with an uppercase are types (or Constructors). You can think about Map as a type constructor which takes two other types as its arguments. So Map Foo Bar
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by sbergot 12y ago
I guess that the float formatter has more work to do that the string one.
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by sbergot 12y ago
Concerning [], many people regret that there is a special syntax for it in haskell
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by sbergot 12y ago
Except that to perform the level of checks that a compiler does with a good type system, you would have to write a large amount of tests. Code is a liability, and testing code is no exception. Writing tests in static languages is still requ