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by seagreen 10y ago
Can you tell us some about the technology you're using? I'm curious if a newfangled immutable database like datomic would be a good fit for medical recods. Also, do you do any schema'ing besides what's provided by your d
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by seagreen 10y ago
I don't think you need to worry, I'm sure that who's familiar with PureScript also knows it's more recent than Nix. Those PureScript records tho...
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by seagreen 10y ago
Well, you would use records, but records are a weak point of the Haskell language. I've discussed "why not Haskell" with some Nix people and they specifically mentioned the lack of row polymorphism.
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by seagreen 10y ago
But as Haskellers we _are_ concerned about unsafePerformIO et al. -- this is why we have the SAFE pragma.
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by seagreen 10y ago
Content-addressed / append-only / strongly typed that looks _perfect_. Can you talk about how you handle linking to the latest version of a piece of data? Since the latest version may always be changing you can't use a hash f
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by seagreen 10y ago
Can you share a file that's anywhere on your computer, or does it have to be in a shared folder? Also, how does Amium handle file renames? This is a tricky one so I wouldn't judge the product if it has trouble here.
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by seagreen 10y ago
I agree, especially with the easy to understand part. Look how short the standard is: http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/files/ECMA-ST... It's small and perfect, like a 2x1 LEGO block. Here's
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by seagreen 10y ago
I support this attitude! Haskell is coming around though. We got Stack which is a fantastic package manager, and we now have a web API library which is pretty much unmatched: http://haskell-servant.readthedocs.io/en/sta
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by seagreen 10y ago
Hey! So I'm deeply appreciative towards cabal-install for historical reasons. The situation before cabal-install was . . . not the best ( https://www.gwern.net/Resilient%20Haskell%20Software ) so I think we can credit ca
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by seagreen 10y ago
Not sure why you're being downvoted. Haskell tooling definitely started turning around with Stack. I've used a fair amount of package managers (including cutting edge stuff like Nixpkgs) and Stack is by far my favorite. EDIT: To e
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by seagreen 10y ago
"if you use these platforms you are a fool" Hey, that's not fair, you're arguing against half my point! I said if you use these platforms _and don't have a reason to think you've got an advantage_ you s
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by seagreen 10y ago
Dr. Lun has a PhD from MIT and is doing original AI research. If that's your profile then do what you want=)
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by seagreen 10y ago
My thoughts are that if you use either platform for anything other than entertainment you're a fool. Seriously, here's your competition: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaissance_Technologies How deluded do y
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by seagreen 10y ago
Great point! I found this for python: https://www.stephanboyer.com/post/9/monads-part-1-a-design-p... , but it definitely focuses more on explanation than practical use. A list of "how to practice with monads
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by seagreen 10y ago
Can you recommend a good one? ... I hardly have time to write code to learn it like people say is necessary. The _easiest_ way to learn monads is through code (in haskell they're just a tricky typeclass: http://de
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by seagreen 10y ago
Not at all! I like Haskell because it nails the two things that are most important to me: a good type system and the ability to restrict side effects. Constructive criticism of other parts of the language can only be a good thing.
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by seagreen 10y ago
Hilarious, but not nearly boring enough to use in actual business writing:)
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by seagreen 10y ago
It's actually restricting our thought to an annoying extent that we've overloaded the term "operating system" so much. This isn't Sandstorm's fault -- Windows already has billions of people thinking "opera
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by seagreen 10y ago
The new subreddit is not for general haskell discussion, it's only for the discussion of things related to the haskell-lang.org site. Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/4ghznv/improved
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by seagreen 10y ago
There's a very good summary of the Haskell ecosystem here: https://github.com/Gabriel439/post-rfc/blob/master/sotu.md
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by seagreen 10y ago
Update: sorry you're getting downvoted, that's not me. I think worrying about the predictability of performance is perfectly reasonable, especially in the presence of lazy evaluation.
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by seagreen 10y ago
Citing Credit Suisse and Standard Chartered is just name-dropping big banks in the hope that it will deceive people into thinking that these institutes are seriously invested in Haskell. They are not. Lol, Standard Chartere
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by seagreen 10y ago
Great tactical advice, but what a sad situation to be in. "Run this command, then run this command, then run this command ..." There should be a single configuration file (or set of files) that declaratively describes the whole st
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by seagreen 10y ago
The current situation (importing ByteString or Text for performance) is pretty good IMO. Haskell doesn't have Map or Set or anything in the prelude, so I think it's reasonable to leave powerful packed text types out a
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by seagreen 10y ago
I remember showing a new engineer who'd never seen any Haskell before monads on a whiteboard and he after I explained monoids and functors and then monads, he just nodded and said "oh, okay, makes sense". He wasn
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by seagreen 10y ago
I wish this was the case, but it's not. A bad string type and lots of partial functions are legitimate red flags, not "first world problems".
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by seagreen 10y ago
As a huge haskell fan, I'd love to hear more of this story. There aren't enough good writeups of companies trying haskell and it not working.
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by seagreen 10y ago
What kind of Web do you want? + Promotes freedom + Inspires learning + Safeguards privacy + Is available to all + Creates opportunity + Puts me in control This is a good question. My answers would be "inspires lear
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by seagreen 10y ago
“The web is already decentralized,” Mr. Berners-Lee said. “The problem is the dominance of one search engine, one big social network, one Twitter for microblogging. We don’t have a technology problem, we have a social probl
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by seagreen 10y ago
Real World Haskell is somewhat out of date. I'm not sure what to go with instead, but I've heard good things about Haskell Programming from First Principles (which has already been mentioned in this thread).

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