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by sjakobi 10y ago
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13784085 for why hiring is unlikely to be a problem for them. I also encourage you to find _any_ experience report that tells of difficulties finding the right candidates for a Haske
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by sjakobi 10y ago
A nice feature of stack that cabal AFAIK will not provide is that it takes care of installing GHC in multiple versions. I think that's very important for newcomers.
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by sjakobi 10y ago
Not an aspect of the design but an anecdote on their great customer service: I got my pair of Ortlieb Back Roller Classics as a present four years ago. After I had used at least one bag almost every weekday since then, the rubber shoulder p
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by sjakobi 10y ago
I always carry my Ortlieb bags with the hooks facing away from me.
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by sjakobi 10y ago
Why aren't OKR scores used as an input to performance appraisals?
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by sjakobi 10y ago
LYAH is great for getting a first taste of Haskell! Once you want to write more serious programs, I'd highly recommend that you get http://haskellbook.com/ – it's very well structured and goes all the way to pract
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by sjakobi 10y ago
Conal Elliott on denotational design: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmKYiUOEo2A
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by sjakobi 10y ago
In functional, statically typed programmings languages, there is a pattern where business logic, including "actions", is encoded in types. This article [1] gives an example of filesystem manipulations that are encoded in a "F
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by sjakobi 10y ago
> […] the reason they don't use Haskell more is because the libraries and ecosystem aren't adequate. The adequacy of the Haskell ecosystem really varies depending on the kind of application that you want to develop. If you&#x27
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by sjakobi 10y ago
Tangentially relatedly, this recent r/haskell thread [1] contains a lot of discussion on the differences between Haskell's Package Versioning Policy and SemVer, and particularly downsides of SemVer. [1] https://www.redd
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by sjakobi 10y ago
I'm having a lot of issues with Xubuntu 16.04 to the point where I consider moving to another distro. * Chromium tends to be unresponsive after waking up from hibernation. * VLC tends to hang and freeze. That's not the stability a
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by sjakobi 10y ago
What's the reason for the downvotes?
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by sjakobi 10y ago
> Can you name a single, widely used (outside the Haskell camp) opensource application written in Haskell? How about pandoc, PostgREST, git-annex, the Elm compiler? You can find more examples here: https://github.com/Gab
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by sjakobi 10y ago
> On Linux it's easier to compile (yes, it's that bad) your own GHC and cabal, and get stack from cabal. I had no issues setting up my dev environment with stack on Ubuntu 16.04 as documented on haskellstack.org. What Linux dis
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by sjakobi 10y ago
stack - The Haskell Tool Stack: https://haskellstack.org Stack is a cross-platform program for developing Haskell projects. It is intended for Haskellers both new and experienced. There are many outstanding issue at https:&#x2F