willtim

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by willtim 7y ago
I was calling out the Java memory model and concurrent programming in Java as being very complex. It's inherent to the language itself and almost impossible to change. I was only calling it "hidden" complexity as most people
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> You think I'm done? Let's get to Lens. Lens is a library, not part of Haskell the language, it's also not particularly widely used. If you are going to conflate the ecosystem with the language, then we could equally talk
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I am not American, but if I was, much of the above would also upset me. But you are invoking a straw man, my point was that Apple should pay more tax (especially to Europe), not solve all the worlds problems. I get that you don't care.
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> How would you decide on any other number and justify overpayment to the shareholders? How do they justify a 245 billion dollar cash pile to the shareholders? To decide on a number, pick one that beats all competitors, then advertise on
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Apple already have the largest margins in the industry. They are sitting on a 245 billion dollar cash pile. They have so much cash they literally don't know what to do with it. Meanwhile, infrastructure and public services in both our
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The richest company in the world with the best lawyers will always find loopholes to exploit. I would argue it's the spirit of the law that counts. One way to tackle it is to rebut any claims of self-righteousness from said corporation
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This is true, even Haskell supports imperative programming and mutation (very well in fact) but languages do need defaults. Given that even OOP thought-leaders argue "favour immutability", I would argue that FP languages offer a b
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They also pay 0.005% tax in Europe, sure it's legal, but is it morally ok? They certainly benefit from all the European infrastructure and academic research that they are not contributing back to. Some put the figure owed at 14.5 billi
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I don't think modern Haskell is a single paradigm language. As I said above, it has good support for imperative programming and lots of imperative code has been written in Haskell. Even the GHC compiler is full of imperative code and u
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Depends on what you mean by "scalable". Given that Haskell can track the use of effects and mutable state in its type system, might suggest that it allows such techniques to scale beyond a language that does not. Haskell also has
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Haskell is perfectly capable of expressing imperative algorithms and mutable state. Such algorithms are still expressed using pure functions, pure functions that return IO actions.
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Monads let you redefine what a statement is. This is very powerful and makes Haskell my favourite language for imperative programming. There's no need to modify the compiler for e.g. Async/Await, it can be a library. A Monad insta
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There's an opportunity for someone to sell "reasonably" secure hardware at this price point. Especially since Intel certainly isn't selling anything that fits this description.
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I use it with the excellent USB Audio Player Pro. It uses its own driver for external DACs, I guess because the Android one is not fit for purpose.
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At home I use a dragonfly red DAC paired with some open back sennheisers. But even when I'm out and about I benefit from FLAC. I use some noise cancelling Sony headphones which use the lossy LDAC codec over Bluetooth. My FLACs sounded
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I use the dragonfly red, a fantastic dac and amp that was significant upgrade over the built in phone one.
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The question is, are they selling in large enough quantities to justify a market for software.
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Is there even an Android tablet market anymore? (Excluding Kindle Fire)
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Am thinking about picking one of these up for my daughter, 32GB seems a bit stingy though, will that be enough for apps and games?
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> Products built in haskell don't seem to have dramatically lower maintenance costs. They don't tend to have features that other products don't have. That is your anecdote, mine is the opposite. Using Haskell at my place o
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There is unfortunately a large learning curve for production Haskell. It's a very different language to most imperative object-oriented ones, that are all broadly very similar. However, the concepts that folks will learn (Monads, Monoi
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There was a hackernews post yesterday where the top voted comment asserted that computer science and maths is (in practice) only useful for data structures and algorithms; everything else needed either physics or social science. This is why
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Not true at all. We live in a world were marketing determines the standards used. The current trend is actually to give programmers less guidance on writing correct, composable code ("Dynamic" scripting languages).
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Computer science and math is useful beyond just algorithms and data structures. Understanding the mathematics behind program construction would allow more programmers to write composable code and more general, re-usable, less ad-hoc APIs; a
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The Emacs bindings were designed for ease of learning, not ergonomics. For example C-n and C-p for next/previous, stretches the hand and uses the weak pinky for the very commonly used cursor keys (Vim uses the home row). I do use these
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XML and especially XML schema are hugely complex and almost laughably difficult to bind to any mainstream programming language. It took Java over a decade to produce a binding that could (perhaps) handle an arbitrary schema. Types boil down
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I actually still use the (admittedly awful) Emacs bindings. I have both ctrl and alt available as thumb keys on both sides (using a Kinesis Advantage). I also activate these modifiers using an opposite hand to avoid "chording". Th
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The Kinesis Advantage completely cured my RSI. It's also much more pleasant to type on than any other keyboard I've tried. Worth every penny. I also use a Kensington Slimblade trackball for when I can't avoid moving a pointer
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With regard to the details sure, but the fundamentals should be studied and understood. That's why this blog is not attempting to recreate the entire of Microsoft Excel.
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To quote Feynman, "what I cannot create, I do not understand".

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