yakshaving_jgt

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   by yakshaving_jgt 7y ago

   …Harry and Paul? Is that you?
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   by yakshaving_jgt 7y ago

   I have Freenode #haskell open pretty much all the time. There's some exceptionally clever people in there, and they're all polite, friendly, and generous with their time. Also the #postgresql channel is great. I'm using the w
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   by yakshaving_jgt 7y ago

   I don’t say “I failed high school maths” because I’m proud of it. I’m not special. I’m not particularly clever. I don’t know how else to drive the point home that you don’t need to be a genius to build software and enjoy doing it in Haskell
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   by yakshaving_jgt 7y ago

   Summaries of my projects are here: https://jezenthomas.com/
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   by yakshaving_jgt 7y ago

   Yesod is plenty mature. There are reasonable docs and examples. I'm not sure what else to tell you. I run three web businesses on Yesod, and it accounts for 100% of my income. I'm also not a great programmer, and have a long histo
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   by yakshaving_jgt 7y ago

   Completely false. Many “real world” businesses are shipping web apps in Haskell. Anecdotally, they take less time to write than the equivalent Rails app.
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   by yakshaving_jgt 7y ago

   Hi. I run three startups on Haskell. One of them is VC funded. We have the stakeholders. We have the pressure to deliver. Haskell is making this easier , not harder. We can maintain pace as the software grows because the language is genera
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   by yakshaving_jgt 7y ago

   I have never read a CS paper. I do not know Category Theory. I failed high school maths. I run three business on Haskell.
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   Why GitHub used Haskell for Semantic(github.com)

   242 points by yakshaving_jgt 7y ago|209 comments
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    by yakshaving_jgt 7y ago

    We’ve seen their leaked meeting videos. We know where their temperaments lie.
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    by yakshaving_jgt 7y ago

    "The Autobahn is great! There are no speed limits!" The first speeding ticket I ever received was from doing 270km/h in my old 2003 Porsche Boxster S I had back in 2013. They took a photo of me, and said that I am "accus
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    by yakshaving_jgt 7y ago

    Because this sort of intervention leads directly to an Orwellian dystopia. From the article: > According to MCSCS documents, the most common risk factors ascribed to people in the database in 2017 were mental health (including “suspected
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    by yakshaving_jgt 7y ago

    I was there around the same time as you — a couple of weeks before the new sarcophagus was rolled into place, and just after the last inhabitant of Chernobyl died and her house burned down. Everyone recommends going, but to be honest I&#x27
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    by yakshaving_jgt 7y ago

    Can anyone explain why the Pripyat hospital in the first episode was so dirty and old? It had only been running for about 15 years at the time of the disaster.
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    by yakshaving_jgt 7y ago

    Everyone should educate their parents (and themselves) on the dangers of Multi-Level Marketing. One of my parents very nearly got sucked into a MLM scheme, and the most painful thing is if you say it's a bad idea, they assume you mean
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    by yakshaving_jgt 7y ago

    No, I think the "crazy conspiracy people" were right all along. Whether or not they were provably right at the time is not the issue. They were right. They could read between the lines, and they were right.
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    by yakshaving_jgt 7y ago

    You are right, we should be clear about what is being claimed by the government. However, is there any legitimate alternative method for a whistleblower to expose the US government of warcrimes, as WikiLeaks did? It seems quite unfair for
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    by yakshaving_jgt 7y ago

    Near enough all the world's knowledge is available instantly and at your fingertips. It's called a search engine.
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    by yakshaving_jgt 7y ago

    [Before Snowden] People on HN: Of course the government aren't spying on citizens. What are you? Some kind of tin-foil hat-wearing conspiracy theory nutjob? [After Snowden] People on HN: Well obviously the government were spying on e
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    by yakshaving_jgt 7y ago

    What’s that Apple? You still haven’t fixed the keyboard? Well then I won’t be buying one.
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    by yakshaving_jgt 7y ago

    Saying "I don't mean any disrespect" does not grant you carte blanche to speak nonchalantly about a recently-deceased motoring legend's life achievements.
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    by yakshaving_jgt 7y ago

    Do all other browsers behave the same way when dealing with the omission of these basic tags? Because if not, then by following Google's advice here we are creating the new Internet Explorer.
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    by yakshaving_jgt 7y ago

    I'm surprised that this was built in a way where it's possible to throw a 500 error. This is a simple website. Why isn't it just a couple of static pages? Here's something for your checklist: Make sure you use an appropr
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    by yakshaving_jgt 8y ago

    Please see: https://lobste.rs/s/rec4zd/uses_this_joe_armstrong#c_13jxbm
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    Uses This: Joe Armstrong(usesthis.com)

    194 points by yakshaving_jgt 8y ago|54 comments
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    by yakshaving_jgt 8y ago

    I'm scrolling through my IG feed to compare notes. Of my feed posts, the following are ads: 2nd, 6th, 10th, 15th, 20th, 25th, 30th… Of my stories, the following are ads: 2nd, 5th, 9th, 13th, 17th, 21st, 25th, 29th, 33rd…
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    by yakshaving_jgt 8y ago

    This gives me a feeling of unease. I run my businesses on Haskell, and I find Astrology and similar quackery immoral (probably as most people on this forum do). Also, how is one meant to read this? > jobs ∀ costarastrology.com jobs foral
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    by yakshaving_jgt 8y ago

    If that was the big realisation, you may enjoy FP.
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    Clojure Inventor Rich Hickey Doesn't Know Types(jezenthomas.com)

    4 points by yakshaving_jgt 8y ago|2 comments
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    by yakshaving_jgt 8y ago

    Ok, I understand the concern, but I don’t think it reflects the market, at least at the scale I operate in. It’s the same as when DHH was asked about hiring Ruby developers a little over ten years ago. The question was “why would I use Ruby