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This is the year of BSD on the desktop. (sorry, had to)

Yes, it absolutely is an improvement over erlang-style tuples IMO, and it also vastly improves the interoperability story between the stdlib, date/time/calendar libs, and database …

Quite hard, in fact. My own personal experience doesn't matter much, though, because ultimately Elixir is Erlang and obviously Erlang has been pushed extremely hard in production (…

Super excited for this release. I have to say that learning and using Elixir has been more pleasant than any other language I have ever worked with. Code is easy to follow due to t…

What? `heroku run bash` also works and is shorter.

Apple will have to respond to this, I think. This is really what the possibility of mobile computing is, not just our information anywhere we want it.

This creates a remote (in this case just another directory on your local machine) and you have to push to it, rather than your commits and changes instantly being synced to dropbox…

Reminds me of parsec in Haskell: http://book.realworldhaskell.org/read/using-parsec.html

Agreed on your last point. I stopped reading halfway through because of all the (questionable) assumptions the author made. I'm a massive fan of Obj-C and I think it could be a gre…

Read these rules for the Xanadu project: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Xanadu#Original_17_rule... and to me, at least, it becomes very clear why the WWW won the race.

Great write-up, thanks.

Biggest problem with these games (I've found, anyway) is that your sword controller cannot magically stop in mid air when your virtual sword hits another sword or a wall or whateve…

I'd argue it's already been disrupted by rap.

Hope that when the "smart grid" or whatever you want to call it does come around, it comes with the electricity equivalent of net neutrality.

The Spotify app does it, so I imagine it can if it's been implemented.

Pretty hilarious, considering the author of "node.js is cancer" works for eBay

Yup, I was only talking about the "fish operators" as he calls them.

It's not actually syntax. The language allows you to define infix operators, and they're just functions like any other with full documentation searchable on hoogle: http://www.hask…

To be fair, monadic code does not necessarily have side effects. It's just a useful way of thinking about computational steps. `Maybe` is a monad that is completely pure and has no…

Just tried to find a Snap HTTP header on ladygaga.com. Couldn't find it. Definitely curious, do you have any more detail about what they used it for?

Haskell web frameworks are maturing rapidly and the language is a joy to work in, once you learn how to approach problems in it. Haskell has probably not reached the peak of it's p…