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Do you recommend installing just ghc[1] and cabal[2] and using sandboxes? [1] http://www.haskell.org/ghc/download [2] http://www.haskell.org/cabal/download.html

Thanks. I've been wondering for a while: How much do we know about human psychology is based on studies performed only on 20-year-olds?

Related: Posing as neutral Red Cross health workers to infiltrate a hostage camp. The Colombian government did this to rescue a high profile hostage. Most didn't seem to mind, some…

Please authenticate with something that's not a phone number! I guess that's the simplest for most people (look at WhatsApp), but the reason why I use things like Signal is because…

You are never on the tracks. That would change the experiment, right? It would be self-defense and not much of a moral dilemma (that many people would struggle with or hold against…

BitMessage uses private/public keys, but it isn't built on top of email like PGP. It's meant to replace email. It is its own network and protocol, intended to be private at every l…

No. They're working on a firefox port, but it will take some time (you can checkout the github issue). It's the only extension I really envy. Firefox does have Adblock Edge (open s…

Can I suggest a transcribers peddle?

Managing your podcasts can be a complicated thing. Shows and episodes can exist in different states and use cases. Do I listen to every episode of this show? Most episodes? Just di…

Hmm. Normalization means you don't have the change the volume between podcasts, but better than that would be dynamic range compression. A podcast with both loud music/effects/scre…

Grammar Nazi Time. An excerpt from Oxford's American: 1 (of a person) surprised and confused so much that they are unsure how to react: he would be completely nonplussed and embarr…

Even though it's a good example, I think extra care should be taken to avoid the stereotype that Haskell is elegant for math and academic stuff but not for the real word.

Does nobody love darcs?! crickets

How about downcase all instances of FREE?

Instead of addressing the linked article, your post is insightful self-parody, with much sarcasm -- a style more suited to reddit than hn. Please remove it at once, preferably fall…

People use the word "complex" in different ways. Do you mean number of features? Do you mean the size of the compiler? By some measures, operator overloading adds complexity; By an…

Possible error: >If you want to modify a data structure, you have to create an entirely new data structure with the correct changes. This is still pretty fast because Haskell uses …

What about after you give them money and they look down at their hand like "WTF? That's it?" and walk away disgusted (or just stare at you)? Do you judge then? I'm not making this …

You have an insight (bankers are self-selected to be more greedy than average), but the author's point still stands: people underestimate their tendency to do bad things when offer…

Please don't be alarmed by the fallout of war. The President (past, present, and future) wants you to go back to shopping and sportsball.

Cue Weird Al's "Jurassic Park"

I recently ran into two github repos that were taken down due to DMCA requests. It's a weird feeling.

iOS 7 opened up some APIs for it. GetCloak's app uses it (and has a lot more niceties, I read), and so does the ugly but generic OpenVPN app. I'm guesses that they're not able to b…

Correct. Running your own server, etc, doesn't matter. If what you're doing on the internet isn't encrypted by you and decrypted by a trusted and competent recipient... consider it…

Not bad. RSS feed? It says "send pull request", but I don't see a github link or any contact address.