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blackdog

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About blackdog

I'm a Haskell hacker, with a bit of Objective C, Ruby, and PIC hacking on the side. I also maintain the Haskell-Ruby bridge Hubris (http://github.com/mwotton/hubris)

http://shimweasel.com

Recent public activity

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    Comment #1786016

    quickly and in parallel.

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    Comment #1786011

    if you're looking for perl jobs in Sydney, drop me a line at mwotton@gmail.com. I have a few friends who are constantly looking for good perl devs.

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    Comment #1147072

    Would you use it for Python? It probably wouldn't be that hard to port. - author

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    Comment #1145248

    a typematrix keyboard and dvorak helped me.

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    Comment #996242

    yep, that was the idea. (Well, that, and I'm hoping that once Ruby hackers try Haskell, they'll be forever corrupted by the Functional side of the force.)

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    Comment #995551

    So, estimated release date for 6.14? (I kid, I kid. This is great. and dynamic linking is wonderful indeed. old-gregg - it's not too hard to hack it in, I'm doing it in Hubris.)

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    Comment #947760

    there's a certain delicious irony there, n'est ce pas?

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    Comment #943369

    I use this all the time - my favourite is to promise to give a talk about something I haven't actually written yet. Powerfully motivating.

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    Comment #815021

    The code's pretty simple and there's still a lot to do in terms of making it easily installable, but hopefully it's useful to some people.

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    Comment #786782

    Twenty bucks, same as in town.

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    Comment #780432

    I predicted 21 and got 22 with gcc on mac. This is why I hack Haskell :)

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    Comment #650967

    enlightenment on the down-low! Sneaky.

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    Comment #650939

    observation without judgment seems very similar to the idea of mindfulness explored in vipassana meditation.

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    Comment #466702

    I used to be pretty slack about it, but then started working in a non-startup environment where it's the only possible way to protect your code from random external breakages. I wo…

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    Comment #42922

    With the current primitives, it'd be pretty hard to do. You can get a list of your friends, but you can't do get a list of their friends - the best you can do is ask if two people …