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Quadratic Voting and Quadratic Funding have some ideas in common, but they refer to separate concepts. To learn more about these topics, I would probably check out the website for …

Indeed they call for new names, as they encompass far more than iterators. If you read a bit more about them, I think you will be surprised to see the breadth of what these abstrac…

Agreed; also Traversable in Haskell is a simpler abstraction than lenses and pretty directly addresses what they seem to be looking for: https://hackage.haskell.org/package/base-4.…

And functional programmers would argue that contravariance is the real meaning of Liskov’s substitution principle: https://apocalisp.wordpress.com/2010/10/06/liskov-substituti...

Hi! A few years ago I found myself wanting an equivalent of `column` that didn’t strip color codes. After I implemented it in Haskell, I found it was useful to use Nix to force sta…

FWIW there is prior art here. e.g. see IntMap in Haskell: https://hackage.haskell.org/package/containers-0.7/docs/Data...

You should look into the "comonad" abstraction from the functional programming world. Dual to monads, they're a natural fit for situations where you might have a value with some so…

Data Race Patterns in Go: https://eng.uber.com/data-race-patterns-in-go/

In the Haskell world, folks have solutions to both of these problems: The "large-object problem" can be tackled in a principled fashion using strict state threads (aka the ST monad…

Thank you very much for maintaining this list! Have you considered adding ICFP in addition to PLDI for programming language papers?

I think he means that they feel sheepish about not having done more research about the name "Amber" before the announcement.

Check out the Effect engine: http://www.effectgames.com/effect . It's been discussed here on HN previously: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=986196

The last sentence reads, "Can you play it forward and backwards?"

They are, and they absolutely should be. They're completely separate projects/repositories from those from which they came. The owner of a forked repository is completely free to m…

But that link only says that via-C is being dropped which, as I understand it, is not currently the default backend -- NGC is[1]. This means that (1) via-C is being dropped; (2) NC…

Although this is really cool stuff and it looks like it's going to get merged in, the title is a little misleading here. GHC hasn't switched to an LLVM backend -- they're currently…

This looks pretty interesting (and I particularly like the ability to have a package pointed at the bleeding edge), but I'm not sure how I feel about /usr/local being owned by an a…

I think the biggest disadvantage of putting something like this in middleware, is that it's completely incompatible with stuff like memcache. The injection of this meta-tag is done…

Or Heroku instead of cap/vlad. Makes getting a quick rails app deployed and up-and-running very easy.

"The World Without Us" by Alan Weisman "Goedel, Escher, Bach" by Douglas Hofstadter

Personally I would use the "I'm sorry, but..." approach because I'd be legitimately sorry that I have to take conversation into an awkward direction for a moment. I think the direc…

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I don't the link's particular destination here matters too much. His main point pertains to the increase of clickthrough rates of (any) link by changing the language of and around …

FYI I'm having problems decompressing this file. Could you re-post it? or alternatively throw the code up on something like github?