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The captcha seems very easy (I am not a chess player)- I tried three times and always got a board to solve in one move, so I doubt anyone that knows the rules of chess is going to …

Do you mean you have trouble with seeing what's going on inside a long function composition? I wrote a cool function to examine it with almost no code changes: module TraceCompose …

> If the end result is symbolic differentiation (...) Ah, I see the problem- automatic differentiation is not the same as symbolic differentiation- see wikipedia: http://en.wikiped…

Ah I see- sorry to've misinterpreted that! I definitely agree- brainfuck being the best example in favour of that argument :)

This isn't really relevant to the thread of discussion.

> Java can produce any result that Haskell can produce. End of story, full stop. Yes, I'm not disputing this- I'm fully in agreement that all turing-complete languages can compute …

> So you're saying Alan Turing was wrong? Nope! The Turing-completeness of Haskell and Java means they can both compute the same functions. However, there are certain things which …

> you spend less time reinventing the wheel I've found this to be totally the opposite: my time in Java is much less productive. There are many libraries in Haskell which aren't ev…

Actually I think the parent poster is male- I certainly read it the same way you did at first!

Actually, I've found that Haskell libraries are absolutely fantastic- For me, its ecosystem is superior to other languages I've used, and I find libraries tend to be better designe…

> Haskell is a bad choice for business simply because you limit yourself to a very small talent pool. Actually, there are many more Haskell programmers than jobs available, so it's…

If the article did indeed say "this experience applies to women (...)", it now appears to've been edited for clarity.

A more cynical person might suggest the tone of this article was related to recent events elsewhere in the NYT. The real meat of the article is buried halfway down: "(Update: The T…

I find tiling window managers to alleviate the pain of GUI windows. I use XMonad, and I love it!