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London Haskell Meetup: http://www.meetup.com/London-Haskell/

Sorry I missed the talk! Did it get videoed? They usually are.

The part that really surprised me was this: We only had 23 years of Python interpreter development, how would things look like when Python is 42, like C? C, which I always think of…

It was a reference to the Hemingway app. If you paste acqq's comment into Hemingway, it suggests "Four adverbs used. Try to aim for two or less." As humour goes, it's a few levels …

You might not work any less hard, but you'll certainly take more risks if you don't experience the downside. Answer quickly - how much of your net worth would you risk on a bet wit…

The investment banking industry basically invented the concept of OPM (other people's money) in the 1980s (okay, I'm sure it existed before that, but the 1980s was when it became a…

If it helps, you can replace "Secure" with "X" where X is any adjective, and my argument will still work.

In case it's not clear to you, there are two reasons that you are getting downvoted: 1. snark, and 2. you are committing the logical fallacy of affirming the consequent. [0] In par…

You tend to hear high frequency traders refer to the code that makes pricing and trading decisions as a system , or signal , or model , or (very occasionally) algo (all refer to sl…

This would have been a significantly more enjoyable experience if the title of the submission didn't give away the ending.

The pattern will break down once you get past 8192, which is 2^13. That means that the pattern continues for an impressive 52 significant figures (well, it actually breaks down on …

I think you mean "its a art".

I think you need to parse it as more (portable and secure) rather than (more portable) and secure

Having someone re-write my 7 line Haskell program into 40+ lines of C# is the best argument I can think of for why it's worth learning a functional programming language ;)

SICP has something to do with square roots in the first chapter, although I don't think they do this particular refactoring. I first saw it (or something like it) in John Hughes' W…

"Turning your code inside out" is a great piece of advice, as it often opens up abstractions and refactorings that you didn't realize where there to begin with. The same idea is be…

Disclaimer - I've never played Starcraft or Magic: The Gathering. But I expect that in both of them, just like in real life, there is some value to having unspent liquid assets, in…

I know an accounting joke: An engineer and an accountant are on a train when they pass between two fields of sheep. "Boy, there are a lot of sheep in those fields." says the engine…

Anyone thinking about taking this course should be aware that Bruno Latour is not, and has never been, a scientist. He is in the same camp as Derrida, Lacan and Foucault, in that h…

Completely shameless plug for a tiny probabilistic programming language that I wrote as an embedded DSL in Haskell: https://github.com/chris-taylor/hs-probability The code that sol…