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fractalsea
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About fractalsea
http://willsewell.com/
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Comment #12285004
This startup was created to solve just this problem: https://nugget.one One of the founders is the host of the Techzing podcast http://techzinglive.com . You can hear some of the b…
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Comment #12060662
The documentation is amazing. One problem I find with rendered literate haskell is that it because quickly unclear how the indentation across blocks of code fits together. It would…
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Comment #12005083
In the intro you say that data from >1000 interviews shows: > men were getting advanced to the next round 1.4 times more than women > men [...] had an average technical score of 3 …
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Comment #10994590
Hi, I'm the author of this post. I found it hard to get good information about this topic in Haskell compared to other languages, so I'm hoping this post will help people get start…
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Comment #10617265
From https://developer.wordpress.com/calypso/ "If you run your own self-hosted WordPress site, you can install the Jetpack plugin to use the Calypso-based editing and management to…
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Comment #10398200
This is what I thought when I first saw the parent comment. It looks like an interesting alternative approach, but from the example I am not clear on why it is more flexible than t…
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Comment #10234954
> know your worth How? I think this wouldn't be so hard if you are in the valley (or other large tech cities in the US), or targeting large companies (Glassdoor). But how do you do…
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Comment #9629522
Have you tried the FP Haskell Center IDE[1]? It's completely web based, and should make it very easy to set up projects, bring in stable libraries and do builds. I would imagine th…
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Comment #9413544
For those interested in why this land is unclaimed, this video provides a nice visualisation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZdkqqjosCM&t=6m49s Essentially the river has changed, …
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Comment #9351328
Someone mentioned that in a comment on the blog post itself too. It definitely looks like a good pattern to adopt here.
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Comment #9351321
We currently do not have plans to release this code, mainly because it is very specific to our system. Having said that we are working on another large Haskell project, and we do h…
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Comment #9351306
I don't deny that the test could be written in much the same way in Ruby too, the key point of the post was that in Haskell you get flexibility comparable to a highly dynamic langu…
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Comment #9349050
Interesting. I think I will have to play around this before I get my head around it, but thanks for the suggestion.
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Comment #9349041
By "combining" I just meant an operator that takes multiple functions and returns a new function based on those arguments. I guess these "functions" are a special case because they…
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Comment #9348413
Author here. Thanks for the feedback! I agree that the do notation does look nice. The on thing that I like about the >> operator is that it's clear that you are performing a combi…
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Comment #9165285
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tILlZRLhBJE&t=6m2s
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Comment #9004014
How much did you sell Texts.com for, and when did you sell it? Assuming you've sold it.
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Comment #8703726
In my experience this is a terrible metric. The demographics that McDonalds is marketed in different countries varies enormously. I find in Western countries it is seen as unglamor…
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Comment #8680208
That would have made this article so much more useful to me. Without screenshots it was difficult to see why I might want one of these plugins. It would also have been nice to have…