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I did. Oh the memories!!

I guess if both have the pixel buds then you don't necessarily need the phone? I get that its not quite the smooth experience (yet?) that we want it to be but that we're approachin…

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I second this. I used to think practicing gratitude was stupid, or at least not really worth my time. I have recently picked up stoicism and one key techniques seems to be "practic…

If someone is wondering about the relationship between sum types (discriminated unions / case classes) and the visitor pattern, I've written about this here [1]. [1] http://paulkoe…

This is a really awesome library to generate typesafe sql queries right from the C++ source code. Example usage: auto res = db(select(foo.name, foo.hasFun) .from(foo) .where(foo.id…

I highly recommend the following talk by Joshua Bloch: "How to design a good API and why it mattes" [1]. Key points: - When in doubt, leave it out - you can never remove things fro…

I recommend: http://blog.sigfpe.com/2006/08/you-could-have-invented-monad... But in the end I think for most people 'understanding' the concept of monads is just something that is …

So the obvious question: What did you focus on that let you improve way more than other people? I do write code and learn something new every day and while I would say that I have …

Has it been decided yet if garbage collection should be moved out of the core and only be provided as a library? If memory serves me right there was some discussion on this shortly…

Here is a simple suggestion to end the lawsuit madness: The loosing party must bear all costs of the process. This is how it works in Germany. Added benefit: The expected value for…

Re 2: Well, sometimes you need them, but they do throw exceptions on empty lists, so if you don't know for sure that the list is non-empty it is definitely a bad idea to use them. …

I am afraid this is not a very good guide. I am by no means a Haskell expert, but even I can pick out a number of things which are not done very well and are not idiomatic Haskell.…

Thank you, I had been wondering about that every now and then.

I have to ask: What does this Acme stand for?

For those interested in an experience report I'll copy and paste the post from the developer from http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/1ha5dd/rss_reader_w... (go there for some…

> The only way public demonstrations are going to have an effect is for them to be massive and concentrated. That does not mean widespread protests are a bad idea per se, but that …

yes, in this case there is no need to do anything. The Haskell Platform is vetted packages + an easy way to get it all installed (which can be slightly tricky otherwise).