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Clinton did not resign, nor was he removed from office. Are you thinking of Nixon?

Haskell's aeson library, which is probably the most popular way to use JSON in that language, doesn't require any of this complexity or typecasting ugliness. It can derive a typech…

`zip toss toss` only produces 2 of the possible outcomes. Try `liftA2 (,) toss toss` instead.

The canonical Go style eschews underscores in package names.

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Well, you can always assign a different reviewer if your initial choice is taking too long. I usually try to check with my teammates to see who has time for a review before sending…

It's common at Google to have a few projects cooking that you move between. One reason for this (though I doubt it's the sole reason) probably has to do with the mandatory peer rev…

He's a Tech Lead Manager, or TLM, which means he's an engineer who also manages the team he's a part of. In some cases, dev teams have SRE counterparts who take the pager responsib…

There's some info here: http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/2pnjdk/is_overloade... . tl;dr: The patch worked but was messy/overly complex, so it needs refactoring before it's …

Sadly, OverloadedRecordFields won't be making it into 7.10.

Agreed that the back button issue was annoying for a long time. Fortunately, the fix went live last week!

It doesn't integrate multiple accounts into a single inbox, if that's what you mean. It works the same as Gmail in that respect.

It's too different from Gmail to be integrated into it. It coexists with Gmail so that you can choose to use Inbox and its "opinionated" workflow, or not. Users who like their pers…

> In java or php, you, as a developer, can never know wether the functions you are calling will throw an exception. That's what checked exceptions are for in Java.

That would be difficult, since coastlines are essentially fractal.

Parametric polymorphism ("generics") and sum types.

Every existing class A or B share will be matched by a class C share. Most Googlers had class A shares before, so now we'll have half class A and half class C, i.e. twice as many t…

If you don't think it's worth your time to interview twice at the same company, then simply don't. That's a completely reasonable point of view, and I didn't mean to imply otherwis…

The Google lunches are emphatically not a test. It's very rare for the lunch "interviewer" to provide any feedback at all. That usually only happens if the candidate starts spoutin…

I'm a Google SRE that had a very similar experience. My best advice would be not to sweat the rejection. I was also contacted by a recruiter based on an open source project I had c…

For one thing, it allows your pipeline to both read from and write to the same file, as it defers the output until there is no more data to read from "upstream". For instance, this…

> - if there's a 6 and 8 next to each other, the third field is always a 2 or 12 At least in the version of the game that I own, if you follow the prescribed setup rules, there can…

It seems like kernel-space code would be one of the worst possible environments in which to use a dynamic language. A runtime error in that context can easily bring down the entire…

The win for Haskell is that it wears its statefulness on its sleeve. Of course you can, with sufficient discipline, write pure code in any language, though it can be frustratingly …

I'm aware of dependent types and, more generally, the strong undercurrent of emphasis on provable correctness in the Haskell community at large. I don't disagree at all with what y…