If you're in or around St. Louis on May 3rd you don't want to miss this talk by @cercerilla on how to introduce #haskell (and other non-mainstream tech) to workplace.
@cemerick @argumatronic Continuing here from Twitter. In my thinking it comes down to the more freedom we have with creating type level functions the farther away the typechecker sees the error and the less the error message helps. That's why I add top level type sigs. to client code especially when it's using a lot of overloaded type class methods.
We have the knowledge of the ages at our fingertips but can't cure eye floaters.
Shen Trick Shots https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUJNyHAeAc8 by @deech
this is some serious black magic
Honest Q. From the POV of getting things done (good or bad) has any form of gvt. done better than a monarchy?
Unpopular opinion: "science is true whether you believe it or not" is as hot a take as "if it compiles it works."
Just realized that with all the teen pregnancies these past few decades we're going to a lot of parents and children in the same retirement homes.
"With writing, every mark on the page [.. is ..] simultaneously visible. Why constrain writing with a glottographic straitjacket, demanding that it be just a sequential as speech?", Story Of Your Life, Ted Chiang, on using words to represent sounds.
"Humans had developed a sequential mode of awareness, while heptapods [ .. the aliens ...] had developed a simultaneous mode of awareness. We experience events in order and perceive cause and effect. They experienced all events at once and perceived a purpose underlying them all. A minimizing, maximizing purpose.", Story Of Your Life, Ted Chiang.
Love how the 80's are back in, what with aviators, shred guitar, nuclear war, Transformers, ...
The worst part of the story is how United somehow also managed to lose that guy's luggage.
Everything takes *so* much time. How do people just churn this stuff out? #codersblock
Mathematician uncle: What's an API?
Me: It's like a log table only way less usable.
@Kaleidic Hola! So I saw a bunch of your HN posts on D. Can I pick your brain about it?
My new cooking monograph: On The Unreasonable Effectiveness Of Salt, Ketchup, Fajita Seasoning And Deep Frying The Shit Out Of It.
Why isn't every new language a LISP variant?
Calling it: within the next five years someone will win a discrimination suit against a prominent OSS project. After that OSS will be legislated out the wazoo. The programming profession at large will follow. Not sure what happens to innovation after that.
I've been spelling it mastadon all my life and TIL that's a really dirty word.
I want to organize more social events around kombucha instead of alcohol but it's still too expensive. :(
