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Vosporoson Why Haskell?

At work we use Haskell, and have been for around 10 years. It's a delight for iterations and refactoring, as the solid foundations it bring relieve you of spending your time writing tests checking for rogue nils or undefined.

Vosporoson Why Haskell?

If you are willing / able to report these pain points in detail to the Haskell Foundation, this is going to be valuable feedback that will help orient the investments in tooling in the near future.

Vosporoson LSP: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

If only Haskell at Microsoft's financial backing for such things…

Vosporoson Just use Postgres

Good Lord the level of incompetence is terrifying

Vosporoson Bril: An Intermediate Language for Teaching Compilers

ANF is very much not considered a dead-end. It is the opposite number of SSA from the Functional programming languages perspective. CPS overlaps with it but also has properties, like requiring whole-program transformation, that do not help with predicting the final shape of the program.

See https://pauldownen.com/publications/anf-continued.pdf, https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammingLanguages/comments/13w3c... and https://langdev.stackexchange.com/a/2254 (as well as https://www.college-de-france.fr/sites/default/files/media/d... as a bonus)

Vosporoson Parse, Don't Validate (2019)

A seminal text that has had a high cultural impact.

Vosporoson Guide to Haskell strings

A very useful resource, thanks a lot Julian for this!

Vosporoson Ask HN: Which books/resources to understand modern Assembler?

The mario kart Wii retro-players have you covered with ARMv8: https://mariokartwii.com/armv8/

Vosporoson The Evolution of a Haskell Programmer (2001)

"fac n = product [1..n]" is still something I use at times. It's a beautiful line of code.

Vosporoson The Taliban Stole My Domain

What a wonderful lesson in digital sovereignty!

Vosporoson Freenginx: Core Nginx developer announces fork

Godspeed

Vosporoson Sudo for Windows

To Santa of course

Vosporoson Vanna.ai: Chat with your SQL database

I can hire a DBA to tell me that my indexes aren't shit, no need for AI.

Vosporoson Henry Kissinger Has Died

RIP bozo!

Vosporoson HN bans Hector Martin’s home IP address

well that's petty

Vosporoson Amazon training video on handling unionizing activity (2018) [video]

In Amazon's case, it is

Vosporoson Find your nearest Orb and verify your World ID

I'll keep my orbs in my sockets thank you very much. Bloody freaks.

Vosporoson Metaverse Markup Language

Too bad the metaverse is dead

Vosporoson Why Sam Altman wants to scan two billion eyes

Becuse he's a freak, who the fuck scans people's eyes

Vosporoson Show HN: Custom Haskell handlers for Nginx

Nice, very nice!

Vosporoson “1.1.1.1 is now handling more than 1.3T requests per day”

Well no, use a local DNS resolver.

Vosporoson Twitter has officially changed its logo to ‘X’

Find a real job

Vosporoson Ask HN: What is the status of Python2 at your day job?

No Python2 anymore, all migrated to Python3.

Vosporoson Cities Aren't Loud: Cars Are Loud (2021) [video]

Paris in the summer is a delight, fewer cars make such a difference

Vosporoson Scaling up the Prime Video audio/video monitoring service and reducing costs

why should they, they're richer than God!

Vosporoson Haskell in Production: Standard Chartered

From what I understand: GHC takes care of the parsing of the source file, error reporting, etc. Then the AST (or an intermediate representation) is passed to the of the Mu compiler, which performs whole-program optimisations.

Vosporoson iOS 17 app sideloading might only be available in Europe

Another W for Europe

Vosporoson The “Build Your Own Database” book is finished

haha yeah nicely put

Vosporoson Biscuit 3.0

Incredibly glad to see Biscuits keep evolving!

Vosporoson Euro Symbol Construction.svg

I love it