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mlitchard

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I teleported home one night with Ron and Sid and Meg. Ron stole Meggie heart away, And I got Sidney's leg.
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mlitchard··on Show HN: ChatWisely – a miniblog written in Haskell. (open beta)
We're hearing about lag from our friends in Europe. Also mobile browsers don't respond very well right now. We'll need to address the lag-in-Europe problem, and mobile browsers will become more relevant post pandemic. Thanks for responding! :)
mlitchard··on Show HN: ChatWisely – a miniblog written in Haskell. (open beta)
Hi I'm Michael, co-founder of ChatWisely. We used Haskell to build this, and would love to get into the details about how that is working out for us. Spoiler: it's awesome.

Front end - https://reflex-frp.org/ Webserver Product - https://www.servant.dev/ Webserver Landing Page - https://www.yesodweb.com/ Database - https://www.postgresql.org/

Let's talk tech!

mlitchard··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2017)
I also disagree. SVB was straightforward and professional during the interview process with me.
mlitchard··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2016)
Website is a bit hosed atm, do you have alternate path?
mlitchard··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2016)
Hi, I sent you an email in Sept. No response, so here is a ping.
mlitchard··on Ask HN: Programming books that are desk worthy? (reference material)
Foundations of Multidimensional and Metric Data Structures

Hanan Samet

mlitchard··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2016)
Hi greg,

Is there an e-mail we can respond to?

mlitchard··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2016)
Did, and am impressed at the alacrity of the reply. Replied in turn, let's see what we can do. :)
mlitchard··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2016)
Hi,

I sent you e-mail on 09/27 with no reply from your end. So here is a ping. :)

mlitchard··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2016)
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mlitchard··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2016)
Do you require the code with which we got the answer to the challenges to be in python?
mlitchard··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2016)
I found it very difficult to just send my resume. Maybe give us an e-mail address?
mlitchard··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2016)
How do you feel about FP programmers learning Ruby on the job? :)
mlitchard··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2016)
I see no job description for the Backend position on the web site.
mlitchard··on A Simple Proof That Pi Is Irrational
What is it you don't understand?
mlitchard··on Ask HN: Lobste.rs invite anyone?
Thanks!
mlitchard··on Ask HN: After 20 years of programming, what do I do now?
Networking helps here. I've never gotten a job where my resume had to be filtered through HR first. You need to know someone who is or knows a hiring manager. Get out there and make friends!
mlitchard··on Ask HN: Lobste.rs invite anyone?
michael (at) schmong (dot) org
mlitchard··on Ask HN: Lobste.rs invite anyone?
michael (at) schmong (dot) org
mlitchard··on Ask HN: I will help your startup in exchange for food and a place to stay
Even though everything in Australia wants to kill you, I would pick that over Canada and it's weather.
mlitchard··on Ask PG: How is Arc coming along?
Plans without deadlines are just dreams.
mlitchard··on Ask HN: Time to update my skills. What should I do?
Haskell is not the Next Important Thing, but rather the ideas that it reifies. When Haskell is yesterday's news, the successful ideas will remain, but in the next generation language. That said, learning Haskell will put you in front of these big ideas, and I believe will make you valuable. That said, keep an eye on Idris, and dependent types.
mlitchard··on Honeypot code challenge
I do like doing these things for fun. Unfortunately they restrict language choice. And the languages available, while useful, aren't fun. In other words, "Where the Haskell at?"
mlitchard··on How experts stay safe at the Black Hat security conference
Make the hacking tools written in atari 2600 pac-man and you have got yourself a gen-x comedy.
mlitchard··on 7 Things Your Boss Doesn’t Understand About Software Development
The other thing they don't understand is the words agile and proactive are signalling me that they are a bobblehead.
mlitchard··on Ask HN: Best new or modern languange for game dev?
In that case, check out Reactive-Banana, after learning some Haskell.
mlitchard··on Functional Programming in C++ (2013)
It's not a problem for you, but it's a problem generally. That's why so many people are working to solve it.
mlitchard··on Functional Programming in C++ (2013)
Here's the relationship. How can you guarantee your low-level code is correct? Here's one way. You have a language like Idris create a DSL that targets the machine you want. You can model what the set of correct programs in your domain look like, and then produce correct code. That's why functional programming in general, and dependent-type programming in particular, is useful for low-level problem domains.
mlitchard··on Why I love the nothingness inside a float tank
You already have a VR setup. Just get in the tank!
mlitchard··on Benjamin Pierce – Software Foundations
Thanks for the discussion link.
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