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somenewaccon What is Hindley-Milner and why is it cool? (2008)

For Haskell, there's a plugin called ghc-mod

http://www.mew.org/~kazu/proj/ghc-mod/en/

It works with many text editors, like Emacs or vim.

edit: the trend today is to work with the "language server protocol":

http://langserver.org/

Haskell people are writing new tooling based on LSP to supersede ghc-mod:

https://github.com/alanz/haskell-lsp

somenewaccon Bitcoin cash mining profits jump

Yes.

somenewaccon Leading elephant conservationist shot dead in Tanzania

Governments are also supposed to conduct a fair trial with due process before condemning someone to death.

somenewaccon Why Are Police Officers More Dangerous Than Airplanes?

This is an example, that you should consider as a possibility.

somenewaccon Elm in Production: 25K Lines Later

You don't need to write the decoder boilerplate manually to get all those benefits.

For example, here's how you rename a JSON field while serializing/deserializing a data type in Rust:

https://play.rust-lang.org/?gist=1b382bc1572858841d5e392435d...

You just annotate the field with #[serde(rename = "..")]. Here is a list of such annotations

https://serde.rs/field-attrs.html

Serde is also generic in the serialization format; the example I linked uses serde_json, and was adapted from its README here https://github.com/serde-rs/json

somenewaccon Apache Foundation disallows use of the Facebook “BSD+Patent” license

From here: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-303

> Hi all, wanted to jump in here to let everyone know that the RocksDB team is adjusting the licensing such that it will be dual-licensed under the Apache 2 and GPL 2 (for MySQL compatibility) licenses.

somenewaccon The Limitations of Deep Learning

> If it will happen, it will be a sudden, light-switch like moment. I don't think AI can happen gradually.

But our own intelligence happened gradually.