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New comment by twopoint718 in "Comparing Haskell Web Frameworks"

twopoint718 — Mon, 24 Feb 2014 16:30:22 +0000

There's also Leksah http://leksah.org/ . I used this a bit a few years ago. It does on-the-fly recompiles, reports errors, and shows type signatures.

New comment by twopoint718 in "Darcs Vs Git"

twopoint718 — Thu, 03 Oct 2013 13:50:46 +0000

There's an interesting post on the Haskell Cafe list from a while ago wherein Jason Dagit wonders if Git and Darcs aren't dual to one another. http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/2010-October/0...

New comment by twopoint718 in "Rich Hickey's Greatest Hits"

twopoint718 — Tue, 17 Sep 2013 15:29:04 +0000

I could make it that way, it's still pretty small at the moment. Here's the current list:

Theraputic refactoring - Katrina Owen, The Future of Programming - Bret Victor, Simplicity matters -Rich Hickey, Hammock Driven Development - Rich Hickey, Programming with nothing - Tom Stuart, Connections: Faith in Numbers - James Burke, Growing a Language - Guy Steele, Y Not - Adventures in Functional Programming - Jim Weirich, Cool Code - Kevlin Henney, We Really Don't Know How to Compute! - Gerald Jay Sussman, Keynote: Architecture the Lost Years - Bob Martin, Computer Heuristics - Richard Feynman, The Power of Abstraction - Barbara Liskov, The Mother of All Demos - Douglas Engelbart

New comment by twopoint718 in "Rich Hickey's Greatest Hits"

twopoint718 — Mon, 16 Sep 2013 18:55:12 +0000

That's exactly what I've started doing at my office. We watch a talk per week and discuss it after. Rich Hickey occupies several rows of the spreadsheet!

New comment by twopoint718 in "The Grep Test"

twopoint718 — Fri, 12 Jul 2013 21:21:07 +0000

Totally agree. Demand better. Have your metaprogramming and be able to know where 'getPosition' was dynamically generated.

New comment by twopoint718 in "Final Term - Terminal Emulator"

twopoint718 — Tue, 09 Jul 2013 23:44:53 +0000

Acme is the part that I use even under OS X. The regexes are cool (they are recursive), it is easy to process a selection through a shell command, and the compiler integration is both simple but really useful.

I think what I like so much is that it is a rare example of an expert ui, designed for when you are really proficient rather than for learning or discoverability.

New comment by twopoint718 in "Final Term - Terminal Emulator"

twopoint718 — Tue, 09 Jul 2013 01:54:59 +0000

Love it. There are elements of this that remind me of Plan 9's Acme and the Plan 9 shell. Contrary to many people's opinion, using the mouse in concert with the terminal is a really powerful paradigm.

Real World OCaml Book is now in beta

twopoint718 — Tue, 25 Jun 2013 00:47:34 +0000

Article URL: https://realworldocaml.org/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5936756

Points: 2

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Display Real-time Feedback on Your Public Speaking

twopoint718 — Mon, 20 May 2013 14:38:22 +0000

Article URL: http://like.begriffs.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5737898

Points: 1

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Lists out of lambdas and boxes out of functions

twopoint718 — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 14:27:58 +0000

Article URL: http://bendyworks.com/geekville/articles/2013/4/lists-out-of-lambdas-and-boxes-out-of-functions

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5538644

Points: 1

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From Ruby to Haskell, Part 2: Similarity, Refactoring, and Patterns

twopoint718 — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 16:33:55 +0000

Article URL: http://bendyworks.com/geekville/articles/2013/4/from-ruby-to-haskell-part-2-similarity-refactoring-and-patterns

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5512729

Points: 2

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Styleguide Rails: might as well learn it... you'll be using it in 6 months

twopoint718 — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 17:56:33 +0000

Article URL: http://bendyworks.com/geekville/articles/2013/2/styleguide-rails

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5152229

Points: 3

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From Ruby to Haskell, Part 1: Testing

twopoint718 — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 21:37:17 +0000

Article URL: http://bendyworks.com/geekville/articles/2012/12/from-ruby-to-haskell-part-1-testing

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4883938

Points: 66

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New comment by twopoint718 in "Getting Plan 9 Running on the Raspberry Pi"

twopoint718 — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 21:34:09 +0000

Thanks! I'll add this.

New comment by twopoint718 in "My Madison Ruby Story"

twopoint718 — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 15:27:47 +0000

Nope, this article is the real deal. I was at this conference and the take on the community rings true to me. It was a no-holds-barred hug fest (and a fine conference, of course). Lest you accuse me of sockpuppet-ism, I've been on HN for 5 years.

New comment by twopoint718 in "Version Control for Poetic Time Travelers"

twopoint718 — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 18:45:36 +0000

I like how Joe points out that rebasing raises the same issues as time travel, namely paradoxes. If you have rebased commits that others have pulled, then you've created a situation where a commit both does and does not exist.

Also interesting is how rebasing can reorder the dates as seen in the log. All that git really cares about is the parentage of some commit.

Good and insightful post.

New comment by twopoint718 in "The true power of regular expressions"

twopoint718 — Sun, 17 Jun 2012 19:27:56 +0000

I know it is probably gauche, but here's a tl;dr: The "regexp" in your programming language isn't "regular expression" from language theory. Adding extra bells and whistles (like back references) gives "regexps" power at least equivalent to context-free languages.

This is an excellent article, and I hope the tl;dr makes you more likely to go and read it.

New comment by twopoint718 in "The Linux desktop experience is killing Linux on the desktop, Part II"

twopoint718 — Sat, 18 Jun 2011 18:14:40 +0000

My two complaints are that the keyboard isn't the sort that I like, it's of the chiclet variety, and they only offer shortscreens (16:9 rather than 4:3). On the first complaint, this is really just my preference on keyboards. I'm a dvorak typist and so I'm a bit picky about keyboards; from my point of view, every laptop keyboard is bad, but I'm holding out hope for Thinkpads. On the second complaint it seems, unfortunately, that no manufacturer makes 4:3 laptops in 12"-15" sizes.

I have one of the ultra-thin models "Lemu1" and the body is plastic while the inner chassis is metal. It reminds me of the build on an iBook G4. It does feel a bit flimsy, but this model is about the size of a MacBook Air and so I figure some of the flimsiness is partly just physics.

New comment by twopoint718 in "The Linux desktop experience is killing Linux on the desktop, Part II"

twopoint718 — Sat, 18 Jun 2011 14:03:10 +0000

Haha, take it just a bit farther. When you get hooked on a tiling window manager, all this twisting in the wind over what KDE/GNOME 3.0/Unity will do next really evaporates. The "surface area" of the GUI is so small there's very little to find issue with.

New comment by twopoint718 in "The Linux desktop experience is killing Linux on the desktop, Part II"

twopoint718 — Sat, 18 Jun 2011 13:58:01 +0000

I think companies (yes companies) like System76 are the only real way forward for Linux On The Desktop but I think that they tend to get ignored in this discussion. Linux already has prominent commercial backing (Red Hat, Canonical, IBM, etc.) for server-focused systems and applications. And indeed, in this arena Linux has been very successful. Where these sorts of complaints should fall are directly on system builders (the Dells of the world). When someone hears about Linux, it should be possible for them to go to a store and maybe check one out.

Think about the last time you bought something. Did you go to a shop and kick the tires a bit? When I wanted an Android phone that was unconnected to any particular carrier, I was lucky enough that Best Buy was partnered up with Google. I could hold a Nexus S and see if I liked it before I bought one. This hands-on experience matters. Your local LUG is trying to get the word out, but they're volunteers. We need more businesses who have a vested interest in selling Linux to regular users. When they are, then the product will be a better fit for those users. This is the difference between 'The Spirit of St. Louis' and American Airlines.

Full disclosure, I bought a System76 machine and I'm very happy with it. It's good hardware and it all worked (and not just "works for me", but really worked). Getting a product like this is a good fit for a certain type of computer user. I have owned and bought computers before. It's refreshing to get a new computer that doesn't have layer upon layer of crapware pre-installed and I wasn't in need of some fetishistic unboxing experience; it came in a box that, when opened, it worked out of.