May 15, 2013

Haskell Weekly News: Issue 267

Welcome to issue 267 of the HWN, an issue covering crowd-sourced bits of information about Haskell from around the web. This issue covers the week of April 28 to May 11, 2013.

Quotes of the Week

  • ciaranm: a category is just a category in the category of categories
  • cmccann: the Either monad is like the Maybe monad, except with something instead of Nothing.
  • sclv: Q: Why are the adjunctions of Galois connections backwards? A: He never got the hang of duals.
  • acowley: blackdog's experience with IDEs is apparently both more sensual and more culinary than mine
  • cmccann: shachaf jokes are what the quotes section of HWN is for.
    cmccann: though lately there have been not as many :[
    shachaf: cmccann: Hey, there wasn't a single shachaf quote in the last HWN!
    shachaf: Leave me alone.
    shachaf: There were two cmccann quotes.
  • edwardk: cmccann: i'm NDA'd out of that space for a while ;)
    elliott: edwardk just collects NDAs so that he can focus.
  • trapdInIO: in java everything happens elsewhere
  • edwardk: i never bothered to release the c preprocessor because it was entangled with an old compiler of mind
  • acowley: I get nervous when I haven't triggered the impossible for more than a month or so :/
  • hpc: be careful, excessive consumption of lenses will go straight to your type signature
  • acowley: The longer I leave this function named "jumanji" the less I want to find a better name
  • ion: The next step is unsafeCoerce. At that point you’re halfway into implementing lens.
  • bos: i'm not sure edwardk is a good model to follow. (a) because you won't be able to, and (b) because you won't be able to.

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+Daniel Santa Cruz

May 2, 2013

Haskell Weekly News: Issue 266

Welcome to issue 266 of the HWN, an issue covering crowd-sourced bits of information about Haskell from around the web. This issue covers the week of April 7 to 27, 2013.

Quotes of the Week

  • hpc: the dirty secret of haskell programmers is that their power does not come from their PhD, but their bowtie
  • tibbe: I think I have implemented a reverse state monad by mistake. The numbers suggest I'm getting the values tunneled back from the future. :/
  • SaulGorn: A formalist is one who cannot understand a theory unless it is meaningless.
  • cmccann: laziness by default is a shortcoming. eagerness by default is a bigger shortcoming.
  • monochrom: #haskell-blah has brilliant people too. for example me.
  • limo: OK, guys was nice meeting you and now I'm a proud owner of a GHCi icon on my desktop
  • otters: lens law #1: the implementation must be shorter than the type
  • MartinDeMello: Any sufficiently well-commented Lisp program contains an ML program in its comments.
  • tgeeky: whatever man. Jesus only had twelve or so deciples, lens has 80!
  • SatnamSingh: I always thought that category theory was something that happened to other people. (#ICFP)
  • cmccann: see the thing is tabs are good for indentation. haskell doesn't use indentation, it uses alignment. it is not indenting. it is ASCII art.
  • JohnVonNeumann: In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
  • edwardk: you can view Yoneda f as enforced fmap fusion and Codensity f as enforced bind fusion.

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April 10, 2013

Haskell Weekly News: Issue 265

Welcome to issue 265 of the HWN, an issue covering crowd-sourced bits of information about Haskell from around the web. This issue covers the week of March 31 to April 6, 2013.

Quotes of the Week

  • Jafet: Haskell is an abstract research language used only in academia, education, banking, stock trading, circuit design, embedded systems, cryptography, operating systems research, bioinformatics, phone apps, and web services.
  • monochrom: primop is where the turtle tower ends and the russian dolls begin!
  • sclv: haha. i love this stuff but if i bury myself in it my head will start spinning around like exorcist and i will start spitting blood

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April 3, 2013

Haskell Weekly News: Issue 264

Welcome to issue 264 of the HWN, an issue covering crowd-sourced bits of information about Haskell from around the web. This issue covers the week of March 17 to 30, 2013.

Quotes of the Week

  • ddarius: (f x) is a partial application iff f x == (curry (uncurry f) x)
  • flebron: "Hey, I am Haskell; and this is lazy; so here's a function; I'll call it, maybe."
  • WinstonChurchill: It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
  • ab9rf: (on duck typing) if you want a duck-submarine-employee-tomato, you can do that
  • johnw: Stealing lens from the gods, and then having my liver eaten out daily.
  • dibblego: scala puts road blocks in your way proportional to how effective you want to be
  • hiptobecubic: I want my programs to either be correct or violently explode
  • shachaf: edwardk will try to get you addicted to monoids. The first one is always free.
  • merijn: So apparently there's a footballer named lens, who played some important part in the match against the Netherlands... Which would explain the fact that twitter is telling me "lens" is trending, I was starting to think haskell had won the PL revolution with edwardk as our glorious leader ;)
  • elliott: all I want for christmas is a boring lambdabot.

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March 20, 2013

Haskell Weekly News: Issue 263

Welcome to issue 263 of the HWN, an issue covering crowd-sourced bits of information about Haskell from around the web. This issue covers the week of March 10 to 16, 2013.

Quotes of the Week

  • shachaf: Did someone give edwardk a committee bit?

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March 13, 2013

Haskell Weekly News: Issue 262

Welcome to issue 262 of the HWN, an issue covering crowd-sourced bits of information about Haskell from around the web. This issue covers the week of March 03 to 09, 2013.

Quotes of the Week

  • byorgey: The box does not care whether you think it is stupid. It is box.
  • ksf: duh, we can't run out of energy, as there's a fixed amount of it.
  • shachaf: getLine :: IO String contains a String in the same way that /bin/ls contains a list of files
  • macrover: is there a comparison between the various streams/pipes/conduits libraries?
    Cale: macrover: I am presently resisting the temptation to make a table with the libraries and only one other column which is "maximum number of type parameters to a type constructor".
  • tac: It's actually really easy to remember all the numeric typeclasses in Haskell. Just think about what makes sense... then make sure whatever your answer is is not that

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March 6, 2013

Haskell Weekly News: Issue 261

Welcome to issue 261 of the HWN, an issue covering crowd-sourced bits of information about Haskell from around the web. This issue covers the week of February 24 to March 02, 2013.

Quotes of the Week

  • EvilMachine: I always picture some poor mutant guy whose every body part looks alike in the deepest depths of the dark ages going to the doc, and being told he has “monomorphism”.
  • pmk: the last time i asked GHC to compile a function with forty (.)'s in a row, it took over an hour

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