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GrandTheftR··on Ask HN: Why would anyone choose Haskell to develop applications?
When worked on Go projects, I found that I was far more likely to read library code to see how to use it than other languages I used. Cannot be too "fancy" is definitely a strength of Go as a programming language.
GrandTheftR··on App with local notification will crash iOS Springboard on Dec. 2
The reddit thread updated to recommend against adjusting clock. It suggests to turn off local notification for app that uses repeating notification, such as daily reminder.
GrandTheftR··on App with local notification will crash iOS Springboard on Dec. 2
Reddit thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/iphone/comments/7gzntq/psa_iphone_r...

seems the solution is to set clock back, will set iPhone to do not disturb help this?

GrandTheftR··on How the Instant Pot cooker developed a cult following
My son and I had lots of fun making Yogurt with it. Cooking hard "boiled" egg is another unexpected finding after googling cook time for boiled egg
GrandTheftR··on MacBook Pro
> Or do what I do, have capslock be ctrl when combined with a non modifier key

Re-read your comment, how do you do this at OS level? I can imagine doing this in Vim or Tmux, but OS level for any application?

GrandTheftR··on MacBook Pro
Not sure for how many people, mine is already remapped to Ctrl key
GrandTheftR··on Silkworms that eat carbon nanotubes and graphene spin tougher silk
Not that, boiling is a step to produce silk: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silk#Production_process
GrandTheftR··on Terraform 0.7 released
This is a great release, have been using Terraform for the last year, a life-saver for us.

Kudos to the TF team/community and Mitchell

GrandTheftR··on China Deploys Missiles on Disputed Island in South China Sea
Ron Paul's take on this from few month ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KudfRyn3ZbA

interesting to watch it now, where will this lead to, and what is the strategic goal here?

GrandTheftR··on Alibaba's Singles' Day sales surge 60 percent to $14.3B
If the price is good, I would assume customers will jump in and buy, they may even schedule their buy to align with this day, to celebrate this day or not doesn't matter imho.
GrandTheftR··on Six years of Go
+1 for right tool for the job. Also, I can imagine they have large amount code already there in C/C++ since this is the second deep learning system they designed.

and if you watch Jeff Dean's video, he mentioned more front end in other languages, Go is the only example and as the interest from internal.

GrandTheftR··on Six years of Go
Thanks you, Go team!

Have been using Go for the last few years, from backend, tools, and even complex scripting type of tasks (for things more than I would like to do in Bash). Start using Go for game development as sideline projects recently, it is fun.

Granted there are things I would like to see may not on the road map, but I am very happy with what we have now, the great tools, and the great community.

Keep up good work and looking forward to the future releases!

GrandTheftR··on RunC – A lightweight universal runtime container, by the Open Container Project
and hosted by Azure...
GrandTheftR··on Tmux 2.0 released
I assume ctrl-s is easier to press than ctrl-a, I have trouble with ctrl-a on Mac with reconfigured CapsLock, and my bind key is ctrl-space.
GrandTheftR··on John Carmack: “I just dumped the C++ server I wrote for a new one in Racket”
> John Carmack ‏@ID_AA_Carmack 3h3 hours ago > @touristtam If I run into catastrophic perf problems, I may try rewriting in Go.

he apparently has lots of fun with languages, very curious what kind of server he is writing now.

He also spoke highly about Haskell before.

GrandTheftR··on 2015 Chromebook Pixel
$999 (32G) and $1299(64G) I am not sure I would buy this, the spec looks ok
GrandTheftR··on Ask HN: How do you manage your passwords?
I use KeePass (and KeyPassx on Mac OS), and use network drive to store the DB files.

For password security, I have different levels of passwords, for less important service, will just use less secure password and will not store in security DB.

GrandTheftR··on For Asian Americans, a changing landscape on college admissions
MLK said this in his famouse speech "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character." [0]

This is so sad with what many colleges/states are pushing for now. I am all for college admission policy to help out low incoming group, based on his/her economy status, which the children were born into, but not discrimination based on skin color, which the children were born with.

[0] http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/m/martinluth115056....

GrandTheftR··on Dart 1.5
Given the size of the generated JS file, do you find it is an issue?
GrandTheftR··on Today I published an introductory book on Haskell Data Analysis
I recently did data (log) analysis with Clojure. So far, really enjoyed it. I use gorilla-repl, which is the reason I picked Clojure in the first place. Be able to use (in browser) REPL to play with data, and display table/charts just using Clojure in browser really helps.

I have studied and still a fan of Haskell, only did some small sideline project with Haskell before. Would love to read this book. and maybe use it in the future.

GrandTheftR··on PyPy 2.1 – Considered ARMful
iPhone/iPad/Windows Phones are all ARM processors, and almost all Android phones/tablets (except Intel Medfield based phone) are ARMed as well.
GrandTheftR··on Haskell in Production: 12 Months Building ApiEngine
I have been programming Haskell for the last few month for a sideline project, and really enjoying the experience so far. This has been the second or third time I revisit Haskell as a programming language, and this time I do feel that I am "getting" it in Haskell and could be productive ;) and I do feel very safe to write in Haskell, usually it works if it compiles.

Here is one great post about starting in Haskell (via jerf@Reddit) http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/1e3cl0/haskell_intu...

it would be the exact way if I would summarize my experience over last few months..

but I do feel the lacking of good communicators in Haskell community who know how to talk to non-Haskeller.

GrandTheftR··on John Carmack starting port of Wolf 3D in Haskell
This is encouraging, have been working on my game in Haskell for last few weeks, it is fun. Hope to see more insight & progress from John soon.
GrandTheftR··on Surface Pricing Announced - $499 USD
"the world"? nope - already dominated by iPad

Seriously, the tablet market is still wide open. having an iPad3, iOS is only good for a small portion of things I would like a Tablet can do

GrandTheftR··on Xiki: A shell console with GUI features.
Works fine for me, for both aquaemacs and macvim. cool idea, still not sure how I can use this yet, but will give it more tries.

the doc need more details, still do not know how to save a menu.

GrandTheftR··on Windows 8 hits RTM status
I am actually excited with the potential of W8/Surface, a tablet can do real work is a win for me. I like the vision of the original TabletPC, but they failed to execute it. Seems they are getting it right this time based on playing with preview.
GrandTheftR··on Sublime Text 2.0 Released
I love ST2, Vim, and iTerm. On my Mac. I just setup a global key ⌥-t to bring iTerm to front. Not ideally, but good enough for me for now.
GrandTheftR··on Tig 1.0 released - ncurses text-mode interface for git
Just tried it, very impressed. Pretty sure it will be my favorite git viewer.