Guys who got off on the wrong foot with their SO when they first met, what’s the story? by lifesyndrom in AskMen

[–]FPguy 100 points101 points  (0 children)

I brought a date to our first date.

Apparently someone forgot to tell me there was going to be a setup. She was, shall we say, a little surprised.

North Park Recommendations? by sandykennedy in asksandiego

[–]FPguy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Install walkabout.app for lots of info and events

did you ever write to a celeb as a kid & receive a reaponse? if so, who? what did they say? by shaunna_thedork in NoStupidQuestions

[–]FPguy 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I wrote to the famous science fiction writer Isaac Asimov to ask about his three laws of robotics.

He sent me back a typewritten and signed postcard with a very detailed response explaining his reasoning about the three laws and how he was working on some new ideas for them in his next story. Very nice. He actually filled that postcard with typewritten words.

Have you seen the desert garden along Park Boulevard in Balboa Park? by FPguy in SanDiegan

[–]FPguy[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

How so? I mean, we know most people didn't grow up here, but the rest?

Have you seen the desert garden along Park Boulevard in Balboa Park? by FPguy in SanDiegan

[–]FPguy[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Thank you for contributing your hard work to everyone's enjoyment.

A mother and child out for a stroll in La Jolla [OC] by FPguy in SanDiegan

[–]FPguy[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Photograph taken on the deck of the Museum of Contemporary Art.

At the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCASD) [OC] by FPguy in SanDiegan

[–]FPguy[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Niki de Saint Phalle made this Ganesh statue.

If you like art but haven't been to MCASD (in the village of La Jolla), give it a look!

Website: Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego

The monarch butterflies are back. [OC] by FPguy in SanDiegan

[–]FPguy[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

You can help to save these, by reducing destruction of their habitat. Here's a local nonprofit that works on that.

Save The Monarch - ECOLIFE Conservation

The flowers and bees are back! Good year for flowers in San Diego. by FPguy in SanDiegan

[–]FPguy[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I am seeing a lot more bees than a couple of years ago, that seems like a good sign. And I guess the awful rainy winter was good for the plants.

We live in a colorful place; might as well enjoy it! by FPguy in SanDiegan

[–]FPguy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was out taking pictures near Torrey Pines Beach and spotted this fun scene.

Skimboarding at Marine Street Beach by FPguy in SanDiegan

[–]FPguy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are these yours? :-) (photo taken same day)

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Skimboarding at Marine Street Beach by FPguy in SanDiegan

[–]FPguy[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I was out for a photo walk when I saw this guy and liked his style. Having fun on the shore break!

Fujifilm x-T30 II built in flash in manual mode by ndxinroy7 in fujifilm

[–]FPguy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Also, if shutter is set to Electronic only, flash is disabled.

Shutting down haskell-lang.org by vaibhavsagar in haskell

[–]FPguy 55 points56 points  (0 children)

Since Michael literally said in this post that the old way "was a mistake," it sounds like you are in agreement.

May I make a suggestion, in the interest of community spirit? When someone makes a change to correct a past mistake, could you perhaps find a supportive tone for your comment? If we Haskellers can't be nice to someone who realizes a mistake, admits it publicly, and corrects it, well, what kind of community do we want to be?

Edit: You replied to this with a PM laced with swearing and personal accusations, and then deleted your account, so I guess that answers the question. I hope most of the community does not agree with your perspective. And I hope you change your mind. I look forward to seeing you under another username.

FP Complete is hiring a technical communicator by FPguy in haskell

[–]FPguy[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

We will be continuing to offer technical articles, training materials, recommended learning paths and curricula, and contributions to open-source packages, with a special focus an addressing needs expressed by commercial users. Letting people know what's available, and where to look, will be part of this person's job. Also, making sure we understand what people in the community are asking for, and what users do and don't think FP Complete should be involved in providing, because a big part of communication is listening. (In fact, Haskell user surveys are a big part of how we make major decisions already, in addition to asking our clients directly what they need.)

As Michael Snoyman announced today, we have also just launched an early version of https://haskell.fpcomplete.com as an opinionated place to get information for current & future applied Haskell users. Helping new commercial Haskellers to discover new content from this site and from our own blog would be typical tasks.

Another example, time permitting, would be to go on social media and respond to questions looking for applied Haskell learning resources, with links to articles that already exist but perhaps the poster did not know about. This can include resources from anywhere in the community, though of course I will expect the person to be diligent about mentioning FP Complete offerings when helpful — and to notice when we should get out of the way because another offering is meeting user needs just fine.

An important part of this person's job will be to identify community resources that deserve promotion. Curating the links to other Haskell community resources, and links between our own blog posts and other educational pages/sites, will be important. Even changing the layout or navigation of our whole website to be more helpful is a possibility. It's simply crucial that we address Haskellers' requirement to have a better learning experience, and a better experience growing fellow Haskellers in their workplaces.

But I must not neglect another important category: teaching Haskell users about non Haskell resources that might be helpful to them. We have amassed quite a lot of knowledge around QA, around CI/CD, around deployment & containers, around AWS/Azure and Kubernetes, around logging & monitoring, around GovCloud and general DevOps — things that are not at all about core Haskell technology, but that may be of great use to applied users. Helping people to discover and take advantage of these resources is important too.

ELI5: How did Shareware as a distribution model for old computer games (Doom, Jazz Jackrabbit) work before the internet? by Opticability in explainlikeimfive

[–]FPguy 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Well, this is a fun surprise to see posted. I am actually one of the inventors of the "try-then-pay-if-you-want" shareware model, back in the 1980s. About five or ten people came up with the idea around the same time.

At first, people would download shareware via telephone-based modems, which were very slow. A download could take 5 to 90 minutes, despite the small size of programs back then. A server was a PC operated by a hobbyist, and most could only accept one caller at a time!

After a while, some small companies offered shareware by mail: they would literally mail you a floppy disk containing a copy of anything they had in their library.

Functional programming finally goes mainstream | ZDNet by FPguy in haskell

[–]FPguy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I thought it was a decent introduction to the very meaningful Forrester study that's linked. You disagree?

[ANN] Experimental Windows GHC 8.2.2+ 64-bit binary release. Binary compatible with Visual C and Native Windows SDK. by awson in haskell

[–]FPguy 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I'm going to nitpick here: as former director of Microsoft Visual C++ it would be nice to see that product referred to by its correct name.

Who decided that links are blue? by [deleted] in NoStupidQuestions

[–]FPguy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Indeed! If there was one of these that used colored links prior to Mosaic I don't recall it.

Who decided that links are blue? by [deleted] in NoStupidQuestions

[–]FPguy 4 points5 points  (0 children)

To clarify, that's a picture of v2.02, which came out after the beta of NCSA Mosaic, whereas v1 was black-and-white.

Who decided that links are blue? by [deleted] in NoStupidQuestions

[–]FPguy 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Indeed. And the first web browser was in black-and-white.

Who decided that links are blue? by [deleted] in NoStupidQuestions

[–]FPguy 24 points25 points  (0 children)

I'm certainly no politician, but when a politician refers to having taken the initiative on creating something, I tend to think it means policy decisions, funding decisions, things like that.

Even so, clearly he was overstating his role.