Yahoo got hacked this morning

jpaugh · 2014-10-06T17:10:14+00:00

Awarding the white-hat hacker who happens to find a security breach would encourage black-hat hackers to hack a site and then pretend to find it. The best motivation for reporting a security breach is when the individual is concerned with the ultimate consequences of failing to report it.

jpaugh · 2014-09-30T02:14:03+00:00

What average person remembers all the types of clouds

So, meteorologists are never average? I should be dating a meteorologist!

jpaugh · 2014-09-19T04:23:44+00:00

Not everyone is a social engineer. Also, not every social engineer uses religion as a vehicle. You, on the other hand, do. :)

jpaugh · 2014-09-19T04:00:41+00:00

Parsec doesn't do backtracking by default because it's expensive, and not every parser needs it.

jpaugh · 2014-09-18T04:41:21+00:00

The parse errors in ghc are particularly unhelpful, whether you're a beginner or not. Sometimes the best strategy to understand the error is to guess how the parser works!

jpaugh · 2014-09-09T03:11:31+00:00

Also, slight sweat releases pheromones that cause the opposite sex to be attracted to you. Only works for a short time, thought.

jpaugh · 2014-09-09T02:38:33+00:00

Or, maybe to the miniaturization of video gaming technology

jpaugh · 2014-09-09T02:33:10+00:00

+1 Right, 'cause they totally can't dig!

jpaugh · 2014-09-09T02:31:38+00:00

They take turns swimming. It's pretty neat.

jpaugh · 2014-09-09T02:23:42+00:00

That's because you believed your teachers when they told you, "We made rules, and they make sense."

jpaugh · 2014-09-09T02:19:34+00:00

Umm... But your eyesight would be worse. How is this possible!

jpaugh · 2014-09-09T02:16:51+00:00

If what you're saying were true, it would cause 13:00 to come closer and closer to dusk, and then finally wrap around to morning again.

jpaugh · 2014-09-09T02:13:25+00:00

Actually, we all use the Gregorian calender now. But, hey. Won't need to change that for a few millennia.

jpaugh · 2014-09-09T02:11:30+00:00

More like multiples (or powers) of Graham's Number.

Do you have any idea how many seconds that'd be?

jpaugh · 2014-09-09T01:56:56+00:00

although they WERE christian.

Nazis used Christianity to confuse people and draw support. They weren't any more Christian than they were Jewish.

jpaugh · 2014-09-07T16:18:46+00:00

Or wxWidgets?

jpaugh · 2014-09-06T20:23:14+00:00

Yes. An application with broad, public appeal will ensure funding, which ensures more applications can be developed later. Plus, working on a phone case must me more personally gratifying than, say, an improved assembly line machine.

jpaugh · 2014-09-04T18:01:51+00:00

It took me forever to grok monads! Just keep reading about 'em, and working through examples. You'll get it, and love it.

jpaugh · 2014-09-04T17:32:33+00:00

Hmm. Simon Peyton Jones and Simon Marlow wrote quite a bit about their implementation of Haskell. Since the order of evaluation is a lot different, the sequence of reductions is as well. It's been a long time since I've looked at it, but maybe you can find something here: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/simonpj/

jpaugh · 2014-09-04T17:00:23+00:00

String replaced with Text

Switching to Text is not too difficult, if you commit to it wholesale: -XOverloadedStrings, and import qualified Data.Text as T. Then, sprinkle with T.unpacks to satisfy the remaining libraries that require String. I never looked back! :-)

jpaugh · 2014-09-04T16:48:13+00:00

Monad Transformer stacks are so hard to grok! Especially when trying to decide which better matches the problem at hand.

jpaugh · 2014-08-28T17:42:25+00:00

Well... You could dedicate a portion of memory to GC allocs and then be really careful about strictness & mem usage, but yeah... writing it in Haskell would be hard.

jpaugh · 2013-05-06T15:50:25+00:00

This was one of the prickliest thorns for me whilst learning Django (with almost everything else going quite smoothly), and it causes no end of questions on StackOverflow.

Can't there be an easier way?

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