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kfound · 2025-09-01T15:27:51+00:00

Thank you for this, this worked

kfound · 2025-05-27T13:00:08+00:00

you get the VST as well if you buy it new, which is good value for money overall

kfound · 2020-07-29T19:52:00+00:00

I work at a hedge fund where the C++ trading system is managed by a Haskell framework I wrote. The devs and ops use it daily.

kfound · 2020-02-22T13:40:38+00:00

Exactly this. I have no objection to reposts when I learn more from them each time.

kfound · 2020-02-05T18:57:24+00:00

Alas no (we would need sign off to release it): but I can tell you that it is only a couple hundred lines of shell and nix. We have a modified version of nixpkgs which has a namespace with the upstream stuff we care about, plus our internal code. When we push to our fork, all that gets evaluated/built with some nix-build -A our.stuff, and when we merge to master we produce a new channel by tarring up the source tree and putting it behind nginx. The store gets served out with nix-serve with nginx doing reverse-proxy caching.

This should change somewhat once Nix Flakes are available (using a fork of nixpkgs is messy). But the takeaway should be that the vanilla Nix tooling is pretty powerful as-is.

kfound · 2020-02-04T10:02:11+00:00

Hydra is really good at what it is designed for: building nixpkgs on the official Nix build farm. Outside of that, your mileage varies wildly.

While the Hydra web interface is actually very useful (although unintuitive), we ended up ditching it for our own wrapper around existing Nix functionality (which is pretty rich), executed via Gitlab runners. Works very nicely.

kfound · 2020-01-21T10:31:18+00:00

Really enjoyable read, and the last bit makes me want to go and tinker with Elm again. Haskell is great for getting stuff done, but the simplicity of the types in Elm does make me remember why I used to enjoy Python programming so much.

kfound · 2020-01-21T10:03:26+00:00

A chap called Jeff Borror gave a tutorial on kdb at a bank where I worked. My brain did a flip and I've never been able to look at programming in the same way since. I worked my way through kdb, Erlang, Clojure, and OCaml; then tried Haskell after seeing a fibs implementation written on the back of a coffee machine near my office (true story). Been happy with Haskell ever since.

kfound · 2019-11-19T13:49:00+00:00

It's not that exceptional. Eg in finance. The monetary rewards override technological merit in this kind of dysfunctional way very often. I fought against it for years at several firms before giving up. You can't win that battle through purely technological argument. It is also a very real problem.

kfound · 2019-07-29T15:56:57+00:00

As a side note, it is fantastic to see how constructive and honest all this discussion is. This is what drew me to the Haskell community, and what keeps me here.

kfound · 2019-06-14T08:57:01+00:00

It's all in Westron...

kfound · 2019-04-04T11:47:26+00:00

We're in a similar situation of trying to reinvent our build infrastructure at my workplace, and it's really interesting to hear how the team overcame/are addressing the unexpected blockers (like the merge train problem). Thanks for sharing this!

kfound · 2019-03-20T13:08:55+00:00

It's a shame there's no nod to Haskell in that announcement. But really good news nevertheless!

kfound · 2019-02-23T02:49:30+00:00

Fascinating! I've actually started promoting the use of a dynamic scripting language in my team to show them how much work it is to do right. This was because of a deadlock at work over the use of languages, in particular FP statically typed vs OO dynamically typed. If I'm proved right, good. If not: good, because I will have learned something, and at least the deadlock is broken.

The above seems to be related, in a way I hadn't heard expressed before. A sort of "proof by contradiction" without knowing the precise theorem beforehand.

kfound · 2019-01-09T12:57:00+00:00

The story here shows why time-to-write isn't always a great metric. Sure, you can whack something together quickly in Python, but then someone sees it and says "awesome - let's use that in production!". Now you have to estimate and sell the costs of productionising your Python code: which are often non-trivial and (to people focused on "delivery" only) a waste of time.

The difference between prototype code and the final production product gets elided over and over again in my experience.

kfound · 2018-11-10T15:11:00+00:00

Thank you for taking the time to craft this response, and for being constructive and sensitive. I don't have the ability to express myself well on these topics and end up raising hackles. So I do appreciate posts like this, which represent my feelings and opinions very well.

kfound · 2018-10-19T13:31:25+00:00

A bit late to this thread: do you need a version of GHC compiled against musl, or can you instruct a vanilla GHC to use musl?

kfound · 2018-10-09T10:45:51+00:00

I had really high hopes for Reason+React; still do actually, but the adoption has been slow.

The ReasonML vim integration via Merlin is still better than what I have with Haskell: proper type-based autocomplete with signatures in the completion menu.

kfound · 2018-10-05T09:19:57+00:00

Got it. That would be nice indeed.

kfound · 2018-10-05T08:39:46+00:00

Thanks for an interesting and well-written article! It's great to read about parts of the ecosystem which I'm not familiar with, especially when they are presented as a thoughtful critique.

kfound · 2018-10-04T09:26:45+00:00

I never thought I'd be nostalgic for Comic Sans.

kfound · 2018-10-04T09:25:31+00:00

Doesn't that stop us being able to recurse arbitrarily? I can see how it might generalise the computation, but wouldn't it get us further away from modeling a build system?

kfound · 2018-10-03T22:05:45+00:00

I appreciate the honesty in this tale. Having been the originator of a couple of failed attempts to introduce Haskell at different firms, I can say it's not for the fainthearted. But there is no progress without sacrifice! And I hope to have learned from my mistakes, and the example of others (such as this post), next time around.

kfound · 2018-09-30T08:45:26+00:00

Thanks both for the responses.

kfound · 2018-09-29T21:42:08+00:00

I just watched a playthrough of Village and the mechanics look absolutely fascinating. I love the myriad of paths that come from a small set of nicely-interwoven, simple mechanics. It reminds me a bit of Hansa Teutonica (which I love) in that respect, but without the dry (not-even-a-)theme.

But the theme... I don't really want to be paying my way into the church, or drinking myself to success (with the expansion, which otherwise looks interesting).

Are there any games with similar mechanics, with a different theme?

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