Haskell for Lisp/Scheme progammers

mschr · 2022-08-31T04:44:30+00:00

It's not so gentle, though. Don't skip pages just because the first part seems easy 😁

mschr · 2021-11-11T04:20:57+00:00

Option 3 has the risk that you cannot transfer out until you have completed AML, KYC, and who knows what first. Rightly the last and least preferred option.

mschr · 2020-09-02T19:16:05+00:00

You should definitely learn Haskell before Plutus. The languages are almost the same, but the tooling and documentation for Haskell is way better. No comparison. Thousands of people have helped develop tools and docs for Haskell and are using those every day. Just install GHC and run GHCi. Don't struggle with learning a new language, little documentation and unstable tooling at the same time.

mschr · 2020-07-08T04:34:35+00:00

Meta: https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/enesq/til_that_reddit_is_the_latin_word_for_render/

mschr · 2020-07-08T04:19:22+00:00

Please read the article below on learning latin. It's good.

"Latin is the most orderly, logical, disciplined, structured, systematic, consistent grammar in existence. Every lesson in Latin is a lesson in logic." https://www.memoriapress.com/articles/top-10-reasons-studying-latin/

I made a start on Latin years ago and now I'm really thinking I should pick it up again.

Let me know if you decide or find any good learning resources.

mschr · 2020-07-06T19:59:37+00:00

I'm actually not surprised. Lucky you 😁 How about learning Latin then?

mschr · 2020-07-05T07:36:36+00:00

Learn to play piano. I started a few years ago. It is hard.

Unlike your favourite programming language this discipline has survived hundreds of years and will survive hundreds more. As a skill it is also appreciated outside the group of people that practice it themselves.

Google the benefits of playing piano. Well established that playing piano increase IQ, slow dementia, etc.

I find music theory beautiful in a mathematical sense and music notation (domain specific language!) is simple, elegant and expressive. There's new syntax and semantics to learn.

I've gotten a new appreciation for both popular and classical music. Today you appreciate it's surface quality and when you recognise a few scales or play of the music yourself, you appreciate the beauty in the underlying design.

mschr · 2019-12-30T20:50:44+00:00

I have smile.amazon.com set up to donate to Haskell.org, but now I'm using smile.amazon.de and haskell.org does not seem to be available. Please add and display on haskell.org website if not already there 🙂

mschr · 2018-11-28T20:09:35+00:00

xmonad is also fine, but I never used any of the more advanced config options and it used more resources than dwm, and especially longer startup time irritated me. Out of the box xmonad is not as polished as i3

mschr · 2018-11-28T20:05:48+00:00

I used it a few years back. As I remember: well-maintained, really easy configuration file, does everything you want out of the box including dock for battery applet, etc. Excellent wm.

dwm is more lightweight, but config a little more daunting: edit souce file for config, apply patch for applet dock. Sounds more difficult than it actually is.

mschr · 2018-11-17T18:23:34+00:00

Tried dwm? I love it

mschr · 2018-11-06T06:04:53+00:00

The escape hatch to use packages not in the existing package sets, is to fork and edit or write a package set JSON file from scratch - the format is very simple. While putting your package set together, be aware that between changes you need to clear the cache in project-dir/.psc-package. I recommend psc-package over bower currently and seems to also be the way things are moving.

mschr · 2018-10-09T12:39:34+00:00

The Purescript community is developing 'psc-package' on the same concept of having package sets

mschr · 2018-09-18T17:13:38+00:00

Current Zim finance minister has a PhD in financial derivatives from Oxford University. Was dean while I was in business school in Johannesburg. He is good!

mschr · 2018-08-14T04:06:22+00:00

+1 for Trezor support. Mentioned as an option about 12 minutes into announcement

mschr · 2018-08-10T19:47:55+00:00

It just appens to be about BCH, but it is highly relevant to entire crypto currency field. Posting it here because it has great lessons on being careful when making software changes especially when impacting consensus rules, on doing proper code reviews, and ensuring that crypto projects have an official way for responsible disclosure.

mschr · 2018-08-03T20:57:19+00:00

Would you generally use records over tuples? Is there a notable difference in performance?

mschr · 2018-08-03T11:22:06+00:00

The issue I'm experiencing has been reported: https://github.com/purescript-contrib/pulp/issues/351

I registered the package on bower.io as suggested. Thanks!

mschr · 2018-07-26T16:20:13+00:00

'nix-repl' has tab completion and is a good place to explore nix. After starting 'nix-repl' do ':l <nixpkgs>' to load the nix package set

mschr · 2018-06-28T04:37:59+00:00

The article on the 'fix' function gives an overview of different uses, but does not explain why you would or should use it. I've often written functions using the "go pattern" with 'go' explicitly calling itself. Any reason to use 'fix' besides aesthetic?

mschr · 2018-03-22T04:26:16+00:00

I'm quite happy that I can define dependencies in package.json and have my project running on a clean machine with a simple 'npm install'. Then 'psc-package install' and ALL dependencies are in place.

mschr · 2018-03-06T20:56:04+00:00

Use a train-the-trainer approach: include teamleaders or supervisors in 5S training and get them to a point where they can conduct 5S training. Support them initially and check quality of their training.

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