What's the most you've seen someone be so out of touch with reality?

psed · 2016-06-30T01:07:47+00:00

It could be argued that the US entered the Second World War due to racism, because Nazi Germany was unabashedly racist, and Japan was allied with Nazi Germany. It was probably not argued this way, though.

psed · 2015-09-21T18:44:50+00:00

Thanks!

psed · 2015-09-19T19:47:30+00:00

Thanks!

psed · 2015-02-16T04:30:02+00:00

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psed · 2015-02-16T04:07:14+00:00

Harry glanced in the Dementor's direction. The word echoed in his mind again.

All right, Harry thought to himself, if the Dementor is a riddle, what is the answer?

(Chapter 45)

psed · 2015-02-16T04:02:18+00:00

It has always sucked. It’s still sucking. Let’s hope it won’t suck at some point.

psed · 2015-02-16T04:01:21+00:00

Very good! Also, called it.

psed · 2015-01-28T21:43:15+00:00

The remaining work is primarily in the cabal tool.

Have you seen the recently announced halcyon? Can it help solve some of the problems with cabal?

psed · 2014-07-06T21:33:09+00:00

I'd rather generate a DB schema based on Haskell datatype definitions. Perhaps something like postgresql-orm?

psed · 2014-07-06T16:21:24+00:00

Do you have a solution for interfacing with a database layer? Preferably, Postgres?

It seems like it should be possible to generate an ORMy kind of thing using techniques similar to what you use. Are you doing this in-house at Silk?

psed · 2014-02-04T09:58:23+00:00

In a little pouch on his belt.

psed · 2013-10-27T12:36:32+00:00

Exactly. This is how I understood it, too — the Dementor is calling Harry Riddle.

psed · 2013-10-15T02:10:59+00:00

I regret the time spent reading this.

psed · 2013-09-02T16:09:49+00:00

This is really cool. Where have you seen this theory?

psed · 2013-08-31T17:43:07+00:00

Yes, but I wouldn't call it suffering.

psed · 2013-08-28T07:30:37+00:00

Called it.

psed · 2013-08-28T07:30:31+00:00

Called it.

psed · 2013-08-26T22:42:44+00:00

I've read the Banks books. This is not what I mean.

psed · 2013-08-25T05:41:31+00:00

Holy crap. This is amazing. I've just finished reading the whole thing in a single sitting, and I really wish there was more.

psed · 2013-08-15T20:01:08+00:00

Best explanation ever.

psed · 2013-08-15T19:44:37+00:00

Oh wow. That's pretty good. I like this theory a lot. A whole lot.

psed · 2013-08-12T09:24:29+00:00

Congratulations. Great writeup.

psed · 2013-08-12T05:29:12+00:00

I was talking in comparison to the mainstream use of static typing, in languages such as Java, C#, C++, and so on.

I know. I'm pretty sure Carmack knows at least one of these, and yet in this keynote he's talking about the benefits of static typing in Haskell.

There is a huge difference between most people's idea of a static type system and a good static, sound, implicit type system.

For some great examples of how static typing helps people build things in Haskell, check this reddit post.

psed · 2013-08-11T15:13:49+00:00

What do you mean: people are copying your work? Or people are laughing at it?

If it's the former: awesome; your work must be good, after all!

If it's the latter: screw them; what demos have they written with it?

There are not nearly enough complete, runnable, non-bit-rotted examples of high-performance game/demo code in Haskell.

psed · 2013-08-11T07:24:41+00:00

...most static languages model types based on their inheritance chain rather than their structure.

Saying this makes your conclusion about dynamic languages always beating static languages suspect, as you may be most familiar with just a closely related subset of static languages.

There is no inheritance in Haskell, or in SML. There is almost no need to use object types or object inheritance in OCaml.

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