Re: [Haskell-cafe] Why is Haskell flagging this?

2010-12-17 Thread Darrin Chandler
On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 09:04:20AM -0800, michael rice wrote: I don't understand this error message. Haskell appears not to understand that 1 is a Num. Prelude :t 1 1 :: (Num t) = t Prelude :t [1,2,3,4,5] [1,2,3,4,5] :: (Num t) = [t] Prelude Michael === f ::

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Offer to mirror Hackage

2010-12-08 Thread Darrin Chandler
On Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 11:41:31AM +0100, Ketil Malde wrote: Vincent Hanquez t...@snarc.org writes: You have to start somewhere with security. Yes. And you should start with assessing how much cost and inconvenience you are willing to suffer for the improvement in security you gain. In

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Offer to mirror Hackage

2010-12-07 Thread Darrin Chandler
On Tue, Dec 07, 2010 at 11:04:04PM +0100, Ketil Malde wrote: It's not obvious to me that adding a mirror makes the infrastructure more more insecure. Any particular concerns? (I hope I qualify as naïve here :-) If you run a mirror people will come to you for software to run on their

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Trying out GHC 7

2010-12-06 Thread Darrin Chandler
On Mon, Dec 06, 2010 at 10:04:35AM -0800, Don Stewart wrote: Andrew, if you have a bug report, please use the bug tracker: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/ReportABug Or reddit, of course. ;-) -- You've been warned. ___ Haskell-Cafe

Re: [Haskell-cafe] the beginning of the end

2010-12-05 Thread Darrin Chandler
On Sun, Dec 05, 2010 at 06:48:20PM +0100, Christopher Done wrote: Of course, their use lies in their popularity. To be popular you have to be (1) well designed/usable and (2) stable/aka never down. This is why e.g. Github is extremely useful. It's well designed so it's easy to use, it's

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell Forum

2010-07-27 Thread Darrin Chandler
as the message IQ doesn't drop through the floor as a result. This fear comes from personal, anecdotal evidence. YMMV. * No opinion either way on List - NNTP gateway. -- Darrin Chandler| Phoenix BSD User Group | MetaBUG dwchand...@stilyagin.com | http://phxbug.org/ | http

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell Forum

2010-07-27 Thread Darrin Chandler
is one. But because 98% of everybody uses this list as an email list, you can't go using it like it's a news group. You'll just get yelled at. I find it surprising that you'd get yelled at, but I don't really know. -- Darrin Chandler| Phoenix BSD User Group | MetaBUG dwchand

Re: [Haskell-cafe] How easy is it to hire Haskell programmers

2010-07-02 Thread Darrin Chandler
even had a go at implementing both of these; the latter made it into The Monad Reader.) All of which conclusively demonstrates... something. One thing it might demonstrate is the inherent deficiency of using litmus tests in evaluating applicants. -- Darrin Chandler| Phoenix BSD

Re: [Haskell-cafe] What is Haskell unsuitable for?

2010-06-17 Thread Darrin Chandler
, is not that shy. I am sad that I can't use cool languages in the boring, mainstream corporate jobs that are easy to find. If you want to use cool languages, you may have to get a cool job. I know: it's easy to say and harder to accomplish. -- Darrin Chandler| Phoenix BSD User Group

Re: [Haskell-cafe] What is Haskell unsuitable for?

2010-06-17 Thread Darrin Chandler
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 12:01:53PM -0700, David Leimbach wrote: On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 11:57 AM, Darrin Chandler dwchand...@stilyagin.comwrote: On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 01:38:23PM -0500, aditya siram wrote: Judging by the other thread, getting hired might be a valid answer here

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Literate programming

2010-06-12 Thread Darrin Chandler
and makes everything but the front end trivial. This isn't for everyone, and depends heavily on the three points above. -- Darrin Chandler| Phoenix BSD User Group | MetaBUG dwchand...@stilyagin.com | http://phxbug.org/ | http://metabug.org/ http://www.stilyagin.com

[Haskell-cafe] iPhone/Android and Haskell [Was: Embedded funcional programming?]

2010-04-17 Thread Darrin Chandler
. Understandable sentiments, but not very productive. I recently purchased an Android phone and spent a little time looking around to see if Haskellers were doing anything there, but no luck so far. Has anyone here done anything with Android? -- Darrin Chandler| Phoenix BSD User Group | MetaBUG

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Are there any male haskellers?

2010-03-28 Thread Darrin Chandler
On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 07:26:58PM +0200, Günther Schmidt wrote: Hi everyone, are there any male haskellers? I hope this question is not considered inappropriate Gender doesn't belong in pure code, but belongs in a Gon^WMonad. -- Darrin Chandler| Phoenix BSD User Group

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Are there any female Haskellers?

2010-03-28 Thread Darrin Chandler
unsubscribed when you saw me post. ;-) -- Darrin Chandler| Phoenix BSD User Group | MetaBUG dwchand...@stilyagin.com | http://phxbug.org/ | http://metabug.org/ http://www.stilyagin.com/ | Daemons in the Desert | Global BUG Federation

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Abstraction in data types

2010-03-18 Thread Darrin Chandler
appreciate it. Thanks! On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 02:58:04PM +0100, Tillmann Rendel wrote: Darrin Chandler wrote: data Point = Cartesian (Cartesian_coord, Cartesian_coord) | Spherical (Latitude, Longitude) type Center = Point type Radius = Float data Shape = Circle Center

[Haskell-cafe] Abstraction in data types

2010-03-17 Thread Darrin Chandler
! -- Darrin Chandler| Phoenix BSD User Group | MetaBUG dwchand...@stilyagin.com | http://phxbug.org/ | http://metabug.org/ http://www.stilyagin.com/ | Daemons in the Desert | Global BUG Federation pgpAUutRRKRWb.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Abstraction in data types

2010-03-17 Thread Darrin Chandler
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 09:56:14PM -0700, Alexander Solla wrote: I wrote this to Darrin, but didn't CC cafe: On Mar 17, 2010, at 9:20 PM, Darrin Chandler wrote: type Cartesian_coord = Float type Latitude = Float type Longitude = Float data Point = Cartesian (Cartesian_coord

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Abstraction in data types

2010-03-17 Thread Darrin Chandler
://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereographic_projection Yes. I believe other projections can be used as well (orthographic, etc). -- Darrin Chandler| Phoenix BSD User Group | MetaBUG dwchand...@stilyagin.com | http://phxbug.org/ | http://metabug.org/ http://www.stilyagin.com/ | Daemons

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Abstraction in data types

2010-03-17 Thread Darrin Chandler
tried to mix them. On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 12:56 PM, Alexander Solla a...@2piix.com wrote: I wrote this to Darrin, but didn't CC cafe: On Mar 17, 2010, at 9:20 PM, Darrin Chandler wrote: type Cartesian_coord = Float type Latitude  = Float type Longitude = Float data Point

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: GPL answers from the SFLC

2010-03-04 Thread Darrin Chandler
-style. It doesn't hurt to ask. Of course libraries with many authors increases the headache. -- Darrin Chandler| Phoenix BSD User Group | MetaBUG dwchand...@stilyagin.com | http://phxbug.org/ | http://metabug.org/ http://www.stilyagin.com/ | Daemons in the Desert