Re: [Haskell-cafe] Category Theory Questions

2012-04-09 Thread Sergiu Ivanov
On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 9:47 AM, wren ng thornton w...@freegeek.org wrote: On 4/9/12 12:37 AM, Sergiu Ivanov wrote: I am currently studying category theory by the book Joy of Cats.  Are there any people whom I could ask some questions related to category theory from time to time?  Or could I

[Haskell-cafe] Category Theory Questions

2012-04-08 Thread Sergiu Ivanov
Hello, I have a question not that directly related to Haskell, but I still think this is a good place to ask it. I am currently studying category theory by the book Joy of Cats. Are there any people whom I could ask some questions related to category theory from time to time? Or could I just

Re: [Haskell-cafe] GSoc-2012: Lock-free Data Structures

2012-02-28 Thread Sergiu Ivanov
Hello, On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 8:11 AM, Ryan Newton rrnew...@gmail.com wrote: Oops, I've attached the PDF.  It's a good overview that includes a bunch of the key ideas that appear in recent work in the area. Very cool article, thank you! I genuinely enjoyed reading it :-) Absolutely!  Feel

[Haskell-cafe] GSoc-2012: Lock-free Data Structures

2012-02-16 Thread Sergiu Ivanov
Hello, On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 5:40 AM, Ryan Newton rrnew...@gmail.com wrote: I'm interested in mentoring any projects related to concurrent data structure implementation.  Is it too late to propose new projects?  http://parfunk.blogspot.com/2012/02/potential-gsoc-haskell-lock-free-data.html

[Haskell-cafe] A universal data store interface

2012-02-13 Thread Sergiu Ivanov
Hello, I am interested in applying for GSoC-2012 with the Haskell community. (I think I've told that to quite a number of people already, sorry for the duplicate.) I'm currently digging my way towards http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/4213 . However, instead of focusing on a single

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Subject: A universal data store interface

2012-02-13 Thread Sergiu Ivanov
On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 9:01 PM, Greg Weber g...@gregweber.info wrote: Thanks you for your interest in that proposal. I rushed it off a year ago. Since then we have made a lot of improvements to Persistent and the library forms a basic building block for most Yesod users and other Haskellers.

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Subject: A universal data store interface

2012-02-13 Thread Sergiu Ivanov
On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 9:53 PM, Paul R paul.r...@gmail.com wrote: So Sergiu, my POV is that universal data stores is at best a glue targeting small projects, so that they can be hacked quickly. They offer a set of features that, by design, is the greatest common divisor of the backends,

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Google Summer of Code 2012 Announced

2012-02-13 Thread Sergiu Ivanov
Hello, On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 11:10 PM, Heinrich Apfelmus apfel...@quantentunnel.de wrote: What's the time frame for project proposals? I have two ideas in my head that I think are unusually cool. To make a successful SOC project, they need a bit of preparation on my part, though, so I'm

[Haskell-cafe] Greetings and Maybe GSoC-2012

2012-02-05 Thread Sergiu Ivanov
Hello everyone, (long mail ahead) My name is Sergiu Ivanov, I have been trying to wrap my mind around Haskell for 2 years already, but success still feels far away :-) This makes me more and more attached to Haskell though, so I can plainly say: I love this language :-) I guess I should have