Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskellers.com skills list moderation?

2010-10-21 Thread Michael Snoyman
In case anyway was worried, I *have* been following this thread, and purposely not sticking my nose in to see what people's opinions are. I've really appreciated the discussion; let me give my overall response to everything: It's good to remember that a user can always add whatever information

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskellers.com skills list moderation?

2010-10-21 Thread Jeremy Shaw
On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 12:16 PM, Michael Snoyman mich...@snoyman.com wrote: On this one you may call be biased, but I think keeping Happstack and Yesod on their own makes perfect sense. If I were an employer looking to hire someone to work on a project, I would be looking to see that they can

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskellers.com skills list moderation?

2010-10-21 Thread Michael Snoyman
OK, after reviewing the list again, here's some more that are on the chopping block, given the new outlook we've been establishing here. Speak up if you want it saved: Denotational design Programming using Arrows Transactional business applications development Categorical Programming On Thu, Oct

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskellers.com skills list moderation?

2010-10-20 Thread John Lato
My $.02 follows: From: Michael Snoyman mich...@snoyman.com There's only two skills which I think absolutely must go: Other languages I know: C# .NET, XSLT, Microsoft SQL Server, XML, SQL, CSS, C, C++, Java, HTML, Visual Basic Script, Pascal, Rexx, Basic and assembler tool building

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskellers.com skills list moderation?

2010-10-20 Thread Ivan Lazar Miljenovic
On 20 October 2010 21:38, John Lato jwl...@gmail.com wrote: Cabal, packaging, build and distribution tools This should be two categories: Cabal internals and Software packaging/distribution tools.  Keep Cabal internals, possibly keep the other What does Cabal internals refer to? Actually

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskellers.com skills list moderation?

2010-10-20 Thread Ivan Lazar Miljenovic
On 20 October 2010 21:52, Henning Thielemann lemm...@henning-thielemann.de wrote: On Wed, 20 Oct 2010, John Lato wrote:      Mathematics I'd be interested in how many Haskellers refer to Category Theory here, and how many to other mathematical subjects. :-) I for one refer to other stuff;

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskellers.com skills list moderation?

2010-10-20 Thread John Lato
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 11:48 AM, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic ivan.miljeno...@gmail.com wrote: On 20 October 2010 21:38, John Lato jwl...@gmail.com wrote: Cabal, packaging, build and distribution tools This should be two categories: Cabal internals and Software packaging/distribution tools.

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskellers.com skills list moderation?

2010-10-20 Thread Stephen Tetley
On 20 October 2010 12:30, John Lato jwl...@gmail.com wrote: [SNIP] Again, Tool Authoring is too broad to be useful. Who are the skills lists for? Recruiters, other Haskellers to form strike forces, something else? For the recruiters I think they are somewhat obscure unless Well-Typed or Galois

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskellers.com skills list moderation?

2010-10-20 Thread Ben Millwood
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 2:32 PM, Michael Snoyman mich...@snoyman.com wrote: Algorithmic Problem Solving I think this needs to go, because I'm really having a hard time imagining any programmer who doesn't do this. High Assurance Software Development This sounds vague to me and/or the same as

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskellers.com skills list moderation?

2010-10-20 Thread Anthony Cowley
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 9:02 AM, Ben Millwood hask...@benmachine.co.uk wrote: Robotics and Automation Would be tempted to drop Automation from here. That name was deliberately chosen, and is appropriate for people in the area, http://www.ieee-ras.org/ I have my own opinions on a lot of these

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskellers.com skills list moderation?

2010-10-20 Thread Tim Matthews
I just want to throw out 2 extreme case solutions to think about while this problem doesn't really seem to be heading anywhere: 1) Drop the skills options in favor of the simple text box already in use. This would of course would have a big impact on attempting to search for haskellers. 2) A

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskellers.com skills list moderation?

2010-10-20 Thread wren ng thornton
On 10/20/10 9:12 AM, Anthony Cowley wrote: We don't want people outside of an area of interest governing name choices that lessen the value of the tags. To be honest, when the thread first came up, I was afraid NLP (or AG) would end up on the cutting block because of that... As a strawman

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskellers.com skills list moderation?

2010-10-19 Thread David Virebayre
2010/10/18 Andrew Coppin andrewcop...@btinternet.com: ...I thought *I* was the only person who's ever heard of Rexx? ... and thanks to you, I now know some people here have heard of Amiga :) David. ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskellers.com skills list moderation?

2010-10-19 Thread Michael Snoyman
Alright, adding skills is now only possible by an admin. In the place where we previously had add a skill, we now have request a new skill. That's the easy part. Now we need to determine which skills stay, and which ones go. I think the vast majority of them are fine, so I'll leave them at the end

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskellers.com skills list moderation?

2010-10-19 Thread Michael Snoyman
Hey JP, It's a tough question you're asking. I think areas directly applicable with Haskell, such as bioinformatics, games, physics simulations, are a pretty easy yes. Some more complicated things would be related skills, such as knowing other programming languages, system administration, etc. I

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskellers.com skills list moderation?

2010-10-19 Thread Andrew Coppin
On 18/10/2010 09:59 PM, Magnus Therning wrote: On 18/10/10 21:56, Andrew Coppin wrote: ...I thought *I* was the only person who's ever heard of Rexx? Every amiga user is very likely to have heard of rexx, as a close relative to it was included in AmigaOS at some point. ...and I had of

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskellers.com skills list moderation?

2010-10-19 Thread Brandon S Allbery KF8NH
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/19/10 13:09 , Andrew Coppin wrote: On 18/10/2010 09:59 PM, Magnus Therning wrote: On 18/10/10 21:56, Andrew Coppin wrote: ...I thought *I* was the only person who's ever heard of Rexx? Every amiga user is very likely to have heard of rexx,

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskellers.com skills list moderation?

2010-10-19 Thread wren ng thornton
On 10/19/10 9:32 AM, Michael Snoyman wrote: There are 11 skills I'm leaning towards dropping, all because they fall in the too vague/too general category. Your input is requested on these. They are: Attribute Grammar Categorical Programming Denotational design Proving observational equivalence

[Haskell-cafe] Haskellers.com skills list moderation?

2010-10-18 Thread Daniel Peebles
Hi all, Might it be worthwhile to take the elected superusers on haskellers.comand let them police the skills list? It's become rather messy, with overly broad terms like Mathematics in it, as well as overly specific ones like Other languages I know: C# .NET, XSLT, Microsoft SQL Server, XML, SQL,

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskellers.com skills list moderation?

2010-10-18 Thread Henning Thielemann
On Mon, 18 Oct 2010, Daniel Peebles wrote: Hi all, Might it be worthwhile to take the elected superusers on haskellers.com and let them police the skills list? It's become rather messy, with overly broad terms like Mathematics in it, as well as overly specific ones like Other languages I

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskellers.com skills list moderation?

2010-10-18 Thread Michael Snoyman
On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 8:47 PM, Daniel Peebles pumpkin...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, Might it be worthwhile to take the elected superusers on haskellers.com and let them police the skills list? It's become rather messy, with overly broad terms like Mathematics in it, as well as overly specific

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskellers.com skills list moderation?

2010-10-18 Thread Andrew Coppin
On 18/10/2010 07:47 PM, Daniel Peebles wrote: Hi all, Might it be worthwhile to take the elected superusers on haskellers.com http://haskellers.com and let them police the skills list? It's become rather messy, with overly broad terms like Mathematics in it, as well as overly specific ones

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskellers.com skills list moderation?

2010-10-18 Thread Magnus Therning
On 18/10/10 21:56, Andrew Coppin wrote: On 18/10/2010 07:47 PM, Daniel Peebles wrote: Hi all, Might it be worthwhile to take the elected superusers on haskellers.com http://haskellers.com and let them police the skills list? It's become rather messy, with overly broad terms like

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskellers.com skills list moderation?

2010-10-18 Thread Antoine Latter
On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 3:34 PM, Michael Snoyman mich...@snoyman.com wrote: On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 8:47 PM, Daniel Peebles pumpkin...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, Might it be worthwhile to take the elected superusers on haskellers.com and let them police the skills list? It's become rather messy,

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskellers.com skills list moderation?

2010-10-18 Thread Henning Thielemann
On Mon, 18 Oct 2010, Andrew Coppin wrote: On 18/10/2010 07:47 PM, Daniel Peebles wrote: Hi all, Might it be worthwhile to take the elected superusers on haskellers.com and let them police the skills list? It's become rather messy, with overly broad terms like Mathematics in it, as well

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskellers.com skills list moderation?

2010-10-18 Thread Michael Snoyman
On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 11:01 PM, Antoine Latter aslat...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 3:34 PM, Michael Snoyman mich...@snoyman.com wrote: On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 8:47 PM, Daniel Peebles pumpkin...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, Might it be worthwhile to take the elected superusers on

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskellers.com skills list moderation?

2010-10-18 Thread Antoine Latter
On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 4:08 PM, Michael Snoyman mich...@snoyman.com wrote: On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 11:01 PM, Antoine Latter aslat...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 3:34 PM, Michael Snoyman mich...@snoyman.com wrote: On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 8:47 PM, Daniel Peebles pumpkin...@gmail.com

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskellers.com skills list moderation?

2010-10-18 Thread Michael Snoyman
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 12:16 AM, Antoine Latter aslat...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 4:08 PM, Michael Snoyman mich...@snoyman.com wrote: On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 11:01 PM, Antoine Latter aslat...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 3:34 PM, Michael Snoyman mich...@snoyman.com