[Haskell] Haskell Weekly News

2016-01-29 Thread Kim-Ee Yeoh
*Top Picks:* - Oskar Wickström rewrites the Oden-to-Go transpiler from Racket to Haskell . Oden is an FP language comprising an ML type system and LISP syntax. Oskar explains that he made the migration because

[Haskell] Haskell Weekly News

2016-01-22 Thread Kim-Ee Yeoh
Dear Gentle Reader, Many, many beautiful gems in the Haskell Weekly News archives are worth a second look. To give you a taste, I reproduce below excerpts from the quotes section of the Jan 31, 2007 issue -- yes, that's 9 years ago -- under the editorship of Don Stewart. Enjoy. Best, Kim-Ee

[Haskell] Haskell Weekly News

2016-01-15 Thread Kim-Ee Yeoh
*Top Picks:* - Team GHC announces the first release candidate of version 8.0 . New features include: - Strict and StrictData extensions - TypeFamilyDependencies

[Haskell] Haskell Weekly News

2016-01-08 Thread Kim-Ee Yeoh
Folks: Recall the quote from the May Day 2015 issue: The MLs and Haskell remind me of Brian Eno's line about how the first Velvet Underground album only sold 30,000 copies, but "everyone who bought one of those 30,000

[Haskell] Haskell Weekly News

2015-09-30 Thread Kim-Ee Yeoh
*Top picks:* - Neil Mitchell reports a stack overflow with 7.10.2 maximumBy that regresses from 7.8.3. His sixth sense points to the Foldable-Traversable coup (aka BBP: Burning

[Haskell] Haskell Weekly News

2015-08-21 Thread Kim-Ee Yeoh
*Top picks:* - Gabriel Gonzalez evaluates Haskell https://github.com/Gabriel439/post-rfc/blob/master/sotu.md in the style of a State-of-the-Union address. He rates Haskell from Immature to Mature to Best-in-class under 28 headings, the first four being *Compilers,* *Server-side web

[Haskell] Haskell Weekly News

2015-06-17 Thread Kim-Ee Yeoh
*Top Picks:* - Andrew Gibiansky http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/37uqqk/ihaskell_online_help_choose_demo_code_snippets/ announces the Mathematica-inspired REPL 2.0 IHaskell as a web-app you can play with right now http://try.jupyter.org/. Bouquets include: This is an

[Haskell] Haskell Weekly News

2015-05-29 Thread Kim-Ee Yeoh
*Top Picks:* - Tony Day, Brisbane-based investment strategist and high-frequency-trading hacker, rides 100% idiomatic Haskell http://tonyday567.github.io/blog/mvc-todo/ into the Single Page (web)-App http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-page_application space. How? He spins the

[Haskell] Haskell Weekly News: Issue 330

2015-05-21 Thread Semen Trygubenko / Семен Тригубенко
New Releases inline-c Francesco Mazzoli and Mathieu Boespflug release a library that allows to freely mix Haskell and C in the same source file and pass data from one language to the other with minimal overhead. http://hackage.haskell.org/package/inline-c

[Haskell] Haskell Weekly News

2015-05-15 Thread Kim-Ee Yeoh
*Top Picks:* - Is Servant http://haskell-servant.github.io/the most type-safe HTTP server library ever? Are the type signatures hard to read https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9519782#up_9520750? In addition to its utmost relevance as a web library, Servant is also an awesome case

[Haskell] Haskell Weekly News: Issue 328

2015-05-07 Thread Semen Trygubenko / Семен Тригубенко
Calls for Participation School of Haskell 2.0 Open-source version of School of Haskell is going to be released soon! Michael Sloan explains that the aim is to remove any obstacles that historically discouraged people from contributing to School of Haskell through making it

[Haskell] Haskell Weekly News

2015-05-01 Thread Kim-Ee Yeoh
*Top Picks:* - Haskell wins a bumper crop of 18 accepted Google Summer of Code proposals http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/342rvp/google_summer_of_code_18_projects_accepted/. Mentor offers total 44, another thumpin' sign of life. Kudos to Edward Kmett, Johan Tibell, Shachaf

Re: [Haskell] Haskell Weekly News

2015-05-01 Thread Kim-Ee Yeoh
Another Lennart, last name Spitzner, creates another genie that turns type signatures into programs. Unlike Djinn, Exference http://haskell.1045720.n5.nabble.com/ANN-exference-a-different-djinn-td5807986.html makes no promises over termination. Your wish is my command even at the expense of

[Haskell] Haskell Weekly News: Issue 326

2015-04-23 Thread Semen Trygubenko / Семен Тригубенко
New Releases darcs 2.10.0 New version of darcs is out packed with features and resolved issues. http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2015-April/027119.html Stackage CLI This new tool helps to manage cabal files and share sandboxes.

[Haskell] Haskell Weekly News

2015-04-01 Thread Kim-Ee Yeoh
*Top picks:* - Bot attack on Trac https://mail.haskell.org/pipermail/ghc-devs/2015-March/008557.html pummels GHC HQ productivity! Do you know a thing or two about hardening web apps? Can you help? - A month ago

[Haskell] Haskell Weekly News: Issue 322

2015-03-26 Thread Semen Trygubenko / Семен Тригубенко
New Releases 99 Haskell: A web service by Bram Hoskin Solve live Haskell coding problems based on H-99 in the browser to strengthen your understanding of the language. http://www.99haskell.org/ https://github.com/bramgg/99haskell/ Magic Cookies A commercial

[Haskell] Haskell Weekly News

2015-03-17 Thread Kim-Ee Yeoh
*Top picks:* - Simon Marlow, who built much of GHC's runtime, now works at Facebook. He contributes to Haxl, a tool to automatically batch and overlap requests for data from multiple data sources in a rule engine for identifying malicious content. In a talk last year at FP Days

[Haskell] Haskell Weekly News

2015-03-04 Thread Kim-Ee Yeoh
*Top picks:* Jasper Van der Jeugt http://jaspervdj.be/posts/2015-02-24-lru-cache.html shows how you can write an intuitive, obviously correct LRU cache perfectly polymorphic in both the key and value types of the cache lookup function. (Reddit discussion.)

Re: [Haskell] Haskell Weekly News: Issue 316

2015-02-05 Thread Daniel Santa Cruz
On Wed Feb 04 2015 at 10:14:08 PM Francesco Ariis fa...@ariis.it wrote: Thanks so much for doing these! Always useful, great way to keep up to date with other places than the ML. Good luck with the 1 year old, may her steps be functional! Thanks! I hope her first steps are not lazy :-)

Re: [Haskell] Haskell Weekly News: Issue 316

2015-02-05 Thread Simon Peyton Jones
a successor! Please, please. Simon From: Haskell [mailto:haskell-boun...@haskell.org] On Behalf Of Daniel Santa Cruz Sent: 05 February 2015 04:22 To: haskell@haskell.org; haskell-c...@haskell.org Subject: [Haskell] Haskell Weekly News: Issue 316 Welcome to issue 316 of the HWN, an issue covering crowd

Re: [Haskell] Haskell Weekly News: Issue 316

2015-02-05 Thread Kim-Ee Yeoh
On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 4:07 PM, Simon Peyton Jones simo...@microsoft.com wrote: We really need a successor! Please, please. I have offered to continue HWN. If picked, I intend to bring it back to the informed news source that it was circa early 2000s. I'm cognizant of the diversification of

[Haskell] Haskell Weekly News: Issue 316

2015-02-04 Thread Daniel Santa Cruz
Welcome to issue 316 of the HWN, an issue covering crowd-sourced bits of information about Haskell from around the web. This issue covers from January 18 to 31, 2015 After doing more than 150 of these, I have come to the conclusion that it is time for me to take a permanent break from HWN. I

Re: [Haskell] Haskell Weekly News: Issue 316

2015-02-04 Thread Francesco Ariis
On Wed, Feb 04, 2015 at 09:21:49PM -0700, Daniel Santa Cruz wrote: After doing more than 150 of these, I have come to the conclusion that it is time for me to take a permanent break from HWN. I realize that we could do better, and have something a bit more edited than a collection of links,

[Haskell] Haskell Weekly News: Issue 315

2015-01-21 Thread Daniel Santa Cruz
Welcome to issue 315 of the HWN, an issue covering crowd-sourced bits of information about Haskell from around the web. This issue covers from January 4 to 17, 2015 Quotes of the Week * mpickering: When is the right time to use Data.ByteString.Char8? edwardk: mpickering: some time around

[Haskell] Haskell Weekly News: Issue 314

2015-01-07 Thread Daniel Santa Cruz
Welcome to issue 314 of the HWN, an issue covering crowd-sourced bits of information about Haskell from around the web. This issue covers from December 7, 2014 to January 3, 2015 I know... I know. It's been a while Quotes of the Week * arianvp__: after 5 hours of hacking my code works || now

[Haskell] Haskell Weekly News: Issue 313

2014-12-10 Thread Daniel Santa Cruz
Welcome to issue 313 of the HWN, an issue covering crowd-sourced bits of information about Haskell from around the web. This issue covers from November 16 to December 6, 2014 Quotes of the Week * Dijkstra: How do we convince people that in programming simplicity and clarity (in short:

[Haskell] Haskell Weekly News: Issue 311

2014-10-29 Thread Daniel Santa Cruz
Welcome to issue 311 of the HWN, an issue covering crowd-sourced bits of information about Haskell from around the web. This issue covers from October 19 to 25, 2014 Quotes of the Week * trap_exit: isn't darcs this haskell powered quantum physics simulator that happens to also keep

[Haskell] Haskell Weekly News: Issue 310

2014-10-22 Thread Daniel Santa Cruz
Welcome to issue 310 of the HWN, an issue covering crowd-sourced bits of information about Haskell from around the web. This issue covers from October 5 to 18, 2014 Quotes of the Week * spopejoy: That [Spineless Tagless G Machine] will always sound like the villian in an upcoming

[Haskell] Haskell Weekly News: Issue 309

2014-10-08 Thread Daniel Santa Cruz
Welcome to issue 309 of the HWN, an issue covering crowd-sourced bits of information about Haskell from around the web. This issue covers from September 28 to October 4, 2014 Quotes of the Week * Uh... I'ma have to read the IRC logs... No good quotes @remember'd Top Reddit Stories *

[Haskell] Haskell Weekly News: Issue 308

2014-10-01 Thread Daniel Santa Cruz
Welcome to issue 308 of the HWN, an issue covering crowd-sourced bits of information about Haskell from around the web. This issue covers from September 21 to 27, 2014 Quotes of the Week * No one @remember'd fun stuff in IRC -- sadness! Top Reddit Stories * The GHC source code contains

[Haskell] Haskell Weekly News: Issue 307

2014-09-24 Thread Daniel Santa Cruz
Welcome to issue 307 of the HWN, an issue covering crowd-sourced bits of information about Haskell from around the web. This issue covers from September 14 to 20, 2014 Quotes of the Week * Qfwfq: I seq what you mean. * trap_exit_: if haskell makes programmers 10x more productive, then

[Haskell] Haskell Weekly News: Issue 306

2014-09-17 Thread Daniel Santa Cruz
Welcome to issue 306 of the HWN, an issue covering crowd-sourced bits of information about Haskell from around the web. This issue covers from September 07 to 13, 2014 Quotes of the Week * prophile: at this point ekmett is more part of the language than a practitioner of it * Qfwfq:

[Haskell] Haskell Weekly News: Issue 304

2014-09-10 Thread Daniel Santa Cruz
Welcome to issue 305 of the HWN, an issue covering crowd-sourced bits of information about Haskell from around the web. This issue covers from August 31 to September 06, 2014 Quotes of the Week * srhb: segfaults sure are easier to come by doing FFI stuff Top Reddit Stories * Pandoc

[Haskell] Haskell Weekly News: Issue 304

2014-09-03 Thread Daniel Santa Cruz
Welcome to issue 304 of the HWN, an issue covering crowd-sourced bits of information about Haskell from around the web. This issue covers from August 24 to 30, 2014 Quotes of the Week * pjdelport: Haskell: Lazy evaluation, eager debugging. * trap_exit: isn't hoogle awesome? the first

[Haskell] Haskell Weekly News: Issue 303

2014-08-27 Thread Daniel Santa Cruz
Welcome to issue 303 of the HWN, an issue covering crowd-sourced bits of information about Haskell from around the web. This issue covers from August 17 to 23, 2014 Quotes of the Week * monochrom: point free can be decomposed to: point refers to ., free refers to using no $.

[Haskell] Haskell Weekly News: Issue 302

2014-08-20 Thread Daniel Santa Cruz
Welcome to issue 302 of the HWN, an issue covering crowd-sourced bits of information about Haskell from around the web. This issue covers from August 3 to 16, 2014 Quotes of the Week * alpha123: I don't think I have the gonads for monads. :( * edwardk: There is nothing Natural about a

[Haskell] Haskell Weekly News: Issue 300

2014-07-30 Thread Daniel Santa Cruz
Welcome to issue 300 of the HWN, an issue covering crowd-sourced bits of information about Haskell from around the web. This issue covers from July 13 to 26, 2014 Looks like we are chuck-full of goodies this time around! Enjoy! Quotes of the Week * Cale: Functions aren't monads, the type

[Haskell] Haskell Weekly News: Issue 299

2014-07-16 Thread Daniel Santa Cruz
Welcome to issue 299 of the HWN, an issue covering crowd-sourced bits of information about Haskell from around the web. This issue covers from June 29 to July 12, 2014 Quotes of the Week * donri: maybe good thing Applicative isn't called StrongLaxSemimonoidalEndofunctor * ninja_code:

[Haskell] Haskell Weekly News: Issue 298

2014-07-03 Thread Daniel Santa Cruz
Welcome to issue 298 of the HWN, an issue covering crowd-sourced bits of information about Haskell from around the web. This issue covers from June 15 to 28, 2014 Quotes of the Week * Kinnison * imagines a radio station playing only things like 'Life tru a Lens', stuff by 'Dire States'

[Haskell] Haskell Weekly News: Issue 297

2014-06-18 Thread Daniel Santa Cruz
Welcome to issue 297 of the HWN, an issue covering crowd-sourced bits of information about Haskell from around the web. This issue covers from June 8 to 14, 2014 Quotes of the Week * dpwright: this afternoon I've literally taken an entire (portrait) screen's worth of code and reduced it

[Haskell] Haskell Weekly News: Issue 296

2014-06-11 Thread Daniel Santa Cruz
Welcome to issue 296 of the HWN, an issue covering crowd-sourced bits of information about Haskell from around the web. This issue covers from May 25 to June 7, 2014 Quotes of the Week * mbrock: then you get into a whole thing about the epistemology of abstract algebra, and someone

[Haskell] Haskell Weekly News: Issue 295

2014-05-28 Thread Daniel Santa Cruz
Welcome to issue 294 of the HWN, an issue covering crowd-sourced bits of information about Haskell from around the web. This issue covers from May 4 to 24, 2014 Quotes of the Week * dalaing: going from doing a fair bit of haskell recently to doing javascript today... sigh... it feels

[Haskell] Haskell Weekly News: Issue 294

2014-05-07 Thread Daniel Santa Cruz
Welcome to issue 294 of the HWN, an issue covering crowd-sourced bits of information about Haskell from around the web. This issue covers from April 27 to May 3, 2014 Quotes of the Week * roconnor: oh no. edwardk and I can never meet otherwise it will be revealed that I am actually him

[Haskell] Haskell Weekly News: Issue 291

2014-04-16 Thread Daniel Santa Cruz
Welcome to issue 291 of the HWN, an issue covering crowd-sourced bits of information about Haskell from around the web. This issue covers from April 6 to 12, 2014 Quotes of the Week * geekosaur: IO, IO, it's off to (=) I go * edwardk: waiting for sclv to start going around door to door

[Haskell] Haskell Weekly News: Issue 290

2014-04-09 Thread Daniel Santa Cruz
Welcome to issue 289 of the HWN, an issue covering crowd-sourced bits of information about Haskell from around the web. This issue covers from April 1 to 5, 2014 Quotes of the Week * edwardk: Zombies are expensive. Top Reddit Stories * foldl is broken! Domain: well-typed.com, Score:

Re: [Haskell] Haskell Weekly News: Issue 289

2014-04-03 Thread Thiago Negri
Congratulations on your baby! :-) 2014-04-03 1:28 GMT-03:00 Daniel Santa Cruz dstc...@gmail.com: Welcome to issue 289 of the HWN, an issue covering crowd-sourced bits of information about Haskell from around the web. This issue covers from March 1 to 31, 2014 So... where have I been? My

[Haskell] Haskell Weekly News: Issue 289

2014-04-02 Thread Daniel Santa Cruz
Welcome to issue 289 of the HWN, an issue covering crowd-sourced bits of information about Haskell from around the web. This issue covers from March 1 to 31, 2014 So... where have I been? My wife and I recently welcomed into the world our new baby, and as some of you have already experienced, I

[Haskell] Haskell Weekly News: Issue 288

2013-12-19 Thread Daniel Santa Cruz
Welcome to issue 288 of the HWN, an issue covering crowd-sourced bits of information about Haskell from around the web. This issue covers the week from December 08 to 14, 2013. Quotes of the Week * nlogax: With FRP.Sodium and Graphics.UI.GLUT you could put together a MonadSodium

[Haskell] Haskell Weekly News: Issue 287

2013-12-11 Thread Daniel Santa Cruz
Welcome to (the I'm not dead yet) issue 287 of the HWN, an issue covering crowd-sourced bits of information about Haskell from around the web. This issue covers the very long span of time from November 10 to December 07, 2013. Quotes of the Week * chrisdone: monads are like a finger pointing

[Haskell] Haskell Weekly News: Issue 286

2013-11-12 Thread Daniel Santa Cruz
Welcome to issue 286 of the HWN, an issue covering crowd-sourced bits of information about Haskell from around the web. This issue covers the weeks of November 03 to 09, 2013. Quotes of the Week * edwardk: (-) is syntax, sadly. * chrisdone: my brother was killed by an IO monad hpc: i

[Haskell] Haskell Weekly News: Issue 285

2013-11-06 Thread Daniel Santa Cruz
Welcome to issue 285 of the HWN, an issue covering crowd-sourced bits of information about Haskell from around the web. This issue covers the weeks of October 20 to November 02, 2013. Quotes of the Week * roconnor: edwardk: is comonad Haskell 1.4? I liked Haskell 1.4. * Peaker: Don't

[Haskell] Haskell Weekly News: Issue 284

2013-10-24 Thread Daniel Santa Cruz
Welcome to issue 284 of the HWN, an issue covering crowd-sourced bits of information about Haskell from around the web. This issue covers the week of October 13 to 19, 2013. Quotes of the Week * Polarina: Once you get something with [lens] to work correctly, all other Haskell code looks

Re: [Haskell] Haskell Weekly News: Issue 281

2013-09-26 Thread Henk-Jan van Tuyl
On Thu, 26 Sep 2013 03:56:28 +0200, Daniel Santa Cruz dstc...@gmail.com wrote: * 13,000 readers Domain: self.haskell, Score: 28, Comments: 11 On Reddit: [21] http://goo.gl/lTys0R StackOverflow: 12,584 questions tagged Haskell, 4.9 k followers 1224 users on the Haskell IRC Does

[Haskell] Haskell Weekly News: Issue 281

2013-09-25 Thread Daniel Santa Cruz
Welcome to issue 281 of the HWN, an issue covering crowd-sourced bits of information about Haskell from around the web. This issue covers the week of September 15 to 21, 2013. Quotes of the Week * jmcarthur: weak algebraic structures? ha! i prefer my algebraic structures to put up more

[Haskell] Haskell Weekly News: Issue 280

2013-09-18 Thread Daniel Santa Cruz
Welcome to issue 280 of the HWN, an issue covering crowd-sourced bits of information about Haskell from around the web. This issue covers the week of September 8 to 14, 2013. Quotes of the Week * haasn: edwardk uses things in anger. shachaf uses them with disappointment :( * shachaf:

[Haskell] Haskell Weekly News: Issue 279

2013-09-11 Thread Daniel Santa Cruz
Welcome to issue 279 of the HWN, an issue covering crowd-sourced bits of information about Haskell from around the web. This issue covers the week of August 25 to September 7, 2013. Quotes of the Week * dmwit: I typically figure a parse error on line 500 means I have 500 lines to

[Haskell] Haskell Weekly News: Issue 278

2013-08-28 Thread Daniel Santa Cruz
Welcome to issue 278 of the HWN, an issue covering crowd-sourced bits of information about Haskell from around the web. This issue covers the week of August 18 to 24, 2013. Quotes of the Week * johnw: finger trees must be related to palm trees somehow * monochrom: do, or undo. there is no

[Haskell] Haskell Weekly News: Issue 277

2013-08-21 Thread Daniel Santa Cruz
Welcome to issue 277 of the HWN, an issue covering crowd-sourced bits of information about Haskell from around the web. This issue covers the week of August 11 to 17, 2013. Quotes of the Week * psygnisfive: Seminearring is the task of giving seminars. * Taneb: You know you've made it when

[Haskell] Haskell Weekly News: Issue 276

2013-08-14 Thread Daniel Santa Cruz
Welcome to issue 276 of the HWN, an issue covering crowd-sourced bits of information about Haskell from around the web. This issue covers the week of August 4 to 10, 2013. Quotes of the Week * AndrazBajt: co-worker = producer of work tasks * Brend: I have created a revolutionary AI from

[Haskell] Haskell Weekly News: Issue 275

2013-08-07 Thread Daniel Santa Cruz
Welcome to issue 275 of the HWN, an issue covering crowd-sourced bits of information about Haskell from around the web. This issue covers the week of July 28 to August 3, 2013. Quotes of the Week * littlecalculist: combinatorics. n. math's way of punishing you for failing to use

[Haskell] Haskell Weekly News: Issue 273

2013-07-17 Thread Daniel Santa Cruz
Welcome to issue 273 of the HWN, an issue covering crowd-sourced bits of information about Haskell from around the web. This issue covers the week of June 30 to July 13, 2013. Quotes of the Week * monochrom: 8-bit word uses less memory, but if it doesn't have to preserve information, I

[Haskell] Haskell Weekly News: Issue 272

2013-07-03 Thread Daniel Santa Cruz
Welcome to issue 272 of the HWN, an issue covering crowd-sourced bits of information about Haskell from around the web. This issue covers the week of June 23 to 29, 2013. Quotes of the Week * kmc: johnw: I'm rejoining this channel after months away just to tell you how incredibly wrong

[Haskell] Haskell Weekly News: Issue 271

2013-06-26 Thread Daniel Santa Cruz
Welcome to issue 271 of the HWN, an issue covering crowd-sourced bits of information about Haskell from around the web. This issue covers the week of June 9 to 11, 2013. Quotes of the Week * cmccann: also please note that malign remains one of my best function names ever * dolio:

[Haskell] Haskell Weekly News: Issue 270

2013-06-12 Thread Daniel Santa Cruz
Welcome to issue 270 of the HWN, an issue covering crowd-sourced bits of information about Haskell from around the web. This issue covers the week of June 2 to 8, 2013. Quotes of the Week * shachaf: getLine :: IO String contains a String in the same way /bin/ls contains a list of files.

[Haskell] Haskell Weekly News: Issue 269

2013-06-05 Thread Daniel Santa Cruz
Welcome to issue 269 of the HWN, an issue covering crowd-sourced bits of information about Haskell from around the web. This issue covers the week of May 26 to June 1, 2013. Quotes of the Week * neutrino: i've been teaching people about functional programming etc (when I came in there

[Haskell] Haskell Weekly News: Issue 268

2013-05-30 Thread Daniel Santa Cruz
Welcome to issue 268 of the HWN, an issue covering crowd-sourced bits of information about Haskell from around the web. This issue covers the week of May 12 to 25, 2013. Quotes of the Week * tikhonjelvis: the lesson is that the fix function exists to fix any type problems you may

[Haskell] Haskell Weekly News: Issue 267

2013-05-15 Thread Daniel Santa Cruz
Welcome to issue 267 of the HWN, an issue covering crowd-sourced bits of information about Haskell from around the web. This issue covers the week of April 28 to May 11, 2013. Quotes of the Week * ciaranm: a category is just a category in the category of categories * cmccann: the

[Haskell] Haskell Weekly News: Issue 265

2013-04-10 Thread Daniel Santa Cruz
Welcome to issue 265 of the HWN, an issue covering crowd-sourced bits of information about Haskell from around the web. This issue covers the week of March 31 to April 6, 2013. Quotes of the Week * Jafet: Haskell is an abstract research language used only in academia, education, banking,

[Haskell] Haskell Weekly News: Issue 264

2013-04-03 Thread Daniel Santa Cruz
Welcome to issue 264 of the HWN, an issue covering crowd-sourced bits of information about Haskell from around the web. This issue covers the week of March 17 to 30, 2013. Quotes of the Week * ddarius: (f x) is a partial application iff f x == (curry (uncurry f) x) * flebron: Hey, I

[Haskell] Haskell Weekly News: Issue 263

2013-03-20 Thread Daniel Santa Cruz
Welcome to issue 263 of the HWN, an issue covering crowd-sourced bits of information about Haskell from around the web. This issue covers the week of March 10 to 16, 2013. Quotes of the Week * shachaf: Did someone give edwardk a committee bit? Top Reddit Stories * Restored: the Haskell

[Haskell] Haskell Weekly News: Issue 262

2013-03-13 Thread Daniel Santa Cruz
Welcome to issue 262 of the HWN, an issue covering crowd-sourced bits of information about Haskell from around the web. This issue covers the week of March 03 to 09, 2013. Quotes of the Week * byorgey: The box does not care whether you think it is stupid. It is box. * ksf: duh, we

[Haskell] Haskell Weekly News: Issue 261

2013-03-06 Thread Daniel Santa Cruz
Welcome to issue 261 of the HWN, an issue covering crowd-sourced bits of information about Haskell from around the web. This issue covers the week of February 24 to March 02, 2013. Quotes of the Week * EvilMachine: I always picture some poor mutant guy whose every body part looks alike

[Haskell] Haskell Weekly News: Issue 260

2013-02-28 Thread Daniel Santa Cruz
Welcome to issue 260 of the HWN, an issue covering crowd-sourced bits of information about Haskell from around the web. This issue covers the week of February 17 to 23, 2013. Quotes of the Week * danharaj: zygohistobfuscatory maintainomorphism * merijn: after a week you can delete 80% of

[Haskell] Haskell Weekly News: Issue 259

2013-02-20 Thread Daniel Santa Cruz
Welcome to issue 259 of the HWN, an issue covering crowd-sourced bits of information about Haskell from around the web. This issue covers the week of February 10 to 16, 2013. Quotes of the Week * frerich: i thought endo is where the ewoks live * edwardk: on the other hand i also write

[Haskell] Haskell Weekly News: Issue 258

2013-02-13 Thread Daniel Santa Cruz
Welcome to issue 258 of the HWN, an issue covering crowd-sourced bits of information about Haskell from around the web. This issue covers the week of February 03 to 09, 2013. Quotes of the Week * shachaf: The trouble with the lens rabbit hole is that there are a few of us here at

[Haskell] Haskell Weekly News: Issue 257

2013-02-06 Thread Daniel Santa Cruz
Welcome to issue 257 of the HWN, an issue covering crowd-sourced bits of information about Haskell from around the web. This issue covers the week of January 27 to February 02, 2013. Quotes of the Week * shachaf: Everyone forgets about Agda Lovelace, the first constructivist. *

[Haskell] Haskell Weekly News: Issue 256

2013-01-30 Thread Daniel Santa Cruz
Welcome to issue 256 of the HWN, an issue covering crowd-sourced bits of information about Haskell from around the web. This issue covers the weeks of January 20 to 26, 2013. Quotes of the Week * elliott: cmccann: unfortunately it is too perfect an abstraction to be useful. *

[Haskell] Haskell Weekly News: Issue 255

2013-01-23 Thread Daniel Santa Cruz
Welcome to issue 255 of the HWN, an issue covering crowd-sourced bits of information about Haskell from around the web. This issue covers the weeks of January 06 to 19, 201. Quotes of the Week * ky3: Indexed monads are just categories in the category of endofunctors, what's the problem?

[Haskell] Haskell Weekly News: Issue 254

2013-01-09 Thread Daniel Santa Cruz
Welcome to issue 254 of the HWN, an issue covering crowd-sourced bits of information about Haskell from around the web. This issue covers the week of December 02, 2012 to January 05, 2013. As some of you might have noticed, there has been an interruption in the scheduled transmission of the

[Haskell] Haskell Weekly News: Issue 253

2012-12-05 Thread Daniel Santa Cruz
Welcome to issue 253 of the HWN, an issue covering crowd-sourced bits of information about Haskell from around the web. This issue covers the week of November 25 to December 01, 2012. Quotes of the Week * edwardk: this breaks my previous record of 6 unsafeCoerce's in a line *

[Haskell] Haskell Weekly News: Issue 252

2012-11-28 Thread Daniel Santa Cruz
Welcome to issue 252 of the HWN, an issue covering crowd-sourced bits of information about Haskell from around the web. This issue covers the week of November 18 to 24, 2012. Quotes of the Week * rwbarton: edwardk now has Lens under Control * atriq: My son looks a bit like me, he can put

[Haskell] Haskell Weekly News: Issue 250

2012-11-07 Thread Daniel Santa Cruz
Welcome to issue 250 of the HWN, an issue covering crowd-sourced bits of information about Haskell from around the web. This issue covers the week of October 28 to November 3, 2012. Quotes of the Week * Cale: A list is a bit like a loop which hasn't happened yet. This operation is

[Haskell] Haskell Weekly News: Issue 249

2012-11-01 Thread Daniel Santa Cruz
Welcome to issue 249 of the HWN, an issue covering crowd-sourced bits of information about Haskell from around the web. This issue covers the week of October 21 to October 27, 2012. Quotes of the Week * johnw: ah terminology, just when you think you know something, they redefined know...

[Haskell] Haskell Weekly News: Issue 247

2012-10-10 Thread Daniel Santa Cruz
Welcome to issue 247 of the HWN, an issue covering crowd-sourced bits of information about Haskell from around the web. This issue covers the week of September 30 to October 6, 2012. Quotes of the Week * monochrom: 98% of people lack the property that they're members of the other 2%

[Haskell] Haskell Weekly News: Issue 246

2012-10-03 Thread Daniel Santa Cruz
Welcome to issue 246 of the HWN, an issue covering crowd-sourced bits of information about Haskell from around the web. This issue covers the week of September 23 to September 23, 2012. Want to contribute quotes for HWN? Until today the only way to help with those was to use @remember in the IRC

[Haskell] Haskell Weekly News: Issue 245

2012-09-26 Thread Daniel Santa Cruz
Welcome to issue 245 of the HWN, an issue covering crowd-sourced bits of information about Haskell from around the web. This issue covers the week of September 16 to September 22, 2012. Quotes of the Week * dmwit: You have your intuition correct, despite all the pedantry in the room.

[Haskell] Haskell Weekly News: Issue 244

2012-09-19 Thread Daniel Santa Cruz
Welcome to issue 244 of the HWN, an issue covering crowd-sourced bits of information about Haskell from around the web. This issue covers the week of September 9 to September 15, 2012. Inbox As you might have heard, GHC 7.6.1 is out for all platforms. I would say get it while it is still hot,

[Haskell] Haskell Weekly News: Issue 234

2012-09-05 Thread Daniel Santa Cruz
Welcome to issue 243 of the HWN, an issue covering crowd-sourced bits of information about Haskell from around the web. This issue covers the week of August 26 to September 01, 2012. Quotes of the Week * companion_cube: I don't understand this article at all edwardk: Well, when you

[Haskell] Haskell Weekly News: Issue 242

2012-08-29 Thread Daniel Santa Cruz
Welcome to issue 242 of the HWN, an issue covering crowd-sourced bits of information about Haskell from around the web. This issue covers the week of August 19 to 25, 2012. Quotes of the Week * srhb: I think that's going into space rather than diving into the deep end. *

[Haskell] Haskell Weekly News: Issue 241

2012-08-22 Thread Daniel Santa Cruz
Welcome to issue 241 of the HWN, an issue covering crowd-sourced bits of information about Haskell from around the web. This issue covers the week of August 12 to 18, 2012. Quotes of the Week * monochrom: seq is a suggestion. pseq is an order. * johnw: Haskell is like using a finely

[Haskell] Haskell Weekly News: Issue 240

2012-08-15 Thread Daniel Santa Cruz
Welcome to issue 240 of the HWN, an issue covering crowd-sourced bits of information about Haskell from around the web. This issue covers the week of August 05 to 11, 2012. Quotes of the Week * johnw: Monads are an interface, all bets are off until you see what the interface does for a

[Haskell] Haskell Weekly News: Issue 239

2012-08-08 Thread Daniel Santa Cruz
Welcome to issue 239 of the HWN, an issue covering crowd-sourced bits of information about Haskell from around the web. This issue covers the week of July 29 to August 4, 2012. Quotes of the Week * romm: i thought i knew programming. this is like discovering a new continent. *

[Haskell] Haskell Weekly News: Issue 238

2012-08-01 Thread Daniel Santa Cruz
Welcome to issue 238 of the HWN, an issue covering crowd-sourced bits of information about Haskell from around the web. This issue covers the week of July 22 to 28, 2012. Quotes of the Week * clsmith: i find programming in haskell is mostly about reinventing things and then

[Haskell] Haskell Weekly News: Issue 237

2012-07-25 Thread Daniel Santa Cruz
Welcome to issue 237 of the HWN, an issue covering crowd-sourced bits of information about Haskell from around the web. This issue covers the week of July 15 to 21, 2012. Quotes of the Week * Eduard_Munteanu: Sufficiently advanced category theory is indistinguishable from trolling *

[Haskell] Haskell Weekly News: Issue 236

2012-07-18 Thread Daniel Santa Cruz
Welcome to issue 236 of the HWN, an issue covering crowd-sourced bits of information about Haskell from around the web. This issue covers the week of July 8 to 14, 2012. Quotes of the Week * RichardBuckminsterFuller: When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty. But when I

[Haskell] Haskell Weekly News: Issue 235

2012-07-11 Thread Daniel Santa Cruz
Welcome to issue 235 of the HWN, an issue covering crowd-sourced bits of information about Haskell from around the web. This issue covers the week of July 1 to 7, 2012. Quotes of the Week * Kukkua: They say there are two things, once mastered, you will harness boundless strength from the

[Haskell] Haskell Weekly News: Issue 234

2012-07-05 Thread Daniel Santa Cruz
Welcome to issue 234 of the HWN, an issue covering crowd-sourced bits of information about Haskell from around the web. This issue covers the week of June 24 to 30, 2012. Quotes of the Week * monochrom: shae ericsson is shae erisson's evil twin who prefers erlang to haskell :)

[Haskell] Haskell Weekly News: Issue 233

2012-06-27 Thread Daniel Santa Cruz
Welcome to issue 233 of the HWN, an issue covering crowd-sourced bits of information about Haskell from around the web. This issue covers the week of June 17 to 23, 2012. Quotes of the Week * ciaranm: if it's ugly, it's imperative. if it's incomprehensible, it's functional.

[Haskell] Haskell Weekly News: Issue 232

2012-06-20 Thread Daniel Santa Cruz
Welcome to issue 232 of the HWN, an issue covering crowd-sourced bits of information about Haskell from around the web. This issue covers the week of June 10 to 16, 2012. Quotes of the Week * irene-knapp: ewtoombs: the universe is already an interactive quantum physics

[Haskell] Haskell Weekly News: Issue 231

2012-06-13 Thread Daniel Santa Cruz
Welcome to issue 231 of the HWN, an issue covering crowd-sourced bits of information about Haskell from around the web. This issue covers the week of June 03 to 09, 2012. Announcements Paolo Capriotti announced the patchlevel release of GHC 7.4.2. This release contains a number of bugfixes

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