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Haskell Weekly News: Issue 267

2013-05-15T20:04:00.000-04:00

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 Either monad is like the Maybe monad, except with something instead of Nothing. sclv: Q: Why are the adjunctions

Haskell Weekly News: Issue 266

2013-05-02T00:04:00.000-04:00

Welcome to issue 266 of the HWN, an issue covering crowd-sourced bits of information about Haskell from around the web. This issue covers the week of April 7 to 27, 2013. Quotes of the Week hpc: the dirty secret of haskell programmers is that their power does not come from their PhD, but their bowtie tibbe: I think I have implemented a reverse state monad by mistake. The numbers suggest I'm

Haskell Weekly News: Issue 265

2013-04-10T21:27:00.002-04:00

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, stock trading, circuit design, embedded systems, cryptography, operating systems research, bioinformatics,

Haskell Weekly News: Issue 264

2013-04-03T21:18:00.002-04:00

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 am Haskell; and this is lazy; so here's a function; I'll call it, maybe." WinstonChurchill: It is a good thing

Haskell Weekly News: Issue 263

2013-03-20T23:19:00.002-04:00

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 mailing list archives: 1990-2000. The lost books of Haskell. From (code.haskell.org), scored 71 with 9

Haskell Weekly News: Issue 262

2013-03-13T22:29:00.002-04:00

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 can't run out of energy, as there's a fixed amount of it. shachaf: getLine :: IO String contains a String in the

Haskell Weekly News: Issue 261

2013-03-06T20:35:00.002-05:00

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 in the deepest depths of the dark ages going to the doc, and being told he has “monomorphism”. pmk: the last

Haskell Weekly News: Issue 260

2013-02-28T21:11:00.002-05:00

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 your code and replace it with whatever edwardk wrote that day ;-) merijn: If Oleg is the unit of type

Haskell Weekly News: Issue 259

2013-02-20T23:04:00.001-05:00

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 excessively polymorphic code Top Reddit Stories Comonads are objects. From (haskellforall.com), scored 105

Haskell Weekly News: Issue 258

2013-02-13T20:16:00.001-05:00

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 the bottom, digging. monochrom: "a monad is like drinking water from a bottle without human mouth touching bottle

Haskell Weekly News: Issue 257

2013-02-06T20:30:00.000-05:00

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. applicative: I have my new ghc and am reinstalling my feeble world wuttf: My world is starting to feel like

Haskell Weekly News: Issue 256

2013-01-30T21:40:00.001-05:00

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. SamanthaD: shachaf: you're one of those dirty imperative communists who want the state to dictate everything!

Haskell Weekly News: Issue 255

2013-01-23T22:51:00.000-05:00

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? tac: I guess I'm just living in a fantasy world where the docs tell you how to use such a basic API :P

Haskell Weekly News: Issue 254

2013-01-09T22:25:00.002-05:00

Welcome to issue 254 of the HWN, an issue covering crowd-sourced bits of information about Haskell from around the web. This issue covers from 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 newsletter. I have, over the past few weeks, completed a move to NYC! It has been wonderful to meet many in the

Haskell Weekly News: Issue 253

2012-12-05T22:24:00.002-05:00

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 bos:Harpers gona harp. Top Reddit Stories Pretty Output in GHCi (HOWTO in comments). From (i.imgur.com), scored 82

Haskell Weekly News: Issue 252

2012-11-29T00:18:00.003-05:00

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 away the plates after dinner now thanks to edwardk! mgsloan: Lens got 99 operators, but a (|>) ain't one.

Haskell Weekly News: Issue 251

2012-11-21T22:23:00.000-05:00

Welcome to issue 251 of the HWN, an issue covering crowd-sourced bits of information about Haskell from around the web. This issue covers the week of November 4 to 17, 2012. Quotes of the Week Ralith: [why some people don't use conduits/pipes] also, I think at least some people are waiting for edwardk to write his version. edwardk: f -| g means that f a -> b is isomorphic to a -&gt g b

Haskell Weekly News: Issue 250

2012-11-07T23:00:00.001-05:00

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 similar to "how do I make the 5th iteration of my loop do something different from the others?" broombs: Why are

Haskell Weekly News: Issue 249

2012-11-01T23:19:00.000-04:00

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"... lispy: The crappy thing about using partial fun*** Exception: Pattern match failure shachaf: This

Haskell Weekly News: Issue 248

2012-10-25T00:36:00.000-04:00

Welcome to issue 248 of the HWN, an issue covering crowd-sourced bits of information about Haskell from around the web. This issue covers the week of October 14 to October 20, 2012. Quotes of the Week shachaf: Don't fixity fit ain't broken. shachaf: SIKP, the cheap knockoff book that uses the less-known programming language "skeem" shachaf: category-extras was so great until the antitrust

Haskell Weekly News: Issue 247

2012-10-10T21:19:00.002-04:00

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% ManuelChakravarty: We used to say, "Learn Haskell, it makes you a better Java programmer." Now we say, "Learn

Haskell Weekly News: Issue 246

2012-10-03T20:11:00.001-04:00

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 channel. Now you can also use @HWNQuotes in twitter to submit quotes for the weekly newsletter.

Haskell Weekly News: Issue 245

2012-09-26T20:46:00.004-04:00

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. Cale: THIS CODE IS EXCELLENT CODE, I AM AN EXCELLENT ENTERPRISE PROGRAMMER ACCOMPLISHING REAL WORLD TASKS

Haskell Weekly News: Issue 244

2012-09-19T21:37:00.003-04:00

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", but I guess I missed my opportunity to do that last week. Sönke Hahn wrote in to announce that on

Haskell Weekly News: Issue 243

2012-09-05T20:40:00.003-04:00

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 finish reading it, here's a follow-up article" Top Reddit Stories Parsing with Haskell and Attoparsec.