September 2015 Archiv

Keep the box running.

  • 2015-09-20

I/O actions are like boxes with little feet that go out and fetch some value from the outside world for us.

Miran Lipovača: Learn You a Haskell for Great Good! - Functors, Applicative Functors and Monoids

We are under attack.

  • 2015-09-19

1 cyclist is killed in Sao Paulo every week
(source)

Facts from the film Bikes vs Cars

Nobody hits the hitters.

  • 2015-09-18

Over the next week, it just got worse.  Two or three times a day I’d be deep in thought, trying to focus on this tangled plotting that I needed to resolve, and some woman would tap me on the shoulder to offer me a cup of coffee.  I couldn’t concentrate, because sometimes they were very insistent: “You sure you don’t want a coffee, sweetie?” they’d ask, sometimes lurking over me after I’d refused them, just in case I changed my mind.  Sometimes they just bought the coffee for me anyway, without even asking me ...

Ferrett Steinmetz: Can I Buy You A Coffee?

Alles Lüge.

  • 2015-09-17

[data Int#] like everything else in GHC.Prim is really a lie.

Michael Snoyman: Primitive Haskell

Welkom thuis!

  • 2015-09-16

Jemanden (wieder) in der Nähe zu haben ist ein äußerst relatives Gefühl.