kritzcreek

"Is Haskell a good first programming language?"

This question was asked at the recent HaskellX conference, with both practicioners as well as teachers being present. I won't reiterate everything that was said, and instead link to a recording of the podium discussion (https://skillsmatter.com/skillscasts/10952-park-bench-panel-session-with-haskellx-experts).

One particular argument, that I've heard come up multiple times now, is that teachers are complaining about the length function being polymorphic. Apparently length :: forall a. Foldable f => f a -> Int is hard to grasp/understand/accept for a new-comer. The solutions proposed to solve this problem are to:

1. Return length to its non-Foldable type
2. Use a custom Prelude to teach beginners

Drawbacks for 1 include that practicioners like the fact that length works for all kinds of data structures, and don't want that taken away from them. The primary problem with solution 2 is that students can't go and use their aquired knowledge to work on Open

adamreisnz

root: true
extends: eslint:recommended
parserOptions:
  ecmaVersion: 2017
  ecmaFeatures:
    impliedStrict: true
  sourceType: module
env:
  es6: true
  browser: true

twopoint718

Okay, so I'll try and walk through the reader monad as best as I can. And
because I think it helps to de-mystify things a bit, I'll also go through
all of the "super classes" of monad: functor and applicative (because every
monad should also be an applicative and every applicative functor should be
a functor). This file is literate Haskell so you should just be able to
load it in the REPL or run it. It's also kinda/sorta markdown, so it should
render that way as well (but the code is formatted wrong).


> module Reader where

soupi

module Main where

import Prelude

import Data.Maybe
import Control.Monad.Eff
import Graphics.Canvas as C
import Signal as S
import Signal.DOM as S

paf31

"use strict";

// module UnderscoreFFI

exports.map = function(f) {
  return function (arr) {
    return require('underscore').map(arr, f);
  };
};

bradmontgomery

Setting up a SSL Cert from Comodo

I use Namecheap.com as a registrar, and they resale SSL Certs from a number of other companies, including Comodo.

These are the steps I went through to set up an SSL cert.

Purchase the cert

quchen

13:15 <xQuasar>      | HASKELL IS FOR FUCKIN FAGGOTS. YOU'RE ALL A BUNCH OF 
                     | FUCKIN PUSSIES
13:15 <xQuasar>      | JAVASCRIPT FOR LIFE FAGS
13:16 <luite>        | hello
13:16 <ChongLi>      | somebody has a mental illness!
13:16 <merijn>       | Wow...I suddenly see the error of my ways and feel 
                     | compelled to write Node.js!
13:16 <genisage>     | hi
13:16 <luite>        | you might be pleased to learn that you can compile 
                     | haskell to javascript now

andreyvit

tmux cheat sheet

(C-x means ctrl+x, M-x means alt+x)

Prefix key

The default prefix is C-b. If you (or your muscle memory) prefer C-a, you need to add this to ~/.tmux.conf:

remap prefix to Control + a

CristinaSolana

1. Clone your fork:

git clone git@github.com:YOUR-USERNAME/YOUR-FORKED-REPO.git

2. Add remote from original repository in your forked repository:

cd into/cloned/fork-repo
git remote add upstream git://github.com/ORIGINAL-DEV-USERNAME/REPO-YOU-FORKED-FROM.git
git fetch upstream

ijt

#!/usr/bin/env runhaskell

-- Synopsis:
-- $ cabal install QuickCheck
-- $ runhaskell io_quickcheck_example.hs
--
-- Author: Issac Trotts <issac.trotts@gmail.com>

import Directory
import System.Environment