Very cool. I don't have many Haskell coders where I spend my time, so it is nice to watch how someone with more experience tackles fairly basic programming tasks. The guard window and quickcheck in particular were eye-opening.
It's not so simple. Any language (that is actually implemented) is always designed with regular specific consideration for implementation strategies. In fact I would go so far as to say the implementation is the design in practice.
For example choice of boxing or unboxing values is an integral part of language design and has profound impact on the implementation's performance both for speed and memory usage.
Well good on you taking a reasoned but unpopular position. I agree that the description of the events seems to leave out a bit, particularly the emotional content of the interactions. The rig does look intimidating and I'm not sure how I'd react in person.
He goes from "we bought our food and sat down to eat it" to "this guy assaulted me". Really? Unless they have complete lunatics at that establishment I find that hard to believe. There's a large series of events before a non-criminal who isn't absolutely insane decides to attack you.
I'd love to see the store's surveillance video and read their account before choosing sides.
It's probably wise for him not to write about those particular moments, especially given that he's dealing with the laws of a foreign country. If it could remotely possibly matter what was said, then he needs to filter that through a lawyer.
There's a large series of events before a non-criminal who isn't absolutely insane decides to attack you.
Firstly, you are demonstrably wrong, and as evidence, I would put forward around 20% of nightclub door security as exhibit A.
Also I would say it is very easy to construct plausible scenarios around this particular story.
"Remove that camera."
"I can't."
"Stop taking the piss."
"I'm not, it is all part of a medical experiment."
"I said stop taking the piss and take off the camera."
After this it goes downhill rather rapidly.
This is of course a fiction, from someone with no firsthand knowledge of the situation, but to try and make out that being attacked by security for stupid reasons is an unlikely event that does not happen to lots of people with fairly boring regularity, is an even greater fiction still.
Hardly. Given a choice between complex imperative code and complex functional code, I’ll take the latter. It’s just that the resultant C++ is somewhat brittle and not as thoroughly verified as the Haskell version. I would say the same thing if I wrote something in Coq, proved it correct, then ported it to Haskell.
Can anyone describe the types of people who bid+pay 5 and 10 thousand dollars for these projects? I can't imagine devoting that much money to a playdate at PAHQ or to hang out for the day with the designer of the OUYA. It doesn't seem like real money at that point but I know these peoples' credit cards will be charged. I don't get it...
Well one of the OUYA ones is Notch who's famous for liking to help projects he finds interesting thanks to his own success from minecraft, so for him 10 grand to help something he likes isn't as crazy as for some of us.
And I'd assume anyone doing it for PA are hardcore fans who've loved the site for years and have serious disposable income to hand.
It took me awhile to figure out what this is. Jeff Wofford has cloned IGN's article and made small but important changes as way of giving IGN some of the medicine they are recommending for others.
e.g.: