geekingfrog

7 ms·

1.
by geekingfrog 8y ago
Why do people need to know about this magical thing? Isn't that enough if you solve a problem? Interested people will look for solution and find your magical thing, no need to add to the general cancerous spam of "hey, I'm
2.
by geekingfrog 10y ago
It's addressed in the article. Basically, you can mimick that with a generational GC as long as the youg generation space is large enough to hold all objects from a request.
3.
by geekingfrog 10y ago
String: Linked list of Char. Nice for teaching, horrible in every other aspects. Text and lazy Text: modern strings, with unicode handling and so on. ByteString and lazy ByteString: these are actually arrays of bytes. Used to represent bina
4.
by geekingfrog 10y ago
Great post. How much knowledge and experience of haskell did you have before starting this project?
5.
by geekingfrog 10y ago
Except that the wealthy don't pay that much taxes in the first place.
6.
by geekingfrog 11y ago
Does readable MUMPS even exist?
7.
by geekingfrog 11y ago
xpinstall.signatures.required should be the setting you're looking for.
8.
by geekingfrog 11y ago
There are plenty of alternatives in the EU: https://queal.eu/ http://mymana.eu/ https://www.joylent.eu/ https://jakeshake.eu/ and many more I'm sure
9.
by geekingfrog 12y ago
what? off topic
10.
by geekingfrog 12y ago
After living in China for a few years, I understood something: the only thing chinese government cares about is its longevity. The whole system is designed to keep the party in the control seat. Economic growth was a way, now that'
11.
by geekingfrog 12y ago
Looks nice, but the pie chart is really not a good choice. It's not clear at all which choice is the winner when some are close (among other things). Add an option to change to a bar chart or something else, or change the default pleas
12.
by geekingfrog 12y ago
Be careful about spending resources on collecting useless data though.
13.
by geekingfrog 12y ago
This effect comes from the effect of regression to the mean. Some people will vastly overestimate, while some people will vatsly underestimate, thus cancelling out. It holds as long as the people used are very diverse (not under the same co
14.
by geekingfrog 12y ago
One very useful advice when it comes to 'what to memorize' is trying to always watch yourself using vim. If you happen to do something repetitive, ask yourself: is there a better way to do it? How to automate it? And then, commit
15.
by geekingfrog 12y ago
It's a very good book. It explains a lot of 'why' and inner working of good practices. It's also fairly comprehensive, ranging from - some evilness (type inference with ==, eval and its performance toll) - functions an
16.
by geekingfrog 13y ago
I'm spending most of my time on ice, learning figure skating