mxavier

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by mxavier 13y ago
When I code in Haskell, the first and most important step I make is to create rich types for the domain I'm working in. If you disambiguate your types, your code becomes more readable and the compiler is a lot better able to help you o
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by mxavier 14y ago
I own the original inPulse and the charge lasts about 1 day. That's the main reason why I stopped wearing it. Definitely interested in something I can let go longer with an always-on screen. I'm not a fan of thinking about my watch's charge
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by mxavier 15y ago
While I'm not disagreeing with this, I wonder if it will impact the users of Milk Inc tools' willingness to participate in future projects. For services which run off of user's submitting content (reviews in the case of Oink), I'd imagine u
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by mxavier 15y ago
I'm having a hard time understanding the intent behind "You shouldn't need to know Haskell". Do you mean in order to complete the tutorial and understand what Yesod does? That's probably true. Being someone who's been studying and using Has
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by mxavier 15y ago
There's a 2009 Documentary called Vanishing of the Bees that covers this. It was quite alarming to see the impact it had on beekeepers in the US. If you have netflix, the doc is available for streaming and is well worth the watch.
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by mxavier 15y ago
Like this email, I've noticed Louis' personality permeates the whole experience. An interesting little tidbit: the password emailed to me after purchasing to access my content didn't work. I clicked the button to reset my password. I receiv
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by mxavier 15y ago
This service may serve a purpose for men as an early indicator that their SO has communication issues. I cannot speak for anyone else but I for one would not want to be in a relationship where my SO was spying on me like she was my probatio
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by mxavier 15y ago
I'm fairly new when it comes to working with Erlang. We've developed an application we use internally for essentially doing distributed, fault-tolerant timers. I, however, would caution against some of the platitudes you use about it being
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by mxavier 15y ago
I'm sure Google considered this but I hope that by default, my feed subscriptions are shared with nobody in my Google+ circles and that I have to opt those people in. Doing otherwise would be the equivalent of dumping the contents of your b
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by mxavier 15y ago
Our company gives them money but the main thing is that we have a lot of small private projects that are more like prototypes and will never see the light of day. We are not permitted to open source them and probably wouldn't if we could be
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by mxavier 15y ago
Maybe I'm misinterpreting. Are there really contracts that say that any code you write, even if it is unrelated to your work and off-hours is the property of the company you work for? If so, that sounds like a horrible arrangement. That wou
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by mxavier 15y ago
I opened the tab and then forgot about it while reading other stories. Scared the shit out of me when I got around to this tab.
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by mxavier 15y ago
I knew this would happen. I bought a Thinkpad T420s which has a non-standard (or new standard?) 7mm hard drive caddy instead of the much more common 9.5mm. I bought a 64GB Crucial M4 because it could be modded to 7mm and the price was right
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by mxavier 15y ago
http://gitit.net/ uses git as the backend, though you still do your editing in the browser. I don't know if it is possible to edit the files directly, though.
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by mxavier 15y ago
Exactly. I only really lob softball queries at DDG. I use ! to go to the first result on queries I know are going to have the right match first. Everything else I proxy to google through !g. DDG is great but the search quality (or perhaps t
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by mxavier 15y ago
A little OT from the actual story but I find it annoying when TechCrunch and similar sites find a random picture to put near the headline. I suppose the point of this is to attract more eyes to the article, but when the story is about someo
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by mxavier 15y ago
I expected to see a lot more correlation/causation pedantry show up in an HN post that uses the term "proves" followed by a subjective claim.
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by mxavier 15y ago
Surely you see how there may be a problem when the solution to a local monopoly cutting off service for overuse is to throw more money at the same company with absolutely no guarantee that service won't be terminated again.
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by mxavier 15y ago
I didn't see anything here that implies it will be retroactive. I wonder if that means people with me who have the 1st gen Evo are stuck with nascar and other such nonsense.
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by mxavier 15y ago
Not so fast on netflix. As far as I know (and I have a vested interest so I try to stay up-to-date), Netflix doesn't work on Linux nor Android because of silverlight's DRM stack not being available on those platforms. The rest are good but
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by mxavier 15y ago
If you were to go for a (really) conservative estimate of 3MB/mp3, that tops out at 7.5GB. I'd be interested in hearing what their pricing would be for more space. I jumped the gun and bought 50gb worth of space on Amazon Cloud Drive. Their
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by mxavier 15y ago
I'll play devil's advocate here. Are we sure Microsoft is not doing the same data mining on Bing411 as Google did on Goog411, and haven't dumped it because it is either a valuable service in their eyes or they are not done gleaning what goo
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by mxavier 15y ago
The article fails to mention this but there's probably more reasons why this might be a good idea besides the fact that using JS selectors on page content is a natural fit. Because everything is asynchronous, I suppose there's probably some
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by mxavier 15y ago
I bet the people who spent good money on a Windows Vista license are feeling really good about Microsoft right now.
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by mxavier 15y ago
There was a missed opportunity by the author here when blaming Motorola. I can forgive poor advertising because I like to think I'm one of those people who will make a purchase based more on research than something I saw on TV. However, I w
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by mxavier 16y ago
He missed an opportunity to make another point here. Surely it isn't easy for a large company to behave like a small one or that they move slowly. However, being a large, seasoned company with all kinds of bureaucracy should at least buy yo
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by mxavier 16y ago
This same line of reasoning came up with the last few Netflix stories to hit HN. Netflix depends on Amazon who runs a competing on-demand video service. The general consensus is that Amazon's divisions are independent enough to not try anyt
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by mxavier 16y ago
Tepid interest, apparently. I think the market might be saturated or people might be using their phones instead of portable media players. Everyone I've talked to has had a relatively positive experience with their zune. I have a first gen
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by mxavier 16y ago
I had to double check the article publish dates. I don't know who the main audience for this site is but if someone told me these screenshots were of state-of-the-art alternative OSes back in 1999 or earlier, I would have believed it in a s
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by mxavier 16y ago
I'm confused. Their site says GHC 7.01 was released in November 2010. This release is 7.02.

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