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Haskell Weekly News: Issue 293
by Daniel Santa Cruz 30 Apr '14

30 Apr '14

Welcome to issue 293 of the HWN, an issue covering crowd-sourced bits of information about Haskell from around the web. This issue covers from April 20 to 26, 2014 Quotes of the Week * monochrom: linux's ulimit for main memory will not help because linux kernel's allocator is a lazy yes-man (think irrefutable pattern) * edwardk: lens is the only library I've ever written that generates hate mail and invites to give talks in almost equal measure * shachaf: You don't need lens to produce or consume lenses. You just need it to complain about them. * glguy_: Reddit has shown you don't need to have used the lens package to complain about it, either Top Reddit Stories * What I Wish I Knew When Learning Haskell 2.0 Domain: dev.stephendiehl.com, Score: 191, Comments: 37 On Reddit: [1] http://goo.gl/PkvrnZ Original: [2] http://goo.gl/ljYe4w * Announcing cabal 1.20 Domain: blog.johantibell.com, Score: 141, Comments: 38 On Reddit: [3] http://goo.gl/H16RoZ Original: [4] http://goo.gl/2r3vBH * Lens is unidiomatic Haskell Domain: ro-che.info, Score: 124, Comments: 231 On Reddit: [5] http://goo.gl/Hm7Zbl Original: [6] http://goo.gl/HrI0L6 * wreq: a capable new HTTP client library Domain: serpentine.com, Score: 121, Comments: 128 On Reddit: [7] http://goo.gl/kUZp4s Original: [8] http://goo.gl/y8QFpR * Applicative became a superclass of Monad Domain: ghc.haskell.org, Score: 94, Comments: 46 On Reddit: [9] http://goo.gl/0OIiPz Original: [10] http://goo.gl/DKCUsD * Open Sourced! Cryptol: A Domain Specific Language for Specifying Cryptographic Algorithms Domain: cryptol.net, Score: 91, Comments: 7 On Reddit: [11] http://goo.gl/32oaZd Original: [12] http://goo.gl/30Y9g0 * Model-view-controller, Haskell-style Domain: haskellforall.com, Score: 81, Comments: 55 On Reddit: [13] http://goo.gl/yJH5Ck Original: [14] http://goo.gl/pjqFPN * Lenses don't compose backwards. Domain: self.haskell, Score: 73, Comments: 35 On Reddit: [15] http://goo.gl/p9e9v8 Original: [16] http://goo.gl/p9e9v8 * 14 Haskell Projects accepted for Google Summer of Code Domain: google-melange.com, Score: 59, Comments: 28 On Reddit: [17] http://goo.gl/bw3jrU Original: [18] http://goo.gl/O91dDJ * New issue of The Monad Reader (#23) Domain: themonadreader.wordpress.com, Score: 48, Comments: 11 On Reddit: [19] http://goo.gl/PgFaAg Original: [20] http://goo.gl/M62yM8 * Lens from the ground up Domain: mth.io, Score: 44, Comments: 25 On Reddit: [21] http://goo.gl/7hb2dZ Original: [22] http://goo.gl/W2C4x2 * Lenses You Can Make at Home Domain: duplode.github.io, Score: 40, Comments: 17 On Reddit: [23] http://goo.gl/5Fx3re Original: [24] http://goo.gl/qs2nbt Top StackOverflow Questions * How do experienced Haskell developers approach laziness at *design* time? votes: 26, answers: 1 Read on SO: [25] http://goo.gl/obf2MG * Lax monoidal functors with a different monoidal structure votes: 14, answers: 3 Read on SO: [26] http://goo.gl/gR954y * Maximizing Haskell loop performance with GHC votes: 13, answers: 2 Read on SO: [27] http://goo.gl/TNaeB7 * What does it mean that the semantics (of Haskell) are affected by the inferred types (of return type polymorphism)? votes: 12, answers: 2 Read on SO: [28] http://goo.gl/e702Su * Write a parallel array Haskell expression once, run on CPUs & GPUs with repa and accelerate votes: 10, answers: 2 Read on SO: [29] http://goo.gl/gvSnV8 * Best way to save 10 GB vector to disk in Haskell votes: 9, answers: 3 Read on SO: [30] http://goo.gl/6SjJeG * What is the purpose of the `Typeable (* -> Constraint) Monoid` instance? votes: 9, answers: 1 Read on SO: [31] http://goo.gl/QeLSHm Until next time, [32]+Daniel Santa Cruz References 1. http://dev.stephendiehl.com/hask 2. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/23srcm/what_i_wish_i_knew_when_lea… 3. http://blog.johantibell.com/2014/04/announcing-cabal-120.html 4. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/23i6ih/announcing_cabal_120/ 5. http://ro-che.info/articles/2014-04-24-lens-unidiomatic.html 6. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/23uzpg/lens_is_unidiomatic_haskell/ 7. http://www.serpentine.com/wreq/ 8. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/23q8kc/wreq_a_capable_new_http_cli… 9. https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/browser/ghc/libraries/base/GHC/Base.lhs?re… 10. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/23ob5a/applicative_became_a_superc… 11. http://cryptol.net/index.html 12. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/23w3su/open_sourced_cryptol_a_doma… 13. http://www.haskellforall.com/2014/04/model-view-controller-haskell-style.ht… 14. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/2407hs/modelviewcontroller_haskell… 15. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/23x3f3/lenses_dont_compose_backwar… 16. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/23x3f3/lenses_dont_compose_backwar… 17. http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/projects/list/google/gsoc2014 18. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/23mfwj/14_haskell_projects_accepte… 19. http://themonadreader.wordpress.com/2014/04/23/issue-23/ 20. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/23u25r/new_issue_of_the_monad_read… 21. http://mth.io/talks/lens-from-the-ground-up/ 22. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/23z5xb/lens_from_the_ground_up/ 23. http://duplode.github.io/posts/lenses-you-can-make-at-home.html 24. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/241aec/lenses_you_can_make_at_home/ 25. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23280936/how-do-experienced-haskell-deve… 26. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23316255/lax-monoidal-functors-with-a-di… 27. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23315001/maximizing-haskell-loop-perform… 28. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23282921/what-does-it-mean-that-the-sema… 29. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23202145/write-a-parallel-array-haskell-… 30. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23247289/best-way-to-save-10-gb-vector-t… 31. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23277838/what-is-the-purpose-of-the-type… 32. https://plus.google.com/105107667630152149014/about

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