Welcome to issue 289 of the HWN, an issue covering crowd-sourced bits
of information about Haskell from around the web. This issue covers
from March 1 to 31, 2014
So... where have I been?
My wife and I recently welcomed into the world our new baby, and as
some of you have already experienced, I was doing good getting *some*
sleep at night. Life has slowly started to get back to a more
predictable rhythm, and I am sure glad to be back doing this. For a
while there I thought that any project of mine before bambina was going
to have to be put into permament hold, but things are getting very
manageble now.
Sorry for the abscense! I was somewhat pleased to see that some in
-cafe wondered if this was coming back... this one is for you!
Some have mentioned that they wish to see more of the "reviews" that
HWN used to have of blog entries, and/or email chains in the different
mailing lists. I understand that dessire. I'm probably going to need
some extra hands to write those, if there are to be back. Maybe we can
start with something "lighter", a la tl;dr. I'm stil trying to work out
how we'd do that exacly. I'll keep you all posted.
Anyway, enough rambling.
Quotes of the Week
* acowley: I will push machines-concurrent to hackage one fine day
edwardk: not concurrent-machines ?
acowley: Man, I walked right into that bike shed
* malc: I have a coworker who constantly reads haskell stuff at work,
nudged him towards the lens talk, that should push him towards
actually doing work at work.
* Fuuzetsu: I know someone who pulls in Lens just for & and ??
* Eduard_Munteanu: Don't put your money in monads, you can never get
it back. :P
Top Reddit Stories
* Haskell for all: Introductions to advanced Haskell topics
* GHC 7.8.1 RC2 released
* Book review: Parallel and Concurrent Programming in Haskell
* The Haskell Cast #6 - Gabriel Gonzalez and Michael Snoyman on Pipes and Conduit
* Performance in Haskell from a noob's perspective
Domain: self.haskell, Score: 74, Comments: 111
* New Haddock — a visual guide to changes
* Full-time position available: computer scientist to create data types for scientific computing, in Haskell. Location: anywhere (telecommute).
Domain: self.haskell, Score: 67, Comments: 17
* Haskell Type Classes Cheatsheet
* Malicious link in
haskell.org docs for 6 years, 6 months, 6 days
Domain: self.haskell, Score: 61, Comments: 6
* What's your "killer app" for your scientific/statistical programming environment?
Domain: self.haskell, Score: 57, Comments: 92
* Find out the type of an expression/function with typed holes
* Elm 0.12 - making interactive UI elements easy and pure
* QuickCheck 2.7 released
Top StackOverflow Questions
* Why is Haskell unable to read “7e7” but able to read “7a7”?
votes: 42, answers: 3
* Strange GHCi lazy evaluation
votes: 17, answers: 1
* Fast, branchless unsigned int absolute difference
votes: 16, answers: 3
* How can I write human-language units as postfixes in Haskell, like `3 seconds`?
votes: 15, answers: 2
* Running Haskell on Xeon-Phi
votes: 14, answers: 1
Until next time,
[32]+Daniel Santa Cruz
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