[Haskell-cafe] the beginning of the end

[Brandon S Allbery KF8NH]

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On 12/5/10 12:34 , Daniel Peebles wrote:
> Oh yeah, the 2.0 stuff that snobby techies love to hate :) hrrmpf back in my
> day we programmed in binary using a magnetized needle on the exposed tape! I
> don't need any of this newfangled bull****.
> 
> I kid! But I am curious to see why people are so opposed to this stuff? The
> attitude "I can't see any reason for it to exist" (without having seriously
> tried it) seems similar to that our (haskell's) detractors use when taking a
> cursory glance at it and saying the syntax doesn't make sense. 

My problem with reddit is (a) I always have to click through the reddit
entry to see the article it's about; this is a usability botch as far as I'm
concerned (b) I already have to follow too many sources of information, and
would really like to get it under control.

As for twitter, one word:  firehose.  *Way* too easy to miss things, even
with Tweetdeck and the like.

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electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university      KF8NH
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