[Haskell-cafe] Haskell Weekly News: Issue 289

Thu Apr 3 12:03:57 UTC 2014

Congratulations!
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
     Domain: haskellforall.com, Score: 121, Comments: 23
     On Reddit: [1] http://goo.gl/M6ZL9f
     Original: [2] http://goo.gl/YEKyCc

   * GHC 7.8.1 RC2 released
     Domain: well-typed.com, Score: 99, Comments: 36
     On Reddit: [3] http://goo.gl/jxlLQl
     Original: [4] http://goo.gl/05xnqX

   * Book review: Parallel and Concurrent Programming in Haskell
     Domain: serpentine.com, Score: 87, Comments: 17
     On Reddit: [5] http://goo.gl/BfWSWC
     Original: [6] http://goo.gl/nDe2UG

   * The Haskell Cast #6 - Gabriel Gonzalez and Michael Snoyman on Pipes
and Conduit
     Domain: haskellcast.com, Score: 83, Comments: 13
     On Reddit: [7] http://goo.gl/PwL2aV
     Original: [8] http://goo.gl/hwemr6

   * Performance in Haskell from a noob's perspective
     Domain: self.haskell, Score: 74, Comments: 111
     On Reddit: [9] http://goo.gl/IuT0uJ
     Original: [10] http://goo.gl/IuT0uJ

   * New Haddock -- a visual guide to changes
     Domain: fuuzetsu.co.uk, Score: 72, Comments: 13
     On Reddit: [11] http://goo.gl/KWJSEh
     Original: [12] http://goo.gl/IXzESN

   * 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
     On Reddit: [13] http://goo.gl/Z8y9py
     Original: [14] http://goo.gl/Z8y9py

   * Haskell Type Classes Cheatsheet
     Domain: fundeps.com, Score: 62, Comments: 21
     On Reddit: [15] http://goo.gl/oAWk4C
     Original: [16] http://goo.gl/SqHbro

   * Malicious link in haskell.org docs for 6 years, 6 months, 6 days
     Domain: self.haskell, Score: 61, Comments: 6
     On Reddit: [17] http://goo.gl/V5y3hk
     Original: [18] http://goo.gl/V5y3hk

   * What's your "killer app" for your scientific/statistical programming
environment?
     Domain: self.haskell, Score: 57, Comments: 92
     On Reddit: [19] http://goo.gl/jfbwdj
     Original: [20] http://goo.gl/jfbwdj

   * Find out the type of an expression/function with typed holes
     Domain: ro-che.info, Score: 56, Comments: 5
     On Reddit: [21] http://goo.gl/hcjX1v
     Original: [22] http://goo.gl/TWLT5R

   * Elm 0.12 - making interactive UI elements easy and pure
     Domain: elm-lang.org, Score: 56, Comments: 5
     On Reddit: [23] http://goo.gl/SRoog7
     Original: [24] http://goo.gl/7FoFAz

   * QuickCheck 2.7 released
     Domain: hackage.haskell.org, Score: 55, Comments: 7
     On Reddit: [25] http://goo.gl/RN66bR
     Original: [26] http://goo.gl/3S38Uz

Top StackOverflow Questions

   * Why is Haskell unable to read "7e7" but able to read "7a7"?
     votes: 42, answers: 3
     Read on SO: [27] http://goo.gl/ZI8qm8

   * Strange GHCi lazy evaluation
     votes: 17, answers: 1
     Read on SO: [28] http://goo.gl/aoHvVp

   * Fast, branchless unsigned int absolute difference
     votes: 16, answers: 3
     Read on SO: [29] http://goo.gl/TT3Oxi

   * How can I write human-language units as postfixes in Haskell, like `3
seconds`?
     votes: 15, answers: 2
     Read on SO: [30] http://goo.gl/6MJk5C

   * Running Haskell on Xeon-Phi
     votes: 14, answers: 1
     Read on SO: [31] http://goo.gl/QEIayp

Until next time,
[32]+Daniel Santa Cruz

References

   1.
http://www.haskellforall.com/2014/03/introductions-to-advanced-haskell-topics.html
   2.
http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/21bcb5/haskell_for_all_introductions_to_advanced_haskell/
   3. http://www.well-typed.com/blog/87
   4. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/1zgaln/ghc_781_rc2_released/
   5.
http://www.serpentine.com/blog/2014/03/18/book-review-parallel-and-concurrent-programming-in-haskell/
   6.
http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/20sdt4/book_review_parallel_and_concurrent_programming/
   7.
http://www.haskellcast.com/episode/006-gabriel-gonzalez-and-michael-snoyman-on-pipes-and-conduit
   8.
http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/1zfo9g/the_haskell_cast_6_gabriel_gonzalez_and_michael/
   9.
http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/21g6uo/performance_in_haskell_from_a_noobs_perspective/
  10.
http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/21g6uo/performance_in_haskell_from_a_noobs_perspective/
  11.
http://fuuzetsu.co.uk/blog/posts/2014-03-24-New-Haddock-released%21-A-visual-guide-to-changes.html
  12.
http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/218rov/new_haddock_a_visual_guide_to_changes/
  13.
http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/202pvl/fulltime_position_available_computer_scientist_to/
  14.
http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/202pvl/fulltime_position_available_computer_scientist_to/
  15. http://fundeps.com/posts/cheatsheets/2014-03-04-cheat-sheets/
  16.
http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/1zn3h9/haskell_type_classes_cheatsheet/
  17.
http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/21959m/malicious_link_in_haskellorg_docs_for_6_years_6/
  18.
http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/21959m/malicious_link_in_haskellorg_docs_for_6_years_6/
  19.
http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/1zowv1/whats_your_killer_app_for_your/
  20.
http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/1zowv1/whats_your_killer_app_for_your/
  21. http://ro-che.info/articles/2014-03-13-type-of-local-function.html
  22.
http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/20bixd/find_out_the_type_of_an_expressionfunction_with/
  23. http://elm-lang.org/blog/announce/0.12.elm
  24.
http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/218isr/elm_012_making_interactive_ui_elements_easy_and/
  25. http://hackage.haskell.org/package/QuickCheck-2.7.1/changelog
  26.
http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/213da9/quickcheck_27_released/
  27.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22689122/why-is-haskell-unable-to-read-7e7-but-able-to-read-7a7
  28.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22491700/strange-ghci-lazy-evaluation
  29.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22445019/fast-branchless-unsigned-int-absolute-difference
  30.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22109333/how-can-i-write-human-language-units-as-postfixes-in-haskell-like-3-seconds
  31.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22253311/running-haskell-on-xeon-phi
  32. https://plus.google.com/105107667630152149014/about

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