[Haskell] Haskell Weekly News: Issue 289

Thu Apr 3 11:22:33 UTC 2014

Congratulations on your baby! :-)

2014-04-03 1:28 GMT-03:00 Daniel Santa Cruz <dstcruz at gmail.com>:

> 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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