markokocic
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12 years ago
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on: Haskell Platform 2013.2.0.0
I already have ghc-7.6.3 installed and up to date cabal. What do I get by installing haskell-platform that I don't have right now? AFAIU Haskell Platform is just a vetted list of packages bundled with GHC?
markokocic
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13 years ago
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on: The Elves Leave Middle Earth – Sodas Are No Longer Free (2009)
Then you'll need to track exact value of food each employee spent, send them invoice and pay them the same amount each month to cover that amount. I can't see how that can be simpler than "free food".
markokocic
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13 years ago
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on: Ask HN: How can a single person objecting get a post moved from the front page?
Why would someone else's flag affect my front page?
markokocic
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13 years ago
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on: Opera 14 for Android is out, based on Chromium
No, it won't. It says that my HTC Desire running 2.3 is not supported.
markokocic
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13 years ago
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on: Firefox OS puts a good $50 smartphone within reach
Well, Dalvik is not a speed deamon. I don't have any benchmarks on actual phone hardware available, but I can guess that javascript code will not run much slower on phone hardware than on desktop comparable desktop browsers, while Dalvik is a waaay slover than regular Java code on desktop.
markokocic
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13 years ago
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on: If you had Google Glass, what would you use it for?
If I had Google Glass I would use it to make some quick money and sell it immediately.
markokocic
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13 years ago
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on: Indie game Haunts unable to compile its Go code
You already have that in Javaland. It's called maven, and it allows you to change one number in one file to upgrade the dependency version. Clojure also has that with Leiningen.
markokocic
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13 years ago
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on: Ask HN: How can a single person objecting get a post moved from the front page?
There is unflag option where you can unflag your own flag, but it doesn't counter other peoples flags, IIRC. I'm not sure about that now, since flag right has been removed from my account some time ago, and I don't see neither flag nor unflag links anymore.
markokocic
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13 years ago
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on: Ask HN: How can a single person objecting get a post moved from the front page?
> If no one agreed with them then theirs would be the only flag and there would be no effect. If several people agreed then there would be several flags, and that's what appears to happen.
It would be good if users were given not only flag, but also unflag possibility. As it is right now, it takes only a few users to flag an article to disappear, although there might be hundreds users that would be opposed to that that can affect the flagging process because there is no unflag option.
markokocic
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13 years ago
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on: Hands-on With App Engine’s New Runtime
Because noone can order anyone at Google to work on anything except what he likes to?
markokocic
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13 years ago
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on: Why I am always on the lookout for a PayPal alternative
Just to be clear, paying little or no taxes is only government fail to collect them. It has nothing to do with responsibilities. There is no law in the world that forces anyone to maximize tax that it has to pay, so everyone has a right to pay as little tax as legally allowed.
markokocic
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13 years ago
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on: Why I am always on the lookout for a PayPal alternative
Because PayPal is the only one that actually works in 150+ countries worldwide. No service offering US or US+CA+UK only service could compete with PayPal effectively, even if it were 1000 times better in technical, UX or business terms, because something that works with a lot of pain is still infinitely better than someone that doesn't support your country.
markokocic
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13 years ago
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on: Show HN: Diffs of Word documents, designed for humans
How is this different from what "git --diff" provides out of the box for .docx documents?
markokocic
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13 years ago
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on: Hands-on With App Engine’s New Runtime
Because it might be the best option for a next few years? I'm not saying it is, but some people did a right choice "locking" themselves to Adobe-only infrastructure (Flash), Apple-only infrastructure (iOS/Objective-C), Microsoft-only infrastructure (Windows/Office/.NET), ...
markokocic
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13 years ago
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on: Hands-on With App Engine’s New Runtime
Javascript / Dart?
markokocic
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13 years ago
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on: Spark Capital will now pay their own legal bills
Sentence containing only word 'this' is automatic down vote when I see it on HN. Even +1 adds more value IMHO.
markokocic
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13 years ago
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on: Ubuntu low-memory install for VMs
> Doing a proper "compile newer version of GCC, then recompile GCC with it, then recompile GCC again" voodoo is just tiresome after the first time. Yes you may lose some performance, but chances are your time is worth way more than what the setup takes.
I agree the recompiles take time, but it's not like you are going to sit in front of the computer and stare at the console output window while emerge is running.
markokocic
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13 years ago
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on: Lessons after five years of professional programming
Well, without a caveat the advice is plain wrong in 99% cases, since that caveat changes the advice completely.
markokocic
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13 years ago
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on: Lessons after five years of professional programming
First advice is horrible. One shouldn't do in application things that are meant to be done in (relational) database, like ordering, grouping, joining... I guess 66% of my application performance tuning was removing iteration over large result sets in application code with a few lines of SQL. The other 30% being making sure the database is not hit with redundant queries.
I have rarely seen the case where minimizing the size of result set returned by database to the application is not the right choice.
EDIT: I'm speaking about relational databases.
Other advices are good, though.
markokocic
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13 years ago
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on: Web Framework Benchmarks
> Really? Yesod is the anti-haskell haskell framework.
Can you please elaborate. Being interested in Haskel web development and trying to choose web framework makes me wish for more information.
