Well I'd never heard of Wordnik but this is very cool and I'll be using it. This is like a respectable Dictionary.com+ Urban Dictionary. I don't see the category theory definition of a monad on it, though. Which is somewhat odd.
Hi there. This happened last night after I was tweaking the number of FastCGI processes. I changed it from four backends to one. Then Lighttpd believed the backend was overloaded:
2010-03-01 07:16:21: (mod_fastcgi.c.2926) backend is overloaded; we'll disable it for 2 seconds and send the request to another backend instead: reconnects: 0 load: 131
2010-03-01 07:16:24: (mod_fastcgi.c.3569) all handlers for /haskell-json.fcgi on haskell-json.fcgi are down.
I doubt there were 131 requests to the FastCGI process at the same time but I'll have to seek more information about it. http://redmine.lighttpd.net/issues/1825
For now I've set it back to four backends as that never had this problem.
Lisp's macros are a lot more expressive. They don't look weird (unlike Template Haskell) within the language, they look like normal constructs. And they're native to Lisp. I miss Lisp in Haskell because I can't define, e.g., my own macro to do this:
case fileExists "sausage.txt"
True -> putStrLn "Gonna do something with the sausage."
False -> putStrLn "Woop."
And/or
if do fileExists "sausage.txt"
then putStrLn "Gonna do something!"
else putStrLn "Woop."
Or lambda with alternate lambda cases.
(\case of (Just a) -> a; Nothing -> b)
I wrote a little mini-lang to do this to see how much I liked it. I liked it a lot, Lou!
But Haskell is terse and predictable so one puts up with not having macros.
The Computer Language Shootout Haskell samples are low level, if you read them. Some are high level but many are nearly C, using malloc and such. But this is a good thing; you can write the "tight loops" that you need within Haskell.
I did a ten-week course in BSL (passed with full marks!) and your assessment matches up with my experience, which was that it was like exaggerated enthusiastic telling of a story. It's like miming, too. Hearing people talk with their hands, bodies, faces, reactions, energy, rhythm, speed, etc. all the time already. They get along fine in clubs with loud music thumping away. Just watch someone chatting on the phone, they still make a tonne of physical gestures. And we've seen that textual interpersonal communication (i.e. pure English syntax and grammar) is hard, it's great for technical details or (with some effort) describing stories but sucks at that.
Yeah, I worked it out just as the interviewer explained it. $0.1 per click, 20 out of 100 visitors click, that's 20*0.1=$2.0 per 100 visitors. We need $20 dollars so we need 1000 visitors. This really is child's play. Honestly I think the pressure must have crippled her.
Smart people get their news from aggregators and feeds. Normal people go to sites directly for their daily dosage of drivel. Both Google search for individual stories. It just so happens that the same news story is linked 10 times down the page, some often pointing to the same page due to blogs and aggregators.
I predict nothing consequential will come of this drama.
Deja Vu Sans Mono is highly superior to all the mentioned fonts there. It works perfectly clearly with anti-aliasing. I honestly wonder if the people praising other fonts are just trying to be different. I'm probably being subjective. It would be cool to see some research into the top programming fonts to find which are least tiring to the eyes, most legible when tired or scanning, etc.
