Re: [Haskell-cafe] Observer pattern in haskell FRP

2012-12-19 Thread serialhex
of programming a game in a functional language. so maybe this will give you some ideas on how to write games in haskell. anyway, linkage: http://www.chris-granger.com/2012/12/11/anatomy-of-a-knockout/ serialhex -- * If God had a beard, he'd be a UNIX programmer. * Some people pray for more

[Haskell-cafe] good lightweight web-framework like sinatra?

2012-03-20 Thread serialhex
i'm looking for something lightweight, that dosnt need it's own server, can easily run on cgi on an apache with minimal work, and dosn't have many dependancies. i was looking at yesod, but it is bigger than i need for my site (at this point) and would take too much work to get running on my webhost

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Open-source projects for beginning Haskell students?

2012-03-17 Thread serialhex
On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 11:01 AM, Heinrich Apfelmus wrote: > The task is to implement a small audio synthesizer in Haskell. seriously?!?! i'm not in his class, but i'm game! i learn better when i'm working on something interesting, and i want to make my (currently pretty pathetic) haskell bette

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Theoretical question: are side effects necessary?

2012-03-16 Thread serialhex
On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 8:35 AM, Felipe Almeida Lessa < felipe.le...@gmail.com> wrote: > If you're asking about performance, as in "is there a problem that can > be solved in O(f(n)) time in Java but not in Haskell-sans-IO-and-ST?", > then it becomes a harder question. I'm not sure what the answe

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Functional programming podcast

2012-03-15 Thread serialhex
On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 6:53 AM, Christopher Done wrote: > On 15 March 2012 06:53, Clint Moore wrote: > > We're closing in on a month since this post. Did everyone decide to > > do their own thing, do nothing, or ? > > Ah, I'd been traveling after posting this and then settling back in > work, t

[Haskell-cafe] anyone know what happened to nlpwp?

2012-03-02 Thread serialhex
i was going through nlpwp.org learning haskell & natural language processing at the same time, and a few days ago it just disappeared! does anybody know what happened to it? i can still access the google cache, and learn from there, but that'd be a pain for anybody new coming along who can't acce

[Haskell-cafe] podcast?

2012-02-15 Thread serialhex
Does anybody know of any good haskell/fp podcasts out there? i dont know if my googling skillz are just failing me, but i can't seem to find anything. thanks all! hex -- * my blog is cooler than yours: http://serialhex.github.com * The wise man said: "Never argue with an idiot. They bring you

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Fancy REPL

2012-02-09 Thread serialhex
On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 3:04 PM, Heinrich Apfelmus wrote: > > I'm not so sure about the "soon" part, but yes, using FRP to make music is > part of the plan. you know, i've been thinking about this recently, and while i need more haskell skillz if i want to do some sound synthesis, i think it wou

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Poll: Do you want a mascot?

2011-11-26 Thread serialhex
i wouldn't mind a cool mascot, so yes hex -- * my blog is cooler than yours: http://serialhex.github.com * The wise man said: "Never argue with an idiot. They bring you down to their level and beat you with experience." * As a programmer, it is your job to put yourself out of business. What yo

Re: [Haskell-cafe] A Mascot

2011-11-21 Thread serialhex
On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 12:22 AM, Jeremy Shaw wrote: > - honey badger - can't beat that for 'robust' and 'fearless', > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPKlryXwmXk > i think you were referring to this vid: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7pGZudN8rE (nsfw... almost) i +1 a honey badger for haskell

Re: [Haskell-cafe] What is the status of GPU-accelerated Haskell?

2011-10-27 Thread serialhex
Hi, there is an OpenCL / Haskell thread floating around the ML, mostly it's a dew ppl talking about merging the 5 (or so) bindings to the OpenCL api and getting spiffy multi-threaded haskell-awesomeness out of that. i think they are discussing the benefits/drawbacks of a pure-ish api conversion or

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Subcategories on Hackage

2011-06-05 Thread serialhex
On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 1:36 PM, Brandon Allbery wrote: > On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 07:51, Andrew Coppin > wrote: > > Also, I don't think listing every package on all of Hackage in one giant > > page is very useful any more. (I gather it was only meant to be a > temporary > > interface in the first

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Python is lazier than Haskell

2011-04-27 Thread serialhex
so, as a n00b to haskell i can't say much about its laziness, and not knowing much about how python works i'm about the same there. though i do know ruby, and afaik ruby doesn't _care_ what type something is, just if it can do something. example from the rails framework: #--- class NilClass

Re: [Haskell-cafe] #haskell-game & Haskellers Game Interest Group

2011-02-12 Thread serialhex
i assume you mean here: http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Game_Development the link wasnt in your orig post & i had to google it :P i'm interested to see what you've got here. hex On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 4:50 AM, Korcan Hussein wrote: > >