[Haskell] Haskell Weekly News: Issue 152 - March 08, 2010

2010-03-08 Thread jfredett
--- Haskell Weekly News http://sequence.complete.org/hwn/20100308 Issue 152 - March 08, 2010 --- Welcome to issue 152 of HWN, a newsletter covering

[Haskell] PhD position in Functional Programming at Chalmers (deadline 2010-04-07)

2010-03-08 Thread Patrik Jansson
Come and work with us! The Chalmers FP group is recruiting a PhD student to work on FP and DSELs. Details are here http://www.chalmers.se/cse/EN/news/vacancies/positions/phd-student-position-in2935 and below. Welcome! Patrik Jansson, Koen Claessen, Mary Sheeran, John Hughes Job desc

[Haskell] VSTTE 2010: Verified Software -- Third Call for Papers

2010-03-08 Thread Gudmund Grov
(Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement) * Third International Conference on Verified Software: Theories, Tools, and Experiments Call for Conference & Workshop Papers Edinburgh, Scotland August 16th-19th, 20

Re: [Haskell] ANNOUNCE: barchart-0.1.1

2010-03-08 Thread Sebastian Fischer
On Mar 8, 2010, at 12:04 PM, Thomas Schilling wrote: Your use of rounded borders for the boxes is skewing the correct perception of the data. Fair point. I have created an issue in barchart's issue tracker. I'll probably make rounded corners optional and turn them off by default. Round co

Re: [Haskell] ANNOUNCE: barchart-0.1.1

2010-03-08 Thread Thomas Schilling
Sorry to be That Guy, but: Your use of rounded borders for the boxes is skewing the correct perception of the data. The rounded borders remove more area from the smaller bars than the from the larger bars, so smaller bars will seem even smaller in comparison. In general, never ever try to make d

Re: [Haskell] ANNOUNCE: barchart-0.1.1

2010-03-08 Thread Sebastian Fischer
On Mar 7, 2010, at 6:10 PM, Sebastian Fischer wrote: barchart is a command-line program with associated Haskell library The API is not generated on Hackage probably because the diagrams library cannot be built on GHC 6.12. I will upload Haddock documentation separately on the project webs

Re: [Haskell] ANNOUNCE: barchart-0.1.1

2010-03-08 Thread Sebastian Fischer
Sounds like this could be really useful for darcs-benchmark! I'm glad to hear that. Meanwhile, I just thought I should point out a potentially complementary library called 'tabular'. Thanks for the pointer, I'll try it out. Sebastian -- Underestimating the novelty of the future is a time