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Monthly Archives: January 2009

Peaceful Transition of Power

As we watch Bush leave the White House, I’d like to take a moment to call out the people who [...]
Posted in Politics | 19 Comments

On monoids and metaphor shear

So, the other night, when I was tired of coding, I posted a collection of thoughts I’ve had on Haskell. [...]
Posted in Classic, To Be Categorized | 15 Comments

Random thoughts on Haskell

So I've been programming in Haskell a lot recently, and thought I'd just share some of the random observations I've had about the language.
Posted in Classic, To Be Categorized | 30 Comments

Back on the Market: Need a Java/Groovy/Grails Expert?

The company I was working for didn’t get the investment they were counting on, so I’m back on the market. [...]
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Monads are Inversion of Control au naturel

Ted Neward on Twitter had the following somewhat astounding conversation: Why do you keep insisting monads are goodness? What purpose do [...]
Posted in Classic, Programming Language Punditry | 9 Comments