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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?

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".

Why would someone else's flag affect my front page?

No, it won't. It says that my HTC Desire running 2.3 is not supported.

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.

If I had Google Glass I would use it to make some quick money and sell it immediately.

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.

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.

> 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.

Because noone can order anyone at Google to work on anything except what he likes to?

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.

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.

How is this different from what "git --diff" provides out of the box for .docx documents?

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), ...

Javascript / Dart?

Sentence containing only word 'this' is automatic down vote when I see it on HN. Even +1 adds more value IMHO.

> 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.

Well, without a caveat the advice is plain wrong in 99% cases, since that caveat changes the advice completely.

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.

> 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.

I hope google, facebook, hacker news and other web sites would start shutting down at least half of their servers during the night. And, when I say night, I mean night anywhere on this platnet, not just night in some particular time zone. That would help.

"Fly, you fools!"

I hate to read that "one caffeine fueled weekend later ..." in a story like this.

Is a weekend the only time one is allowed to commit fundamental code changes to the project? Is a "lone cowboy" coding all alone without any consultation and coordination with the rest of the team really a good role model in any development environment?

This is just a small nitpick. The rest of the story, however, is good and educational.

The only reason to root my old HTC Desire that I still use happily was to be able to uninstall Facebook, Weather, Twitter and a few more apps I didn't need. Needless to say, the phone suddenly felt much snappier and my battery life doubled.

That would actually not be a bad thing. After using Android for a while, I really how applications cooperate so seamlessly using intents. I find myself frequently wanting to use intents on my Linux desktop, both as a user and as a developer. It feels almost like shell pipelines for the whole OS.

If you start a sentence with "Welcome to our team" and end it with "See you in a month." whatever you put in between, your company is doomed, and your team is highly dysfunctional.

The article said Java, not JEE. In Java land, the choice is much broader than JSF or JPA. The main problem that people bashing Java had was always that it offered too many choices. Ruby had Rails while Java had JSF, Struts, Struts 2, Tapestry, Wicket, Play. Rails had ActiveRecord, while Java had JDBC, Hibernate, MyBatis, OJB, EJB 1/2/3, JPA.

After learning a couple of (different) languages, learning the new one is easy. So easy that it usually equates learning its standard library. So learning either Django or Rails, if you are moderately experienced developer shouldn't really take more than a few weeks.

Of course, learning the first language is challenging.

Maybe they hope they will improve open source Webkit on their own free time, which they will have much more than before being laid off from Opera.

I can second that hledger i great. As a bonus, hledger-web makes it possible to also modify data, making it usable alternative to command line tools.