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Is this healthy?

I never said Stack Exchange websites were “perfect” for anything. I’ve just been using it today and I hate it. Stack Exchange websites use competition to achieve answers to questions a paradigm that is completely at odds with collaboration and understanding necessary to actually have conversations in which multiple opinions can coexist and learning can occur.

You obviously don’t socialize with non-programmers very much

Yeah. I want to learn Racket and my Haskell is very slowly advancing so I’m definitely down with Lisps etc.

Thanks for the useful reply. I’m giving MailMate some serious consideration depending on whether the smart mailboxes feature can distinguish between threads I’m involved in and threads I am not.

> Also look for bloggers who have quality comment communities

Yeah that’s quite a good point. Twitter too I guess. The trouble with blogs and twitter is that you can’t ask a question unless you have a blog or a twitter account that is popular.

Oh yeah, this is not a book to use for learning Haskell. I personally recommend Graham Hutton’s Programming in Haskell or Real World Haskell if you want to learn Haskell. Hutton’s book focuses more on the principles of the language while RWH on its applications but still covers principles well. RWH is a significantly larger time commitment.

I know a lot of people wax on the virtues of Learn You A Haskell but I found its explanations sufficiently full of inferable minutiae that my brain switched off safe in the knowledge that thinking is not required and I stopped learning. Maybe this is just me though.

The first part is all about logic and it tells you everything you need to know. You have to approach it like reading a big academic paper though. It’s not like you’ll be flipping through the pages rapidly but it is definitely understandable. Can’t comment on later parts because I stopped reading. I might start again one day though. I quite liked it.

The absence of that executable flag does nothing to protect you from using an existing executable and some data such as an interpreter and source code.

That advice creates startups that are more likely to work, yes, but also seriously narrows the range of different startups likely to occur. You’re optimizing for reliability—not surprising, you’re an investor—not for where the need is greatest.

Perhaps once you’ve made a lot of money you could afford to optimize for where the need is greatest instead of reliability and fund tech startups tackling problems less familiar to their founders or founders from different backgrounds. This will probably be more risky but greater needs should produce greater rewards, right?

Except the overall effect of this startup will be the opposite of what you just describe. Prim isn’t creating more dirty laundry, it’s consolidating the laundry jobs into batches that will be performed by fewer businesses than would otherwise overall.

If you happen to own one of the laundromats that Prim doesn’t want to use you will see a reduction in your business. There is a saving grace for that situation however, you could apply for a job at Prim.

Nah, switch to DuckDuckGo and Firefox please :)

Aren’t we on IE 10 now? Why would you upgrade to IE7?

Don’t handicapped and retarded me pretty much the same thing? Why does one offend and you use the other freely?