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The 12 Days of EFF

Posted on 2008-12-16 by Bryan O'Sullivan — No Comments ↓

Via the ever industrious Danny O’Brien, we bring to you the Electronic Frontier Foundation‘s end-of-year animation. Learn more about this video and support EFF!

Posted in scm, software

Functional programmers on Twitter

Posted on 2008-12-05 by Bryan O'Sullivan — 37 Comments ↓

Twitter has become quite the hotbed of chatter about functional programming over the past few months, as a substantial number of pretty well known FP people have either been present all along or have signed up recently and started following…

Posted in hardware, slice-o-life

Recovering from hand surgery

Posted on 2008-10-08 by Bryan O'Sullivan — 12 Comments ↓

A few months ago, I tore the A4 pulley tendon in my right ring finger in a climbing accident. Yesterday, I had it reconstructed (completely ruptured tendons don’t heal) with a graft of tendon from my forearm. I can currently…

Posted in climbing, slice-o-life

Unix hacking in Haskell: better pseudoterminal support

Posted on 2008-09-30 by Bryan O'Sullivan — 3 Comments ↓

Posted in haskell

Using Bloom filters for large scale gene sequence analysis in Haskell

Posted on 2008-09-28 by Bryan O'Sullivan — 5 Comments ↓

Ketil Malde and I submitted this paper to PADL 09. Updated 2008-10-13: the paper was accepted! Here is the PDF copy. And for the impatient, here is the abstract. Analysis of biological data often involves large data sets and computationally…

Tagged with: bioinformatics, bloom filter, haskell, search
Posted in haskell, software

Slides from my DEFUN 2008 Haskell tutorial

Posted on 2008-09-27 by Bryan O'Sullivan — 4 Comments ↓

I’ve posted my slides from tomorrow morning’s Haskell tutorial on Slideshare. (There’s a downloadable PDF version, too, if you find that an easier format to deal with.) I’ve also posted a Mercurial repository of the slide source code, in case…

Posted in haskell

Some notes on the future of Haskell and FP

Posted on 2008-09-26 by Bryan O'Sullivan — 1 Comment ↓

Don Stewart, Duncan Coutts and Simon Marlow ended the Haskell Symposium yesterday with a wonderful session about the future of Haskell. Don and Duncan began with an acknowledgement of the importance of libraries to the health and future of the…

Posted in haskell

Twittering from ICFP / Haskell symposium / CUFP

Posted on 2008-09-25 by Bryan O'Sullivan — No Comments ↓

I’m in Victoria, BC this week, at ICFP. I’ve been writing a few notes about the talks that have been taking place in my Twitter stream. Also Twittering from the conference is Don Stewart. The Haskell symposium has gotten off…

Posted in slice-o-life

Sorely disappointed by the revamped delicious

Posted on 2008-08-06 by Bryan O'Sullivan — 7 Comments ↓

In April last year, I visited Yahoo HQ to take a look at what was then their in-progress redesign of del.icio.us. It took me no more than a few minutes to decide that I hated it: it fit much less…

Posted in music

Disappointed by Thinkpad X60 thermal problems

Posted on 2008-06-21 by Bryan O'Sullivan — 9 Comments ↓

I’ve had a Lenovo X60 for about 18 months. For almost a year, I was well pleased with its combination of light weight and decent performance, but then it developed a nasty thermal problem. Its idle temperature suddenly went from…

Posted in slice-o-life