[Haskell-cafe] Haskell Weekly News: Issue 303

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Welcome to issue 303 of the HWN, an issue covering crowd-sourced bits
of information about Haskell from around the web. This issue covers
from August 17 to 23, 2014

Quotes of the Week

   * monochrom: "point free" can be decomposed to: "point" refers to
                ".", "free" refers to using no "$". :)

Top Reddit Stories

   * λ Bubble Pop!
     Domain: chrisuehlinger.com, Score: 97, Comments: 41
     Original: [1] http://goo.gl/hVQq2F
     On Reddit: [2] http://goo.gl/OQWXK2

   * The fundamental problem of programming language package management
     Domain: blog.ezyang.com, Score: 82, Comments: 54
     Original: [3] http://goo.gl/fWmA0P
     On Reddit: [4] http://goo.gl/PfJbY0

   * How Programming language subreddits talk (including Haskell)
     Domain: github.com, Score: 72, Comments: 31
     Original: [5] http://goo.gl/2Ef0tB
     On Reddit: [6] http://goo.gl/KpTH74

   * A fast, generic and type-safe image processing library written in Haskell
     Domain: hackage.haskell.org, Score: 59, Comments: 27
     Original: [7] http://goo.gl/Pmeot3
     On Reddit: [8] http://goo.gl/Veffgp

   * GHC company-mode
     Domain: github.com, Score: 58, Comments: 7
     Original: [9] http://goo.gl/UVDEhl
     On Reddit: [10] http://goo.gl/uuxRCd

   * Hase - bringing state-of-the-art NLP to Haskell
     Domain: github.com, Score: 55, Comments: 8
     Original: [11] http://goo.gl/l39RVB
     On Reddit: [12] http://goo.gl/A8FI9k

   * Lens 4.4 release notes
     Domain: self.haskell, Score: 54, Comments: 18
     Original: [13] http://goo.gl/WjndWF
     On Reddit: [14] http://goo.gl/WjndWF

   * Jobs: Haskell developer roles at Standard Chartered
     Domain: donsbot.wordpress.com, Score: 48, Comments: 21
     Original: [15] http://goo.gl/ik0pc3
     On Reddit: [16] http://goo.gl/vDC3Jn

   * Speeding up conduit
     Domain: fpcomplete.com, Score: 42, Comments: 27
     Original: [17] http://goo.gl/wdbJVY
     On Reddit: [18] http://goo.gl/hfnyhj

   * Why is GHC Runtime Enviornment in C?
     Domain: self.haskell, Score: 39, Comments: 34
     Original: [19] http://goo.gl/9uh3YJ
     On Reddit: [20] http://goo.gl/9uh3YJ

   * An introduction to QuickCheck by example: Number theory and 
     Okasaki's red-black trees
     Domain: matt.might.net, Score: 37, Comments: 1
     Original: [21] http://goo.gl/DnXQrK
     On Reddit: [22] http://goo.gl/zkLzQi

   * [ANN] dash-haskell: Package dependency approximate documentation 
     look-up & access for IDE(s) (Emacs,Vim+)
     Domain: github.com, Score: 31, Comments: 9
     Original: [23] http://goo.gl/Z6HHFK
     On Reddit: [24] http://goo.gl/jxtJWW

   * Deprecating yesod-platform
     Domain: yesodweb.com, Score: 30, Comments: 10
     Original: [25] http://goo.gl/C3sSj9
     On Reddit: [26] http://goo.gl/P5w22y

   * Building Monad Transformers.
     Domain: jakubarnold.cz, Score: 25, Comments: 8
     Original: [27] http://goo.gl/SBeulZ
     On Reddit: [28] http://goo.gl/0a5vYr

   * Better code readability with Vim Haskell Conceal+
     Domain: github.com, Score: 20, Comments: 44
     Original: [29] http://goo.gl/2pNWCz
     On Reddit: [30] http://goo.gl/FMThMu

   * What's the best practice for building a DSL in haskell?
     Domain: self.haskell, Score: 19, Comments: 22
     Original: [31] http://goo.gl/v9fIO8
     On Reddit: [32] http://goo.gl/v9fIO8

   * Object-Oriented Style Overloading for Haskell
     Domain: research.microsoft.com, Score: 18, Comments: 9
     Original: [33] http://goo.gl/SPkDps
     On Reddit: [34] http://goo.gl/UwF6X5

   * SmartChecking Matt Might’s Red-Black Trees
     Domain: leepike.wordpress.com, Score: 18, Comments: 0
     Original: [35] http://goo.gl/gd5aUQ
     On Reddit: [36] http://goo.gl/9Ubkra

Top StackOverflow Questions

   * What kinds of type errors can Haskell catch at compile time that 
     Java cannot? [closed]
     votes: 23, answers: 4
     Read on SO: [37] http://goo.gl/19MljX

   * How to link custom object file with Haskell library
     votes: 18, answers: 0
     Read on SO: [38] http://goo.gl/K6uC0X

   * Finding where <<loop>> happened
     votes: 17, answers: 2
     Read on SO: [39] http://goo.gl/kby69L

   * What exactly makes Option a monad in Scala?
     votes: 17, answers: 3
     Read on SO: [40] http://goo.gl/whDpHu

   * Arrow without arr
     votes: 16, answers: 0
     Read on SO: [41] http://goo.gl/VBbo0Z

   * max and min with NaN in Haskell
     votes: 15, answers: 3
     Read on SO: [42] http://goo.gl/xLFDhm

   * Simplifying a GADT with Uniplate
     votes: 11, answers: 1
     Read on SO: [43] http://goo.gl/uWL1pI

   * Trying to apply CPS to an interpreter
     votes: 9, answers: 1
     Read on SO: [44] http://goo.gl/kCtbcq

   * Jumping forward with the continuation monad
     votes: 8, answers: 1
     Read on SO: [45] http://goo.gl/fBKheg

   Until next time,
   [46]+Daniel Santa Cruz

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