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“We can barely decide whether or not bacon will cause health problems year over year, let alone the more complicated issues like politics an...

A monoid has an append operation (like plus) and an identity (like 0) and you get for free a concat operation. In Ruby it's something ...

I read jQuery is a Monad and thought yeah this is pretty cool I finally understand Monads. jQuery is not a Monad,  a Monad can take any t...

We recently had a problem with ElasticSearch's snapshots where a shard (a directory) was failing because it was missing the metadata fi...

This is just a quick post which may not be applicable for long but fixed the problem I had where I was trying to get the first item even if ...

I've started to read " Show Stopper! " and it has an excellent part in the first chapter about Grace Hopper, who created the f...

To copy between two cloud providers using CarrierWave and Fog is a bit tricky.  Copying from one provider to a temporary file and then stori...

I was reading " 'Memo' Functions and Machine Learning " again.  It's an interesting article, appearing in Nature, befo...

When I've used git I've used it pretty much CVS, SVN and any other version control system I've used before - I've checked in...

The stereotype is that developers are notoriously bad at human interactions.  I'd suggest that developers are notoriously bad at interac...

This is a reproduction of an article that appears in Compute's Gazzette, Issue 59 .  I'm reproducing it here because I think it'...

I've been reading, " A Question of Truth " which is primarily about homosexuality in the Catholic church and references to it ...

I think this article on why you shouldn't code is wrong. It's wrong in a way that I was wrong in high school that I would never ne...

I just finished a study group on Learn You a Haskell for Great Good .  Which was a great experience, for many reasons, but I think the way e...