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The future of MailRank’s open source technologies
(Cross-posted from the MailRank engineering blog.) You may have seen my exciting news about our upcoming move to Facebook. It’s been a total blast working on our product, and of course as we did so we released a number of…
Posted in haskell, open source
A major new release of the Haskell statistics library
I'm pleased to announce a major release of of the Haskell statistics library, version 0.10.0.0. I'd particularly like to thank Alexey Khudyakov for his wonderful work on this release. New features: Student-T, Fisher-Snedecor, F-distribution, and Cauchy-Lorentz distributions are added. Histogram…
Posted in haskell, open source
The Strange Loop conference was a blast
Last week, I flew to St Louis for the excellent Strange Loop conference, where I gave a 3-hour Haskell tutorial and a talk on how we use Haskell at my startup company, MailRank. Strange Loop is a pretty good approximation…
Posted in haskell, open source
Fitter, happier, more productive UTF-8 decoding
The other night, I had a random whim to spend a couple of minutes looking at the performance of UTF-8 decoding in the Haskell Unicode text package. Actually, rather than look at the actual performance, what I did was use…
Posted in haskell, open source
Here be dragons: advances in problems you didn’t even know you had
Here’s something I bet you never think about, and for good reason: how are floating-point numbers rendered as text strings? This is a surprisingly tough problem, but it’s been regarded as essentially solved since about 1990.Prior to Steele and White’s…
attoparsec 0.9, a major (and abortive) release [updated]
Update: I just released attoparsec 0.9.1.0, which undoes all of the changes described below. The problem? While removing backtracking, I accidentally changed the semantics of the <|> operator in an unforeseen and unfortunate way. The bug I introduced was that…
Posted in haskell
Exciting teaching news
Looks like I’ve got a busy autumn ahead! Read on for two pieces of news that I’m very happy about. In September, I’ll be teaching a Haskell workshop at the Strange Loop Conference in St Louis. Here’s the abstract: Modern…
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A new week, a new JSON performance improvement
It’s been a few weeks since I last wrote about the aeson library for working with JSON in Haskell, but this isn’t because I’ve been idle. In fact, just tonight I put out a new release. Where the previous releases…
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A little care and feeding can go a long way
Sometimes, when a software package meets a certain level of maturity (or the desire to hack on it fades sufficiently), it's tempting to consider it "done". Here's a little tale of when done isn't really done.About a week ago, I…
Posted in haskell, open source
CPS is great! CPS is terrible!
Every functional programmer worth their salt seems to end up with at least a few stories to tell about programming in CPS, also known as continuation passing style. Here’s my latest one. As a user of it, you can’t tell…
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