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Monday, January 05, 2009

With the advent of the internet and sophisticated digital audio and video codecs, classic hard mediums became less and less popular. People prefer to listen to their music on their PCs. However, it wa…

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Understanding Haskell monads

Friday, December 26, 2008

I’m proud to announce that I have completed my first monads tutorial for Haskell programmers. Although I’m not completely happy with a few parts (I’m a virgo after all), I’m releasing it now. I hope i…

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Prime de illuminati

Tuesday, December 09, 2008

Recently, when someone with the nickname Pr1me came into one of the German IRC channels I’m in, I pointed out that 1 is not a prime number. He should pick the nickname Pr11me instead.Of course, I was …

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Convenient XML stylesheet for articles

Saturday, December 06, 2008

I’m currently writing a (hopefully) complete and comprehensive tutorial about monads in Haskell. I’m writing it in an XML document type I specifically made up for this kind of articles. Some of you fo…

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Obscure C from a new perspective

Monday, November 17, 2008

C is probably one of the most uninteresting programming languages in the world, from a language theory standpoint. It is very simple, doesn’t provide any advanced control constructs, the type system o…

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