Quote from: jabe on 07/05/2016 11:27 pmQuote from: QuantumG on 07/05/2016 10:54 pmEwww.. they've building it with Haskell? mmm why the "dislike"? edit:ok..did a search..I think i get it I'm curious too, and a search wouldn't tell me why. The company is headquartered in Jacksonville where I grew up and now live. Their contract history as reported by our business journal has been quite impressive. The founder Preston Haskell has been a generous benefactor to many important causes locally, and it happens my brother's brother-in-law is their lead architect, a very intelligent and nice man whom I think you actually would like QuantumG.
Quote from: QuantumG on 07/05/2016 10:54 pmEwww.. they've building it with Haskell? mmm why the "dislike"? edit:ok..did a search..I think i get it
Ewww.. they've building it with Haskell?
Quote from: CyndyC on 07/14/2016 08:04 pmQuote from: jabe on 07/05/2016 11:27 pmQuote from: QuantumG on 07/05/2016 10:54 pmEwww.. they've building it with Haskell? mmm why the "dislike"? edit:ok..did a search..I think i get it I'm curious too, and a search wouldn't tell me why. The company is headquartered in Jacksonville where I grew up and now live. Their contract history as reported by our business journal has been quite impressive. The founder Preston Haskell has been a generous benefactor to many important causes locally, and it happens my brother's brother-in-law is their lead architect, a very intelligent and nice man whom I think you actually would like QuantumG.Pretty sure it's a programmer's joke...Haskell is a programming language that you either have never heard of, love, or hate. There are no other possibilities. (It's functional, strongly typed, non strict semantically, but with lazy evaluation... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haskell_(programming_language) for more )
I'm curious too, and a search wouldn't tell me why. The company is headquartered in Jacksonville where I grew up and now live. Their contract history as reported by our business journal has been quite impressive. The founder Preston Haskell has been a generous benefactor to many important causes locally, and it happens my brother's brother-in-law is their lead architect, a very intelligent and nice man whom I think you actually would like QuantumG.
Quote from: CyndyC on 07/14/2016 08:04 pmI'm curious too, and a search wouldn't tell me why. The company is headquartered in Jacksonville where I grew up and now live. Their contract history as reported by our business journal has been quite impressive. The founder Preston Haskell has been a generous benefactor to many important causes locally, and it happens my brother's brother-in-law is their lead architect, a very intelligent and nice man whom I think you actually would like QuantumG.It's a somewhat obscure programming joke, not a critique of the construction company of the same name who are actually involved here. Haskell is also the name of a rather particular programming language, and discussions of the type "Eww, you're using X language for Y application?" are a standby of programming forums.
def fib(n): a,b = 1,1 for i in range(n-1): a,b = b,a+b return a
fibs = 0 : 1 : zipWith (+) fibs (tail fibs)fib n = fibs !! n
Quote from: e of pi on 07/18/2016 04:03 pmQuote from: CyndyC on 07/14/2016 08:04 pmI'm curious too, and a search wouldn't tell me why. The company is headquartered in Jacksonville where I grew up and now live. Their contract history as reported by our business journal has been quite impressive. The founder Preston Haskell has been a generous benefactor to many important causes locally, and it happens my brother's brother-in-law is their lead architect, a very intelligent and nice man whom I think you actually would like QuantumG.It's a somewhat obscure programming joke, not a critique of the construction company of the same name who are actually involved here. Haskell is also the name of a rather particular programming language, and discussions of the type "Eww, you're using X language for Y application?" are a standby of programming forums.If anyone is curious about how Haskell is "different", here's a side by side comparison of a simple fibonacci function.Typical short Python implementation:Quotedef fib(n): a,b = 1,1 for i in range(n-1): a,b = b,a+b return aTypical short Haskell implementation:Quotefibs = 0 : 1 : zipWith (+) fibs (tail fibs)fib n = fibs !! nThe imperative python program just iterates on values up to the result with a for loop. The Haskell program on the other hand creates a recursive definition of an infinite list of all fibonacci numbers, and evaluates the n'th element of that list. Incidentally it is also much faster, though this isn't really a fair comparison.It does this by using a higher order function "zipWith" to map a familiar function "(+)" to one that you need: the function "zipWith (+)" which does element wise addition on lists. This way of constructing the functions you need by passing functions as input to other functions to mutate them is key to the Haskell way of doing things.In short, the idea space is completely different, in a strongly polarizing way that people will either love or hate.
Quote from: Lar on 08/01/2016 02:57 amObscure programming languages seem VERY closely related to Blue Origin manufacturing facilities in Florida.Oh wait...Feel free to actually moderate the thread.
Obscure programming languages seem VERY closely related to Blue Origin manufacturing facilities in Florida.Oh wait...
Space Florida @SpaceFlorida 3m3 minutes agoThis morning, crews began pouring concrete for @blueorigin first building at its vehicle manufacturing campus
The takeaway from this is the development of commercial space means that the days of reliance on government space are ending - commercial space is more sustainable and less subject to the whims of politicians.
Ha! The engineers, physicists and other geeks have been in charge many times before. The difference with Bezos and Musk is that they can actually manage a company.
Quote from: QuantumG on 08/29/2016 11:12 amHa! The engineers, physicists and other geeks have been in charge many times before. The difference with Bezos and Musk is that they can actually manage a company.David W. Thompson (engineer) did pretty well starting Orbital from nothing with two other guys and building it into a big company, but unlike Musk and Bezos they didn't have their own billions to play with. Even so, I'll readily agree most engineers, physicists and other geeks aren't good managers. We're fortunate to be around to see Musk and Bezos do their thing.
As to "good managers", depends on culture. No way you can compare them "apples to apples" - Musk wouldn't be tolerated in OA's culture, Thompson wouldn't even be functional at SX.
Finally the engineers (Bezos) and physicists (Musk) are in charge again.
All fascinating insights surrounding Blue Origin's origins, except I see Jeff Bezos as a really, really smart librarian, not an engineer...
QuoteAll fascinating insights surrounding Blue Origin's origins, except I see Jeff Bezos as a really, really smart librarian, not an engineer...It's funny, he was an EECS major while I was an MAE (mechanical and aerospace engineering) major in the same class, but I never ran into him around the Equad because EECS was in a different part of the building. Anyway, good for all of us that he's putting his engineering degree to use instead of just selling books. ;-)
QuoteFinally the engineers (Bezos) and physicists (Musk) are in charge again.All fascinating insights surrounding Blue Origin's origins, except I see Jeff Bezos as a really, really smart librarian, not an engineer, and in an interview with Elon Musk, he once described himself as "basically an engineer," not a physicist.
Musk is, in fact, a physicist by training.