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ocamlnet-3.0.0

I’m very proud to announce Ocamlnet 3.0.0, a completely overhauled version of Ocamlnet. Wish I had some problems that needed solving with ocamlnet! (via caml-list)

Easy Ways to Fail a Ph.D.

Here is one person’s top ten list of ways to fail to obtain a PhD. Interesting quotes: Ph.D. school seems to be a magnet for every kind of procrastinator. Advisors expect near-terminal Ph.D. students to be proto-professors with intimate knowledge of the challenges in their field. They should be capable of selecting and attacking research [...]

Barcamp Milwaukee 5 approaches

Barcamp Milwaukee 5 will be held from Saturday October 2, 2010 at 10AM through Sunday October 3, 2010 at 4PM. Mike plans to present on Clojure, which should be pretty fun to attend.

Okasaki’s Purely Functional Data Structures in Typed Racket

A library of purely functional data structures in Typed Racket. Data structures in the library are based on Chris Okasaki’s book Purely Functional Data Structures, work by Phil Bagwell and others (via racket)

Delimited continuations on OCaml

Yaron’s Effective ML Lessons

* Favor readers over writers * Create uniform interfaces * Make illegal states unrepresentable * Code for exhaustiveness * Open few modules * Make common errors obvious * Avoid boilerplate * Avoid complex type-hackery * Don’t be puritanical about purity (via janestreet)

How to Measure Anything

This looks like a great book.

Welcome New Connie Owners

Via John McCain:

What is ATGATT?

ATGATT stands for “All The Gear All The Time”. (via advrider)

Lisp, erlang, forth, scheme, prolog, ML maintainer(s) needed urgently in Fedora

See here.