Tumblr (3.0; @benhoskings)http://ben.hoskings.net/<code>rdoc</code> and <code>ri</code>—- Not worth the install time. <a href="http://enkp.blogspot.com/2008/08/tuning-gems-for-speed.html">Get rid of ‘em</a>.http://ben.hoskings.net/post/44616504http://ben.hoskings.net/post/44616504Mon, 04 Aug 2008 14:07:11 +1000<img src="http://media.tumblr.com/rqEzpwCK9bn80rtzkFmn9ZsM_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>Carnarvon Gorge, QLD, Australiahttp://ben.hoskings.net/post/42907761http://ben.hoskings.net/post/42907761Sun, 20 Jul 2008 23:14:20 +1000<p>Been reading up on Haskell. A friend pointed me at <a href="http://book.realworldhaskell.org/beta/deftypes.html">a work-in-progress</a> that will eventually be published as an O’Reilly book. It’s incredibly well written and explains the content in a way that is easily approachable, yet accurate.</p> <p>It strikes me as a pretty profound language, as it has such a strict design and is so tightly coupled to pure mathematics. I’m having trouble imagining how such a literal implementation of mathematical ideas can apply powerfully to the messy real world, but either way, it looks like a nice language to be fluent enough in to think in terms of.</p> <p>I hope Alan Perlis agrees.</p>http://ben.hoskings.net/post/42907480http://ben.hoskings.net/post/42907480Sun, 20 Jul 2008 23:08:00 +1000New design, hopefully to be followed by new content at some point.http://ben.hoskings.net/post/42297104http://ben.hoskings.net/post/42297104Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:05:00 +1000<img src="http://media.tumblr.com/rqEzpwCK9bfmskppG3dnuu71_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>Nitmiluk Gorge, NT, Australiahttp://ben.hoskings.net/post/42291045http://ben.hoskings.net/post/42291045Tue, 15 Jul 2008 15:45:46 +1000<p>Just came across <a href="http://nickpartridge.tumblr.com/post/27491962">this article</a> on my mate Nick’s blog. He speaks the truth—-SSH is brilliant for copying stuff to and fro if you have access to a commandline and the receiving machine is publicly contactable on port 22.</p> <p>To generalise, you can also copy an arbitrary tree of stuff around (including block devices, etc) using tar:</p> <pre><code>tar -zcvf - trinkets/ | ssh you@remote.machine.com 'tar -zxf -' </code></pre> <p>This will duplicate the <code>trinkets/</code> folder to your home directory on <code>remote.machine.com</code>.</p>http://ben.hoskings.net/post/36770436http://ben.hoskings.net/post/36770436Thu, 28 Feb 2008 21:28:00 +1000