Monthly Archives: November 2009

One Hundred Paper Cuts: Karmic Summary and Lucid Plans

Tuesday, November 24th, 2009

Karmic Retrospective
Long story short: we fixed 76 paper cuts for Karmic. Hooray! Congratulations! For more details, see the Ubuntu wiki page.
(I believe we actually reached 100, but many paper cuts were fixed without being reported or carefully tracked, and some individual paper cuts addressed multiple instances of a general of problem.)
What about Lucid?
At the Ubuntu [...]

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Haskell Gem: Unwrapping Indented Text

Wednesday, November 4th, 2009

While processing some email, I needed a script to unwrap indented lines in email headers. I wrote a Haskell program that turned out to be a short and sweet demonstration of simple but interesting Haskell features (pattern matching, guards, type inference, function composition, and the humble cons) so I thought I’d share it.

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