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    brainlock avatar brainlock 5 months ago | link | on: Do you know any good programming games?

    I’ve had lots of fun with the synacor challenge. You get a binary file and the description of the architecture of a machine which could execute it, and start by writing a vm to run the file. Can’t recommend it enough :-)

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      janus avatar janus 6 months ago | link | on: Content based change detection with Make

      Tempted to do something similar with Shake. I wonder if it could be easier to test. Probably would be more verbose though.

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        brainlock avatar brainlock 6 months ago | link

        Shake already supports change detection by hashing the content, see ChangeDigest and ChangeModtimeAndDigest here https://hackage.haskell.org/package/shake-0.19.7/docs/Development-Shake.html#t:Change.

        It also supports the concept of a remote cache, at least in the form of a shared directory.

        Or am I misunderstanding what you mean…? :-)

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          janus avatar janus 6 months ago | link

          Thank you, good to hear that Shake seems to support the strategy of the article well. I feel like it could be be more robust if written with Shake, this is why I wondered.