The “Whole Program” Fallacy
This StackOverflow question has generated a buzz of zealous reactions in the Haskell community. Here are the important bits of the question: I often find this pattern in Haskell code: options :: MVar OptionRecord options = unsafePerformIO $ newEmptyMVar doSomething :: Foo -> Bar doSomething = unsafePerformIO $ do opt <- readMVar options doSomething’ where [...]
Sociocracy Game
This is going to be a short, idea-jot post. I have been reading up a storm about sociocracy. The wikipedia article does not really do it justice. It is a very interesting system of governance based on cybernetic principles that claims to achieve decisions that are in the interests of much more people than a [...]

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