MrMan

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1. 1291.▲
   by MrMan 16y ago

   high density is sustainable, probably, whereas low density is probably not. how is that for a benefit? and don't discount how highly "fun" ranks in peoples' lives.
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   by MrMan 16y ago

   bzflag!!!! This is like seeing someone you kind of know at an airport far away from home. please forgive the off-topic post.
3. 1293.▲
   by MrMan 16y ago

   The whole post is about math processing errors.
4. 1294.▲
   by MrMan 16y ago

   I have servers at that location, but why would I ever go there? To interact with the handful of ad sales staff? To visit my rack?
5. 1295.▲
   by MrMan 16y ago

   13. got all the old langs and the bonus. Missed Scala and Php, oh well...
6. 1296.▲
   by MrMan 16y ago

   I meant community in business, work. I am middle-aged, with children. I do not make money from the community in which I live, I make it globally. It is an accident, not a matter of choice initially. I choose to keep it that way because I fi
7. 1297.▲
   by MrMan 16y ago

   Karma breeds elitism. But low or negative karma individuals may preserve diversity, preventing fitness plateau, stagnation and, as you suggest, perhaps decline. Would be nice to be able to fork HN, like git, with parameters of the forkers c
8. 1298.▲
   by MrMan 16y ago

   I think the road from hacking to politics is any exercise of power using the intrinsic mechanisms of a system. So "voting machines", for example, might be a more hackerly means of connecting hacking with politics, than "civil liberties."
9. 1299.▲
   by MrMan 16y ago

   I have no regional community. I live in a certain place, but my servers are not here, my collaborators are not here, my customers are not here. What is "here?"
10. 1300.▲
    by MrMan 16y ago

    But if the Indian audience upvotes them they will rise to the top.
11. 1301.▲
    by MrMan 16y ago

    I agree that fragmentation will ruin the HN experience. I want MORE Indian news here, not less! DC, I don't know.
12. 1302.▲
    by MrMan 16y ago

    I would also much rather that the existing HN community became more global, by including all Indian hackers/entrepreneurs. It doesn't do anyone much good to have people in the US and India isolated on their own websites does it? One of th
13. 1303.▲
    by MrMan 16y ago

    Tekadi, Kerala. Just kidding.
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    by MrMan 16y ago

    What kind of work have you been doing? Find work that is much harder.
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    by MrMan 16y ago

    This is a key response. I am more interested in why MSFT would spend more resources creating more languages than on streamlining the facilities for creating languages. Maybe dog-fooding these things over the last 8 years or so has spurred,
16. 1306.▲
    by MrMan 16y ago

    Very interesting - F# fills a fundamental need that cannot be supplied even by C# 4.0 with its post-modern featureset. Thanks for that opinion.
17. 1307.▲
    by MrMan 16y ago

    Is F# still really just another ML flavor? In any way that is meaningful in the real world? Another poster on this thread asserts that F# adoption is happening in finance, by FP practitioners who would <i>otherwise use unix!</i&
18. 1308.▲
    by MrMan 16y ago

    I know they exist, thanks. I am asking only about the motivation for fostering a new language for the CLR, and the costs involved. I am proposing that building in tool support is, while necessary for adoption, costly. Another anecdotal asid
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    Why did Microsoft invest so much in F#?

    57 points by MrMan 16y ago|60 comments
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    by MrMan 16y ago

    I don't think MSFT will want to encourage mobile app devs to write apps for any platform but WP7, and I also think that there is a market for this product. I personally would buy it. So you will not likely face competition from the biggest
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    From Employee To Entrepreneur or Investor?

    2 points by MrMan 16y ago|2 comments