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by balakk 12y ago
It can be as terse as you want it to be. The bigger virtues are its speed, language features, and the environment. F# interactive is what powershell/ISE wants to be, when it grows up and drinks the magic potion of awesomeness.
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The Robots running this way(technologyreview.com)
4 points by balakk 12y ago|0 comments
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by balakk 12y ago
One of the Swift developers is a former F# dev: https://twitter.com/jopamer The language seems more closer to F# than C# to me. It's all good though!
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by balakk 12y ago
RPGs / Hellfire.
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Parrot Bebop(parrot.com)
218 points by balakk 12y ago|93 comments
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The Hindenburg Disaster(airships.net)
2 points by balakk 12y ago|0 comments
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by balakk 12y ago
There are some apps that do something similar: http://www.emotient.com/ http://www.affdex.com/ They work reasonably well if a frontal face picture can be captured.
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by balakk 13y ago
Once the strategy is set, this feels like work. That's why I still like games like tetris. A game should have an element of surprise..
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by balakk 13y ago
paywalled.
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The Westerners Who Love North Korea(thediplomat.com)
1 points by balakk 13y ago|0 comments
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Genome surgery(technologyreview.com)
2 points by balakk 13y ago|0 comments
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by balakk 13y ago
F# has a huge following on macs. The Xamarin guys drive it, and practically every major open source .Net library is available for mono. I haven't tested it on linux, but I've found it works pretty well on macs.
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by balakk 13y ago
Nice - does this work for unconstrained speech - as in would this work for use-cases like transcription? What's the maximum audio length supported? Is accent an issue? Sensitivity to background noise? A FAQ would be nice to have.
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The Fat Lady is still singing(newyorker.com)
1 points by balakk 13y ago|0 comments
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by balakk 13y ago
It is strange how words lose their meaning once the concept becomes common-place. We don't say motor-vehicle anymore, electric lamp, and so on. People would probably think you're weird if you do that :) Sometimes I think computer
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Chinese Internet Traffic Redirected to Small Wyoming Building(bits.blogs.nytimes.com)
3 points by balakk 13y ago|0 comments
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by balakk 13y ago
Is there a similar file for python?
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by balakk 13y ago
He's also IronMan. https://s3.amazonaws.com/github-images/blog/2011/PhilHaack.J...
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Biology's brave new world(cfr.org)
2 points by balakk 13y ago|0 comments
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by balakk 13y ago
Perhaps you might appreciate that there is a wide spectrum of problems that might require parallelism, from dramatically simple enterprise apps to "massively concurrent quoting/trading engines". This advice is written for the
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by balakk 13y ago
I used to think that, but NoScript is surprisingly usable. I switched to Firefox simply because of NoScript.
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by balakk 13y ago
I thought it was more about the perks.
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by balakk 13y ago
There are things that you see as hype, and dismiss them. And then there is hype, which you desperately want to be true. Somebody will figure out a way.
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by balakk 13y ago
So does this mean we just sit back & watch for 10 months? Or can something go wrong after this as well?
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Poll: Number of hours Not spent in front of a screen per day
1 points by balakk 13y ago|0 comments
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