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by equark 16y ago
Interesting that they bailed on Cassandra and went back to HBase.
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by equark 16y ago
There are a few issues. For me two of the most basic are 1) the lack of a ubiquitous NA across all data types and 2) lack of 754 floating point behavior. The lack of custom infix operators is also a bit painful, especially if you view matl
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by equark 16y ago
Where in the MIT license does it say you can't bar redistribution in your proprietary fork? That's obviously what everybody does when they use MIT code in their proprietary products? That's the whole point.
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by equark 16y ago
Units of measure has always struck me as a pet feature of F# that's only there because it happened to be what somebody's PhD dissertation was written on. Whether it is useful in practice is unclear. I saw Don Syme give a presentation where
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by equark 16y ago
Credit Suisse has about 100 people in their algorithmic trading and risk management group using F#.
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by equark 16y ago
Type Providers in the next version of F# should be another impressive feature. This will really change the way F# interoperates with data and Web APIs. Type providers make everything available, strongly typed, from intellisense with no vis
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by equark 16y ago
Animation is largely a tooling issue. It will be solved at some point, probably by Adobe.
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by equark 16y ago
It's interesting how the F# team is pushing F# to be the language for data-rich programming. Their Type Provider concept looks promising, but some of their demos still are comically difficult coming from a R/Matlab/Python style of data-ric
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by equark 16y ago
I think you're looking for the MonoMac project. It's doubtful that you want to develop actual UI using WPF. Binding to native widget will give your app a much more integrated feel. http://www.mono-project.com/MonoMac
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by equark 16y ago
3. Grant of Patent License. Subject to the terms and conditions of this License, each Contributor hereby grants to You a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, no-charge, royalty-free, irrevocable (except as stated in this section) patent lic
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by equark 16y ago
Yes.
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by equark 16y ago
Choose the domain first and then the language. Decide what type of programming do you want to do and what type of company do you want to work for. Then choose the biggest or hottest language / framework in that domain. Do you want to do s
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by equark 16y ago
Beyond websockets, I've found that SocketTornado.IO works great out of the box and supports multiple transports with ease. http://github.com/SocketTornadIO/SocketTornad.IO
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by equark 16y ago
Same goes for TornadoSocketIO though, so this isn't unique to node.js.
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by equark 16y ago
See this post, there are two parts to DLR. http://lists.ironpython.com/pipermail/users-ironpython.com/2... I believe Mono guys should be blogging about this tomorrow, so more on future will be known then. I think there's a lot of positive
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by equark 16y ago
If you're interested in machine learning, it's hard to imagine how you will get beyond tinkering without an advanced degree. A PhD brings a depth and maturity when thinking about how to frame machine learning (statistics) problems, which I
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by equark 16y ago
He has now become the IronRuby lead, although not at Microsoft.
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by equark 16y ago
It is sad that Hugunin isn't involved with IronPython any more. But it may be good news for the IronPython and IronRuby community that Microsoft no longer has the reins. Currently it is impossible to contribute back code, which destroys an
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by equark 16y ago
My experience is that this happens only after the view has matured. It's hard to foresee everything that should be in the view model. The UX guy will want certain things in the API and there will be a lot of interplay between the two role
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by equark 16y ago
There's a fair amount of overlap between them, so I'm not sure you'd want to use both. Backbone has a more integrated persistence layer, but that layer is pretty tied to the model. It wouldn't make sense to use that and use Knockout for th
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by equark 16y ago
This testing point is spot on. Last night, I was getting killed with little bugs on some dynamic menu / tab widget where things got added and deleted and the active tab needed to move around smartly. Knockout allowed me to whip up 30 test
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by equark 16y ago
I considered both Backbone and Knockout and ended up with Knockout, although both are great! I find Knockout's simple declarative binding to be cleaner for most cases: <span data-bind:"text: title"></span> And Knocko
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by equark 16y ago
I would try it. I'm using KnockoutJS plus CoffeeScript and it's hard to imagine how it could be much cleaner. I would never go back to using jQuery bindings for UI except maybe for the smallest little things.
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by equark 16y ago
We are hiring a short-term, front-end designer for a javascript heavy application related to data analysis and statistical computing. We use coffeescript, knockoutjs, and socket.io. We're based in Cambridge, MA but are open to remote work.
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by equark 16y ago
This is exactly right. And these popups can be pure HTML/CSS. See this easy integration with the jQuery tipsy library. http://vis.stanford.edu/protovis/ex/tipsy.html
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by equark 16y ago
I tried to move to Backbone.js but I'm not sure I like the style of coding it advocates. I ended up moving to KnockoutJS. I find knockout's data-binding and dependency tracking more elegant. For instance: <div data-bind = "style:
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by equark 16y ago
I didn't even see this page. I just played with demo and thought: nice start, but it'll be tough to beat officelive, google apps, or Zoho. You need to strongly differentiate between these solutions. This page actually does a good job but
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by equark 16y ago
What's the Javascript story on the server side when we have real interoperability needs? For instance, in the corporate world where there are huge Java or .NET libraries that I absolutely need to access with good performance. Is there an ea
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by equark 16y ago
It's gone way beyond that. The Stanford team is now trying to race up Pike's Peak in an autonomous Audi, drifting around corners at full speed. They already are doing trials at 130mph, drifting, in the Nevada salt flats. http://www.youtu
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by equark 16y ago
I'm working on building a next-generation statistical computing environment. The ideal cofounder would be a PhD candidate focusing on machine learning, statistics, or quantitative methods, and be well-versed in Bayesian statistics. Based i

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