grndn

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by grndn 12y ago
Did you notice the date on that C#6 post?
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by grndn 12y ago
Like this (in F#) http://blogs.msdn.com/b/andrewkennedy/archive/2008/08/29/uni...
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by grndn 12y ago
The problems that XML and XSLT address have not gone away. It saddens me when the XML-hating JSON community starts reinventing solutions that have all the same issues of bloat and complexity (see JSON schema, Collection+JSON, Siren, etc). I
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by grndn 12y ago
+1 for mentioning Lene Lovich!
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by grndn 12y ago
Elm is worth checking out: http://elm-lang.org/
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by grndn 12y ago
The VsVim plugin for Visual Studio gives you the best of both worlds! https://github.com/jaredpar/VsVim/
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by grndn 12y ago
> I tend not to care about the opinions of people who lack critical thinking skills. Some of those people might be HR people, divorce judges, immigration officials, dispute arbitrators, loan authorizers, etc etc. It's hard to live
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by grndn 12y ago
There are some fascinating stories on using QuickCheck to test Riak and other distributed systems. For example: http://basho.com/tag/quickcheck/ and https://skillsmatter.com/skillscasts/4505-q
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by grndn 12y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines
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by grndn 12y ago
Hindley-Milner + library availability + good docs => F#
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by grndn 12y ago
I used to live in Los Angeles. On the freeways, the speed limit was 55mph but I read once that the actual average speed was around 17mph. My (unscientific) theory is that with higher speed limits, you get more traffic waves, and people try
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by grndn 12y ago
> the current limits on most roads don't represent what speed ... people could safely drive at. If there's a sidewalk or any t-junctions, that's about 20mph tops. Anything faster, and you can't stop in time, plus in
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by grndn 12y ago
From "A Fistful of Monads" chapter in "Learn you a Haskell" > When we first talked about functors, we saw that they were a useful concept for values that can be mapped over. Then, we took that concept one step further