jackfoxy

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by jackfoxy 10y ago
The community surrounding F# today is very supportive and helpful with people of all experience levels. Compared to when I learned F# in 2010 it is orders of magnitude easier and more social. So many resources: the F# Foundation website ht
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by jackfoxy 10y ago
Money is necessary, but not sufficient.
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by jackfoxy 10y ago
One of my favorite lines in Mad Men was Bert Cooper telling Don Draper Philanthropy is the gateway to power .
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by jackfoxy 10y ago
I could never get past the first chapter, The Soldier in White. Somehow I took it too personally, or realistically, or something, and I didn't want to continue this journey.
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Could Cognitive Scientists Eliminate ISIS?(blog.dilbert.com)
1 points by jackfoxy 10y ago|0 comments
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by jackfoxy 10y ago
It didn't happen much earlier because the Microsoft languages team is very deliberate and careful about rolling out new features. They have to be. There are something like 1.5 billion machines running some sort of Windows, and (I don&#
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by jackfoxy 10y ago
Is there a word for cases where ADA action causes net harm to society? When a great good can be achieved for almost free, and it is hindered because ADA compliance would cost a lot, what is the benefit to the disabled?
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by jackfoxy 10y ago
Windows 8 was ridiculous, and one of the things that gave MS a big wake up call. Its now a different company. Windows 10 is leaps better in about every way than 8 (not without its own issues, of course). Disclosure: I am a MS MVP. MS will l
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Dopamine Puppets(blog.dilbert.com)
2 points by jackfoxy 10y ago|0 comments
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Television Is Training Me to Not Watch Television(blog.dilbert.com)
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by jackfoxy 10y ago
For what it is worth, the Microsoft docs are getting easier to navigate. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/ They are currently putting a lot of effort into docs. It's got to be hard to learn .NET from zero. Try fig
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by jackfoxy 10y ago
The Renaissance by Will Durant, part of his The Story of Civilization series. I was inspired to review the Renaissance by last year's Burning Man theme, especially a collection of Renaissance inspired art by an Israeli photographer
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Virtual Panel: What's Next for .NET?(infoq.com)
3 points by jackfoxy 10y ago|1 comments
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by jackfoxy 10y ago
Thanks to Sergey Tihon in Minsk the Stanford NLP library gets made available as a .NET library about as fast as new releases come out. http://sergey-tihon.github.io/Stanford.NLP.NET/
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by jackfoxy 10y ago
Anyone know how big a number you can factor with 32 and with 64 qbits? Those qbit goals were a tangible thing that jumped out at me when I scanned the article.
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by jackfoxy 10y ago
In terms of illegally obtained content, the Democrats had no problem claiming higher ethical ground in releasing a tapped cell phone conversation of Newt Gingrich http://www.daviddfriedman.com/CCP_97/Gingrich%252fMartin
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.NET Core Roadmap(github.com)
61 points by jackfoxy 10y ago|19 comments
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by jackfoxy 10y ago
I had never heard of this before. You would think it would be better known amongst all the Pearl Harbor trivia.
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by jackfoxy 10y ago
I agree with everything you recommend, but it is possible to speak grammatically with near perfection much faster than years if you study the grammar. Finding the right grammar book/course may not be easy. I was lucking enough to go th
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by jackfoxy 10y ago
If you can cost effectively extract large quantities of CO2 from the atmosphere, the oil industry would be very interested. CO2 flood is one of the most effective enhanced oil recovery (EOR) methods. The problem is a lack of sources conveni
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by jackfoxy 10y ago
or just filter the tap water yourself
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Amyris and Autodesk Open Source Tools for Genetic Design(investors.amyris.com)
1 points by jackfoxy 10y ago|0 comments
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by jackfoxy 10y ago
"Yes." (Couldn't resist that one.) Ulysses is a hard slog. That should be expected from someone who wrote one page per day. IIRC correctly Ulysses took 7 years, so Joyce apparently wasn't even writing every day. I read
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by jackfoxy 10y ago
Historically I believe F# was the first project Microsoft open sourced. I'm not sure the current incarnation of the project reflects the entire history, but the language has active community contributors, with Don Syme of MSR acting as
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by jackfoxy 10y ago
Or you can read South , and read Shackleton's own words https://www.amazon.com/South-ENDURANCE-Expedition-Ernest-Sha...
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Tiny Spanish publisher clones world's most mysterious book(yahoo.com)
9 points by jackfoxy 10y ago|2 comments
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by jackfoxy 10y ago
The issue at hand can be abstracted to flow in a network, and so maximizing utility is all about maximizing and exploiting bandwidth in the network. In an area with a complex geography like the Bay Area (and also in many if not most urban a
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Modern obsession with permanent revolutions in physics(motls.blogspot.com)
1 points by jackfoxy 10y ago|0 comments
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by jackfoxy 10y ago
I cringe every time I see begs the question in its modern usage. Please don't take this as a personal attack. Just sayin'.
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by jackfoxy 10y ago
Predictably I offended somebody. Discussions of parens in Lisp often turn out this way. I actually think Lisp is a beautiful language, the only language (other than assemblers) that I'm somewhat familiar with that is homoiconic. (At le

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