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by jackfoxy 12y ago
The OP seems to have interest in a particular topic in what he posts, and they are all from the same source. This is possibly his blog. I don't see a problem with that.
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by jackfoxy 12y ago
In my opinion the best way to learn F# is to work through the Wiki Books tutorial, http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/F_Sharp_Programming , and then work through Scott Wlaschin's series on Thinking functionally http:&
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by jackfoxy 12y ago
I'm sure I was in that room with Reed (the OP) a year ago in November. Although I don't recall the details of the conversation, I do recall the feeling within the F# community of accomplishment up until then (Nov. 2013), and excit
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California puzzles over safety of driverless cars(apnews.myway.com)
1 points by jackfoxy 12y ago|0 comments
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by jackfoxy 12y ago
One of the great quotes from Mad Men , and it does apply perfectly to this situation.
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by jackfoxy 12y ago
tl;dr The F# language has been open source for 4 years and MS has accepted pull requests to the compiler, core library, and tools for over 6 months (100+ PRs going into F# v4.0). Now with Microsoft fully committed to open source and cross-O
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by jackfoxy 12y ago
You can do a lot with Funscript, but for professional/enterprise level F# interop with Javascript checkout WebSharper, which is finally under a permissive OSS license http://websharper.com/blog-entry/4124 . It has
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by jackfoxy 12y ago
You can go even further back to the Central Valley Project started in 1933 by the federal government http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Valley_Project which led to the largest reservoir in the state, Lake Shasta. Agr
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WebSharper 3.0-alpha under Apache license(groups.google.com)
6 points by jackfoxy 12y ago|1 comments
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by jackfoxy 12y ago
Take a look at option 3 on this page, have not tried it myself, since I use VS daily http://fsharp.org/use/windows/
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by jackfoxy 12y ago
Yes.
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by jackfoxy 12y ago
Tachyus uses F# almost exclusively. We have had great success with it. Just released 2.0 of our stack to production. After a week, still no issues. We use it for server-side web development in Azure, iOS app with Xamarin, and Raspberry Pi L
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by jackfoxy 12y ago
If your project is open source, the license is free. If you are in a serious commercial endeavor, it is insignificant.
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Jack the Ripper unmasked(dailymail.co.uk)
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by jackfoxy 12y ago
Here's another myth, functional code is 100x slower (than what?). Here's the counter example, Microsoft Research chose the functional first language F# to build arguably the most advanced and useful quantum computer simulator in e
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by jackfoxy 12y ago
I had heard of egg shells in coffee from an old-time Navy man. I had assumed the calcium neutralized the acidity. This appears to be a better explanation. I wonder if ship cooks still put the morning's egg shells in the coffee?
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by jackfoxy 12y ago
For those interested in contributing to the F# language itself and the compiler, the F# Open Engineering Group has an article on that topic http://fsharp.github.io/2014/06/18/fsharp-contributions.html
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by jackfoxy 12y ago
San Mateo, CA - Tachyus ( http://tachyus.com/ ) F# Software Engineer We believe that expressive, declarative code is more frequently correct code. The core of our software platform is built with F#, a functional-first, multi-
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by jackfoxy 12y ago
San Mateo, CA - Tachyus ( http://tachyus.com/ ) Sophisticated software requires sophisticated testing and thorough correctness engineering to ensure it meets specifications and is shipped with as few bugs as possible. The Tac
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by jackfoxy 12y ago
Palo Alto (San Mateo after June 3) Tachyus Correctness Engineer http://tachyus.com/joinus/correctness-engineer.html Sophisticated software requires sophisticated testing and thorough correctness engineering to ensure i
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by jackfoxy 13y ago
> IDE support even in Visual Studio 2013 is absolutely poor It suits my needs well. References for functions/values/types would be a big nice to have , but I don't miss it that much. Refactoring? Rename refactoring is i
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by jackfoxy 13y ago
I can confidently answer "yes" to this question, because Tachyus, the first Silicon Valley start-up in the oil and gas industry, http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/04/10/tachyus-a-data-start-... , cho
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by jackfoxy 13y ago
I like the OP's summation that we should approach code reading as code decoding. My interest in literate code and readable code has recently accelerated in conjunction with my interest in code correctness. I think the way forward in bo
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by jackfoxy 13y ago
Thankfully this is no longer a problem in Excel 2013. (I believe it was still a problem in 2010.) The trade-off seems to be getting help/documentation is worse than ever. :(
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by jackfoxy 13y ago
I recall having drinks in 1990 with a 30 year-old Ivy League grad in Manhattan, an up-and-coming type, somewhere in the intersection of Wall Street and politics, can't remember exactly what he did. He was adamant about cutting off the
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F# Weekly #48, 2013(sergeytihon.wordpress.com)
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by jackfoxy 13y ago
Correctness is the dog. Everything else is tail. Don't know who said that first, might have been this guy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TS1lpKBMkgg
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by jackfoxy 13y ago
As an F# MVP, I can tell you MS is committed to the primary functional language on the .NET stack, but more importantly MS has open-sourced F# https://github.com/fsharp/fsharp . The membership of the FSharp Software Fou
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by jackfoxy 13y ago
I think Vol. 1 is really masterful. I read somewhere Feynman was most pleased with Vol. 1, and less so with Vol. 2. The material in the second volume is certainly more difficult, and I did not quite finish it myself. I've been busy wit
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by jackfoxy 13y ago
Comparing the theoretical capacity of the Hyperloop vs the High Speed Rail is only one fact to consider. Musk correctly points out the High Speed Rail is in theory way more dangerous. And, possibly more significantly, it is just too slow. T

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