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541.
by jackfoxy 13y ago
Maybe so, but every straight line is nearly on a geodesic (great circle) until it goes off an edge. Show me another flat map that does that.
542.
by jackfoxy 13y ago
Wait a minute...plutonium is a waste product? I thought the supply of plutonium (that is not used in weapons) was running so low there would not be enough to fuel deep space missions.
543.
My startup is Microsoft-based, here's why(jitbit.com)
1 points by jackfoxy 13y ago|0 comments
544.
by jackfoxy 13y ago
This patent trap commentary is 4 years old. I don't think this is on anyone's radar anymore. Otherwise Xamarin would not even exist.
545.
by jackfoxy 13y ago
Microsoft has open sourced F# http://fsharp.org/ and the fsharp.org community is very proactive. As for the CLR, it is an ECMA and ISO standard http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Language_Infrastructur
546.
by jackfoxy 13y ago
Some facts to support the anecdote of F# code conciseness and expressiveness.
547.
JavaScript (ES6) Has Proper Tail Calls(bbenvie.com)
2 points by jackfoxy 13y ago|0 comments
548.
by jackfoxy 14y ago
From a notorious disinformation site http://debka.com/article/22914/The-Tsarnaev-brothers-were-do... a plausible explanation of the non-miranda situation. Perhaps someone more knowledgable can comment on how elite is Cambridge Rindge an
549.
Scott Aaronson: Quantum Computing since Democritus(motls.blogspot.com)
2 points by jackfoxy 14y ago|0 comments
550.
by jackfoxy 14y ago
There is a good technical thread started on stackoverflow http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15731724/whats-the-easies...
551.
by jackfoxy 14y ago
Whoops...overlooked that this was an opinion piece (tries to extract foot from mouth)
552.
by jackfoxy 14y ago
Upvoted the OP in order to call attention to what I consider primarily a propaganda piece by the Bloomberg new service. There was nothing secret about the executive order http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_6102 , except possibly
553.
by jackfoxy 14y ago
Excellent link. For anyone who has read Moby Dick , remember Queequeg's "mark" is not a symbol in any alphabet or grapheme system.
554.
by jackfoxy 14y ago
On a related note, Dave Thomas has got F# working with MonoTouch http://7sharpnine.com/posts/monotouch-and-fsharp-part-i and http://7sharpnine.com/posts/monotouch-and-fsharp-part-ii/ opening a path to functional and perhaps functional/
555.
A Unified Collection of Purely Functional List-like Data Structures(jackfoxy.com)
1 points by jackfoxy 14y ago|0 comments
556.
by jackfoxy 14y ago
Quite a lengthy article for a couple interesting anecdotes. Not worth the read.
557.
Semantics and List-like Data Structures(jackfoxy.com)
1 points by jackfoxy 14y ago|0 comments
558.
Engineering Random Bits: F# Generics(jackfoxy.com)
2 points by jackfoxy 14y ago|0 comments
559.
Oil at $60 or $120 Doesn’t Prevent U.S. Supplanting Saudis(bloomberg.com)
2 points by jackfoxy 14y ago|0 comments
560.
by jackfoxy 14y ago
KCSM.org is playing a lot of Brubeck today...pieces I never heard before. Tomorrow's morning (Pacific time) show will be devoted to Brubeck. UPDATE: the show starting at 5PM pacific time today will also be devoted to Dave
561.
by jackfoxy 14y ago
Stop ranting on twitter and discipline yourself to only use it to build your brand. No more socio-political I can haz cheezeburger tweets. Tweet useful information within some domain, you'll be surprised at the quality of people who will in
562.
by jackfoxy 14y ago
ANU claims to have a quantum number generator available over the internet for free http://qrng.anu.edu.au/index.php Interfaces in several languages already available, including an F# interface I published yesterday https://github.com/jac
563.
U.S. Oil Output to Overtake Saudi Arabia’s by 2020(bloomberg.com)
103 points by jackfoxy 14y ago|95 comments
564.
by jackfoxy 14y ago
Yes! "decide to just do something else" Write software, play a musical instrument, have your kids act out a scene from Shakespeare after dinner. Seriously...unending consumption of entertainment, even when it is infotainment (and maybe that
565.
The Miracle of F# Continuation Passing(jackfoxy.com)
1 points by jackfoxy 14y ago|0 comments
566.
Judea Pearl Talks Causal Inference(magazine.amstat.org)
2 points by jackfoxy 14y ago|1 comments
567.
HMS Bounty Ship Sinks(fox4kc.com)
1 points by jackfoxy 14y ago|0 comments
568.
Crisis in Open Source Land(jackfoxy.com)
1 points by jackfoxy 14y ago|0 comments
569.
by jackfoxy 14y ago
Might be a good article, but that font hurts my eyes.
570.
by jackfoxy 14y ago
First state to outlaw slavery...sorta. Massachusetts de facto outlawed slavery by a court decision in 1781 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_slavery_in_Massachus... , before peace was settled with the British in the Revolutionary Wa

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