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Full Stack Suckers(medium.com)
11 points by jarcane 11y ago|0 comments
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by jarcane 12y ago
What I mean is writing a desktop application without falling back to using C# for all the front-end code and relegating F# to being a glorified DSL for data processing. Microsoft doesn't believe anyone wants to make apps in F#; Visual
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by jarcane 12y ago
I literally know of only a single pure F# application tutorial on the internet, Scott W.'s Calculator, and the style reads more like Java than any idiomatic FP code I've ever seen. There's scattered bits here and there elsewh
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by jarcane 12y ago
It's interesting to see that a lot of the respondents wrote basically the same thing I did: the documentation for actually making even a simple application in pure F# is basically non-existent.
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by jarcane 12y ago
Wow. That is almost exactly my life story right now (three years of cinema studies, had to drop out for financial reasons, now trying to teach myself code and sorta succeeding at it but feel grossly unqualified). Thank you for posting.
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The ISLisp programming language(islisp.info)
7 points by jarcane 12y ago|0 comments
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by jarcane 12y ago
And of course, XNA itself is essentially deprecated now, and isn't capable of targeting Metro either. A number of devs have started switching to MonoGame, but the support there isn't quite complete yet.
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by jarcane 12y ago
It's not necessarily that the two concepts never shall meet; Racket, Heresy, and F# all contain for loops, but there are crucial differences in how the former two handle them vs. how for loops are usually used in other languages. In mo
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by jarcane 12y ago
I wrote a short piece on the history of the MECC, complete with instructions on how to setup to play Apple II Oregon Trail in your browser some years ago for a gaming site. It's still up here: http://www.colonyofgamers.com&#
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Enigma Machine – Type Provider Edition(pinksquirrellabs.com)
2 points by jarcane 12y ago|0 comments
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by jarcane 12y ago
I can't make AdSense revenues from a Twitter account. In fact, if Twitter or Facebook suspect I'm a professional concern rather than simply an ordinary Joe, they may expect me to pay them money to promote my content, or even to ma
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by jarcane 12y ago
This kind of use-case is actually part of why I started using Flipboard in the first place, back when I had an iPad. I could consolidate my social media feeds into a "magazine" and just skim the highlights.
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by jarcane 12y ago
Certainly I wouldn't use it for blogging (as I said, the default HTML output is pretty spartan), for that I have Frog, which I mostly just tweaked a little bit with a custom Bootstrap template. The bulk of my writing though has traditi
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by jarcane 12y ago
Honestly, if you can use Word or LibreOffice, you can already use LyX. It's that easy. I have one short free work published, and a couple of unpublished works still in production, and I've also used it to generate documentation fo
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by jarcane 12y ago
My favorite writing tool of all time is, without a question in my mind, LyX. It manages to find the perfect balance of minimal barriers to productivity, absolute power when I need it, and seriously professional grade results. It's like
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by jarcane 12y ago
I know of at least one site (FilmOn) that uses this kind of font substitution for rendering UI elements.
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by jarcane 12y ago
Indeed. I was really surprised by that number, and by the sheer number of people with edit/delete privileges. That's just begging for abuse.
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10 Myths of Silicon Valley(ewherry.com)
1 points by jarcane 12y ago|0 comments
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by jarcane 12y ago
It has largely become more or less a standard expectation that every single question I come across on Stack Overflow through search engine results will be locked. This expectation is rarely contradicted, and then only usually within very sm
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by jarcane 12y ago
I grew up coding in line-numbered, Disk Extended Color BASIC on a Tandy Color Computer 3 for a number of years, before graduating to QBasic. The thing I look back on about "goto" and "gosub" is that, within the confines
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by jarcane 12y ago
Jeri Ellsworth has been quite vivid about the actual, rather than the idealized, version of how Valve actually works; there's some thoughts here: http://www.develop-online.net/news/valve-s-perfect-hiring-hi... Bes
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by jarcane 12y ago
They also haven't put out an entirely in-house game since the Orange Box. The management failures at Valve have been pretty spectacular, and expensive, of late, it's just that because they are a private company, and because Steam
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by jarcane 12y ago
The classic systems were worlds ahead of most modern ones in one very important respect: documentation. The Tandy/Radio Shack books for the Color Computer series (and it's astoundingly good LOGO implementation) were amazingly clea
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by jarcane 12y ago
A trick here is to use keyboard macros to do the boilerplate. Yes, I can see my preceding correspondent was correct in discontinuing this engagement. Sorry to have wasted our collective time.
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by jarcane 12y ago
That is a loaded example that deliberately leaves out the implementation details to disguise the productivity gains. If you really can't see the productivity difference between writing this: const vals = ['#hp','#mp&
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by jarcane 12y ago
There's also EmojiLisp: http://emojilisp.com/
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by jarcane 12y ago
I was wondering about this today; it makes sense to change the name eventually anyway. Once ES6 starts being implemented more widely by actual browsers, the old remit is likely to be obsolete.
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by jarcane 12y ago
const map = (fn, [x, ...xs]) => (x === undefined) ? [] : [fn(x), ...map(fn, xs)]; This gives me the warm and fuzzies.
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by jarcane 12y ago
Purescript[1] is also gaining some traction and even has a pretty nice looking book out. [2] It has some changes however; most notably it's strictly evaluated rather than lazy, and there are differences in how it handles type variables
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by jarcane 12y ago
"Free and open" but the only way you can download it without it asking for a credit card number is manually entering $0 in the "custom" field?

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