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by mands 11y ago
I'm a big fan of Guix/Nix and would love to see them in greater use. Whilst I agree that they provide many of the reproducibly benefits of containers, isn't the other big advantage of containers the (theoretical) security ben
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by mands 11y ago
Great work - looks like a really useful piece to help you quickly get going using the AWS stack and Lambda/JS. The biggest issue I've always found is the extra steps between writing your code and getting it onto a server. The &quo
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Serverless client-side web dev with just Firebase and StackHut(blog.stackhut.com)
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by mands 11y ago
JSON-RPC always works well and is quite simple. I often find it easier to just use JSON-RPC and clearly mark which methods are remote than to try and fit my remote semantics into correct HTTP verbs and status codes.
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by mands 11y ago
I agree - JSON-RPC is simple to use, parse and understand. Plus I feel it makes more sense when you are triggering computations remotely rather than querying. At StackHut ( http://www.stackhut.com ) we're hacking on a platfor
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by mands 11y ago
Great to hear, sounds like an fascinating project and look forward to trying out the AWS library. Funnily enough the project I considered using OCaml for was to build a language & runtime for container orchestration. Yes, OCaml dev seem
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by mands 11y ago
Looks like really cool tech - at a first glance reminds me of the UI.Next reactive rendering model in WebSharper/F# ( http://www.websharper.com/docs/ui.next ) which also has an OCaml/ML heritage. Have been thin
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by mands 11y ago
I certainly see the need for Rust, a better, stricter and more modern C designed for low-level tasks where both performance and correctness matter, e.g. layout engines, game engines, OS kernels. On the other hand Go seems more suited to sys
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by mands 11y ago
I hope, perhaps naively, that maybe AAP have a chance to root out that particular dynasty. I remember they polled pretty well at the last election but am not sure how things worked out on the ground afterwards. As a member of the diaspora I
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by mands 11y ago
Aesthetically it's great - but that user interface just seems incredibly confusing to me. Perhaps it works when you use it in person. Does anyone know how the Android Wear UI compares?
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by mands 12y ago
> I would kill to be able to do React in F# or OCaml. Websharper ( http://websharper.com/ ) for F# is now Apache-licensed and comes with the UI.Next framework that provides a really nice reactive paradigm for creating web
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by mands 12y ago
Great news! WebSharper is fantastic for developing integrated server and web-client systems from a single F# codebase. Hopefully under the Apache 2 license both development and uptake may increase. Have been very impressed with the UI.Next
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by mands 12y ago
Interesting article. I wonder if the multiple, older, models are just a way to clear excess inventory or if Apple really believes this allows them to complete on cost as well. For instance the price difference is still excessive when compar
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by mands 12y ago
I'm not sure I'd agree that CS has a low profile within the UK, I think it's had a strong history over the past 70 years or so. And now there seems to be a buzz regarding bringing coding into classrooms at a lower age that wi
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by mands 12y ago
Thanks for taking the time to write up such a detailed comment. I was working on one of my own as I have had nothing but a great experience with Websharper and was disappointed to see the tool be somewhat dismissed by (to me) unfounded and
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by mands 12y ago
Downloading now at around 0.5MB/s. Tempted to put this on my main dev machine as many of the desktop changes will really aid my workflow but will probably wait until the weekend at least just in case.
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Windows 10 Technical Preview download now live(windows.microsoft.com)
2 points by mands 12y ago|3 comments
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by mands 12y ago
That is true. I have a Xamarin plan for use with Visual Studio for developing mobile apps in F#. However I'm just keep running into stumbling blocks and general frustration developing in Windows, having switched from 10yrs of Linux pur
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by mands 12y ago
Also checkout Cmder ( http://bliker.github.io/cmder/ ) for a pre-customised ConEmu that bundles several useful UNIX commands. Plus ConEmu supports Quake-style dropdown that has radically improved my work-flow on Windows.
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by mands 12y ago
What good is an apology from Congress when they stonewall any attempts for an independent inquiry into the 1984 riots and still harbour known instigators and accomplices at a high level within the party? On the other hand, several senior BJ
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by mands 13y ago
I recently used it on a 2010-era netbook that couldn't handle the full VS2013 Express edition and it worked great. Not as many bells and whistles, but easy to use and quick to get up and coding.
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by mands 13y ago
True, a lot of the heavy lifting is done within the runtime. However Mono has been improving at a break-neck pace over the past few years - Mono 3.x with the new garbage-collector and LLVM backend can be quite efficient. Furthermore F# is b
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by mands 13y ago
Yes, you are right, F# has been open-source and on github for a while, and that itself isn't new news. However I don't believe users could make contributions that would be upstreamed into the official releases or VS builds. Quotin
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by mands 13y ago
Pretty great news to complement the open-sourcing of Roslyn I think - was hoping to hear something about F# at Build.
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by mands 13y ago
I wonder how this compares to PsGet ( http://psget.net ) - or is it simply a cmd-line wrapper around Chocolatey?
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Contributing to the F# Language, Library and Tools(visualfsharp.codeplex.com)
197 points by mands 13y ago|63 comments
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by mands 13y ago
Interesting. How does the Qt approach compare to Mono for mobile development? I presume Qt apps use Qt's built-in UI rendering, with QML for any UI-logic. Slightly different to MVVM in Mono where you recreate native UI's on each p
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by mands 13y ago
Great news if true. I've always thought MS should be more involved in the Mono/Xamarin platform. It makes far more sense for MS's mobile strategy than adding Android compatibility to WP. Instead, encourage devs to create a si
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by mands 13y ago
Also worth noting that OneNote for Windows is also free from today (the desktop/Office 2013 version, not the existing Metro/Modern app). Downloadable from here - http://www.onenote.com/Download Great timing too as
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by mands 13y ago
Hi. Hmm - good to know, thanks for the insider view.

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