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by nbevans 13y ago
No Azure support? Really? But has support for various minnow providers...
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by nbevans 13y ago
Not sure why anybody would want to acquire Campfire? It's an utterly terrible product. If GitHub wanted to added chat collaboration features they'd write them from scratch based upon WebSockets / Socket.IO... not the legacy p
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by nbevans 13y ago
I don't think I'd want to work somewhere where it appears to be compulsory to use a ridiculously cheap $500 39 inch UHD display. How ridiculous! 28-30 inch is plenty big enough for a desktop computer. The intentions are good. But
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by nbevans 13y ago
Solution: Stop using a 2-bit cloud provider. But none of this would have happened if the article author realised that companies all over the world are doing this. In the UK there are even "zero hour contracts". Welcome to capitali
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Startup hiring a CTO but has already decided their stack to be Python(careers.stackoverflow.com)
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by nbevans 13y ago
So basically Elop has just publicly ruled himself out of contention with these ridiculous opinions. Casting off Xbox at this critical point would be a disaster and massively weaken Microsoft's position. The post-PC era is dictating ver
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by nbevans 13y ago
Why would he want to "out" the manager? He already sussed out the situation for himself. He had nothing else to prove to anyone else. He was only there for a short time so probably hadn't made any meaningful friendships with
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by nbevans 13y ago
They're advertising for a PHP/Ruby dev so making outlandish bullshit requirements like that, along with iMac fawning, is a must. Firms like this that dictate the technology stack you'll be forced to conform to are unemployabl
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by nbevans 13y ago
LiveNinja is a terrible name.
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by nbevans 13y ago
"Merge" is overstating it. It is a NT kernel with some very small and inconsequential "fixups" done to it to make certain DOS constructs work.
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by nbevans 13y ago
There was no substance behind that. It was just a poorly managed PR disaster. One of many during that year that Windows 8 was launched. Silverlight deserved to die. But somewhere along the line the Windows division got the wrong end of the
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by nbevans 13y ago
They don't need to support Windows Phone because it already runs .NET CLR code. MvvmCross enables you to target iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Windows 8 Metro/Modern, WPF, OSX Mac from a single code base. Xamarin only needs to fill
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by nbevans 13y ago
I assume you're referring to the CLR here? As in: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Language_Runtime Whilst no, the Microsoft CLR is not open source. It doesn't need to be. Because the CLI is a ECMA standar
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by nbevans 13y ago
F# is open source too. </minor pedant>
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by nbevans 13y ago
They've admitted that progress has slowed but have also explained why and it's got nothing to do with enterprise customers. The reason is that they're rewriting the C# compiler using, er, C#. It's as part of an initiativ
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by nbevans 13y ago
What makes you think F# is unapproachable? Is it because Scala still uses braces whereas F# uses whitespace? It's odd because Scala and F# are very similar in what they bring to the table. Losing ReSharper is an arse yes. I've hea
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by nbevans 13y ago
http://www.tryfsharp.org/Learn/getting-started#chaining-func... http://www.tryfsharp.org/Learn/advanced-programming#currying
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by nbevans 13y ago
F# supports piping to a level that Bash et al can only dream of.
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by nbevans 13y ago
I hold out hope that the next Microsoft CEO won't be as blind as Ballmer was and that the first thing on his hit list will be to buy Xamarin or at least "secure" it to prevent anyone else buying it; a suitably large investmen
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by nbevans 13y ago
You can do scripting with F#. It's called F# Interactive. This is a much more appropriate language for such a task than C# and even PowerShell.
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by nbevans 13y ago
It's funny when you tell hipsters about .NET. They get really shocked at just how good it is. A lot of people dismiss .NET because it's backed by Microsoft. It really sucks that these people can't just look at the technology
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by nbevans 13y ago
Agreed. The problem was never Windows. Windows probably has better battery life than OSX with all other things being equal. Rarely is it given the chance to exercise that equality though. The problem is hardware, the OEMs and indeed even Mi
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by nbevans 13y ago
I didn't like the constants solution for nulls. Why not use a Maybe monad? I'm surprised that you didn't considering your claimed language experience. I guess I just don't agree with your fundamental position on this. Th
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by nbevans 13y ago
Just because a book whose subject matter is of how to write better English and it itself is written in English doesn't make English itself a better language.
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by nbevans 13y ago
Are you the author? The whole article just seems to be missing the point entirely. It pretty much answers everything with "oh but you can write a hack to work around that" or "oh there is some library you can use that plugs t
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by nbevans 13y ago
Often when discussing JS as a language the conversation drifts off on tangents talking about all the amazing and wonderful libraries available for it. Unfortunately this is sorely missing the point. The conversation is about the language, n
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by nbevans 13y ago
"The intrinsic smallness of the language can be alarming when you come from a bigger language (Ruby, Java)" Bad examples. Ruby and Java are small languages too, just like JS. This immediately calls into question the credentials of
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by nbevans 13y ago
The "syntax" of promises in JS and Dart isn't really a syntax. They are library features in the form of fluent method chaining. This is merely a library pattern, it is not a syntax. A syntax would be something like the async&
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by nbevans 13y ago
It's operating a defacto monopoly on a layer of the modern development stack. This does not make it "f'ing awesome". People rant about JS not because it's shit, per se. Everybody knows that. They rant because they l
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by nbevans 13y ago
I saw an interview with him and the BBC a few weeks ago. When the subject of the UK came up he said he didn't care what they thought and he didn't care if he couldn't enter that country ever again because of what he believes

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