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   Complete parser and quasi-quotation support for Objective-C in Haskell(github.com)

   2 points by profquail 14y ago|0 comments
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   by profquail 14y ago

   A few counterpoints in favor of F#: - Even if your project doesn't need .NET integration, it's nice to have all of the .NET libraries (built-in or otherwise) at your disposal. OCaml also has some nice libraries, but nowhere near what .NET
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   Intro to Group Theory(ureddit.com)

   62 points by profquail 14y ago|17 comments
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   2012: a BSD year in retrospective(osnews.com)

   2 points by profquail 14y ago|0 comments
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   2012: a BSD year in retrospective(osnews.com)

   5 points by profquail 14y ago|0 comments
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   by profquail 14y ago

   First, thank you for sharing! I've done some work on the LLVM bindings for F#. One question though -- what made you choose the LGPL instead of a permissive (BSD-like) license? (I'm not trolling, I'm genuinely curious.)
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   FreeBSD Quickstart Guide for Linux Users(freebsd.org)

   5 points by profquail 14y ago|0 comments
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   Hulk: A Haskell IRC server(chrisdone.com)

   94 points by profquail 14y ago|36 comments
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   by profquail 14y ago

   When was the last time you tried MonoDevelop? Xamarin has put in a lot of work on MonoDevelop over the past year or so -- in fact, they just released a major new version (4.0) and even contributed a bunch of improvements to the F# bindings:
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    by profquail 14y ago

    There are some cases where the F# compiler emits slightly less-efficient code than the C# compiler. However, in my experience I've found that I'm able to implement algorithms much more efficiently in F# than C#, which more than makes up for
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    Obama officials refuse to say if assassination power extends to US soil(guardian.co.uk)

    2 points by profquail 14y ago|1 comments
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    by profquail 14y ago

    I agree, Linux does have a good rep in the enterprise world. My point was simply that, by the open-source, distributed nature of Linux/BSD development there isn't a true "first party" that has control over the whole thing. IBM, Oracle, Red
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    by profquail 14y ago

    I can confirm, F# is awesome to work with. (I've been using it primarily for ~2 years now.) If you want to check it out: http://tryfsharp.org
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    by profquail 14y ago

    I don't think that's necessarily enough to overcome the huge amount of work that has gone into making the JVM JIT fast code and giving it a world-class garbage collector. The CLR doesn't have a well-tuned JIT compiler and a fast garbage c
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    by profquail 14y ago

    Would you consider Linux or BSD to be "first party supported"? I've had good experiences with Mono and MonoDevelop, and given that Xamarin provides commercial support for Mono, I don't think it makes sense to automatically discard that opti
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    by profquail 14y ago

    Why don't you implement AJAX support in news.arc? That way PG won't have to spend the time writing it... https://github.com/nex3/arc/blob/master/lib/news.arc
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    by profquail 14y ago

    I think it's one of the standard themes for Beamer (LaTeX package for creating presentations): http://www.hartwork.org/beamer-theme-matrix/
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    Lua in the NetBSD Kernel [pdf](fosdem.org)

    68 points by profquail 14y ago|43 comments
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    Mark Zuckerberg 'Likes' NJ Governor Chris Christie(cnbc.com)

    2 points by profquail 14y ago|0 comments
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    by profquail 14y ago

    For HN, I think you'd just have to email PG. It wouldn't hurt to also send a pull request on the nex3/arc GitHub repo -- it seems that's where much (all?) of the current Arc activity is taking place. It'd also allow others to benefit from
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    by profquail 14y ago

    AFAIK, there's no plan to implement this. You could however, make the modifications and submit them to PG to include on the site instead of waiting for someone else to do it. You'll need to download Arc ( http://arclanguage.org/ ) -- the co
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    by profquail 14y ago

    2nd paragraph on the Wikipedia page for Amphetamine: Brand names of medications that contain, or metabolize into, amphetamine, include Adderall , Dexedrine, Dextroamphet, Dextrostat,[2] Didrex, ProCentra, and Vyvanse, as well as Benzedrin
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    What to do about GNU?(smalltalk.gnu.org)

    145 points by profquail 14y ago|31 comments
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    by profquail 14y ago

    For most people/enterprises, no. But there are still many places in the world -- in the US, even -- with slow and/or spotty internet connections, so it would make sense for them.
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    by profquail 14y ago

    That's a very good point to make. .NET developers, you can set up a similar cache for NuGet packages to avoid downtime (and reduce bandwidth usage): http://www.hanselman.com/blog/HowToAccessNuGetWhenNuGetorgIs...
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    by profquail 14y ago

    .NET 4 most certainly does optimize tail-calls, and the 64-bit versions of the CLR contain additional optimizations that the 32-bit versions don't. In fact, F# is able to target previous version of the CLR (.NET 2.0, 3.0, and 3.5) and I k
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    by profquail 14y ago

    Colin Percival (cperciva) already has FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE running on these! http://pastebin.com/SCMUJNDt
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    by profquail 14y ago

    From Wikipedia: - Static Typing : "A programming language is said to use static typing when type checking is performed during compile-time as opposed to run-time." [1] - Dynamic Typing : "A programming language is said to be dynamically t
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    by profquail 14y ago

    You can use MonoDevelop to develop C# projects on Mono: http://monodevelop.com/
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    by profquail 14y ago

    Another FreeBSD discussion a few weeks ago had a bunch of good answers to this question: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4895022