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by rlmw 16y ago
"Ashton even wrote a macro for Jeff that automated that one task. Jeff didn’t want to get caught, so he refused to install it. They weren’t on speaking terms after that. It was awkward." My favourite quote.
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How to impress Joel Spolsky(programmers.stackexchange.com)
201 points by rlmw 16y ago|76 comments
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Which continuous integration framework do you use?(programmers.stackexchange.com)
3 points by rlmw 16y ago|0 comments
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Londoners Ahoy - F# meetup(blogs.msdn.com)
1 points by rlmw 16y ago|0 comments
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F# for game development(sharp-gamedev.blogspot.com)
4 points by rlmw 16y ago|2 comments
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by rlmw 16y ago
The US numbers came out a while ago: http://www.gsmarena.com/report_details_os_market_share_in_q3...
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Another Android Market Share Boost(techcrunch.com)
30 points by rlmw 16y ago|6 comments
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New f# Tools Release(blogs.msdn.com)
40 points by rlmw 16y ago|7 comments
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by rlmw 16y ago
Upvoted because that's good code reuse in the scenario that you only want to store a default value, and I can see why you replied to the commenter with it. It doesn't necessarily work so well in the scenario where you want to perform some
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by rlmw 16y ago
MSR have had a few profitable collaborations with their .net language implementors. The generics system in c# for example was originally developed by Don Syme (who also worked on f#) and Andrew Kennedy. I think once you've had a good exam
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by rlmw 16y ago
Whilst this initially sounds like a hilarious anecdote Harold Wilson did suffer from Alzheimer's disease which causes a sustained and permanent mental deterioration once it sets in. Also there are severe question marks over the veracity of
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by rlmw 16y ago
I can somewhat see your point, but the house of lords is primarily aimed at redrafting/refining legislation, and can be overruled under the Parliament Acts[0]. So it is possible to pass legislation without the permission of the House of Lo
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by rlmw 16y ago
I find it a bit disappointing that posts like this frequently turn into some kind of 'android vs iphone' fight. I appreciate everyone has their own favourite technologies but a comment with well reasoned analysis makes far better reading i
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by rlmw 16y ago
I don't disagree with your central point, but it's worth noting that in the UK the iphone is on many carriers and is being heavily outsold by Android phones.
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by rlmw 16y ago
Mono does have a Silverlight alternative. So if you're able to switch to Silverlight in future then that might enable to create a crossplatform version. Best of luck.
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by rlmw 16y ago
Thanks for the correction. I admit I've not fiddled with Haskell's equivalents to Active Patterns to any great extent - as since I mention in the original comment I didn't hugely see the motivation in that context. I really only mentioned
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by rlmw 16y ago
I can appreciate some of these concerns - though the ability to run under mono ameliorates them for me. If you want a language aiming for a similar functional + oop position but don't want to touch Microsoft stuff then Scala might be worth
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by rlmw 16y ago
I've been enjoying using it for both some personal and commercial projects. Points I've noted myself that aren't really discussed so much in the usual analysis, or maybe they're the 'small print': 1. Active Patterns are incredibly useful.
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by rlmw 16y ago
+1 for JavaScript: The Good Parts
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by rlmw 16y ago
Whats more interesting for me, is the way that a lot of news stories are specific examples of interesting things ripped out of the odd bit of research. For example, once the Forbes 400 list has been compiled you could pretty much auto-gene