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by steego 12y ago
The biggest problem I see with this article is the author is comparing Simula style OOP (Prevalent in C++, Java, C#, etc.) with procedural style programming and concludes anthropomorphism is at fault. When your objects act more like very li
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by steego 12y ago
The nine essential amino acids are the acids people can't synthesize, but all of them are available in plants. Not only are they in plants, many plants like tomatoes, brown rice, potatoes, peppers, corn, celery, carrots, etc. contain
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by steego 12y ago
I think this article overlooks one teensy weensy tiny little event that may have an effect on conservatives writing in to oppose Net Neutrality: [President Obama Urges FCC to Implement Stronger Net Neutrality Rules| http://www.whi
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by steego 12y ago
Not sure if you're joking, but the free thing is github.
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by steego 12y ago
Good point. I originally wrote it for VB.NET, though IF(nullableVar,defaultValue) would be better now...
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by steego 12y ago
> ahem https://github.com/louthy/csharp-monad ;-) Very nice! You may save me a bunch of work yet. We should get some of your stuff into NuGet packages so you can spread the love. I saw on Twitter that Miguel de I
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by steego 12y ago
> Heh, that's really interesting! Do you have a link to your work? I do and I don't. I actually wrote a lot of these things in VB.NET 4-5 years ago and I've recently returned to the .NET world, so I'm in the process
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by steego 12y ago
Funny I come across this today. Only yesterday did I start turning some of my helper functions and extension methods into a little NuGet library. It's amazing how much overlap there is between your library and mine, though I'm p
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by steego 12y ago
This isn't greed. It's incompetence. It sounds like they they've outfitted their planes with high-end internet connections that are typically reserved for private jets. Don't misunderstand me, this is different from th
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by steego 12y ago
Stay tuned: There are already a number of docker containers with F# on them using Mono. Because the F# compiler is open source, you can probably create your own container pretty easily based on the preview builds. https://gith
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by steego 12y ago
While you might be "technically" correct... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90qpDg5y7Lo
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by steego 12y ago
There's a big difference between a software company equipping developers with Linux based machines and a midsize to large non-tech company equipping their users with Linux or even Macs. Granted, I think Microsoft is losing thei
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by steego 12y ago
Thanks. I guess Hacker News doesn't like leading spaces with paragraphs.
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by steego 12y ago
I should have added that I'm a .NET developer who's recently returned working with in an open source shop. The problem I see is not that they don't have good tools or relevant solutions for real world problems. The problem
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by steego 12y ago
I think there may be a growing consensus in their organization that have to keep making decisions like this if they want to remain relevant.
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by steego 12y ago
Am I the only one who excitedly clicked on the link thinking it was some sort of library that parsed JavaScript in an isomorphic data structure that could be symbolically evaluated?
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by steego 12y ago
Thank your friend for writing a wonderful biography about a beautiful soul. That book really opened up the world for me by introducing me to a lot of the history and ideas. I'd dropped out of school many years ago and never learned C
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by steego 12y ago
> As someone who's fundamentally opposed to prison for white collar crimes: I'm curious. What constitutes a white collar crime in your opinion? Is it fundamentally non-violent, or is it really just a class distinction? Would
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by steego 12y ago
> If he was thinking in verbs it would naturally come out as make_sale(product, customer). If you think about verbs as messages (data), then you would simply POST a make_sale(product, customer) message to some URL, and your RESTful inter
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by steego 12y ago
> Also, because REVAT URLs are randomly generated the server needs keep track of the resources being pointed to instead of being able to understand it from the semantics of the request. This is where he lost me. If you need to generate
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by steego 12y ago
First, let me caveat: I'm not a REST expert, but I've been known to pretend to be one. It seems to me you're under the impression that REST tends to lead to systems that: 1. Transfer logic to the client 2. Put the client in
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by steego 12y ago
I'd like to echo to disregard this advice as well. I work for a company with a lot of young programmers and I recently hired a bright guy in his 30's who decided change career paths. Do what you love and work on side projects that
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by steego 12y ago
It really doesn't. Especially when you see people pulling out the double claw hammers at your company. Features that have limited real benefits with lots of risk get abused all the time. They are the retarded tools of the world creat
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by steego 12y ago
> Since when calculus and algebra are boring? After reading your post, it sounds like it's pretty boring until you start hitting differential equations. That's a long time for most people to be bored with calculating before th
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by steego 12y ago
I would be afraid if my goals are to procreate and perpetuate the human race.
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by steego 13y ago
> You can't really be intolerant by being against intolerance. I'm pretty sure religious people can be intolerant of gay people who are intolerant of religious people. -or- Gay people can be intolerant of religious people who a
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by steego 13y ago
Two parties. (Dems = libs)