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by sultezdukes 14y ago
It's a pretty smart move that Microsoft did with TypeScript, making it a proper superset of JavaScript. Google seems to be stuck in the past, bringing out its own VM that is a complete non-starter, and making another class-based, Java-like
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by sultezdukes 14y ago
You can't really put F# in that category. It's shipped with Visual Studio since 2010, and has a significant userbase.
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by sultezdukes 14y ago
I'd be happier if Obama would take steps to lower taxes.
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by sultezdukes 14y ago
Python Tools for Visual Studio http://pytools.codeplex.com/ is one of the best Python development environments out there and wasn't mentioned. The code completion is probably second-to-none. Nice video on the editing experience http://
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by sultezdukes 14y ago
kaichanvong's response wasn't the most appropriate either.
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by sultezdukes 14y ago
I don't think it's a good idea for a company-wide policy of no working from home. Lower level managers should be responsible for the decisions they make in that regard. On the other hand, sometimes a leader has to take strong and controv
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by sultezdukes 14y ago
Nice, can you go ahead and watch that 1:20 minute talk again to find out where someone says something that will back you up.
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by sultezdukes 14y ago
Maybe if government wasn't so massively wasteful, there'd be a few dollars to throw at blue-sky R&D funding these days, but there isn't.
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by sultezdukes 14y ago
"The hypocrisy in Silicon Valley's big talk on innovation" Wrong title. It's "I, James Temple, have a different political philosophy than these guys".
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by sultezdukes 14y ago
I'm sure that's all just anti-PRC propaganda. </sarcasm> I'm waiting for the PRC state workers to astroturf that on in the comments. Well, there ya go right below you :) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5352254
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by sultezdukes 14y ago
Despite Microsoft shipping F# support in their main IDE, pretty much no one uses it Actually, it's fairly popular in the analytics-type world. Can you name one popular library which switched from C# to F#? That doesn't even makes sense.
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by sultezdukes 14y ago
I don't mean this to be derogatory, but ASP.NET MVC, as great as it is, was not particularly innovative when it was originally written. Entity Framework is an ORM, and by definition not particularly innovative. Where did the parent say an
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by sultezdukes 14y ago
It's not that Microsoft or .NET is bad -- it's just that there are better options. No, there are better options for you .
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by sultezdukes 14y ago
F# runs perfectly fine on Mono. The F# compiler is open source. Microsoft doesn't have to support F# anywhere else. In fact, Xamarin is going to support F# directly in their new IDE.
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by sultezdukes 14y ago
no, that piece of code that you contrived up is awful, not .NET's anonymous functions.
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by sultezdukes 14y ago
the CLR is currently a place where great languages go to die No, F# is completely supported by MS. And that's the problem with the alternative languages on the JVM. Decision makers are wary of anything that isn't officially supported by
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by sultezdukes 14y ago
I'm a huge fan of Miguel and the rest of the Xamarin crew, and I'd love to see a universal implementation of the CLR take dominance. I think maybe 5 years ago the CLR had a real chance to win in the battle of multi-language runtimes, but a
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by sultezdukes 14y ago
There's really not much irony there. VB.NET and C# were released together from the beginning, where Sun only thought of Java (the language) until too late in the game for them. Sun was screwed because of factors beyond Java, but because of
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by sultezdukes 14y ago
But what you're not understanding is that they're costs to the alternatives. There's costs to deploying on Linux. There's costs to building software in Java as opposed to C#. There's costs to hiring Linux sys admins as opposed to windows
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by sultezdukes 14y ago
No one with half a brain is going to write server software that only works on Windows. Once you step out of your little bubble, you'll realize what a stupid comment that is.
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by sultezdukes 14y ago
Good writeup, and I agree with much of his post. Going back to Java from C# at the language level is just painful. The Java library/framework is more complete and diverse than the .NET one, but it's actually improved alot for .NET in recen
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by sultezdukes 14y ago
is there anyboy smarter than carmacck..maybe sweeneye
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by sultezdukes 14y ago
Is anybody smaerter thank John?
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by sultezdukes 14y ago
I had a talk with my supervisor a few days ago about working from home vs being in the office. We're "open office", which sucks in its current form, but I've come to realize has some definite advantages. The problem is when you have these
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by sultezdukes 14y ago
I tried then, and I've tried in the years since, but I simply cannot understand where they're coming from. How anyone can support a healthcare system in this day & age that can, and does, bankrupt or refuse to treat people.. I just can
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by sultezdukes 14y ago
And you think that Ubuntu on mobile devices is going to do any better? Nokia screwed up, but diverting resources to an even more miniscule market is even crazier.
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by sultezdukes 14y ago
The problem is that there is no community behind it. The vast majority of C# programmers are do-the-bare-minimum-contractors who hang up their keyboard at the end of the day and go home to their Top Chef and NFL on TV. Those people don't c
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by sultezdukes 14y ago
Would you be happier if COBOL was the lingua-franca of the web? No dig on Javascript (always had a soft-spot for prototypes), but at the end of the day we have different languages for a reason.
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by sultezdukes 14y ago
Because "guys" can't. The browser world is laden with massive backward compatibility issues that will never, ever go away. Yeah, I would love something like NaCL, but that aint' happening, so baby steps.
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by sultezdukes 14y ago
(and believe me Indians in particular have done the UK proud, and me personally, so much so I argue they are more British than us fairly useless white lot It seems to be ideological where that type of thinking comes from.

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