edgyswingset

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by edgyswingset 9y ago
Microsoft bashing? Where did I do that? I run a few things on .NET Core today and it’s great. I’ll probably runs some things in Azure soon enough. I just think UWP has no future because its primary device type (Windows phone) is dead, and
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by edgyswingset 9y ago
My F# code runs on Linux. My client code is migrating to the web and mobile, as is just about every enterprise in the US. Why would I watch Windows developer day?
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by edgyswingset 9y ago
> there is no sign of UWP going away anytime soon Except for Windows Phone getting killed, which was the _main_ device type for UWP. The Windows app store is the same graveyard that it was in late 2015 when the announcements around new W
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by edgyswingset 9y ago
As a sometimes-user of F#, I’m quite happy not caring about a dead-end technology like UWP and .NET Native, thank you very much. I’m glad everyone else seems to agree about that, too.
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by edgyswingset 9y ago
Not that I'm inclined to believe stuff either way, but this is an op-ed and not really financial stuff being reported on.
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Get Started with F# as a C# developer(blogs.msdn.microsoft.com)
70 points by edgyswingset 9y ago|58 comments
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by edgyswingset 9y ago
> No offense (and sorry for being off-topic) but I never get how people obsess over the under 1 or 2% cost savings while completely ignoring the overvalued principal. Here's my counterpoints: 1. ~5k is enough to pay for two amazing
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by edgyswingset 9y ago
Somewhat related, but there was a very good talk at MLConf 2017 about using sound to catch illegal logging in the Amazon. Similar premise: collect the sound, analyze the patterns, and classify.
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Why you should use F#(blogs.msdn.microsoft.com)
4 points by edgyswingset 9y ago|0 comments
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by edgyswingset 9y ago
In consumer products, perhaps not. Business systems? Oh, you betcha. Note: I'm interpreting AI as "also the very useful subset of AI called Machine Learning" here. ML is already in so many things, but I think it truly has
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by edgyswingset 9y ago
The answer is simple. Actually work on it. Not an easy answer, as this is surely incredibly difficult work.
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by edgyswingset 9y ago
The article says: > Imagine if every bus, boat, and train in London was kitted out with sensors and counters, with the data made available to third-party service providers — this could help cities manage transport infrastructure far more
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by edgyswingset 9y ago
Probably easier from a technological standpoint, but I can imagine an autonomous freight network being just as challenging as an autonomous tax service if you account for all sorts of things: sales, mountains of other regulations, complianc
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by edgyswingset 9y ago
> This bill is going to end up killing people I'm pessimistic that this will ever be known by those in swing states, let alone cared about. I've traveled to those places and met people there. They have normalized death due to
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by edgyswingset 9y ago
I find your confidence in the stupid American voting population strange. In other words, I don't believe that they'll do anything like what you're implying they will.
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by edgyswingset 9y ago
Netflix is a polyglot shop which uses a number of different programming languages for different parts of their systems. Yes, Node and JS play a large part in that, but that really isn't the whole story.
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by edgyswingset 9y ago
The Swift compiler has some serious issues with the way it does type inference. Try compiling code with a line of basic arithmetic on a few numeric literals.
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by edgyswingset 9y ago
Fable: http://fable.io/ It's able to self-host as well. Check it out at http://fable.io/repl F# also runs on .NET Core, which is cross-platform and comes with a good CLI. Documented, too: https:&#x2
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by edgyswingset 9y ago
I imagine most of these companies are using GitHub Enterprise, which costs plenty of money.
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by edgyswingset 9y ago
This is key, I think. Codeplex feels like abandonware to me. All the important Microsoft projects have migrated to GitHub, where all the active development is happening. Perhaps this also screws over some people who wish to stay on Codep
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by edgyswingset 9y ago
Jet.com/walmart is something I use already, and often prefer it to Amazon's own shopping. The website is cleaner which appeals to me. Shipping isn't quite as fast, but it's easily something I can live with. Half of wh
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by edgyswingset 9y ago
> but is rather a thinly veiled accusation of "Go is a terrible language". That's because it is.
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Azure Functions F# support is now in GA(blogs.msdn.microsoft.com)
2 points by edgyswingset 10y ago|0 comments
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by edgyswingset 10y ago
I hope this means that various usability and performance issues with Hangouts I've had improves. That said, I'm having trouble not laughing out loud at this whole thing. It legitimately feels to me like they have no clue what the
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by edgyswingset 10y ago
Maybe? I'm under the impression that the vast majority of Google's software is not written in Golang, though.
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by edgyswingset 10y ago
> We live in a 680 sq ft one-bedroom apartment in an older development ($2200/mo). We'll have to upgrade when my baby outgrows his large walk-in closet, but it fits our needs fine for now. And there's the kicker. In SLC y
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by edgyswingset 10y ago
I find this so ironic. The so-called "heartland" and their complaining about "liberal elites" on the coast are so incredibly wrong. Every election in modern history is decided, ultimately, by these people who let thems
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by edgyswingset 10y ago
I don't think it's mutually exclusive - I simply don't trust Uber to act in good faith for anything they do. They've yet to demonstrate that they're deserving of trust that they're going to make that data open
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by edgyswingset 10y ago
> We believe that breakthrough insights and ideas can come from anywhere. In the coming months, we’ll be making this data open to all. I genuinely do not believe this. If they intended on making anonymized data open, they wouldn't
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by edgyswingset 10y ago
Another aspect of a CLA is the ability for a company to cover themselves legally. Say I work at MegaCorp (they make heavy use of Go in some backend systems), and didn't bother making sure I had permission to contribute on MegaCorp time

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