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by grndn 5d ago
There is indeed a whole book about ecosystems and charismatic megafauna called "Do We Need Pandas?: The Uncomfortable Truth About Biodiversity"[1]. And there is debate among naturalists [2] [1] https://www.goodreads.com
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by grndn 1mo ago
Or in one of my favorite coinages: "Moral Crumple Zones". "Just as the crumple zone in a car is designed to absorb the force of impact in a crash, the human in a highly complex and automated system may become simply a compon
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by grndn 2mo ago
Matthew Crews has a done a number of videos on high-performance F# and there are some things you can do that give a big boost over the default coding approach. Why F# for Performance -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIBRoN
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by grndn 4mo ago
"Understandably, there has been much speculation as to [leader]’s mental fitness. It has been marked that [leader] possessed a perpetual immaturity. He had great difficulty in taking matters seriously, and tended to fixate on surface l
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by grndn 1y ago
Two separate Sherlock Holmes stories have a "stranger at a public wedding ceremony" as a plot point!
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by grndn 1y ago
Personal anecdote: I had a subscription to the Philly Inquirer. They made it very easy to sign up online, but there was no way to cancel online. The website only said "call the sales team to cancel". I changed my home address to C
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by grndn 1y ago
Fellow Branestawm enthusiast here. That is the first time anyone has ever mentioned Professor Branestawm on HN, as far as I can tell! It's triggering deep memories.
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by grndn 2y ago
As another comment said, you can write client side code in F# which gets transpiled to JS, just like Typescript or CoffeeScript. This approach allows you to use JSX components directly from your F# code. It's very cool. Other FP langua
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by grndn 2y ago
Elixir took the pipe symbol from F# (See Jose's comment at [1]). For more details see my other comment below. [1] https://elixirforum.com/t/which-language-first-introduced-th...
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by grndn 2y ago
OCaml took the '|>' pipe symbol from F#. And F# was the language that made the '|>' pipe symbol popular in mainstream programming (as opposed to the unix '|' pipe symbol), afaik. According to Don Syme, i
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The Global Climate Change Consensus: My Experiment (2007)(norvig.com)
1 points by grndn 2y ago|2 comments
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by grndn 2y ago
Peter Norvig does his own research: "When faced with a controversy like this, the great thing is that you can do your own research. If you suspect Oreskes or Peiser (or both) might be biased, you can look at the data yourself." Al
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by grndn 3y ago
As one of the comments pointed out, it's even funnier if you turn on the automatic captions :)
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Railway-Oriented Programming in Java(youtube.com)
3 points by grndn 5y ago|0 comments
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by grndn 6y ago
Agreed about the TLA docs, but it is worth persisting, as TLA is very useful in some situations. These slides cover the basic syntax enough to get started. https://www.slideshare.net/ScottWlaschin/tla-for-programmers...
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by grndn 7y ago
The original title is "Write your own Excel in 100 lines of F#." I don't know why the F# part was removed either. HN guidelines say "please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editoria
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by grndn 8y ago
C# Light (from 2014) - https://www.slideshare.net/ScottWlaschin/c-light
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by grndn 8y ago
+100 "The Logic Of Failure" is a great starting point, and everything by Gerald Weinberg is worth reading.
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by grndn 9y ago
I came here to say the same thing. :) The fundamental problem is that you want one piece of (semantic) content to be presented on many different platforms with very different design approaches. The current approach uses if-then-else conditi
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by grndn 9y ago
Here is the history of the |> symbol as best as I can tell: 1994: Isabelle/ML (part of Isabelle proof assistant tooling) ( https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dsyme/2011/05/17/archeologi... ) 2005 and
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by grndn 9y ago
For a counterpoint, see the "Victorian Bakers" doc from the BBC: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4h8mty . See 11 min mark for bakery conditions and 23:30 for flour adulteration. The free market at its finest
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by grndn 10y ago
You are on the right track (no pun intended). Your second and third function signatures are actually the same thing in F# (and any other language with curried functions by default). Similar functions such as "map" and "filt
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by grndn 11y ago
And for those interested in a FP-oriented (rather than OO) approach to cap-based security, here's a post on using it as a tool to enforce good design: http://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/posts/capability-based-secu...
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by grndn 11y ago
How about F#? It feels like Python and has a Pandas equivalent in Deedle ( https://bluemountaincapital.github.io/Deedle/ ), but fits well in the .NET ecosystem, including using SqlServer effortlessly. This report is a g
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by grndn 11y ago
Thanks for these -- the aether one is hilarious.
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Ionide Is a New Atom-Based F# IDE Written in F#(infoq.com)
1 points by grndn 11y ago|0 comments
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by grndn 11y ago
Couldn't this just be a form of the "Sports Illustrated cover jinx", that is, regression to the mean?
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by grndn 11y ago
Many FP-ers believe that you need to use understand the math or at least use the "right" terminology before using monads. There is an obvious counter-example. Millions of C# developers are using monads already under the name of &q
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by grndn 12y ago
Too late, I'm afraid. That horse has literally* bolted. The world has decided on what "steep" means now. * http://www.salon.com/2013/08/22/according_to_the_dictionary_...
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by grndn 12y ago
Zawinski's Law "Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can." http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/Z/Zawinskis-Law.ht

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