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C# vNext syntax changes - Adam Ralph(adamralph.com)
5 points by stevecooperorg 13y ago|1 comments
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by stevecooperorg 13y ago
"we send the characters you have already typed to query our prediction engine" (under 'What information does Telepathwords collect and why?')
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Announcing the F# 3.1 Compiler/Library Code Drop(blogs.msdn.com)
87 points by stevecooperorg 13y ago|15 comments
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by stevecooperorg 13y ago
The blog post had a lot of errors, and was read by a lot of people. Those errors are the kind that lead to bigotry. It's worth correcting each in turn, carefully and rationally, because of its widespread circulation.
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by stevecooperorg 13y ago
I'd pay $2 to trial it, and I'd use it while jogging and listening to music. I have no idea whether it'll work out -- twitter timelines tends to be very fragmentary so I don't know if I'd be able to follow conversat
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by stevecooperorg 13y ago
Nice idea -- I have an iPhone so I can't try it out, but I've been thinking this would be really nice for running or driving. Hope it all goes well for you.
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by stevecooperorg 13y ago
I think you need a Windows Azure account, not a windows box -- I've seen someone using VS Online on Macbook Pro/Chrome, IIRC. (Can't remember where, though.)
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by stevecooperorg 13y ago
Well, there's the cloud version that'll run on your mac; http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Visual-Studio-Online-Monaco/... The video shows how to clone a git repo containing a node.js/Express app and
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by stevecooperorg 13y ago
Reminds me of this paper; "The Interactive Nature of Computing: Refuting the Strong Church-Turing Thesis" -- http://cs.brown.edu/people/pw/strong-cct.pdf "The theoretical nature of computing is curr
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by stevecooperorg 13y ago
Reminds me of Richard P Gabriel's essay on Habitability (PDF, Page 9, http://dreamsongs.net/Files/PatternsOfSoftware.pdf ) "Habitability is the characteristic of source code that enables programmers, coders,
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by stevecooperorg 13y ago
As a Brit, my reaction was one of complete lack of surprise. I wonder if that is widespread, and accounts for the muted reaction. The US operates big, obvious surveillance facilities from inside Britain. For instance, I like to hike, and tw
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by stevecooperorg 13y ago
Nah. We don' use it ourselves but recognise it's 'the American for British.' I guess the equivalent of 'Yanks.'
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by stevecooperorg 13y ago
Developers are often That Guy because they foresee what will happen when they get to writing code; they realise all the thousands of small problems the work is going to throw at them , and they spew that out to their colleagues. Foreseeing
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by stevecooperorg 13y ago
Thanks for the follow-up! These are what I was looking for. :) I look forward to your future work.
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by stevecooperorg 13y ago
Best thing I've read all week. Thanks :)
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by stevecooperorg 13y ago
Not a lot of concrete help, here. What am I looking for in a good UX conversation? I would be interested in an article that explains how a good conversation proceeds. Any thought?
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by stevecooperorg 13y ago
Great solution -- by the end, that final 'type' object starts to look good; type.isNumber(4); // true And it'd be easy to add validation versions, too, which might help clarify the types as one call per para
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by stevecooperorg 13y ago
> All it takes is a seed. A seed of literacy. [citation needed], really. I don't think education was the determining factor in jumpstarting the South Korean economy. South Korea recovered due to external cash and infrastructure inve
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by stevecooperorg 13y ago
I suspect that just providing digital services to people dying of disease isn't much good, but I think there are some really nice technology projects operating at very cheap and small scales to do good. Two that spring to mind are kiva
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by stevecooperorg 13y ago
It's hard for me to see how I'm living in a walled garden here. If there is a Microsoft walled garden, Hacker News is very much outside the wall, isn't it? I'm here, not on MSDN, trying to have a reasoned conversation
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by stevecooperorg 13y ago
We're talking languages here; the way a grammar construct helps the programmer. The C# async language effectively writes a whole batch of code that you'd need to write yourself in other languages; try/catch blocks, callback
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by stevecooperorg 13y ago
I would dearly love for the C# type system to get a bit stronger and less verbose. It's also confused, I think, because you have explicit classes, anonymous types, and dynamic, and they aren't always very well put together. I actu
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by stevecooperorg 13y ago
Could you point out a few features? Would be interested to know.
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by stevecooperorg 13y ago
C# 4 added serious dynamic typing, so that you can make ruby/pthon/js-style dynamic objects; // properties not declared anywhere; runtime property definitions dynamic myObject = new JavaScriptStyleObject();
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by stevecooperorg 13y ago
Anyone care to comment on where we might use such a thing? Is it already in use? And does it compare favourably with BSON?
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by stevecooperorg 13y ago
Yeah -- if willpower is a muscle, then you've got to keep running to exhaustion. People used to call that 'character building.'
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by stevecooperorg 13y ago
I see that sort of thing in myself. I find myself to be a fundamentally 'enthusiastic' person -- I love to act, and hate to refrain. Which shows up in things like health; I'll exercise like a dog and eat like a pig, because
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by stevecooperorg 13y ago
"Researchers say we humans have a limited supply of willpower" -- it's an interesting idea but worth noting there are counter-claims. Particularly, it turns out that this may be self-fulfilling prophecy -- people who subscrib
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by stevecooperorg 13y ago
This story could be told of any developer who doesn't update his skills for seven years. You could tell this story for Java developers, Flash developers, PHP developers, etc. Anyone peddling skills from 2006 is going to be looking pret
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by stevecooperorg 15y ago
Pandoc ( http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/ ) is also very good, allowing you to embed LaTeX inside markdown. So you might do The greek for the letter _A_ is $\alpha$ mashing up the simple markup for bold, italic, lists, headers, an

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