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www.youtube.com 4y ago

Guido van Rossum learns F#

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github.com 5y ago

Self-Hosted REST API Fuzz Testing Service from Microsoft

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www.microsoft.com 5y ago

REST API Fuzz Testing Tools from Microsoft

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news.ycombinator.com 14y ago

Anyone knows what's up with Bitbucket?

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blogs.msdn.com 15y ago

Perspectives on Clojure and F# (Video from 2010)

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www.romanticallyapocalyptic.com 15y ago

Graphic novel : Funny take on the future

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www.cubeecraft.com 15y ago

Awesome DIY papercraft toys

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labs.oracle.com 15y ago

Guy Steele on Parallelism [2006]

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www.slimy.com 15y ago

Introduction to String Theory [2004]

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www.algorithmist.com 15y ago

Collection of algorithms

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channel9.msdn.com 16y ago

Video: Don Syme - Intro to F#

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www.spec.org 16y ago

Tons of hardware and software benchmarks

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en.wikibooks.org 16y ago

X86 Disassembly book

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www.masm32.com 16y ago

The MASM32 SDK

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www.cs.cmu.edu 16y ago

"Purely Functional Data Structures" by Chris Okasaki [pdf]

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news.ycombinator.com 16y ago

Does anybody get CONNECTION_RESET errors when trying to get to HN ?

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vimeo.com 16y ago

Stargate Studios Virtual Backlot Demo

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www.mtasc.org 16y ago

ActionScript 2 Open Source free compiler written in OCaml

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www.supercompilers.com 16y ago

Java code optimization project

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en.wikipedia.org 16y ago

The Refal programming language

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ocamljava.x9c.fr 16y ago

OCaml on JVM

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technically.us 16y ago

Codecraft

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news.ycombinator.com 16y ago

Ask HN: Is there Hacker News archive ?

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www.historyofthings.com 16y ago

History of ipod

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www.linuxfromscratch.org 16y ago

How to build custom Linux from source code

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www.cio.com 16y ago

More details about Microsoft and Yahoo deal

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www.wickedlocal.com 17y ago

Vista print faces class action lawsuit

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www.engadget.com 17y ago

Dormitory converted into gigantic Tetris display (2007)

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en.wikipedia.org 17y ago

Steve Mann - Wearable computers pioneer

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news.ycombinator.com 17y ago

Does anybody know anything about ibs-safeworlds ?

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VsVim 14 years ago

I use this plugin everyday.

It's got some serious bugs that make my heart stop.

The biggest one is Undo. Looks like the plugin keeps it's own list of modifications that were performed. So when sometimes I press "u" to undo the latest change - Visual Studio gets suspended for a minute or two, and all my changes that I did since I opened Visual Studio (could be a day or a week) are pretty much gone. The work around is to close the file without saving.

Isn't that since Computing falls under umbrella of Mathematics and there is no Nobel prize for Mathematics (due to Nobel's wife having lover who was a Mathematician, so Nobel excluded the whole Math field from getting the prize) - Computing must have Turing Award instead

> Ocaml also has the potential to be faster. At least in the single core case.

F# can only go as fast as .NET. Compiled OCaml though is very fast - I completely agree with you.

I meant that the syntax of OCaml is more verbose. In F# (now that the #light directive is a default) you need less comparing to OCaml. Do not need to add ;; to terminate an expression (except for in REPL). Do not need to have "done" to close every loop declaration. Do not need to have "in" for "let" declarations.

I programmed OCaml for couple of years, and now I've been programming F# for past 3 years.

OCaml is more verbose than F#. F# is on par with Python.

F# besides having all features of OCaml. (You could (and maybe still can) compile OCaml using F# compiler.) also has some nice extras. Workflows (think monads in Haskel). Workflows in turn used to implement Asynchronous Workflows, and mailbox thread processing. So you get Erlang style multithreading.

Another point for F#: since it's on .Net and .Net actually runs on multicore machines the way one would think it should run. OCaml on the other hand has garbage collection that does not play with multicore very well.

Last but not least: F# can call any .Net function or create any .Net object -> you have access to a lots of things out of the box. F# - batteries included; OCaml - batteries are not included.

[Edit - spelling and formatting]

He talks about C# 4.0, but F# is not mentioned at all. Once you switch from OCaml to F# you never go back.

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But Microsoft is not in charge of Mono, plus Microsoft is applying Community Promise to Mono (http://www.microsoft.com/interop/cp/default.mspx).

this is from QA section:

Q: Is this Community Promise legally binding on Microsoft and will it be available in the future to me and to others? A: Yes, the CP is legally binding upon Microsoft. The CP is a unilateral promise from Microsoft and in these circumstances unilateral promises may be enforced against the party making such a promise. Because the CP states that the promise is irrevocable, it may not be withdrawn by Microsoft. The CP is, and will be, available to everyone now and in the future for the specifications to which it applies. As stated in the CP, the only time Microsoft can withdraw its promise against a specific person or company for a specific Covered Specification is if that person or company brings (or voluntarily participates in) a patent infringement lawsuit against Microsoft regarding Microsoft’s implementation of the same Covered Specification. This type of “suspension” clause is common industry practice.

So it looks like that Mono is better off than JVM and Java

Regarding "3d graphics remaining serious bottleneck" : any serious 3d graphics is done on GPU. C++ does not have that much advantage over Python or Java, as long as 3d computations are done on GPU

Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson flying hot air balloon. They get lost, so they have to land. They have no idea where they are. Sherlock Holmes asks passing by guy: "Excuse me sir, but where are we ?" Guy says: "You are in hot air balloon" and he walks away.

After some thinking Sherlock says : "That person was a mathematician". "How did you know that ?" asks Doctor Watson. Sherlock Holmes replies: "Well first he gave a very precise answer, and second - the answer was completely useless"

I say keep going. For sure your app is different enough that there are people who'll prefer your app.

I am in a similar situation. I thought of an idea about a year ago, 4 months ago someone else implemented it. Still going to finish and release...

Maybe they would not hold up in the court. If you could afford it though. I don't think when you are starting a startup, the first thing you want to do is go in court and battle against a company that has much more money to spend on lawyers than you do.

Check your contract, and ask them to check theirs. My contract, for example, says that I am not allowed to have any kind of work relationship with a person who was employed by the company at the time when I quit. In situation like yours, I'd be screwed.