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With Xamarin 3 we made F# a first class citizen. You can now use Xamarin Studio to build amazing Android and iOS apps in your favorite functional language. For the last month, the world has lifted the stigma of trying to be functional in an object oriented world.
Today, we are excited to announce “Run an F# app, get an F# shirt!” Download the F#-ified Xamarin Store app, run it, and an F# shirt will be on its way to you! The good folk at Xamarin think you need to get dressed now
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Kent Sharkey wrote: The good folk at Xamarin think you need to get dressed now
I already dress F-in sharp.
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One of Microsoft's main goals with 'Threshold,' the next major version of Windows, is to win over Windows 7 hold outs. Here's the latest on Microsoft's plan, according to my sources. "Together we'll stand on the threshold of a dream"
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Microsoft is as thick as a brick.
This all should have been done in 8.0
Dum A$$es
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Mary Jo Foley is reporting that Microsoft could be getting ready to replace its Surface branding—currently used on a PC tablet lineup—with the Lumia branding that originated with Nokia's smart phone business. "What's in a name?"
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Kent Sharkey wrote: "What's in a name?"
A name by any other name is still a name.
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Quote: "A rose by any other name would smell as sweet stink as well"
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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IF you call a turd and rose it doesn't magically start to smell like a flower.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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At Google I/O, the company urged developers to rethink Web pages in a componentized, composable programming model So we're back to ActiveX again, are we?
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So.. Are they going to resurrect Silverlight? With Native code?!
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Mozilla releases prototype versions of the Firefox browser that work with Oculus Rift and any other VR headsets. Google shows a nibble of interest for Chrome, too. "Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts."
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Kent Sharkey wrote: A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate
operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts."
You leave math out of it.
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The .NET Framework was good. Really good. Until it wasn't. Why did I leave .NET? In short, it constrained our ability to choose (which is a huge deal for me) and turned our focus inward toward the perceived safety of the nest instead of the helping us experiencing all of the possibilities out there in the big, wide world. One dev's story
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"Not having a debugger is actually a liberating experience because it forces you to code in a different way."
Yes. Having spent so many years with (at most) the command-line OpenVMS debugger, I agree that too much reliance on a debugger can be a bad habit. Learn to do more with less.
"VS also has this really nasty habit of creating "csproj" and "sln" files. I hate those things."
Testify, brother! We didn't have those things in Turbo Pascal, we don't need them now.
"I could have probably coded C# using a simple text editor"
Which is what I do unless I need a designer.
"It's so incredibly easy to interact with SQL Server from within Visual Studio"
I never do that.
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
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I read a first person who complains on VS, The best IDE exists so far.Perhaps he might try one of those IDE available online online compiler console[^]
Wait, he left why would I care!
Wonde Tadesse
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Is it a joke? Is he on drug?
Just wondering!?!
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The title is just click-bait. Trolls be trolling.
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Let's wait and see how long it takes for him to return to the .Net world...
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He doesn't mention what type of programming he is doing. .NET may not be the best framework. It depends on what you're doing
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That's a whole different argument here!
Though he does mention Linux on his blog, me think...
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I have an instance of both VS2012 and 2013 open and together they're ALMOST taking up as much memory as Firefox. The response and startup times since VS2010 has vastly improved as well.
But hey, I'm one of those guys who use an IDE because developing is more than just typing out text in a no-frills editor. After all, the 'E' stands for 'Environment' not 'Editor'
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It has long been assumed that the extinct humans were purely carnivorous and that the dietary differences from anatomically modern humans might have been responsible for their demise. But new evidence suggests that as well as enjoying a high meat intake, Neanderthals also had a significant plant element as part of their diets. ...and now they're extinct
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I just can't stop reading that as "Netherlanders"... the world cup has addled my brain.
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