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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 be…

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?

> 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 tha…

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, t…

Not that I'm inclined to believe stuff either way, but this is an op-ed and not really financial stuff being reported on.

> 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 cou…

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, …

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…

The answer is simple. Actually work on it. Not an easy answer, as this is surely incredibly difficult work.

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 c…

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…

> 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 pe…

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.

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 …

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.

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. Documente…

I imagine most of these companies are using GitHub Enterprise, which costs plenty of money.

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 th…

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 …

> but is rather a thinly veiled accusation of "Go is a terrible language". That's because it is.

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 legitim…