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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…

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 Performan…

"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 taki…

Two separate Sherlock Holmes stories have a "stranger at a public wedding ceremony" as a plot point!

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 sal…

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.

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 dire…

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...

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. A…

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…

As one of the comments pointed out, it's even funnier if you turn on the automatic captions :)

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.n…

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 mis…

C# Light (from 2014) - https://www.slideshare.net/ScottWlaschin/c-light

+100 "The Logic Of Failure" is a great starting point, and everything by Gerald Weinberg is worth reading.

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 desig…

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/archeol…

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. …

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)…

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.…

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 Sql…

Thanks for these -- the aether one is hilarious.