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i can't stand when a tech company can't innovate their own webpage more than using a standard Bootstrap template any noob developer can use. No offense to your product I'm sure it's great. I just don't understand why every company, especially in the tech field can't even design their website to be just a little bit unique.
And why should it be unique? Do you require that with every entity you deal with?
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I believe it has always been there: https://github.com/fsharp/fsharp
That's actually just a clone of the codeplex project. As mentioned in the README contributions first go (went?) through codeplex.
The F# Open Edition repo targets Linux/Mac/Mono explicitly. Compared to the Visual F# repo, it's quite close, but has a handful of tweaks to account for mono/xplat, plus has a bunch of xplat packaging capabilities.
Before the VF# repo opened for business earlier this year, Open Edition was maintained based on the per-release F# code drops that constituted the old open source strategy for F#.
Anyways, Visual F# (i.e. owned by MSFT, targeting windows/VS) is now at https://github.com/microsoft/visualfsharp. There is even a [doc](https://github.com/Microsoft/visualfsharp/wiki/Code-Flow-to-...) explaining how the code flows to Open Edition from there.
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I find this to be true of younger people who aren't aware of Microsoft's past and don't look at them with the sideways glance the rest of us do. In fact, I find it amazing how many younger people never even heard of their dark side and all the anti-trust movements on two continents.
Apple is more antitrust than Microsoft ever was. Bundling a browser with your OS (while still allowing users to install an alternative) is nothing compared to the restrictions in the iOS app store.
- Limiting what compeditor apps are 'up to the standard' for their app store
- Giving their own code and apps special access and APIs that no competitors can have
- Charging competitors for the use of their store
- Ranking of store apps in the favor of Apple code
More importantly the controlling of the ecosystem allows networking effects and developer effects to win Apple money and market share.
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About as well as Xcode runs on my Windows machine, but there are always VMs. (I wasn't who downvoted you, BTW)
Well, as a fairly broke student who doesn't own any Windows computers (and who's plenty tired of Java), I've found that getting into C# is unnecessarily unpleasant. It doesn't help that everybody's advice seems to be "get Visual Studio." I'm sure it's great, and if I put more effort into it I might get something to work. But it is a real barrier: Why should I jump to C# if it isn't actually any more convenient?
This is getting terrifyingly close to my prediction that Microsoft should/would/will buy GitHub. When I first started predicting this two or so years ago, it was mainly for its comedic value (it always got laughs, followed by "yeah, they should!" followed by nervous laughter followed by "wait, do you think they would actually do that?!"), but after the open sourcing of .NET I honestly think anything is possible. Espe…
Wait wait wait! Why would Microsoft, or any company, increase the value of a company before buying it (thus increasing the amount they have to payout to existing shareholders)? Wouldn't you think Microsoft or some other company would buy first, then make the company worth more? For example, let's say Chevy is [seriously] thinking about buying [BatteryCompany]. Would Chevy put in an order for millions of dollars worth…