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New comment by markfsharp in "Building my own Vi text editor in BASIC"

markfsharp — Thu, 07 May 2026 05:35:30 +0000

Not very pro or anti BASIC but very pro your rationale, and love that you do what you do because it is fun and stimulating. I love reinventing wheels also, and, in fact, believe it is under appreciated just how useful it actually is. I'd encourage people to reinvent things for their own benefit, maybe you might end up building a better version of something, but more importantly you will possibly encourage, energise or inspire another to explore and learn.

New comment by markfsharp in "Microsoft doesn't understand the dislike for Windows' new direction"

markfsharp — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 07:36:02 +0000

This is potentially a inflection point for windows being the dominate OS. If Google, who now have Android working on desktop, and can market it well enough. Since half of the mobile users in world would be less afraid to try something they are familiar with on their phones.

New comment by markfsharp in "'Godfather of AI' (Bengio) becomes first person to hit one million citations"

markfsharp — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 00:20:22 +0000

More than Euler?

New comment by markfsharp in "What Is miniKanren?"

markfsharp — Sat, 11 Jan 2025 11:05:36 +0000

Yes, I agree, and understand the point better. Totally a great thing if this can be made accessible to a wider audience and not expect them to do all the work to grok it, especially if there are easy/easier ways to bring it to a wider audience. The parentheses don't usually remain a problem after the initial bump, I had the same issue when I started clojure but after a short while it doesn't continue to be jarring. I think after about 90 minutes it just started to be "natural" perhaps that the wrong word, it was just something that was like ok after a bit and didn't notice too much.

New comment by markfsharp in "Be Aware of the Makefile Effect"

markfsharp — Sat, 11 Jan 2025 10:46:55 +0000

Could not agree more!

New comment by markfsharp in "China limit game playing time for kids to 15 hours a month during school break"

markfsharp — Sat, 11 Jan 2025 10:07:50 +0000

Seems reasonable not sure why other governments aren't doing similar to protect youths.

New comment by markfsharp in "What Is miniKanren?"

markfsharp — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 07:27:03 +0000

I think the initial surface look makes scheme give a bit of an 'oh crap' response. But since minikanren is actually a small program and scheme doesn't really have syntax the language should be less of a problem than initial concerns might make one think. Grokking the actual logic in any language is going to be the bigger challenge. I guess I am trying to encourage just rolling with lisp if you can, but I totally get the initial reactions toward scheme though.

New comment by markfsharp in "Moon"

markfsharp — Tue, 17 Dec 2024 21:05:40 +0000

Wow! Just wow! Very good.

New comment by markfsharp in "Go should sometimes be a no-go"

markfsharp — Sat, 14 Dec 2024 08:47:57 +0000

I don't know about other people's experience, but from mine, I see a lot (most) devs abstracting too early in the name of clean code. I guess engineers gonna engineer when simple boring repetition is sufficient and those premature abstraction are unnecessary.

New comment by markfsharp in "With Surge in New Users, Bluesky Emerges as X Alternative"

markfsharp — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 08:24:44 +0000

Pay walled news source uuggghhhh

New comment by markfsharp in "Earth Will Exceed 1.5 Degrees Celsius of Warming This Year"

markfsharp — Sat, 09 Nov 2024 15:52:56 +0000

Unfortunately, I don't feel confident humanity has the ability not to destroy the environment that sustains our life. We are simply too selfish, unable to adjust our thinking to new information sufficiently, lack compassion for others, and/or just don't care about things that don't affect us directly.

Org Empathy

markfsharp — Mon, 04 Nov 2024 10:30:01 +0000

Article URL: https://www.hrunplugged.co.uk/blog/the-dora-metrics-of-empathy-engineering-human-connection

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42040247

Points: 5

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New comment by markfsharp in "F# Not just for finance"

markfsharp — Fri, 10 Jun 2016 16:59:26 +0000

Yeah, I could go along with that.

New comment by markfsharp in "F# Not just for finance"

markfsharp — Fri, 10 Jun 2016 16:24:05 +0000

Pure functions, i.e. that are 1) idempotent 2) have all their arguments passed in 3) cause no side effects as a by product of evaluating the function are fundamental to functional programming.

New comment by markfsharp in "F# Not just for finance"

markfsharp — Fri, 10 Jun 2016 13:33:43 +0000

Here is the Louvre Architect demonstrating the use of F# to help with the design of the structure: https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/FSharp-Events/fsharpConf-20...

New comment by markfsharp in "F# Not just for finance"

markfsharp — Fri, 10 Jun 2016 12:54:11 +0000

paket convert-from-nuget

New comment by markfsharp in "F# Not just for finance"

markfsharp — Fri, 10 Jun 2016 12:10:22 +0000

There are planning to take on Amazon, for one, but not sure what they are doing internally so couldn't possibly comment on that front.

F# Not just for finance

markfsharp — Fri, 10 Jun 2016 09:32:47 +0000

Article URL: https://fsharp.tv/gazettes/f-the-most-highly-paid-tech-worldwide-in-2016/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11875220

Points: 182

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