Steve(n) Taylor

'Stick with science.' I should have listened. I am now of the twilight stuff between worlds: comp/science/data. KDB+/F#/vicarious ex-guitarist

[Steve(n) Taylor @stevntaylr]

@DudespostingWs It'd be easier to walk on the other side of the street. Silly.

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@FastFSharp One company I know of adopted F# because of units of measure alone. It was that big of a deal for them. It can make a difference.

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@JethroDjan @angel_d_munoz @dsymetweets It's the potential polymorphic surprise vs convenience trade-off. Initially I went with no overloading for months and discovered that I preferred this more explicit way. It was a jarring at first TBH and I didn't expect it to make any difference. It's not a lesser form of FP.

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@vzarytovskii @dsymetweets GADT

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@theburningmonk could they be too fast, as in they get bored and move on within 4 weeks? How would you respond to keep them? I have seen this a few times. In one case, the candidate described himself as a failed researcher and didn't have a lot of confidence. He'd flunk your question ;)

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@matthewdmarsden Definitely Tori Amos in terms of similarly great song writing and raw emotion. The awesome Catatonia? Maybe also Bjork.

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@yawaramin Don and co's early contributions to generics spring to mind. Re: reading material, this ain't too bad https://t.co/yGGkTcsSBn

[The Verge @verge]

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[Steve(n) Taylor @stevntaylr]

@dzoukr I was hoping you would tell me how to explain it. :( A lot of these before/after FP practices sound like bad discipline to... even my former self.

[Steve(n) Taylor @stevntaylr]

@dzoukr it's the hardest feature to sell. You will notice less paranoia manifesting itself in unit tests, and if you catch yourself reasoning about the code base in new ways, it'll be more disconcerting... but this is just the beginning... nobody will believe you... more paranoia

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@BraddrofliT Suspicious.

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@ArjunJolly9 @Bec_Wagner @BrentBrewington @MrDataScience otherwise, false false false false false false false

[Steve(n) Taylor @stevntaylr]

@ArjunJolly9 @Bec_Wagner @BrentBrewington @MrDataScience a*(b+1) gives the right-hand side. Hard to unsee the equal sign and just see the pattern at first though.

[Steve(n) Taylor @stevntaylr]

@shanselman they're just keeping the meta data? Where have I heard that before...

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@vzarytovskii Not having a Windows PC -- I couldn't fulfil the build + testing requirements. A few times Type Provider improvements I made weren't looked at. I waited patiently... I guess folk were busy. This was a few years ago.

[Steve(n) Taylor @stevntaylr]

@BartoszMilewski did their certainty give them the confidence to proceed?

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@KAvignon @dsymetweets Until we're not camera shy, I'm claiming presenters are allergic to the red recording light. So sorry, it wasn't recorded. Next time? We've got @dsymetweets attempting to teach @gvanrossum F# to look forward to though https://t.co/7akS6sHyHF. In-dent-at-ion (name the U2 song).

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... in 90 mins we're live streaming our "Event Sourcing in a Functional World" meetup. All welcome. https://t.co/sOt7UGY7PU #FSharpLang @dsymetweets

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@Bizmonger @ploeh @tomaspetricek A DU of interfaces (one case for each) with an overloaded static method to cast them to the right DU case (if you want a shortcut)

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@isaac_abraham Did Clojure start off on the CLR platform? So, is Clojure an example of what is possible for F#? I'm surprised that FP communities don't pull together more. There seems to be less friction between C# and Java.