Bent Rasmussen

• The new Bing...your questions answered

  May 18, 2012 at 3:02 AM

  Looking very good indeed.

  Not using my favourite socnet, but kudos - these changes are nice.

• E2E: Donna Malayeri, Gilad Bracha, Luke Hoban - Web Programming and More

  May 15, 2012 at 5:31 PM

  Golden comment by Gilad: "there are conferences for those papers".

  Golden comment by Erik: "did you get a package from Amsterdam?".

  Great idea by Erik towards the end. Isn't that sort of also what Links was invented for?

  Not using Dart yet but probably will include it in the existing arsenal of Js+Jq, C# and F#.

  Great interview

   

• Dare Obasanjo: SkyDrive - Personal Storage in the Cloud

  May 15, 2012 at 4:17 PM

  Congrats on a really great product!

  And good old Dare. I remember him from the first years of XML.

• Lang.NEXT 2012 Expert Panel: Web and Cloud Programming (and more)

  Apr 15, 2012 at 7:12 AM

  2 days ago, Richard.Hein wrote

  *snip*

  @exoteric:  Check out this session, where he mentions what Anders said there, how most people don't know what to do with machine learning in terms of language design, yet:

  http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Lang-NEXT/Lang-NEXT-2012/Reverend-Bayes-meet-Countess-Lovelace-Probabilistic-Programming-for-Machine-Learning

  It's funny, he mentions Anders and esoteric in the same paragraph ... oh your exo ... still.

  (I am actually also esoteric , I just don't use that account anymore for technical reasons.)

  Thanks for the reference. I'll check it out!

• Gilad Bracha: Dart - A Well Structured Web Programming Language

  Apr 15, 2012 at 6:21 AM

  Watching....

  It's clear from the beginning that Gilad is a great speaker with a great sense of humor

  Love it so far...

• Lang.NEXT 2012 Expert Panel: Web and Cloud Programming (and more)

  Apr 11, 2012 at 11:57 AM

  It was indeed very humorous.

  Good points about the skill of the library writer vs the skill of the application writer vs the application writer as a library writer.

  I do wonder what Anders meant with machine learning and its future in programming.

• Lang.NEXT 2012 Expert Panel: Web and Cloud Programming (and more)

  Apr 10, 2012 at 2:34 PM

  Excellent. Press play on video...

  The F# examples are not as idiomatic as they could be.

  Example 1:

  let aString = "string"
  let stringResult = aString |> Seq.map Char.ToUpper
  let listResult = aString |> Seq.map int
  

  Example 2:

  let set = Set([1; 2; 3])
  let filtered = set |> Set.filter ((=) 2)
  let mapped = set |> Set.map (fun elm -> elm.ToString())

  A little bit of the "Intellisense effortlessness" is lost of course, because you're not dotting your way through functions but instead tell the compiler that it should use the filter function from the Set module, etc.

  The |> pipeline operator does ensure that you can use the same fluent style though. 

• Martyn Lovell: The Windows Runtime

  Apr 07, 2012 at 11:11 AM

  23 minutes ago, dot_tom wrote

  Curious choice of presentation to keynote with for this conference. It felt very much like a BUILD presentation rather than a presentation aimed at a wider, more or less platform agnostic, academic audience. 

  I felt it made perfect sense for this audience: BUILD is about application developers and Lang.next is about language developers, so what is more natural than present language developers with a little bit of Windows Runtime, so even more languages can potentially target the new Windows platform without even needing to go through .NET.

• Lang.NEXT 2012 Expert Panel: Web and Cloud Programming (and more)

  Apr 07, 2012 at 10:45 AM

  Is there a recording for this? It'd be stellar to have it.

• Keynote - Martin Odersky: Reflection and Compilers

  Apr 06, 2012 at 4:42 PM

  Oh, Lang.net already in progress! 

  Great talk here. 

  (I agree on the audio being sub-par. Compare the audio to e.g. the latest episode of cloud cover and you'll have much more pleasant voice recordings. The content rocks though.)

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