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anilmujagicon Ask HN: Blockchain Development Resources

What do you mean by "Ethereum standard"? If you're talking about ERC20 token standard, that's exactly what OP said (s)he is not aiming for.

anilmujagicon DAO Is yet Another OOP Shame

Few years ago I'd understand immediately that this is about Data Access Object. But when I saw this title now, my first thought was that it is about the DAO hack [1].

[1] https://www.coindesk.com/understanding-dao-hack-journalists/

anilmujagicon Vienna's Recipe for Living Well

> Munich is amazing.

Indeed.

anilmujagicon Manifold.js – Create mobile apps from websites

I don't think server side tech will make any difference. However, having the web app implemented in SPA style will certainly improve user experience.

anilmujagicon Ask HN: Which book are you reading these days?

As I'm just 50 pages in, so far it's basically all familiar stuff, because I already have read most of the article series on fsharpforfunandprofit.com.

I was searching for recommendations online and people on reddit were recommending this book, together with Expert F#.

There is also this article recommending those two books: http://jorgetavares.com/2015/01/01/reading-list-for-f-learni...

anilmujagicon Ask HN: Which book are you reading these days?

Programming F# 3.0, 2nd Edition

While not reading it right now (read it 4-5 yrs ago) I recommend The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho. One of the few non-technical books that I really enjoyed :)

anilmujagicon Dot matrix printer playing “Eye of the Tiger” [video]

Brings back the memories from high school time, when I was helping my father in his accounting office. I was able to recognize the document being printed just by the sound pattern the printer was making :)

anilmujagicon Typesafe Launches ConductR

Nice to see Typesafe slowly rounding up their offering.

anilmujagicon Dropbox accesses all the files in your PC?

Is there (likely to be) an official response from Dropbox?

anilmujagicon The growing irrelevance of MongoDB

I never understood the hype around MongoDB. Maybe it is the fact that I started programming when SQL DBs were the prevalent/mainstream option, and got too much used to it... Anyways, Im glad people are recognizing the hype and realizing that RDBMS has enough to offer.

anilmujagicon Doom

Oh yes, that is my ultimate dream!

anilmujagicon [dead]

What is fact and what is fiction depends on person's senses and beliefs. Perception of a blind person is much different from perception of non-blind person. Accordingly, perception of a spiritual person is much different from perception of non-spiritual person.

anilmujagicon Ask HN: What's the best technical eBook you have read?

Dependency Injection in .NET by Mark Seemann: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1935182501

anilmujagicon Introducing Swift

http://book.swiftlang.eu

anilmujagicon Introducing Swift

Yup...

anilmujagicon Introducing Swift

Indeed, I also think it's most similar to Scala.

anilmujagicon Introducing Swift

Anyone have any links or resources?

anilmujagicon Running ASP.NET vNext on OS X and Linux

"My new LAMP stack: Linux, ASP.NET, Mono, PostgreSQL."

Good one :)

anilmujagicon New DuckDuckGo design

Is there a way to filter results by time, like on Google? I can't find it.

anilmujagicon How Azure Web Sites Sucked in Production

You don't need to have external tool to keep the AppPool from timing out: right-click AppPool in IIS Manager > Advanced Settings > Idle Time-out: set to zero. Also, you don't need the script to reset it at certain time: right-click AppPool in IIS Manager > Recycling... > Specific time(s).

anilmujagicon TDD is dead. Long live testing.

Finally some common sense. I never liked this TDD madness.

anilmujagicon Microsoft Open Sources C# Compiler

Give Mono 1st class support and you have me willingly locked in into MS.

anilmujagicon Slick – Carousel

This is really slick! (pun definitely intended ;))

anilmujagicon Show HN: Simple translation by email

Brilliant!

anilmujagicon HP promotes Windows 7 PCs

There was no Windows 97.

anilmujagicon Windows 3.1 written in JS/HTML

"Bandwidth Limit Exceeded" That happens when you hit HN front page :)

anilmujagicon More details on Microsoft's new M# language

I just hope they'll make it available for non-windows platforms. Despite C# being a great language, being great only on windows is not attractive anymore.

anilmujagicon Web Framework Benchmarks - Round 8

I'm really surprised with ASP.NET/C# results :-S

anilmujagicon IntelliJ IDEA 13 is Released

It is lightning fast on my machine on both VS 2010 and 2012.