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Re:What does it take to run a web app with 5K – 10K users? on Friday January 09, 2015 @11:16AM (#8862824)
24 servers? Can you elaborate on your architecture a little more? What tools do you use to help you manage them?
Re:F# 2014 – A Retrospective and Call to Action on Wednesday December 31, 2014 @12:28PM (#8820156)
I recently tried to teach myself F#. Although the community is very small compared to others, the folks I ran into were warm and enthusiastically helpful.

Most of the intro texts I tried were not good. I found a fantastic one, but it is an outdated, abandoned text that must be accessed through the Internet Archive [1]. I tried to contact the authors to see if I could help updating it, but received no response.

The language has a large surface area. It is not uncommon to think you have learned a lot of F#, then read a blog post by someone full of F# code and think "what the heck is that symbol?"

I agree with others that note the MS influence. Things are definitely getting better, but you will have an easier time if you are in the MS ecosystem.

For what it's worth, I wrote a blog post [2] that might be helpful if you're trying to get started.

[1]: http://web.archive.org/web/20110715231625/http://www.ctocorn... [2]: http://inchingforward.blogspot.com/2014/11/recommended-f-beg...

Re:Goodbye, Hacker News. I'm going back to Reddit. on Saturday August 18, 2007 @04:53PM (#43882)
Why not spell-check the titles?
Re:Hacker News on Tuesday August 14, 2007 @04:47PM (#42411)
What is a slashdotting from Hacker News called?