Note: see the rest of the series so far. I stumbled across this post the other day and problem 2 seems like something I can easily do in APL since it essentially requires you to interleave two arrays. The problem is: Write a function that combines two lists by alternatingly taking elements. For example: given the …
The other day I had a small task to inspect return values of methods and if the following property exists then set it to empty array. public long[] Achievements { get; set; } This needed to happen once on every web request, and I decided to implement it as a PostSharp attribute. WHY I …
Fasterflect vs HyperDescriptor vs FastMember vs Reflection Read More »
I recently gave a talk on the various use cases we have for F# at Gamesys Social at the Tokyo F# User Group during my trip there. The slides are available on Slideshare and I’ll share links to recording once they become available. F# at GameSys from Yan Cui
Note: see the rest of the series so far. This is a classic interview question, and after some experimentation I ended up with the following solution in APL: $latex F \ \iota 100$ => 1 2 Fizz 4 Buzz Fizz 7 8 Fizz Buzz 11 Fizz 13 14 FizzBuzz 16 17 Fizz 19 Buzz Fizz …
Note: see the rest of the series so far. Surprisingly, my last post on APL did well on HackerNews, turns out there is genuine interest in APL out there, which is great to see I have been busy with a number of conferences and talks since then so I haven’t had time to revisit APL. …
In the last post, we looked at some inefficiencies with reference types in .Net and perhaps oversold value types a little In any case, now that we’ve made the initial sale and you’re back for more, let’s talk about some pitfalls wrt the use of value types you should be aware of. Specifically let’s focus on cases …
(Update 2015/07/21 : read the next post in this series to learn about the places where implicit boxing happens with value types and how you can prevent them) I chanced upon Sasha Goldshtein’s excellent book, Pro .Net Performance : Optimize Your C# Application, a few years back and I thoroughly enjoyed it. Even though …
Smallest .Net ref type is 12 bytes (or why you should consider using value types) Read More »
I gave a new talk “A tour of language landscape” at the recent NDC Oslo and then again at PolyConf. Tour of language landscape from Yan Cui Judging by the reactions on Twitter the talk was well received, thank you everyone for your kind words! One of the most inspiring talks at @polyconfhq by @theburningmonk: http://t.co/cTSLC5lZB3 — Marcin …
Video and slides for “A tour of language landscape” @ NDC Oslo Read More »
Bryan Hunter has been responsible for organising the FP track at NDC conferences as well as a few others and the quality of the tracks have been consistently good. The FP track for this year’s NDC Oslo was exceptional and every talk has had a full house. And this year Bryan actually kicked off the …
NDC Oslo 15 – Takeaways from “Lean and Functional Programming” Read More »
This year’s version of NDC Oslo has a strong security theme throughout,and one of Troy Hunt’s talks – 50 Shades of AppSec – was one of the top-rated talks at the conference based on attendee feedbacks. Sadly I missed the talk whilst at the conference but having just watched it on Vimeo it left me …
NDC Oslo 15 – Takeaways from “50 Shades of AppSec” Read More »
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