• String.Contains

NOTE: if you’re unfamiliar with how PostSharp works under the hood, I highly recommend that you check out Dustin Davis’ excellent PostSharp Principles series of blog posts here.

The Problem

This is a list of my takeaways from the excellent talk between Erik Meijer (of the LINQ and Rx fame), Carl Hewitt (creator of the Actor model) and Clemens Szyperski, on the Actor model.

1. you can’t wait for its completion (as mentioned in this post already)
2. any unhandled exceptions will terminate your process (ouch!)

The problem is here.

One of the problems with using F#’s Discriminated Unions is that they are not extensible, in that all your union cases must be specified inside one Discriminated Union (abbreviated to DU from this point) type and you can’t…

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I found out about Google CodeJam the other day, and looking at their info page, there’s a number of interesting problems you can solve as practice for the real thing coming up, and here are my F# solutions to the…