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		<title>Musicians, Mechanics, and Mathematicians</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 06:35:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Minerich</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thank you all for your comments on my previous post, I appreciate the time you all took in sharing your perspectives very much.  Many of you have brought up great analogies to demonstrate how you feel and in reading these responses I realized I must not have been very clear. There are some musical geniuses [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why do most programmers work so hard at pretending that they&#8217;re not doing math?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2012 02:36:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Minerich</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the early days programming was considered a subdiscipline of mathematics. In fact, the very first person to write an algorithm was renowned as a mathematical genius. However, somewhere along the way we forgot. We began to think of ourselves as something different, a profession not beholden to rigor or deep understanding of the models we create. It&#8217;s easy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2011 In Retrospect: A Year of Writing F# Professionally</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 19:53:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Minerich</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the past year I&#8217;ve been working almost entirely in F# and have found the experience to be everything I hoped it to be and better. In just six months I was able to bring a research project to fruition which has since made our company millions of dollars. F#&#8217;s terseness made algorithms a joy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>For whom the proteins fold</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2011 00:54:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Minerich</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I know this post isn&#8217;t of my usual technical type, but I hope you&#8217;ll bear with me while I share an idea I&#8217;ve been thinking about. Starting way back with SETI@Home, scientists have been borrowing our computer time in exchange for awesomely nerdy screen savers for years. However, it&#8217;s only fairly recently have they discovered [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Imperative Pseudocode to Pure Functional Algorithm with Gale-Shapely and F#</title>
		<link>http://richardminerich.com/2011/09/imperative-pseudocode-to-pure-functional-algorithm/</link>
		<comments>http://richardminerich.com/2011/09/imperative-pseudocode-to-pure-functional-algorithm/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 20:51:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Minerich</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Continuing from last time, let&#8217;s look at how one goes from imperative pseudocode to pure functional using Gale-Shapely as an example. Overall, to convert an algorithm from imperative to functional is a fairly simple process once you understand how to convert from a while loop to recursion with accumulators. This post is just a more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I got 99 problems but dynamic ain&#8217;t one</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Dec 2010 03:02:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Minerich</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you got runtime errors I feel bad for you son I got 99 problems but dynamic ain&#8217;t one I got the cube patrol on the code patrol Foes that wanna try and keep my source out of control Ruby writers that say he&#8217;s &#8220;Science Strict Not-Bold&#8221; I&#8217;m from university stupid what type of facts [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Repeating History of Closed Platforms</title>
		<link>http://richardminerich.com/2010/04/the-repeating-history-of-closed-platforms/</link>
		<comments>http://richardminerich.com/2010/04/the-repeating-history-of-closed-platforms/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Apr 2010 21:32:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Minerich</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Makers]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was one of the many that loved the iPhone AppStore platform.  Consumers marveled at how we could easily buy any application we might want, vetted with a nice rating system.   Developers were shocked at the ease with which it seemed possible to monetize on simple applications.   The only downside seemed to be the occasional [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Code Bubbles and the Keyboard</title>
		<link>http://richardminerich.com/2010/03/code-bubbles-and-the-keyboard/</link>
		<comments>http://richardminerich.com/2010/03/code-bubbles-and-the-keyboard/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Mar 2010 21:54:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Minerich</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was catching up on reading one of my favorite blogs today, Lambda the Ultimate, and was not disappointed in the least.  At the top of the list sat Code Bubbles, a whole new take on the IDE.  Code Bubbles shocked me because it's visually manifest much of what I had in mind when I wrote almost two years ago on leaving flat files behind.  That said, I think Code Bubbles has a long way to go before it's a reasonable platform to choose for active development.  ]]></description>
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		<title>Abstract Thoughts about F# Abstractions</title>
		<link>http://richardminerich.com/2010/03/abstract-thoughts-about-f-abstractions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 04:56:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Minerich</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My recent work on Professional F# 2.0 has left me thinking a lot about the nature of abstractions.]]></description>
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		<title>On Finding Mentors Through Issuing Challenges</title>
		<link>http://richardminerich.com/2010/02/on-finding-mentors-through-issuing-challenges/</link>
		<comments>http://richardminerich.com/2010/02/on-finding-mentors-through-issuing-challenges/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Feb 2010 23:57:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Minerich</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I hear it again and again: the key to a successful career is in finding good mentors. According to the Women in Tech panel I attended at PDC, lack of female mentors is the number one reasons for our gender dichotomy in tech.  I&#8217;ve also seen much of my success through mentoring. Were it not for Steve [...]]]></description>
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