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by 4thaccount 7y ago
That is probably because they are both different jobs. Both doctors and programmers get paid while they're at conferences and shouldn't have to pay for travel, lodging, food, or conference fees. Outside of that, I'm not sure
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by 4thaccount 7y ago
My thoughts on weird are APL, Smalltalk, Forth, Haskell, Prolog, and Lisp. They're all weird in a good way though.
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by 4thaccount 7y ago
It was
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by 4thaccount 7y ago
What does he do at Cambridge? Student? Professor?
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by 4thaccount 7y ago
There is actually a few companies doing stuff with IF right now. There is one that gives you their tools and publishes your game on their site and takes a cut of the royalties. I played a preview of one some highschool girl wrote about goin
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by 4thaccount 7y ago
Emily Short has a collection of world class IF games and is my favorite writer. I haven't played Counterfeit Monkey yet, but have played some of her other work like City of Secrets, Bronze, and Alabaster to name a few. Another good IF
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by 4thaccount 8y ago
Not 100% true. It depends on the industry, but I have a pretty good idea of the good and bad of many of our competitors. You're right that some of those factors are fuzzy.
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by 4thaccount 8y ago
I'm referring to comparing your existing job to a new one. Everyone does this and it can't be rare. You have to look at quality of work, work life balance, the area, commute time, cost of living, salary, 401k match, benefits, chan
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by 4thaccount 8y ago
I don't think this is a rare thing to do. I've done it and so have co-workers. A simple pro/con chart is really all you need.
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by 4thaccount 8y ago
Yep. It's one reason why I prefer to write my own code where possible instead of using 3rd party libraries. When you need to change something, it is nice to not read tons of other code.
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by 4thaccount 8y ago
Thanks, that seems obvious now. I should not skim so much.
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by 4thaccount 8y ago
There might be a version on Rosetta Code.
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by 4thaccount 8y ago
I think your comment does an excellent job explaining the reality. I also agree that I could probably figure out what a well written page of APL/J/K does quicker than the equivalent 20 pages of OO indirection which I find quite ir
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by 4thaccount 8y ago
I use Python a bunch and have used R in the past. I've dabbled in Julia and both APL & J. I know just enough to say that APL & J are much more expressive as long as Python doesn't have a fix_problem() method built-in. I be
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by 4thaccount 8y ago
That would make sense. Maybe someone on their mailing list will take note (I'm just a lurker). If you want to see something really cool, look at the APL video for Conway's Game of Life on YouTube. If I recall correctly, Jon Schole
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by 4thaccount 8y ago
When you say that J is faster than R, are you referring to using Jd versus dealing with R's read_csv, or are you just talking about the calculations in general for the same size dataset and just using vanilla native language constructs
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by 4thaccount 8y ago
Jd the J database is free for non commercial use and listed as $600 for a single user to use commercially on their site somewhere last I looked. They have fancier enterprise support contracts as well. As for the language itself, it is free
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by 4thaccount 8y ago
Yea...sorry! I got excited and posted the link before realizing the majority of the site was still using the old wiki layout. Please forgive. I think the new landing page does look nicer and more modern.
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by 4thaccount 8y ago
In APL and J, hello world is just 'Hello, World' I think if I recall correctly. What makes the languages (APL, J, K) impressive is that you can simplify what is sometimes pages of code into a single line of symbols (APL) or standa
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by 4thaccount 8y ago
Agreed that static analysis/proof verification only gets you so far. I was just thinking that the visibility of the incident might lead to some companies asking how they can go even further to make things safer. Of course the first and
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by 4thaccount 8y ago
Is there a percentage pie chart for what was used on the MAX? Like 80% Ada, 15% C++, and 5% C? I wonder if we'll see a move to things like Spark where proof verification becomes more standard? I don't know much about avionics soft
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by 4thaccount 8y ago
Or the best give you all the flexibility you could ever need and allow you the freedom to write readable and maintainable code or use all the features to write an insanely terse oneliner that can do the job quickly and be thrown out.
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by 4thaccount 8y ago
Bingo! This very subject is being discussed in industry. However, it's important to point out that we're still pretty far from 100% renewables throughout the day. Both the ERCOT & SPP markets have had renewables as a percentag
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by 4thaccount 8y ago
That is the very simplistic explanation for prices that is great when talking to those that don't work in the industry, but in reality the impact of congestion and losses also factors into the prices as well as reserves in most markets
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by 4thaccount 8y ago
No disagreement. There are a lot of unit characteristics such as the minimum amount of time for how long the unit can be online. This was also good at pointing out long term contracts and agreements that are not seen by the market.
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by 4thaccount 8y ago
No, that is a simplistic explanation that misses the key concept. When you have a power "glut" you generally aren't decommiting many resources unless your commitment and forecast were insanely off. What happens is that the mo
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by 4thaccount 8y ago
That is not true. Where are you getting this from? Maybe I misunderstand you. Low prices generally come from when you have a very low marginal price (often because a windfarm can put in a $0 offer and still make a profit due to subsidies).
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by 4thaccount 8y ago
The part about renewables suppressing prices is already and has been a thing for awhile. We even see $0 prices in some market intervals because wind is so highly subsidized. This causes some issues as the market prices don't reflect th
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by 4thaccount 8y ago
Haha, yes that is a good way to explain it. Moore isn't necessarily wrong, but I don't think he is 100% correct either. Not everybody is a software engineer who can spend all day writing code. There are a lot of folks who write sh

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