Derbasti

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by Derbasti 10y ago
This. And it even comes with reftex and bibtex.
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by Derbasti 10y ago
They regularly find large numbers of dead birds near offshore wind parks. The conclusion is obvious, but apparently wrong. What seems to happen in reality is that fatally exhausted birds rest on wind turbines, but can't take off any mo
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by Derbasti 10y ago
This is so true. Open source is something I do on my spare time, if I have spare time available. And it often is absurd how some people seem to demand quick response times and prompt bug fixes from open source projects. I have burnt out o
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by Derbasti 10y ago
Most popular dynamic programming languages are well-loved because they have huge standard libraries, which can largely not be ported to a browser sandbox. This is why I don't see how, say, Python or Ruby would be good sources of WebA
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by Derbasti 10y ago
The way I understand it, WebAssembly is all about the size of the binary and parsing overhead. Or, at a higher level, about enabling a level playing field between more languages than just JavaScript. Speed improvements from a common runtime
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by Derbasti 10y ago
I have been keeping a work/science journal for a few years now. I keep it simple: One text file per day in a single directory. Ever significant thing I do gets a new headline in the file. The text file is written in org-mode using org-
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by Derbasti 10y ago
Isn't BS used in combination with other characters to encode non-character terminal information, like text color changes? In some programs, `]\b` for example will change the text color. The `]` character itself will not be printed, sin
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by Derbasti 10y ago
I wonder how they plan to keep the engines maintained. Jet engines aren't exactly cheap, and maintenance, spare parts, and fuel aren't free, either.
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by Derbasti 10y ago
there were workarounds...
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by Derbasti 10y ago
In fact, here is one person who owns PragmataPro, and loves it. I particularly love the extensive unicode support, and the differently-shaped bold faces. I tried the programming ligatures for a while, but didn't like them. I have no
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by Derbasti 10y ago
Buying a neato was one of the best things we did last year. Yes, it gets stuck under furniture ever now and then. Yes, it will freak out if you leave stuff lying on the ground. Yes, it won't get into every corner. Yes, it really only h
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by Derbasti 10y ago
The article makes it sound like their planes are failing all the time, while the statistics say that Allegiant has 12 failures per 10000 flights. That sure is more than any other American airline, but it is not nearly as alarming as this ar
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by Derbasti 10y ago
Bild am Sonntag is quoted as the source. That's about as yellow as pages get. I would take that with a Fox News sized grain of salt.
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by Derbasti 10y ago
Also, most of these libraries are implemented using Matplotlib. If you want full flexibility, or custom visualizations, Matplotlib is the way to go. I would recommend one of the other libraries for interactive plots, though.
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by Derbasti 10y ago
While giving lectures on programming, I have found that teaching students to use the git command line is much more useful than teaching them some git GUI tool. That being said, only a few students really manage to get git after a semester
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by Derbasti 10y ago
I don't like Cython very much. I much prefer CFFI or Numba, which have none of your stated problems.
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by Derbasti 10y ago
The problem is: plain Julia is faster than plain CPython. But Numba has solved this problem for me, by compiling my hot loop in-place. Other people report similar success with PyPy, Cython, or Pyston. Furthermore, libraries like scikit-lear
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by Derbasti 10y ago
Ah, memories. I did one of those, too, a few years ago: http://pomodoro-timer.org/ It even has an animated tomato, uses localstorage to save your work record, and makes ding in the end!
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by Derbasti 10y ago
Because Linuxes have their own package managers already, and Linuxers are outraged that some macOS freak is invading their lawn with an alternative.
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Python JITs are coming(lwn.net)
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by Derbasti 10y ago
By default, numpy.ndarray multiply element-wise. There is a separate type called numpy.matrix which does matrix math. Alternatively, as of Python 3.5, `a @ b` will do matrix multiplication on NDArrays.
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by Derbasti 10y ago
Emacs is written almost exclusively in elisp, and every elisp function can be changed at any time. Much of Emacs' core lies wide open in the global namespace, and is thus easy to change from any level. As far as I understand, Atom has
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by Derbasti 10y ago
why?
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by Derbasti 10y ago
This is more or less a copy of http://waitbutwhy.com/2015/03/procrastination-matrix.html . I recommend reading that instead.
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by Derbasti 10y ago
Because many important old-timers still read journals back-to-back. This is how they stay up-to-date, and how they find citations. If you are not in a journal, they won't cite you.
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by Derbasti 11y ago
LOADS! Time tracking, calendars, spreadsheets, tagging and searching, ...
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by Derbasti 11y ago
You should read "Thinking, fast and slow", then.
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by Derbasti 11y ago
While impressive, these only scratch the surface of what org-mode can do. For example, they lack the spreadsheet, the time tracker, the agenda, and the export framework. Still, even just supporting the basic syntax is useful.
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by Derbasti 11y ago
How do you TDD experimental/evolving code? I work on scientific algorithms, where there are typically only few lines of code that constantly evolve to improve some performance metric. I have been struggling for a while to integrate tes
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by Derbasti 11y ago
Also, time tracking and reference management, and calendar integration.

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