Derbasti

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by Derbasti 12y ago
I think the deeper point is not about the highlighting, but the ability to interact with the code semantically. If your editor was completely aware of the semantic structure of your code, it could provide very powerful refactorings that res
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by Derbasti 12y ago
Or rather, why doesn't there seem to be much discussion about new native programming languages in the browser? JavaScript has many flaws, and there are plenty of languages available that have similar properties as JavaScript that do no
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by Derbasti 12y ago
The application is Qt.
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by Derbasti 12y ago
Spotify isn't bad.
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by Derbasti 12y ago
There are probably quite a few Qt apps you haven't noticed because they look perfectly native. What you mean is "a badly designed Qt app".
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by Derbasti 12y ago
What is the corner frequency of the low-pass filter? It is kind of pointless to use a filter without specifying its corner frequency. Also, peak detection can be improved a lot by searching for local maxima of the level instead of taking a
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by Derbasti 12y ago
In what way does Lua interact with the outside world? Are you referring to it being embeddable, or the FFI in luajit2? Also, in what way does Swift work with the outside world? It seems to be locked in pretty tightly in its own little world
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by Derbasti 12y ago
What else does Sublime Text do that is new ? I guess you could count the minimap. The command palette, code navigation, configuration files, package management, speed, plugins, snippets, all have been implemented and widely used in both Em
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by Derbasti 12y ago
There have always been three text editors: Vim, Emacs, and the closed source Mac editor de jour. I used to think that if only that closed source editor would go open source, it could enter that timeless transcendance of Emacs and Vim. But n
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by Derbasti 12y ago
It is incredibly risky to release this unto the world without having tryed it internally. I hope they can iterate quickly enough to iron out the most glaring problems before the language is ossified by the amount of code already written in
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by Derbasti 12y ago
Swift might take over the Apple world, maybe. It is pretty much useless anywhere else.
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by Derbasti 12y ago
It only takes 1.3 GB if you install every package ever invented. A normal installation of TeX Live takes about 200 MB and includes all the binaries (including tex, pdftex, xetex and luatex), a full LaTeX and ConTeXt and a whole bunch of oth
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by Derbasti 12y ago
I was immediately put off by the syntax, too. We don't have to do strict Markdown, but even Markdown is transparently extensible in HTML. It is entirely feasible to write publishing quality documents in HTML/CSS3, and thus, Markdo
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by Derbasti 12y ago
In some colleges, you can even lecture. That's what I did for a few semesters. However, be warned that preparing a lecture is a LOT of work, and pay is usually not that great. Its a great experience though,
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by Derbasti 12y ago
> Python falls through because it doesn't have real lambda. True. What it does have though is real closures. Local function definitions with a proper name, capturing lexical state, usable as first class objects. This is a usable rep
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by Derbasti 12y ago
I still think it's funny that "full stack" means web servers and web sites. It used to begin with assembly...
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by Derbasti 12y ago
I was in your shoes a few times. I wanted to use Python3, but sime niche library I depended on was Python2 only. And you know what, I simply ported them. Took me a week or two, and I learned a lot. I have been using Python3 ever since.
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by Derbasti 12y ago
If you compare countries, a more productive economy is a good measure. If you compare people and lives, not so much.
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True. Not complete enoughbfor Matplotlib, though.
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by Derbasti 12y ago
And Numpy! And ctypes (for Matplotlib)! Although I must say, numpypy is quite usable already!
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There is Javascript...
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Oh, I forgot: LuaJitTex is a descendant of LuaTex that uses LuaJit to compile.
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by Derbasti 12y ago
Pdflatex is a rewrite that compiles directly to PDF. Xetex is a rewrite that supports Unicode and TTF/OTF fonts. Luatex is a rewrite that supports Unicode and TTF/OTF fonts and is scriptable in Lua.
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by Derbasti 12y ago
I generally agree with what you say. Four things though: - I have found that learning how to write simple macros can simplify writing LaTeX significantly. If you dislike how you have to write the same five invocations in every figure, just
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by Derbasti 12y ago
The UK is a bad place for solar power. Spain or Egypt would have much higher, and more reliable, output, that could be more easily predicted and buffered. I have heard figures like 4x between spain and the UK. What about tidal power? That s
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by Derbasti 12y ago
It's corporate infrastructure that is the nightmare, not the fragmentation.
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by Derbasti 12y ago
You already know all the good stuff about weak typing and equality. But let me give you a few recent examples I stumbled over: - Javascript can not format numbers with leading zeros. - Handling binary data is increadibly painful. - Object
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by Derbasti 12y ago
Oh Javascript. This has been said so many times before, but why, oh why, has the world converged on this particular language? Why aren't there saner alternatives to Javascript in browsers? We have so many languages at our disposal, why
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by Derbasti 12y ago
Give me Numpy, Scipy, Matplotlib, Scikit-learn, and iPython in Java and we are talking.
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by Derbasti 12y ago
There are not so terrible workarounds for things like functions or variables in assembler. While C does them better, they are not reasons to update. There are not so terrible workarounds for things like closures and memory management in C.

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