Derbasti

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by Derbasti 13y ago
I explained it using a bank account. That works well enough. It's just that I couldn't come up with many real-world problems and exercises that are naturally solved with classes. Classes are a rather high-level abstraction, and mo
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by Derbasti 13y ago
Re floats: True, this problem is universal. I still wish there was a way to circumvent it, much like the arbitrary precision integers circumvent integer problems. Rationals and fractional integers come to mind, though I don't know thei
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by Derbasti 13y ago
Yes, and a hundred times yes for teaching.
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by Derbasti 13y ago
I have taught an introductory course for programming in Python, and there certainly are a few areas that are less than ideal for beginners. 1) Setting up Python, a text editor and a shell is easy on Windows (using WinPython), but pretty con
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by Derbasti 13y ago
I tried that and it worked great for Emacs, but it messes with normal OSX operation.
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by Derbasti 13y ago
As noted in the preceding sentence: I'd rather not read a website than read it with ads They can choose to not show me the website since I run an ad blocker. I am completely fine with that. I don't read magazines, because they u
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by Derbasti 13y ago
I was going to say the same thing. But then, my MacBook DOES NOT HAVE A RIGHT CTRL KEY. I... I can't begin to explain how annoyed I am of this fact. This, above all else, is the reason for why my next laptop will probably not be a Mac.
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by Derbasti 13y ago
I block ads. I'd rather not read a website than read it with ads. If your business needs me to see your ads, I'd rather not be your customer. If these practices will bring down the ad industry, all the better.
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by Derbasti 13y ago
I could not agree with you more.
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by Derbasti 13y ago
I would presume that the author is very proficient with Emacs and not deeply familiar with Light Table. If this is true, the tutorial would probably not teach you the most idiomatic way of using Light Table.
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by Derbasti 13y ago
Why are you annoyed? You now have all the licenses you'll ever need!
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by Derbasti 13y ago
Funny. I use DDG as my default. Frankly, I think it's results are way better than Google's. Yes, they are more simple-minded and less "intelligent", but then they are much more predictable as well. As such, it took some
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by Derbasti 13y ago
The thing is, I don't think we have sacrificed anything. No one ever gave the NSA explicit authority to do the things it does. It's just that they did do them snyway.
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by Derbasti 13y ago
At this point, it may well be impossible to shut down the NSA. I imagine every opposing politician gets visited by some agent at some point, showing him records of his own wrongdoings. Imagine every politician ever be forced to choose betwe
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by Derbasti 13y ago
No, but one could imagine choosing an editor because of some "look what cool thing I can do in X" article.
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by Derbasti 13y ago
Here you go: http://download.qt-project.org/official_releases/qt/5.2/
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by Derbasti 13y ago
I think they would want you to use QML for that. Code your interface in QML, access your platform libraries in Java/Obj-C. This actually makes a lot of sense, since QML can represent just about any GUI logic and you need your native pl
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by Derbasti 13y ago
Your book is beautiful! Highly recommend! I very much like your style! (there are some formatting errors though, like unresolved org-mode symbols)
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by Derbasti 13y ago
A craftsman takes wood and creates a bench. The bench is worth more than the wood. Thus, he created value. A manager does not do anything like that. He does indeed do valuable work, by enabling others to create value, but he does not create
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by Derbasti 13y ago
> Nearly 90 percent of high school graduates say they’re not interested in a career or a college major involving science, technology, engineering or math I see a great problem in a society that shifts its focus from value-adding activiti
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by Derbasti 13y ago
There is an incredible amount of negativity in this thread. They said all the landscapes are procedurally generated. They did not say that there won't be any missions or tech trees or some other kind of hand-crafted progression system.
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by Derbasti 13y ago
Nope, it's engineering only (though German engineering, which is more hands-on and less business than American engineering).
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by Derbasti 13y ago
Interesting. I am part of the board of admission at my local university in Germany. We don't even see the undergraduate grades of applicants for the masters program. Furthermore, if an applicant shows a significant improvement from his
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by Derbasti 13y ago
Global variables in C are dynamically scoped. They tend to be useful from time to time.
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by Derbasti 13y ago
This sounds exciting! (Though I must say, I am all but married to Org at this point.) On a different note though, I feel that Microsoft Word, and web browsers, really do a terrible job at rendering text. Kerning is often bad, there are freq
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by Derbasti 13y ago
One of the nice things in Python is that it is nit limited to scientific computation. I remember the days when I tried to do command line automation in Matlab, or tried to read some XML from some internet resource. This stuff is super simpl
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by Derbasti 13y ago
I think this is usually called What You See Is What You Mean, or WYSIWYM. However, there could be a performance problem. Font setting and layout in Latex is markedly superior to, say, web browsers or Word. But Latex often takes several seco
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by Derbasti 13y ago
Quite simply, explicit markup makes it very easy to see what formatting will be applied to what text. WYSIWYG only shows you the end result, with no clean way to see how you got there. Was this font introduced because of some theme? Was it
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by Derbasti 13y ago
I would imagine that it works particularly well for lisps, since lisps can easily transform running code to source code and vice versa.
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by Derbasti 13y ago
OK, I'll try that.

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