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by GlennS 7y ago
I'm really suprised at this comment. I'm confident most of the .NET community is very happy with Visual Studio. In my opinion, Visual Studio massively outclasses Eclipse, VSCode and Netbeans. It even makes IntelliJ (which is prett
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It used to be one of the main things they did, but they spun it out into a separate company about 10 years ago. They were failing to keep up with Intel in fabrication process because of the massive capital and R&D expenditure required.
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I'm skeptical of tools that claim to handle schema migrations automatically or declaratively. I've had them fail in the past at critical moments. I also don't believe that they can handle the most important cases. I think tha
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So, does this mean there is no longer a good reason for fixed-width text fields in any databases? Why not? Surely if it's variable-width, that means you can't guarantee it will be on the same page? And therefore there's a per
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I think they're suffering from the same online short-attention-span clickbait issues as every other news source. But, while they do put out a substantial volume of nonsense, the Guardian also does real journalism. Meanwhile other publi
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Glad to be helpful. I was just thinking that this is really quite a useful feature of HTML, and browsers should expose it to the user somehow. Then I found this Firefox extension: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo
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https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-05-01/people... The way you do this is: 1. Press F12 to open developer tools. 2. Click the select element button (in Firefox, this is the top-left icon of
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I feel like a lot of the people commenting on this thread would really benefit from reading The Demon-Haunted World by Carl Sagan (who was himself once a UFO believer). He has a really good section on UFO sightings, which he compares to sto
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This news story absolutely made my day. What a legend.
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Polynesian sailing and navigation technology probably beats Roman on the open ocean. The Mediterranean is warm, pleasant and calm (boats did and do get wrecked by storms, but it's a much smaller risk). Distances between landing sites a
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I love this use of "in the wild". The electronics jungle. Intreprid explorers peering through the gaps between the cables.
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I had a really good experience in this area with the MITx (now Edx) Circuits and Electronics Course. (This is an introductory course.) The final question of their end of course exam involves reading a real schematic for a real product and a
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I actually think step (1) isn't a good way to start unless the pupil has some prior knowledge. Many (most?) people don't have know how to take a big problem and turn it into something they can make progress on. You give them the l
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I feel like C has to go in the bucket of 'bad languages' these days, because it doesn't have sensible unicode support built in. But that doesn't mean you can't have fun with it, or write good computer programs. It j
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You could start by rendering static images in SVG as a first step? Vega https://vega.github.io/vega/ or vega-lite https://vega.github.io/vega-lite/examples/ might also be good intermediate st
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Well, this is some good advice. Another nice trick if you're under time pressure is to arrange the project so that you can deliver it in stages that partially meet the requirements, or even deliver something non-functional that people
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Not as uncommon as you are suggesting I would think. These particular tools and languages are often learned as a group, because they support each other. (R is perhaps the exception, but it does actually work really well here, because it&#x2
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It was a streaming site which also had plugins for various media players to let you track what you listened to. Then you could see tables of what you listened to most, see what your friends listened to, and get recommendations. I think what
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Another way to do this is to install Nix and direnv (and/or Emacs direnv-mode), then include a `use nix` statement in the .envrc file inside your project root. Then, when you `cd` into your project directory, your environment with all
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I really like this sort of stuff, and the home page is very pretty (and also professional looking). I balked at the sign-up and get a reference code on the Facebook page though. A similar thing for anyone else with this predicament: http:&
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In my opinion, the "China is evil" articles were triggered by the abolition of term limits for the party chairman. It's changed the mood from "they are acting reasonably effetively in their national interest" to &qu
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I'd disagree with amateurish. I agree that some of what they're advertising looks like 'intro to web bodging' and 'learn to mash tables without learning the maths', but there's also Norvig: https:/
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Not sure negative gearing is actually intended to increase house building? Isn't it just a strange (legal) tax loophole which enough people take advantage of that it's difficult to get rid of politically?
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Well, our disagreement is just a matter of miscommunication then. I never said anything about hand coding a hash table. I would like prospective candidates for programming jobs to know that there is a thing in their language of choice that
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Wait, what? What sort of programming do you do where you don't use hash tables every day?
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Why would anyone use it versus its competitors? Here's why: 1. You can uninstall a thing and it will no longer affect your computer. 2. Your environment will work the same way on your colleague's computer. 3. Your environment will
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Are you sure? I don't think the pseudocode whiteboard exercises are pointless, I think they're a useful filter. You can make them simple, and anyone remotely competent who isn't completely crippled by nerves should be able to
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Probably because I live close to an Aldi. Comparing Bristol's prices to Sydney's: Rent: Sydney is maybe 50% more expensive. There is no council tax in Sydney, and the houses are bigger. Food: In Sydney, groceries are usually more
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These criticisms look to me like you are trying to use your Java programming style in Python. Prefer to use modules and tables of functions as an organising principle instead of classes. Use inheritance rarely, and method overriding almost
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If it makes you feel any better, Australian software salaries seem pretty high compared to most of the world. I more than doubled my salary moving from the UK (Bristol) to Australia (Sydney), while my living costs only went up a little high

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