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by GlennS 9y ago
I did the MITx Circuits and Electronics unit online and it was pretty good. The platform was a lot more advanced than Coursera's, including a little circuit designer tool with various probes and things.
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I would suggest that, rather using spec everywhere, you can use it as a barrier to contagion. That is, only checking that data conforms to your spec when it goes through the major interfaces between parts of your program. In this approach,
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I'd argue that Spatialite also has its place, but I use both that and PostGIS very happily.
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by GlennS 9y ago
Not quite so disastrous, but still pretty dumb. I was logged in over VPN to a client machine. I suspected the problem I was fixing was something to do with the network misbehaving. It was a Windows machine. I thought "I know: I'll
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by GlennS 9y ago
I really don't thing this is a good answer by itself. For a start it's taking a punt. Before deciding to build a plugin system, you need to decide in which dimensions it will allow extensibility. The answer to that should not be &
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by GlennS 9y ago
I think in practice, the 'cascading' aspect of CSS turned out to be a bad idea. Most people seem to find that, rather than providing the consistent theming it promises, automatic inheritance of properties is confusing and unpredic
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by GlennS 9y ago
Honestly, I'm pretty sure that for most people's use any slowness with multiple cursors in Emacs is nothing to do with the data structure used to store the edits. The noticable delay is due to highlighting closing parentheses.
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by GlennS 9y ago
I think that's more intended as demo server to get you started quickly while you're developing. You'll probably want to switch to uwsgi or gunicorn before you actually deploy anything. I haven't actually used Bottle, but
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by GlennS 9y ago
I'd recommend adding: .PHONY: watch .PHONY: clean In the appropriate places.
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by GlennS 9y ago
I tried out Tup, and thought it was really impressive and probably great for people who need to write C, but not suited for what I was trying to do. The project I tried to use it on was a before/after comparison of the results of some
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by GlennS 9y ago
Anyone still using Google's Closure Compiler? How does it compare these days?
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Everyone here is mentioning Italy, but I associate it with Greece. The first time I walked into a grocery in Rhodes I learned what good tomatoes smell like.
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'Transpiler' is an ugly smushword though. I hope it dies.
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As a British person (who voted to remain), this makes me really sad to read. I think immigration helps to keep society from stagnating. I feel like the UK will be diminished, and that it will have deserved it. (Currently working on emigrati
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by GlennS 9y ago
I would say that what they're calling "data analysis" here is really maths. Knowing how to manipulate tables is relational algebra, even if you never learn the formalisms. Representing the parts of a problem as symbols is jus
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by GlennS 9y ago
Do you remember if GOSUB <label> or GOTO <line number> can take the contents of a variable as an input? If so, then higher-order functions seem possible. Edit: it looks like in at least some versions of basic you can do: ON swit
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by GlennS 9y ago
Or, perhaps: {"x": 1, "y": 2}
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by GlennS 9y ago
For me, there's a viscious circle at work here. I don't use my phone that much because the usability is rubbish, and when I do I find it an exercise in frustration. So, when someone asks me to make a website usable on mobile, I re
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by GlennS 9y ago
Not a statistician, but I think you'd call it a 'prior'. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prior_probability
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by GlennS 9y ago
Honestly, I've never actually written a makefile to compile a C or C++ program. In fact, I haven't written any C of my own since university. My makefiles are usually just a way to record a data pipeline. Get these files, shove the
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by GlennS 9y ago
The number of times I've forgotten that unzip restores timestamps and so make has decided to rebuild everything... `unzip -D` is your friend.
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by GlennS 9y ago
I think the marketing aspect has started to pick up recently. Whether through conscious effort or just word of mouth momentum I don't know.
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I do think that Nix or something like it is the future. Or at least it will be if the tech community as a whole doesn't screw up. But I also really appreciate the massive effort that Debian maintainers make, and the sheer number of tho
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by GlennS 9y ago
What does this mean for intranet sites? Will those need to be HTTPS from October as well?
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Well, there are plenty of example of kids who do learn programming at that age, so I guess your ideas must be incorrect. Personally, my parents got me a Commodore 64 when I was 6, it happened to come with a copy of 'An Introduction to
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Would expect that daylight which has gone through glass is probably not going to help you produce vitamin D.
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You might expect the risk to go down over time, as people develop standard contracts with proven reliability.
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It seems to me like Firefox has a lot of tiny delays everywhere, and they're just long enough to be distracting. It's like going back to a hard disk after having used an SSD. On the other hand, Firefox Focus on mobile seems to run
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by GlennS 9y ago
It's not "in vogue". There's no trend here, the PHP hate has been very consistent over time. Personally, having had to write a couple of Mediawiki plugins and an extension for a rubbish CMS called TYPO3, my experience so
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The premise for the game sounds really interesting and imaginative. Reminds me vaguely of Bozo's Night Out, where the goal is to get home from the pub.

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