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by Simran-B 4y ago
> Methods-with-self-in-args-list isn’t the “weird” one? I agree that it's uncommon, but I do like the clarity it adds compared to something like "this" which magically refers to the current instance. Hasn't C++ just a
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by Simran-B 4y ago
Significant whitespace is probably my favorite feature of Python, which might have to do with the German keyboard layout making it very cumbersome to enter curly braces.
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by Simran-B 4y ago
There is also a digitally colorized version of Dinner for One from 1999 (possibly geo-fenced): https://www.ardmediathek.de/video/comedy-und-satire/dinner-f... It is rarely broadcasted in Germany, however, because
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by Simran-B 4y ago
Thanks for sharing! I didn't know Dinner for One is a thing elsewhere in Europe, and even had parodies. There are also some German adaptations, like the one with Anette Frier and Ralf Schmitz (two well-known comedians). It's in _k
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by Simran-B 4y ago
I think that you will be way more successful if you have a solid understanding of usability and a good sense for aesthetics. But I also think that it's more important if you free-lance or work at a small-ish company. In bigger projects
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by Simran-B 4y ago
Isn't Scons abandon-ware? I remember it being part of the build setup at work at some point and it caused quite a bit of frustrations because it broke every now and then. I believe it was mainly failing on Windows. Conan's recent
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by Simran-B 4y ago
Maybe not oddball syntax, but rather syntax that doesn't make intuitive sense. With Python, only nested list comprehensions come to my mind that are a bit tricky to read. With Ruby, I often felt lost reading code and it was sometimes h
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by Simran-B 4y ago
> Why Python became the scientific computing language? Some guesses: - Because scientists aren't that much into programming and Python is one of the easier languages to start with? - Some aspects of its language design, like the syn
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by Simran-B 4y ago
I had SAX-style parsing of XML and XSL transformation as concrete use cases in mind, because that happened to be what I worked with. I believe I went with Node.js at the time, which had a library that was much easier to work with than what
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by Simran-B 4y ago
Now that you say VFX, Python is indeed heavily used in this industry. It's used in internal tooling but many of the open-sourced projects under the Academy Software Foundation (ASWF) umbrella also have a Python interface. Python is als
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by Simran-B 4y ago
How popular would Python be without the scientific users and the machine learning ecosystem? I have the feeling that its user base is pretty lopsided, but I might underestimate its importance in other areas, like teaching programming. I&#x2
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by Simran-B 4y ago
I consider Ruby to be quite similar to Python. However, it's kind of like Python's weird brother, with optional parentheses for calls without arguments, auto-returning the result of the last expression, and some odd-ball syntaxes.
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by Simran-B 4y ago
I would add high-volume parsing / text processing to the list of bad fits for Python, although I'm not sure if there are native extensions for the different use cases?
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by Simran-B 4y ago
Is it limited to mono-hierarchies or is there a way link pieces of informations to multiple parents? Maybe for something like tagging? It's particularly useful for organizing tags in a thesaurus.
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by Simran-B 4y ago
With some tweaks to your second paragraph, the description fits CMake: In reality you just end up [with] a shitty, nerfed version of a programming language, that [...] users can't understand, because you still have to understand [CMake
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by Simran-B 4y ago
Using your own company's database application that is meant for managing physical objects in the field of cultural heritage and shoehorning it into a CRM and project management software is not a good idea IMO. One of the reasons given
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by Simran-B 4y ago
By UI, do you mean graphics design? Because front end development often refers to building websites with HTML, CSS, etc., which I would count as UI work.
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by Simran-B 4y ago
Unsurprising if the training set includes loads of code with security vulnerabilities. A more interesting question would be how likely code AI is to introduce security vulnerabilities with a training set of high quality code that has no (we
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by Simran-B 4y ago
Are 1Password, Bitwarden, or other services inherently more secure? But isn't it only a matter of time until they are breached, too? For personal use, maybe it's not that much of an issue, except for bank accounts? I wonder if I s
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by Simran-B 4y ago
> For hundreds of years there were no book pirates What did monks do if not copy books?
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by Simran-B 4y ago
Related but with a lot less icons: https://icomoon.io/app/
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by Simran-B 4y ago
It's the CppCon 2017 talk with the title "What has my compiler done for me lately? Unbolting the compiler's lid". The Compiler Explorer backstory starts here: https://youtu.be/bSkpMdDe4g4?t=4m57s
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by Simran-B 5y ago
Pantheon was also affected: https://status.pantheon.io/incidents/n9sngt0q0mct
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by Simran-B 5y ago
Huh, I thought it would already be based on canvas, but I'm not sure why. I believe I observed some behavior or looked into the developer console once and got the impression that they can't be using DOM.
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by Simran-B 5y ago
Finally a dark mode for long documentation reading sessions!
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Dark dimmed mode available on GitHub Docs(github.blog)
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by Simran-B 8y ago
Why not use Nginx or Node.js alongside ArangoDB? The problem with integrating a full web server is that you don't want the database to wait until some external request carried out by the web server finishes (no blocking). If there was
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by Simran-B 9y ago
No, there aren't even standard benchmarks that cover all types of databases to compare performance etc. The ArangoDB benchmark is open source however. Feel free to test it yourself and tune as many parameters as you want. You can also
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by Simran-B 9y ago
Users asked for a JSONB comparison after the previous benchmark, so we included it. The tabular format is also there. Thus, I don't see how it would be unfair.
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by Simran-B 9y ago
For single node setups you could try arangochair: https://www.arangodb.com/2017/03/arangochair-tool-listening-...

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