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by Stubb 13y ago
> Don't think of it as impossible, 20 years ago Ross Perot received around 20% of the vote. All it takes is someone 3 times more "popular" than Ross Perot. Right after that, the two factions of the big-business party colla
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by Stubb 13y ago
Why not use Python? Do you mean Python 2.7 or Python 3.x? Multiple dispatch lets the user define several functions with the same name and have the compiler pick the right one based on the arguments. For example, you could have three version
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by Stubb 13y ago
Maximizing density and still keeping everything within operating temperatures is one of the toughest parts of data center operations. Not to mention the cost of generating all that waste heat. Many tasks are not CPU bounded, so the ARM is p
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by Stubb 13y ago
I'd suggest that the authors consider how this missing feature reflects on their efforts when people are forming first impressions. I've made my opinion clear, and the developer pals that I brought into the loop were, without exce
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by Stubb 13y ago
> But I admit it's not immediately obvious, and we should probably put it front-and-center somewhere. No, the authors should fix automatic recompilation. It's difficult for me to imagine how this bug even exists. The fact that
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by Stubb 13y ago
Nope, I should buy them beers since Julia is wholly unsuited for what I'm trying to do, which is interactive network performance analysis and interactive development of ionospheric ray-tracing code. It's funny: I've forwarded
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by Stubb 13y ago
No kidding—this is a show-stopper for me. I'm running Emacs with a split window for development. R runs in the bottom window, and the source file I'm editing is in the top. This lets me send code to R for evaluation and supports a
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by Stubb 13y ago
I was cheering out loud when I first downloaded Julia and started working with it. The type system, multiple dispatch, so much win! I'm working on ionospheric ray tracing at my day job and would love to use Julia. But when I can write
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by Stubb 13y ago
Except that the linked thread on Github mentions that supporting the redefinition of functions isn't a v1.0 issue.
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by Stubb 13y ago
That's the issues thread that I included in my initial post. Quoting from it: "When you redefine a method, the resulting behavior is undefined." And these people expect to be taken seriously? Sell crazy someplace else, we&#x2
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by Stubb 13y ago
You change a function, and that change doesn't get reflected in upstream calls—this isn't a big deal? Are you kidding me?
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by Stubb 13y ago
Julia appears to be a perfect fit for much of what I do at work. I tried it, got very excited, and then facepalmed earlier today. Let's define two functions in the REPL: function foo() return 42 end function bar()
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by Stubb 13y ago
Julia offers freedom from wondering whether you're betting on the wrong horse by coding for Python 2.7 or 3.x.
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Hour-long talk on Julia focusing on the type system and multiple dispatch(vimeo.com)
3 points by Stubb 13y ago|0 comments
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by Stubb 13y ago
I cheered out loud when I first started tinkering with Julia, tested whether multiplication did the right thing with matrices and vectors, and saw that they did. Multiplying two row vectors should give an error! Element-by-element operation
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Why do projects continue to support old Python releases?(gregoryszorc.com)
1 points by Stubb 13y ago|0 comments
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by Stubb 13y ago
Well, you do get to choose between two candidates. Both of whom admittedly support the implementation of a surveillance state.
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by Stubb 13y ago
I've little doubt that the folks using Python are making the decisions that are right for them. The underlying problem that I saw in my survey was that Python 3 broke compatibility while not offering developers a compelling reason to u
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by Stubb 13y ago
The shocker for me was seeing that MySQL-python didn't support v3. And I recall all sorts of problems getting IPython 3 running in Emacs alongside the system version of Python 2. Porting a library to v3 was more than I was willing to b
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by Stubb 13y ago
Speaking from the perspective of someone who doesn't code in Python: I recently considered doing so for a scientific computing task at work but quickly ditched the notion. Python 3 seemed the recommended choice for a green-field projec