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by aldanor 8y ago
This was fixed in YAML 1.2 though? So, e.g., in Python you'd just use ruamel.yaml instead of pyyaml. That doesn't help you, of course, when using a multitude of existing systems whose yaml parsers are based on 1.1...
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by aldanor 8y ago
Many mlocs of existing enterprise Java code aren’t going anywhere either (and nor are the poor souls who maintain it all).
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by aldanor 8y ago
And a slideshow editor. Plus commercial support for Visual Basic!
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by aldanor 8y ago
There is a dark theme.
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by aldanor 8y ago
Would this possibly work on top of WebGL?
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by aldanor 8y ago
When I see yet another “# TODO: this a hack, it’s doesn’t really work but we’ll fix it asap anyway” I like to make bets with myself as for what date I’m going to see in git blame. Today I’ve replaced one such 3yr old todo with another todo
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by aldanor 8y ago
Minor suggestion: I would replace 'learning' with 'studying' for clarity, since "learning trees" instantly associates with gradient boosting (e.g. xgboost/lightgbm) in machine learning.
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by aldanor 8y ago
GitHub 365 Service Pack 1.
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by aldanor 8y ago
Ditto. I'm being bombarded by airbnb ad (on all possible platforms, e.g. facebook) recommending the exact same house I've already stayed in a few weeks back! Just stop...
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by aldanor 8y ago
I can't help shuddering everytime Craig presents (is forced to present? is paid to present?) the... omg... wait for it... the new set of animojis, on stage.
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by aldanor 8y ago
About time... as a parent, I’m very thrilled to see this get implemented.
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by aldanor 8y ago
... and when GitLab inevitably gets acquired by another ${megacorp}?..
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by aldanor 8y ago
Remember Skype? That wasn’t in 80-90s...
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by aldanor 8y ago
I bet the reaction would have been largely the same; a megacorp monopoly is a megacorp monopoly. That being said, Apple did make a few nice moves lately -- e.g., open-sourcing FoundationDB (when was the last time Microsoft opened up anythin
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by aldanor 8y ago
Having had tried most git clients (command-line, SourceTree, GH client, Kraken, Fork, IntelliJ built-in and many others), in my opinion Magit beats all of them to the ground. I used to use Emacs (Spacemacs) as my main IDE - I have since swi
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by aldanor 8y ago
There is no “best”. A common thing to do is to fit a ton of models and then choose the best based on out-of-sample/CV performance, or a mix of top performing models.
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by aldanor 8y ago
Same in Ireland.
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by aldanor 8y ago
Ditto, no single quoted strings -- not even going to consider it no matter how brilliant it (potentially) is.
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by aldanor 8y ago
This is all subjective unless some data is collected. I could say with just as much confidence that all of the major Python projects I've seen or contributed to use single quotes -- e.g. numpy or pandas.
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by aldanor 8y ago
> why would you have strings that are not intended to be displayed to end user Why would you not? E.g., you use pandas and columns all have names. Colors are typically also strings, etc. Thus you would often do things like grouped
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by aldanor 8y ago
You don't have to press Shift as often to type string literals so it's a win, all other things being equal.
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by aldanor 8y ago
Depends on the type of task and the target platform — C#, C++ and Python to name a few. And, of course, VHDL (in certain projects)...
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by aldanor 8y ago
> virtually any real project (it's everywhere) That's a bit of an overestimation to say the least. E.g., I work at a trading firm and we use all kinds of languages for all kinds of purposes on all kinds of weird platforms, but
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by aldanor 8y ago
It's just five 3.5'' HDDs (12TB ones), which would amount to about $2,000 or a little more.
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by aldanor 8y ago
Ironic, isn’t it - taxpayers money first goes towards funding a major fraction of the research, and then towards “hanging the evil hackers” to ensure the taxpaying public (the evil hackers included) never accesses what they paid for.
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by aldanor 8y ago
There’s dozens of millions of articles total, not thousands.
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by aldanor 8y ago
You can't define a function via 'def' and pass it as an argument at the same time. You can do it via 'lambda' though (which doesn't require any indentation since it's just an expression), what's the p
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by aldanor 8y ago
> It is also really slow 1) In scientific/ML CPython libraries, most critical parts are compiled anyway, and the core language is fast and expressive enough to provide a nice and fast interface to it; so your statement makes little
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by aldanor 8y ago
> My main problem with Python: passing a temporary closure to a function is very messy. What's messy about it?

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