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by bananas 13y ago
Yeah it does. We've experienced the emperor's new clothes before so scepticism and rational analysis is important.
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by bananas 13y ago
So in conclusion, it's not a systems programming language. I think we got that. So to break it down, and this is how I understand it as a user, it's a collection of algorithms, Lego bricks of math and a library of data sources glu
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by bananas 13y ago
The notebook REPL has actually been around way before Mathematica. Probably 1972. Perhaps it wasn't semantically complete but it was essentially there. I would suggest the concept is obvious.
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by bananas 13y ago
It's more about what people use it for and how they use it rather than capabilities. I was a little cranky and sarcastic initially and I don't think that came across clearly!
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by bananas 13y ago
Sorry there was a little intentional derision in that comment. My gripe is more that for the multitude of problem domains that you can represent in mathematica, a huge amount can be done off the shelf for the same effort with something a lo
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by bananas 13y ago
I actually used it for about 3 years (2009-2012) for stochastic modelling (insurance). We moved off the platform because to be honest we rewrote most of the functionality we used in C# over a couple of weekends. When I make those comments,
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by bananas 13y ago
Looks like mathematica in a web browser to me. Probably cheaper as well. So it's not all that high level. It is compared to Fortran and floats somewhere between R and Octave.
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by bananas 13y ago
Wolfram stuff is like a completely different world that doesn't acknowledge anyone else. In context to them it makes sense, but to everyone else it's WTF and meh and not much in between. I remember the pre-Wolfram Alpha marketing.
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by bananas 13y ago
LOL they didn't (and it was an army surplus machete) :)
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by bananas 13y ago
I used to use old coke bottles, baby bottle sterilising tablets, cheap apple juice, bread yeast, granulated sugar, an electric blanket and a condom to brew cider when I was a kid. Worked like a dream, until I got caught. Didn't cost $5
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by bananas 13y ago
I'm in finance sector (mainly insurance) for reference on the J2EE/C# side of things. I think a number of people have been burned by bad contractors in the city. There are tonnes of them from experience who cruise around with abso
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by bananas 13y ago
Definitely have changed. There is less respect for teachers, the school system and people communicate more. This has happened because there were a hell of a lot of victims. Also communication between parents is now at an all time high. I&#x
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by bananas 13y ago
I haven't because I wasn't here then... So yes it is interesting to me.
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by bananas 13y ago
Bullying is rife in the UK tech industry. If you put up a wall people will respect it and keep away but if you don't, it's open season. There's also a nasty class divide between permanent and contract staff. I'm the latt
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by bananas 13y ago
The difference between then (believe me I was there) and now is that the teachers get stick for allowing this to happen instantly. I've personally got into several shouting matches with teachers over how they treat my children and deal
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by bananas 13y ago
I'm an 8.1 user. Well sort of. My desktop is on 8.1 on my workstation and I usually have a high bandwidth connection between whatever client device I'm using and the desktop and use RDP. Over the last few months I've been usi
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by bananas 13y ago
IBM also have a library called decNumber which has decent high level functions as well as 32/64/128 bit types. http://speleotrove.com/decimal/decnumber.html Have used this for a number of years for financial
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by bananas 13y ago
Re: #1 - so far... Software updates, component changes and supplier cost cutting don't necessarily maintain safety records.
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by bananas 13y ago
Inbox is a crappy todo list I will agree but it's not without utility. I keep my inbox as an incoming queue for my todo list. Sort of like a backlog. Everything gets deleted, replied to and deleted or promote into a ticket (billable).
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by bananas 13y ago
Ouch that's pretty huge.
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by bananas 13y ago
Doubt it's got much range. I'd be surprised if it goes 50ft. Most of the power is going to be lost unless you have a decent antenna on the end and something to decouple it from the host circuit. Bandpass wouldn't go amiss tho
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by bananas 13y ago
Buyvm - not tried. Ramnode absolutely sucks. I can pull maybe 100k/sec off them if I'm lucky from UK in their US and NL data centres which is abysmal. Cancelled my account the day after opened it.
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by bananas 13y ago
As follows. It's more how the abstraction works. XML: ->[byte stream]->[deserializer]->[bignum] JSON: ->[byte stream]->[json reader]->[string]->[deserializer]->[bignum] The latter is, well, wrong.
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by bananas 13y ago
5 minutes with me and git rebase usually do the job :)
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by bananas 13y ago
Actually no you couldn't be more wrong. XML can be read as a stream and at certain points like after reading an element or attribute, an object can be created on the fly or a property on an object set and the type deserialised at the s
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by bananas 13y ago
Let's break this down into two statements: XML doesn't have strings (or types at all really) JSON strings are strings. There is a massive semantic difference here when it comes to parsing.
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by bananas 13y ago
If it's not that, I'll eat my hat, and my pyjamas. There's not much more to infer from the comment. Unless he's invented a new ASN.1 encoding which plugs into libgit or something or a new text serialisation format (both
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by bananas 13y ago
One of the core aspects of XML that is really important is that no typing is inferred by the structure of the file unlike JSON. JSON is by nature tied to the JavaScript type system which is sparse and inaccurate. For example, if you look at
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by bananas 13y ago
And it doesn't support the multitude of accurate numeric types that XML does implicitly. XML data is not just "strings", it's a sequence of characters. The deserializer determines what sort of type it is based on either
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by bananas 13y ago
I think this title is wrong. Firstly some clarification - this appears to just be about the persistence format for his dive log. It was XML, now it's git based with plain text. As someone who had to manage a system which worked with pl

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