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by carlob 7y ago
> It's a well known fact that organic is the healthier option most research on this has been inconclusive, so no. > The idea behind organic is that no pesticides or [sic] are used in the growing process Also not true: organic far
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by carlob 7y ago
But why would you shop organic
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by carlob 7y ago
There is something to be said about the democratic process that brought us to this: the Paris administrative division is home to a little over 2 million people, but the city doesn't really end at its administrative borders (75 in this
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by carlob 7y ago
> For a city that’s almost 2 thousand years old There is really not much of the city that wasn't redone by Haussmann at the end of the 19th century. Even remnants of medieval Paris are few outside of the Marais.
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by carlob 7y ago
I don't think interactivity and performance are enough to make a good production language. For example, I find Java painful to write without a good IDE, because of all the boilerplate, however it's that boilerplate that makes it v
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by carlob 7y ago
https://github.com/mmatera/iwolfram
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by carlob 7y ago
You make some very good points, and you might be right. My educated guess is that this strategy is to get as many people as possible to try this. That would mean letting people do prototypes for commercial purposes too, but not to ship in p
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by carlob 7y ago
Disclaimer: Wolfram employee here. Opinions here are mine, and not the company's. Having used the Wolfram Language and Mathematica professionally for over seven years I think this is much cooler than the people who greenlighted this wi
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by carlob 7y ago
Obligatory negative HN comment: it's Lorenzo Lotto, not Lorenzo Lorro. This mistake is repeated 4 times in the article!
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by carlob 7y ago
But the way I read this is that the helpers would have to be employed by John. So I don't understand where is the contractor loophole.
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by carlob 7y ago
Or maybe this was written by someone who was more interested in showing how to use sqlite and pandas directly to do this? On the other hand I find it interesting that Apple decided it was important to create some shim on top of sqlite with
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by carlob 7y ago
In many European countries gambling is essentially a public monopoly. Gambling away your income is the same as volunteering to pay more taxes.
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by carlob 7y ago
1. This project has existed for quite some time and nobody has sued them 2. The originator of this (Jan Poetschko) has worked at Wolfram for several years now 3. I think at least a number of people at Wolfram understand that Octave has been
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by carlob 7y ago
I walk out of my place, if I see a bus is approaching I might jump on it otherwise I'll use the subway or a car sharing platform. Consider that: * I'm one of the few people in this city to be in walking distance from a subway stat
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by carlob 7y ago
I live in Rome. Here we have a schedule for departures, and real time tracking. The schedule for departures is a lie, meaning that any given departure can be canceled without notice, so unless a bus has already left the terminus you cannot
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by carlob 7y ago
I'm in Italy, but I've seen it throughout Southwestern Europe. If you are in Rome or in Paris, to-go coffee is advertised exclusively in English and cannot be found outside of tourist hubs. FWIW vending machines are popular here t
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by carlob 7y ago
As a European I really don't get take-out cups, in most Western Europe there are two options: either you have the 3 minutes it takes to sip on a cappuccino or hot tea, or you drink an espresso standing (both in a ceramic cup). If you
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by carlob 8y ago
And what do you think wolfram alpha technology stack is built on?
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by carlob 8y ago
Actually we use sqlalchemy internally for the backend-specific code generation
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by carlob 8y ago
I absolutely feel your pain. As a matter of fact I've been lobbying internally for a refresh of webMathematica for years. Maybe something is going to come out in the near future. Please hold on :)
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by carlob 8y ago
Care to elaborate? I was one of the developers behind APIFunction and GenerateHTTPResponse. If you are you talking about the ability to deploy a REST API to our cloud I think you are wrong and I'd be happy to show you how.
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by carlob 8y ago
I think you misread my comment. I'm agreeing with you on the importance of being able to inspect the code and I'm strongly against black boxes. Where I don't agree with you is that open-source === free and community driven. T
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by carlob 8y ago
> Really excited to try the new SQL interface. The old one was less than pleasant to work with. Cool! I hope people find it useful, that's where most of my past year and a half went :)
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by carlob 8y ago
One of the directions the company is taking to address this is to allow for running some things as a free tier on the cloud. But I think the open vs. closed source discussion in academic research is not really about that: lots of Mathematic
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by carlob 8y ago
Honestly I read most of those reasons as reasons for not being free and community-driven as opposed to not being open-source, and also more as a post-hoc justification than a prediction on what will happen in the future. As a matter of fact
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by carlob 8y ago
Just a point in clarification: when you say antique, that means mid 19th century. The original 13th century spire was removed in 1786 because it was falling apart.
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by carlob 8y ago
Maple is not FOSS and is not a clone, Mathics is to Mathematica as octave is to Matlab.
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by carlob 8y ago
It's linked in the article https://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~3... I also had it printed, but as a 170x170 cm tablecloth :)
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by carlob 8y ago
> We are locked :( I will never buy any China model of any Apple product again. I wonder if anyone else can see the cognitive dissonance of this half-assed Boycott...
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by carlob 8y ago
Median vs average? The GDP per capita in the US is around 60k, that's around the 77th percentile: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_income_in_the_United_... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/

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