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by cdavid 14y ago
Ryan, you should be able to select where it will install itself. It will override your existing python installation if you install it in the same location as your original, so don't do that.
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by cdavid 14y ago
Glad it is working for you. I have now just started working on it, so let me know if there are things you'd like to see improved.
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by cdavid 14y ago
If you want qt, I would say your best bet is one of the full python distribution for scientific python, e.g. winPython, python(x, y), EPD, Anaconda. Everybody working on one of this is a user of ipython, and care about the notebook, and mos
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by cdavid 14y ago
It is now much, much more than that. Besides the notebook (that allows you to mix python, images, math, etc... inside an html browser: http://ipython.org/ipython-doc/stable/_static/notebook_specg... ), you get a powerful engine capable of
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by cdavid 14y ago
That's not exactly true: that' why something like twisted (and later async frameworks) was invented in the first place. What is not possible is non-process-based, CPU-bound concurrency. Generally, python is poor choice in those cases anyw
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by cdavid 14y ago
if setuptools is a hack on top of bad design, distribute has exactly the same issues, since it is simply a fork that was started because of the impression that setuptools dev was stalled. None of the (numerous) design issues from setuptools
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by cdavid 14y ago
If you mean in general, a consistent job at 100 $ /hour is completely different from being paid 100 $ / hour for consulting. The former is rather hard, the latter is indeed rather low. The end of Patrick's article gives one of the main reas
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by cdavid 14y ago
yes, using the -k option of git stash allow you to 'put away' the changes which are not in the index. The argument of creating a broken commit is natural, but not very relevant IMO: after all, with svn and co, the risk of forgetting to comm
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by cdavid 14y ago
Processes are a bit like abstractions in software engineering. They allow you to build on top of it to avoid having to think about everything, but if you don't understand your abstractions, in the long run, you're not going to do anything g
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by cdavid 14y ago
If your definition of real science is something that has good prediction/application potential, that's a rather unusual definition of science. Are mathematicians, theoretical physicists all talk as well ?
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I don't particularly have any reason to believe one way or the other. Certainly, the probabilistic models for language are created "out of the blue" without any attempt to model how human learn languages.
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by cdavid 14y ago
Your observation is so vague and general to the point of being rather meaningless. Almost every physical theory is described by an underlying mapping between inputs. The interesting point is the expression power of your model. : to take an
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by cdavid 14y ago
Thanks for the correction. Seems that I confused the dates with libev that came after.
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by cdavid 14y ago
Dynamically typed languages are used everyday to write robust software (erlang, lisp, etc...). You're making a common mistake, which is to reason about static typing advantages everything else being equal . Sure, if static typing had no dr
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by cdavid 14y ago
I have started using chef to automate build environments on top of vagrant. One thing that made me choose chef is windows support: chef uses winrm on windows, + things like powershell, and that seems to work better than puppet (e.g. I could
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by cdavid 14y ago
At least 2 years ago, twisted did not use libevent, it was mostly pure python except for a very tiny piece of code (and optional stuff of course). I am sure you could write a libevent-based reactor, but twisted was started a long time ago (
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by cdavid 14y ago
A production runtime for high performance does not mean much: it depends on the cost you're willing to bear. If you have a team of very gifted C/C++/Fortran programmers and have a long-term plan, then great, go for it. But what I have seen
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by cdavid 14y ago
What makes you think France is destroying its economy ? And what makes you think UK or Germany is that much better ? When you scratch behind the superficial discourses around european economy, some underlying issues are systemic and shared
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by cdavid 14y ago
France is not (much) different from other comparable countries in Europe on the quoted measure (i.e. Germany, UK and Italy are equally "as poor" as Arkansas and Idaho, using GDP-PPP/inhabitant). So it most likely doesn't have much to do wit
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by cdavid 14y ago
For corporate taxes, effective tax rate is the relevant number. I could not find recent figures, but most rich countries had an effective tax rate in the 10-20 % rate, with Germany and Australia as outliers (below and above) in 2005. The U
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by cdavid 14y ago
You're confused about the meaning of almost surely, and your comparison with dollars and pregnancy is misleading. The almost does not apply to the probability being one, but to the meaning of of P(S) = 1 for S a member of your sigma-algebra
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by cdavid 14y ago
It is proven that there is an infinite number of normal numbers, as quoted in the wiki article you're mentioning (p({a real; a is normal}) = 1).
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by cdavid 14y ago
This is not correct: there are things that can be faster than C because of the compilation aspect (the compiler can only optimize with the information it has, some of them can only be known at runtime). A good example is iteration over non
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by cdavid 14y ago
Highly depends on your criteria. It is pretty common to judge universities through their academic research performance, especially for the prestigious ones, and "grandes ecoles" are pretty terrible in that departement (except for 'ecoles no
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by cdavid 14y ago
Well, for once, you need to give something back if you need to take something, that's basic negotiation tactics :) That's an approach largely defended by economists who are not especially on the left, like Wyplosz (see here if you can read
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by cdavid 14y ago
This is only a superficial difference. On a relatively big economy like France, the difference between state-based pension and capital-based ones are very minor: in both cases, you're hoping that people who work when you retire will be able
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by cdavid 14y ago
Yes, of course, there is some redistribution going on. But that's not the main explanation of the difference between say UK and France taxes. If you remove pension funding alone, you get very close between UK and France, I believe, although
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by cdavid 14y ago
Labour laws are one of the big issue in France, you're right. I would love for the current gvt to negociate the end of CDI, with a simpler way to fire bad people, in exchange for a much better unemployment insurance. I am not sure how the e
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by cdavid 14y ago
the "wanting to be rich" thing is frankly a cliche. Lots of people like money in France as much as everywhere else, and I don't see much difference between France and UK. It is certainly more prevalent in the US, but I would say the US are
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by cdavid 14y ago
Germany real GDP growth per capita is very close to that average, so without the German industrial powerhouse, it would be pretty much the same.

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