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by ced 10y ago
Arguably, that's what happened with Python. The single-minded focus on programmer convenience for its first 20 years of existence made it a very difficult language to compile.
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by ced 10y ago
Isn't soil basically just decomposed organic matter, i.e. a big carbon store? What fraction of a plant's carbon goes into the soil vs. into the air?
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by ced 10y ago
Moreover what your full-grown kid would do at school, if you already taught him reading, counting, talking in foreign languages, practicing yoga and kung fu and playing the violin? My uni physics professor had similar fears about his chil
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by ced 10y ago
Do you have any interesting material on this? Where's a good in-depth analysis of blackboard systems' pros and cons?
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by ced 10y ago
I'm sincerely hoping for someone who I can trust to explain to me how I'm making the world a worse place by purchasing, let's say, a car, and that as if I'm a 5-year-old. I don't follow global warming goes, but I
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by ced 10y ago
How many nuclear weapons do you really need for MAD to be effective?
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by ced 10y ago
Heat isn't the only issue. From Wikipedia for the Netherlands: Ice days (maximum temperature below 0 °C (32 °F)) usually occur from December until February, with the occasional rare ice day prior to or after that period. Freezing days
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by ced 10y ago
Are you saying that, in spite of high CO2 emissions _for energy_, Poland's per capita emissions are on par with the rest of Europe? The map's color-scale is not ideal. Germany and France look similar, but Germany's emissions
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by ced 10y ago
What cleantech companies would you recommend?
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by ced 10y ago
Was it worth it for Microsoft?
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by ced 10y ago
I wonder too if the methane production from a modern cow fed for human consumption is very different from that of a wild buffalo.
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by ced 10y ago
Work holiday visas are a great way of getting into Europe if your country qualifies for it. Many people transition from these visas into a work permit. It's way easier to find a job when you're on the ground and can get a face-to-
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by ced 10y ago
recognizes that we're too late to stop its worst effects I see this sentiment a lot on HN these days. What's the reasoning behind it? If the temperature in my room increases, I'll go from feeling uncomfortable, to sweating
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by ced 10y ago
In particular when defining and/or implementing the semantics for an imperative language, eventually store (memory) management comes up and everything gets much more complicated instantly. Why? Isn't C-like "call malloc&quo
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by ced 10y ago
People on the West Coast would start their work week on Sunday around 11PM, and finish it on Monday at 8 AM. Then they would agree to a Wednesday morning meeting, and miss each other by a day.
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by ced 10y ago
That makes sense, thank you. Where does the tracking fee come from then? EDIT: and doesn't my above argument hold at the boundary? When a stock is brought into the S&P, suddenly all of the index funds need to stock up on it, furthe
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by ced 10y ago
imagine you take all the investors in the US economy and put them in a room. Divide the room in halves. One side contains all the active investors, the other side contains all the passive investors. If each side owns roughly half of the ec
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by ced 10y ago
I've met some reasonable, leftist-leaning people who lived through the coup, and who told me that "Something had to be done" because the country was in a state of crisis. Of course, the crisis was manufactured, Pinochet commi
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by ced 10y ago
Lots of people have learned English by watching Friends, the Simpsons, etc. You could watch movies in their original language, with English subtitles to help out. My guess is that comics are easier for your first 300 words or so.
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by ced 10y ago
Totally agree on vocabulary, it's by far the most important part. You can mostly understand and be understood without grammar. I pick comic books in the target language, that I've already read in my native language, and start maki
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by ced 10y ago
In our days, surveillance is being performed by all governments and many private companies. For US to be the only country that doesn't do it, it would be uncompetitive. How does surveillance improve competitiveness?
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by ced 10y ago
I'd like to read a breakdown of where the 14.39 difference between the 0.60 ring in Shenzhen and the 14.99 ring on Amazon goes.
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by ced 10y ago
Interesting. Maybe dictionaries would fill that role? Julia has macros, so you can usually implement other languages' syntactic convenience.
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by ced 10y ago
That makes a lot of sense.
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by ced 10y ago
Version Control! I normally run a single user git workflow and even that is a problem with Jupyter notebooks. What's the difference? Most plotting libraries output MBs of HTML/Javascript, that would be a mess in git. How does R
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by ced 10y ago
I'm intrigued, could you give an example of the Matlab way?
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by ced 10y ago
> I'm usually concerned with how easy it is to manipulate text: sort, search, delimit, and replace substrings. Especially given an array or matrix of string data. No significant experience there. I would read http://docs.
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by ced 10y ago
Do you have specific concerns? What kind of project would you like to do? Julia is nearly as convenient as Python, and can be nearly as fast as Fortran, but it has neither the polish or large community/library of those languages.
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by ced 10y ago
https://github.com/Keno/Gallium.jl for the debugger. It was still a bit unstable last time I tried it. One of the biggest problems that I had with Julia (which is one of the main reason I stopped using it) was the fle
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by ced 10y ago
I meant that designing and implementing good declarative logical languages is an open research problem, because logical inference is basically unsolved. Procedural languages are trivial, in comparison.

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