da39a3ee

37 ms·

421.
by da39a3ee 5y ago
matplotlib doesn't score highly on usability. jupyter notebooks encourage disorganized, unprincipled programming; chaotic re-running of cells in the face of global mutable state; and prevent budding programmers from learning to use ver
422.
by da39a3ee 5y ago
I tend to think that it's best to only recommend a programming career to people who actually like programming. So: I'd tell him to spend 3 months going online and learning Javascript or Python, and pick a suitable first project (o
423.
by da39a3ee 5y ago
> All I ask, don't treat all trans people like they are these activists. Absolutely, I will not. Thanks for all that.
424.
by da39a3ee 5y ago
Thanks for writing this, I agree with the things you've said in this thread (or at least they sound right to me, even if I don't have the experience of them). > Let's throw down. Sure! If I'm being honest, when I&#x27
425.
by da39a3ee 5y ago
That's what biology is like. The binariness of human sex is much clearer than many distinctions in biology.
426.
by da39a3ee 5y ago
But there is a definition: female mammals are XX and have female morphology. So you're not helping the conversation by investigating consequences of a false premise.
427.
by da39a3ee 5y ago
I have a PhD in biology. You are wrong: the idea that human sex isn't essentially binary (with the usual rare edge cases of biology) is something that has been pushed by non-scientists with an ideological axe to grind; the essentially
428.
by da39a3ee 5y ago
I'll just say that this issue has made me pretty upset and angry over the last few years. The idea that people, "friends" even, hate me because I choose (respectfully) to stick to the definition of "woman" that I le
429.
by da39a3ee 5y ago
Why does this crazy macro exist for one part of the language but not others? It feels obviously out of place and gives you the feeling that you're using a legacy language with historical oddities rather than a coherently designed syste
430.
by da39a3ee 5y ago
I think you're missing the point: this is starting to open the door to people who can't code.
431.
by da39a3ee 5y ago
Nonsense. GitHub is for working with git repositories. It might have some weird social feed stuff tacked on, but I've never used it in 13 years and to say it's not the main point is an understatement. OTOH social interactions is v
432.
by da39a3ee 5y ago
I've used GitHub intensively for 13 years. I've never looked at the front page or "feed". Why would you? GitHub is for working with git repositories, it's not a social website.
433.
by da39a3ee 5y ago
Ah, OK, yes I was talking at cross-purposes to some extent then, thanks. (Jupyter notebooks are hopeless in version control due to the JSON format, but I'm not familiar with Rmarkdown notebooks -- do you get sane diffs?) Yep, so what y
434.
by da39a3ee 5y ago
I absolutely agree with this: > the question is how much code you should write in the notebook, versus having it in a more organized set of functions and libraries. It's very easy to end up with a huge bloated document which contain
435.
by da39a3ee 5y ago
Don’t be silly. A man who decides they want to be a woman is a human being who should absolutely be sympathized with and treated kindly, but simply isn’t a woman. That’s such an obviously reasonable opinion (even if you disagree with it) th
436.
by da39a3ee 5y ago
I’ve already told you that I accept that. But odious cuts both ways: people like me find people who would shun and shame someone for holding a differing view odious, and we wouldn't want to work with them. Or hire them. I would never h
437.
by da39a3ee 5y ago
Yes of course I accept all of that — one can hardly have missed that in the last five or so years, since completely unreasonable positions have been raised to the status of dogma by educated liberals in the sorts of workplaces that you and
438.
by da39a3ee 5y ago
Of course. A better way of saying what I intended is this: We cannot control the statistical distribution of opinions within the population and hence cannot control whether we will be shunned or shamed. However, that does not mean that we t
439.
by da39a3ee 5y ago
It depends on the subject. I don't have the right to deny racial equality without fear of being shamed or shunned. But I certainly have the right to point out that transgender biological males aren't women in the normal sense and
440.
by da39a3ee 5y ago
0. Don’t use notebooks. Neither RStudio nor Jupyter. They prevent people from developing good programming skills and good version control skills, and they encourage making a huge mess.
441.
by da39a3ee 5y ago
I have to admit I’m struggling with this. I know git and PR-based workflows inside out. But I’m trying to read https://jg.gg/2018/09/29/stacked-diffs-versus-pull-requests/ and the penny hasn’t dropped at
442.
by da39a3ee 5y ago
> The number of racial minorities in the applicant pool was still almost zero. What does this mean? Is racial minority a synonym for “non-East-asian, non-Indian, non-white”? Or where there no Indians? I assume there where white and East
443.
by da39a3ee 5y ago
> It's rarely because we don't know about it or don't understand it That's pretty arrogant. In fact, big companies have many (influential) people who've been working there for a long time and have relatively weak
444.
by da39a3ee 5y ago
To people from the world of smaller companies, "microservices" means creating a lot of JSON / GraphQL services and trying to make them talk to each other reliably. People from big companies are also doing microservices but th
445.
by da39a3ee 5y ago
Not sure what you're trying to say. Free vs not free is not the most important axis to consider when evaluating software.
446.
by da39a3ee 5y ago
The Selfish Gene. It made me want to become a biologist, and a computer programmer, and it confirmed childhood suspicions about religious belief.
447.
by da39a3ee 5y ago
Probably? > My Google SoC project was writing a c++ bindings generator for Common Lisp
448.
by da39a3ee 5y ago
The article is spot on. Liberal democracies should fund special schooling for a minority of smart kids; just try hard to make it as blind as possible to privileged home circumstances by picking kids up early into the program.
449.
by da39a3ee 5y ago
Bob Dylan
450.
An Ecomodernist Manifesto(ecomodernism.org)
3 points by da39a3ee 5y ago|0 comments

More ›