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by dangom 8y ago
How does this feel compared to programming in Emacs? (It's an honest question, from someone who'd love to try out Pharo)
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by dangom 8y ago
Pretty cool. Only issue is not being able to exit from an infinite loop. let x = 2; for (let y=0; y < 10; x++){ console.log(x) } x
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Ask HN: Anyone using constraint programming in production?
10 points by dangom 8y ago|3 comments
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by dangom 8y ago
Interesting to run a "blame" on this code, and see that almost every line has been touched by a different commit, and that 41 contributors collaborated on the file. It seems that the "do not attempt to simplify this code&quot
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Ask HN: Languages to learn in 2019 for Data Science?
17 points by dangom 8y ago|16 comments
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by dangom 8y ago
Lots of unfixable messes that come from mining, yet nobody blinks an eye [1,2,3]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bento_Rodrigues_dam_disaster [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ok_Tedi_environmen
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by dangom 8y ago
Producers make profits by selling solar panels. Customers save money by buying solar panels. Unlikely that this would be the case if solar panels were not net energy producers.
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by dangom 8y ago
Actually, PyPI and PyPy are pronounced differently. The former is pronounced Pie-Pea-Eye, whereas the latter Pie-Pie. "PyPI (Python Packaging Index): said aloud by using its full name, or by spelling out the last two letters, as in &qu
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by dangom 8y ago
I would suggest going through the Fast.AI course [1]. It's an excellent course to learn more about DL in general, and some of torch API. The downside is that the course material was produced when PyTorch was still at 0.3, so some of th
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by dangom 8y ago
If I opt for multiple "hidden" settings that make my browser more private, am I not giving away my privacy? I mean, finger-printers will notice my unique fingerprint consisting of tailor made privacy choices.
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by dangom 8y ago
For folks who don't know how to embed images into blog posts, how do you do that?!
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Rube Goldberg Machine(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by dangom 8y ago|1 comments
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by dangom 8y ago
Yes, you are definitely right. My point is that people refer to being scientific or philosophic as being detached from ordinary people, as if scientists or philosophers would purposely want to be seen as different and hard to understand. (
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by dangom 8y ago
His talk is exactly what he talks about: he presents ideas at a level of understanding of those listening to him. Instead of being scientific or philosophic, he gives interesting examples such that people immediately get it. Alan's all
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by dangom 8y ago
I guess if the point is to optimize fibonacci then wouldn't the smartest move be to use the closed form solution where Fib(n) is the closest integer to phi^n / sqrt(5), where phi = (1 + sqrt(5))/2? This is one of the examples
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by dangom 8y ago
I see the example use case is exactly the same as the one given in the python documentation [1]. Any other practical use cases? [1] https://docs.python.org/3.7/library/collections.html#collect...
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by dangom 8y ago
That's not how that works. You can go to bed early, but you won't fall asleep. You'll close your eyes and try to sleep, try to relax and empty your mind, yet you will not fall asleep. Speaking as someone who suffers from the
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by dangom 8y ago
SEO attacks?
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by dangom 8y ago
> so much so that switching to them is both painful at first and frustrating on a daily basis Speaking as someone who made a switch about 2 years ago, I could not agree more. For desktop purposes it's OK because I don't mind re
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IMDB in Emacs; or, Honey, I made an ORM(lars.ingebrigtsen.no)
4 points by dangom 8y ago|0 comments
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by dangom 8y ago
Reminds me of an internship I did at a large organization, where the computer I was assigned to was partially unusable (even after formatting it would hang and freeze all the time), but procedures stated that I couldn't change it becau
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by dangom 8y ago
Notebooks may be suitable for scratching things, but not much else. The problems noted by the OP are very serious, specially in the scientific world, where many do not have proper software engineering skills. The real issue is that newcomer
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by dangom 8y ago
> Didn't you just basically say that what is "awful" is subjective? You're basically saying "maybe echo chambers are better". Yes, I did. Instead of retweeting, you let the awfulness die out instead of getti
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by dangom 8y ago
For some languages what you suggest already exists. Check out, for example, parinfer [1] for Lisp and relatives. https://shaunlebron.github.io/parinfer/
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by dangom 8y ago
> Refuting bad ideas often takes longer than 240 characters. Not necessarily true. > Showing bad ideas to be bad is very important in civil discourse, not being able to point out bad ideas by "retweeting" them with commentar
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by dangom 8y ago
That's really a nice idea. One of the possible issues here is that some of these cards, specially anonymous ones, may take time to validate. Users may not want to wait 24hrs+ for their digital content to arrive. This should be a solvab
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Prohibition of Death(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by dangom 8y ago|0 comments
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by dangom 8y ago
Vi and Emacs are older projects with a larger community, and thus there's a ton of plugins out there even for niche applications. Xi is much newer, and attempts to solve many of the problems that Vi and Emacs face (examples: in Vi&#x2
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by dangom 8y ago
Here's the link of (an updated version of) the original accident report: http://sunnyday.mit.edu/papers/therac.pdf
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by dangom 8y ago
According to the Wikipedia entry on the Therac-25, it was "In response to incidents like those that the IEC 62304 standard was created, which introduces development life cycle standards for medical device software and specific guidance

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