ddavis

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   by ddavis 7y ago

   I've been using Homebrew for years and I've never felt negatively about the user experience, I find it easier to use than yum for example. What do you think can be improved?
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   by ddavis 7y ago

   We're going to need an independent experiment to see this "X17" before anyone truly believes it's a new particle. Some example major particle discoveries over the last few decades (and the independent experiments which o
3. 63.▲
   by ddavis 7y ago

   You're right, I mixed up scipy and pandas.
4. 64.▲
   by ddavis 7y ago

   Binary wheels aren't out from everyone you mentioned yet (they are for NumPy and SciPy... but the maintainers of most of the packages you mention appear to usually wait for their next releases before getting the wheels out), but a NumP
5. 65.▲
   by ddavis 7y ago

   If you mean individual Electron apps.. wouldn't this require reducing the memory footprint of Chromium, not Electron? It seems many users hope to eventually see the ability to run multiple Electron apps on a single instance of Chromium
6. 66.▲
   by ddavis 7y ago

   I think the write-up has some useful information, but it comes off as pretty patronizing.
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   by ddavis 7y ago

   I use Org-mode for everything. It's truly an amazing piece of software. You mentioned using Jira for work, well there's an elisp package for using Jira with Org-mode! ( https://github.com/ahungry/org-jira )
8. 68.▲
   by ddavis 7y ago

   The $5/month price is probably going to ensure no one cancels after the year.
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   by ddavis 7y ago

   Are there any other academic fields so dependent on a single piece of software the way that (experimental) particle physics is dependent on ROOT?
10. 70.▲
    by ddavis 7y ago

    Object oriented is part of the name! If I remember correctly it's some combination of the original developers' names/initials with OO sandwiched between.
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    by ddavis 7y ago

    This comparison would benefit from showing numba ( https://numba.pydata.org/ ) results for explicit loops.
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    by ddavis 7y ago

    Very sad, he was an amazing teacher. I love his MIT 6.034 lectures on youtube. One of the best is the SVM lecture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PwhiWxHK8o -- it's awesome how he gives the lecture to completion with
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    by ddavis 7y ago

    Yeah I hear you and empathize with this. That is especially difficult to deal with, but I think the model I describe with the three-times-a-year dedicated event helps, because people can really direct their focus for those few days and it&#
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    by ddavis 7y ago

    I think an answer to your final comment is quite simple: to invest in teaching proper software engineering practices, especially if it's not your focus. Get one or two people (potentially outside of the group/collaboration) that a
15. 75.▲
    by ddavis 7y ago

    You know tracking customers is a hell of a lot easier online. Mom-and-pop shops are probably the only way to go to avoid being targeted now.
16. 76.▲
    by ddavis 7y ago

    I enjoyed it quite a bit, but I think w.r.t. HBO miniseries Band of Brothers is better.
17. 77.▲
    by ddavis 7y ago

    mublock origin
18. 78.▲
    by ddavis 7y ago

    Maybe not as fancy, but here's a version with Greek and English side by side: http://farside.ph.utexas.edu/Books/Euclid/Elements.pdf
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    by ddavis 7y ago

    Yep, pretty sad to see Facebook guilty of this.
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    by ddavis 7y ago

    Just to expand on this; the series is usually called a Dyson series ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyson_series ). Dyson showing the connection between perturbation theory and Feynman's formulation was very importa
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    by ddavis 7y ago

    Web Browser: Chrome Email Client: mu4e (mbsync for IMAP, msmtp for SMTP) Terminal: Gnome Terminal in DE or Alacritty in WM IDE: Emacs File manager: Emacs dired Basic Text Editor: Emacs IRC/Messaging Client: Weechat PDF Reader: Zathura
22. 82.▲
    by ddavis 7y ago

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11580022
23. 83.▲
    by ddavis 7y ago

    If you read the paper I’m sure you’ll find the information you’re looking for. These types of experiments spend decades understanding all potential background events and trying to limit them.
24. 84.▲
    by ddavis 7y ago

    mu4e in Emacs; tried many others and it's far and away the best.
25. 85.▲
    by ddavis 7y ago

    I'm just under half your age and I hope to be using Emacs when I'm 59 1/2! I'm also grateful to everyone who has made Emacs as great as it is.
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    by ddavis 7y ago

    I used Mitsuharu Yamamoto's emacs-mac distribution for some time (due to a suggestion I saw here on HN a while ago), but the upstream nextstep build (from the main GNU Emacs repository) actually feels a bit smoother/snappier to me
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    by ddavis 8y ago

    It's incredibly easy to use, I'm a fan.
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    by ddavis 8y ago

    Seeing William Shockley in their graphic is a bit funny in my opinion. It's definitely relevant, since he "brought silicon to Silicon Valley" [1], but he seems like the _last_ person VCs would want to work with. [1] https:&#
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    by ddavis 8y ago

    Labeling one person (or even one department) as "Duke" is very disingenuous. It was one researcher who committed fraud. The negligent researchers, as mentioned in the article, are guilty of wrongdoing, but not fraud.
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    by ddavis 8y ago

    I feel the same way! Definitely couldn't be happier. And I agree about the web UI. I usually read and compose my email inside Emacs, but their web interface is very nice when necessary.