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by drej 10y ago
Step 1: touch report.tex Step 2: latexmk -pvc -pdf report.tex Step 3: ??? Step 4: PROFIT
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My mate worked at a giant ecommerce company, it would send hundreds of millions of e-mails a month... and with virtually no performance evaluation (only high level stats which are by no means actionable). It took a single SQL query to propo
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Stories like these amuse me, mostly because it reminds me a bit of my own journey. Years and years ago, I remember tuning vim into oblivion, spending more time in .vimrc than in my code (but I had time, Gentoo was busy compiling... somethin
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Anyone saying this phone is destined to fail miserably - don't look at it from your viewpoint, but from your (grand)parents'. My mum can't stand touchscreens from an UX perspective, plus she hates the constant charging. All s
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One thing that tends to be undervalued is sheer positivity and passion. Jess reminds me of Julia Evans, both radiate excitement whenever they talk at conferences, regardless of topic. More joy like this, please.
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It's all about performance and concurrency here, but I'm quite happy about this for another reason: static compilation. If I needed really performant code, I'd write it in Go/Cython/[insert your fav language] in the
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Not sure jabs at Intel are fully justified. I don't think they can be viewed only be Geekbench scores of their top of the line processor (excluding Xeons now). When you look at its admirable battle with ARM with their Atoms and the M l
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I'm a bit confused - I'm not sure I understand the practicality of this. I do like challenging regexps, but I did not find them here. I thought the point of code games is to practice a skill you could use in real life, but matchin
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by drej 10y ago
I use AWS for a bunch of things, but the console has always been immensely painful to use, especially to create a no frills simple VPS for a fiver. For that reason alone, I use DigitalOcean and fiddle with AWS authentication if I need to us
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Since we keep having these discussions every now and then, here's a link to one of them from a few weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12930082
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I love these posts for several reasons. 1. People think of companies like Uber primarily as providers of a regular service to customers (similarly to how Airbnb or Netflix is perceived), but it's interesting to see the engineering chop
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I very much understand the bit that science is first and code second. I live by the very much same principle at work and we actually have a lot of (terrible) Fortran and C/C++ code around. And we're trying to adopt Python for larg
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It's not that it helps in a particular way (though more on that below), it's just that starting with Python 2 now necessarily leads to rewrites later on. While you can see packages not supporting Python 3 (there are fewer and fewe
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> As Python 2.x is still the default Python on many system and there are a fair number of research codes out there based on Python 2, we will use Python 2.x in this book. This is so unfortunate. Scientific computing is riddled with techn
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Ask HN: Reproducible systems with large outputs
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This is only relevant if you understand Ondra's native tongue (Czech), which is extremely unlikely :-) But for anyone who does speak Czech: this is a rather fun interview, especially if you don't know much about climbing. https:&
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Sorry, I meant closer to the metal relative to Python, not relative to Rust, poor wording.
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May sound trivial, but for me it's a simple charting tool. I'm quite big on QA, but it's always been a problem for us, due to lack of tools. We have tons (millions) of time series being churned into proprietary files (neither
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This topic is dear to me, I often deal with people without any software stacks on their machines and strict IT limits on installing new things. If I were on the same OS as the target user, I'd use pyinstaller. I've used it with ve
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The big question is - can I use it with Intel Fortran? (I am, sadly, 100% serious.)
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I've been following this for a while now - I actually met this guy in a pub a few years ago, a friendly chap. While I don't subscribe to his ideology, I do wish him luck. As long as they are not harming anyone, I encourage people
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Coming from a country with an extended alphabet, I've always been aware of encoding issues, especially before almost everyone settled on using UTF. So the treatment in Python 3 (and equally in Go) is a game changer for me and many othe
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My 2c: Go is incredibly convenient for non-programmers. I don't make a living writing software, I make a living answering quantitative questions, using computers. I use Python for most tasks, but when I need extra performance and/
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It's even more true for the Air, which is pretty much identical. I bought a 4/128/i5 machine in 2011 and I'm thinking of buying basically the same machine again. A bit faster RAM/disk/CPU/USB, sure, but ev
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It's astonishing that a project like this runs on a budget similar to what it costs to get one (!) software engineer in the Valley. Well done to everyone involved!
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That's precisely my suggestion https://github.com/golang/go/issues/16791#issuecomment-24209... Moving from runes to bytes in reading gives us a nice speedup - not quite to eliminate the gap, but it'
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Show HN: Rendering Jupyter notebooks in the browser(github.com)
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