eric_bullington

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   by eric_bullington 15y ago

   Nice post -- it's inspired me to go ahead and try out Rust. I've been watching it for the past few month. Also, have you taken a look at Julia: http://julialang.org/ If you like Haskell, you should take a look at Julia, which manages to
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   by eric_bullington 15y ago

   Well-done! I was wondering when someone would do this. d3 is brilliant -- I use it and find it incredibly powerful -- but it's fairly low level (although Mike Bostock may disagree). I'm happy someone put together a higher-level interface
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   by eric_bullington 15y ago

   Agreed. If you're running mingw and cygwin on Windows, you're getting closer to Linux, but I'd still much rather do development work on Ubuntu or some other Debian distro. And I say that as someone whose work requirements him to sometimes
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   Dear Gary Larson: Your Kids Go Out at Night; Let Them(techdirt.com)

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   by eric_bullington 15y ago

   I know that some PL experts tend to write off syntax as an issue of secondary importance, but for many developers, it's a critical part of code readability. I've spent much too much time trying to untangle masses of ill-written JavaScript
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   by eric_bullington 15y ago

   Please let me know if you put up a git repo. I can't promise that I'll be able to make any significant contributions at this point in time (working on big project for the next few weeks), but I'd love to try to help when I do get some free
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   by eric_bullington 15y ago

   You're forgetting Ada, a very interesting language, but one that has suffered from a constantly low rate of adoption.
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   by eric_bullington 15y ago

   What do you have in mind? A microframework, like Flask or Sinatra? I like that idea. I'd have to real dive into the internal of something like Werkzeug before trying to help out. But the Julia language itself looks fairly straightforwar
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   by eric_bullington 15y ago

   Thanks for the detailed response. I thought it might have been inspired from Haskell or Ruby, but was surprised to find out that C# has a similar syntactic feature. So I was curious if there was an "official" etymology. Sounds like an ama
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    by eric_bullington 15y ago

    Jeremy, would you mind sharing what the inspiration was for CoffeeScript's fat arrow? Was that token inspired by another language or was it something you just came up with on your own?
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    by eric_bullington 15y ago

    While we're praising O'Reilly, I should mention Safari Books Online. I'm sure you've all seen the promotions for the service in any O'Reilly book you purchase. I'm a subscriber, and it's a great service. I get electronic access to almost
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    by eric_bullington 15y ago

    As a Python programmer, I agree with most of your assessment. Most Pythonistas I know have chosen Haskell as their primary functional language (and Haskell is the PL I'm constantly working on mastering). But this clojure-py project is ver
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    by eric_bullington 15y ago

    Pearl won the Turing Award for his work applying Bayesian analysis to machine learning, among other accomplishments. For HNers just out of college, it's important to note that Bayesian analysis has not always been as popular as it is now.
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    by eric_bullington 15y ago

    If anyone is interested in using Bootstrap along with Python as a backend, I recently published a template I've been using for web apps that integrates a Bootstrap-enabled frontend with an existing Flask template by imlucas (flask-tool), pl
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    by eric_bullington 15y ago

    As a practicing scientist interested in open source scientific software, you should consider learning Python if you don't know it already. If you do know some Python, then take a hard look at projects like: [1] Sage: http://www.sagemath.o
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    by eric_bullington 15y ago

    I'm in a similar situation -- transitioning from another profession, with a background in public health (epidemiology and biostatistics) and interpretation/translation (as a certified translator). I've been programming for fun and as a sma
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    by eric_bullington 15y ago

    Or maybe the information is out there, in plain sight, and no one has yet figured out how to correctly use it. I'm not saying this company has deciphered social media for investing, but it's theoretically possible that mining social media
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    by eric_bullington 15y ago

    I've used multiple laptops with Linux and they've invariably run much better than on Windows. If you've not used Linux before, you'll be surprised how much faster your laptop will run on any flavor of Linux. If you want to really fly, try
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    by eric_bullington 15y ago

    I just received my copy of "Collective Intelligence" in the mail this morning, and immediately sat down and starting reading. I've been reading for the past several hours, non-stop. It's that good. Perhaps the best part is the chapter at