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by gtycomb 7y ago
Here in Nevada, my experience is that Walmart's online business and delivery is strongly superior. It has been a refreshing thing to see a massive global company turn around and do something very right.
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by gtycomb 7y ago
So many there are. Starting with basic Probability, this lecture series is a good first intro. https://www.dartmouth.edu/~chance/teaching_aids/books_articl... Or starting from the basics, and learning how to actua
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by gtycomb 8y ago
There are lessons to learn from it. The dials, knobs, sliders, the whole shape of the thing -- the gravitas, speaks oodles of cash and it looks well worth it to a CIO. These days we have web pages. A web page with right look and feel can mi
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by gtycomb 8y ago
Any idea how the graphics gets rendered on the brower here? Is there a javascript library for this? I see further interesting graphics from the author here: https://github.com/zalo/MathUtilities
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by gtycomb 8y ago
> FORTAN I have not thought of FORTAN as legacy because whenever I need to look at very old FORTRAN code I am looking at mathematical structures such as matrices and vectors. At that point I am not thinking of FORTRAN anymore but another
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by gtycomb 8y ago
You are looking at one of the great lost opportunites for hacker enterprenuers. Cities/state agencies depend on cio-purchasing managers to help maintain their IT, and this ends up in third-party handshakes i.e jobs run by very speciali
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by gtycomb 8y ago
Basic plumbing may be picked up by almost anyone and by and large we call a professional plumber to fix the leak.
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by gtycomb 8y ago
thank you, this helps. The question comes because I do not have a handle on react.js and I do know something about Vue.js.
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by gtycomb 8y ago
How similar is this with Nuxt.js?
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by gtycomb 8y ago
Between you and what OP is saying, I think there is this something thing else also. Core software development activity (UI, databases, messaging, web servers, configuring legacy systems, testing, release and delivery, etc) is helped by peop
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by gtycomb 8y ago
Going along with the other two helpful comments, take for example math that C. F. Gauss deemed to be the "Queen of Sciences", i.e the basis of it all. Math as we know it comes to us through counting with numbers. What are numbers
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by gtycomb 8y ago
a passing remark -- by all means read Wittgenstein's 'Philosophical Investigations' because it is readable as the article says. In the metaphysical world it can be hard cut through the work of its great thinkers. A sensible w
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by gtycomb 8y ago
> Isn't it fascinating how _little_ Paul refers to Jesus' own biographical life though? This comes to mind. In my early school years, a bunch of us kids were really close. We did so many things together at school and all summer
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by gtycomb 8y ago
Whenever I read an article like this one, this question is the one that remains.
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by gtycomb 8y ago
I am truly moved by what this small (probably one, maybe two person?) team has accomplished here. Just look at their code and its organization, while noting how languages like Rust, Nim, and Go show us how to tackle the software complexity
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by gtycomb 8y ago
I feel the pain as I read your line. One great disaster in my career early on was my going into Haskell, and also Prolog, after frustration with Java (remember Java Beans etc?) in an enterprise project. Whereas Perl5 (this was in the biotec
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by gtycomb 8y ago
> The biggest impediment I see is that these language communities are more concerned about the abstract mathematical properties of the language and things like tooling get neglected Is it really so. I am only asking. A mathematical model
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by gtycomb 8y ago
> there’s no difference between ridiculously shitty code ... I side with you on this because of something I see often: At the end of the day what the CIO (a purchasing manager or the budget signer) asks about is who killed the fire for t
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by gtycomb 8y ago
The last paragraph has something lovely to take home: "Stravinsky, in discussing ''the art of combination which is composition'' quoted the mathematician Marston Morse: ''Mathematics are the result of myst
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by gtycomb 8y ago
Thank you to you also. I had read Hesse only because someone gave me the used books too. A fine gift it is.
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by gtycomb 8y ago
Those were the days. When Hess wrote The Glass Bead Game, Mann gave us The Magic Mountain, Camus had The Plague, and Kafka ... Yet what remain closest to me from my days of enjoying their writings is just an essay by Herman Hess titled &quo
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by gtycomb 8y ago
R's tidyverse, along with the numerous R packages/documentation developed and tested over a long period of time, are efficient too. Thankful to see both Python and R thrive.
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by gtycomb 8y ago
After I used ESS with Emacs starting many years ago, I haven't opened RStudio. I know RStudio is very very nice, and ESS is a very complete option too.
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by gtycomb 8y ago
I use Fedora Linux on my laptop. What does this mean for the Fedora Project? Any thoughts on an alternate OS with a lesser memory footprint than Fedora? It takes about 1 GB to boot up Fedora 27 now. And what's the future for CentOS?
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by gtycomb 8y ago
Thanks for saying it right. This will help me remember.
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by gtycomb 8y ago
Only a data point here -- after I read about this license change on HN, it took me about 2 hours to struggle over the issue, discuss with my team, and switch from MongoDB to PostgreSql. We are very lucky in that we were into this project fo
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by gtycomb 8y ago
About Bach's involvement and contributions in organ building technology of his age, the point of view comes from here discussed at length: "Bach: Music in the Castle of Heaven" by John Eliot Gardiner. He is a reliable source.
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by gtycomb 8y ago
The Bach Cantata here is marvelously moving, so let me put in my $0.02. When Bach wrote his music, he was also at the cutting edge of the technology of his age. The pipe organs were great accomplishments of that mechanical age. The churche
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by gtycomb 8y ago
I stumbled on this (--user flag) only the other day and it simplified things immensely. Too much information, various ways of doing things explained in bits and pieces over the decades makes it look confusing. Often there is a very simple w
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by gtycomb 8y ago
"... Popular Electronics. It featured a new computer called the Altair 8800, which ran on a powerful new chip. Paul looked at me and said: “This is happening without us!” That moment marked the end of my college career and the beginnin

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