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by jordigh 14y ago
At my current job we have MRI readers, almost all of them who come from medical backgrounds (neurologists, radiologists, the odd obstetrician here and there) and we have them use the command line all the while. We're transitioning them into
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by jordigh 14y ago
Git having a horrible interface is orthogonal to it being a successful DVCS. In fact, I'm quite convinced that it's precisely due to the article's subject, cult of personality of Linus, that git took off. Mercurial is a good example of a po
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by jordigh 14y ago
I personally also think it's high time to abandon Matlab: https://abandonmatlab.wordpress.com/2009/07/23/hello-world/ We've bred a community of scientific programmers who learn Matlab and teach Matlab, locking in generations of sci
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by jordigh 14y ago
It's interesting to note that one of the first points this article makes is that the term "intellectual property" spreads confusion and makes it sound like patents are something like copyrights or something like ship hull design rights. We'
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by jordigh 14y ago
Of course they are. You learn a language as a first language (L1) until the critical age (well, according to the critical age hypothesis, anyways: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_Age_Hypothesis ). I was raised in such an environment
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by jordigh 14y ago
Actually, there are tons of people who want to run Matlab code freely. The code is already written. They need to run it in clusters, or they need to run it at home. This is why we are doing Octave.
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by jordigh 14y ago
Octave core developer here. It is true that we have a lot of trouble attracting new contributors. Most of our users keep demanding features that seem to us unimportant but to them are all the world: a GUI ("whatever for?", we think. "Use a