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by konjin 6y ago
>Except you can do it if you know what you're doing. Ye gads, why didn't we think of that in any other programming language? If we know what we're doing we can do whatever we feel like, and if we get the wrong answers, it
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by konjin 6y ago
I worked with a couple. They stop being geneticists rather quickly because the salary for someone who can use python well is about 4 times that of someone working on genes. Keeping them away from coding is now an executive decision since un
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by konjin 6y ago
Imagine asking people to use the custom solution sledge hammer of python, git, unit tests and sqlite. Not one off the shelf piece of software there. There comes a point where using a spork to drill holes in walls is not the right solution.
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by konjin 6y ago
Hobbyists are usually more diligent than professionals because they care. If anyone cared about the product it wouldn't have been a spreadsheet.
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by konjin 6y ago
No, which is why I was hired to replace it.
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by konjin 6y ago
How about don't use excel in the first place?
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by konjin 6y ago
So I'm wrong because I'm right? Have you looked at Stockholm syndrome?
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by konjin 6y ago
Because excel couldn't authenticate into our internal server and it was good enough.
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by konjin 6y ago
Yes, and JS is considered a shit language by everyone who isn't a JS fanboy. What's your point? Most other languages come with libraries for arbitrary precision arithmetic where people who know what they are doing^tm can get the r
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by konjin 6y ago
>Using excel as an alternative to CSV is fine. Clippy the Paperclip Hi, it looks like this alphanumeric constant is the date format used by the Democratic Peoples Republic of Arstotzka for the year 127 BC. I have changed the encoding f
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by konjin 6y ago
>Holy shit, how much does it cost to rent out your crystal ball for a few hours? $300 per hour, I bring my own crystal ball, runes, chicken bones or voodoo doll based on customer requirements.
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by konjin 6y ago
The same way that engineers saying you shouldn't use dung to build houses are guilty of architectural elitism. Excel is the wrong tool because it mixes presentation and data, to the point that geneticists had to change the names of gen
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by konjin 6y ago
Peering into my crystal ball: You were between 16 and 22, you were 'great with computers', you had never used an OS other than Windows. There is a difference between a calculator and a type writer and there is a difference between
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by konjin 6y ago
Having worked in the financial industry, my first job was writing a system to cover for a $10m fuck up in excel where yahoo exchange rates stopped updating and the same spreadsheet was used for a few weeks until someone noticed "Shit,
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by konjin 6y ago
The USSR collapsed because it overspend on pointless projects. Bridges to nowhere or military bases in Afghanistan add nothing for the economy. Just because it's infrastructure doesn't mean it's good.
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by konjin 6y ago
There are 100 companies that decide to infringe on your patents in China anyway. This way we get the worst of all possible worlds. Had we been more desperate and not using other peoples money we would have started negotiating with car bombs
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by konjin 6y ago
What happened to the Soviets in the end?
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by konjin 6y ago
You aren't fired - sorry you can't get fired from a tenure job - you don't get paid peanuts to fund research.
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by konjin 6y ago
That sounds like something someone who has never been taken to court over IP rights would say. I have, and it cost us $10k to get told "you're screwed." by the lawyer that was suggested by friends as one of the better ones fo
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by konjin 6y ago
A really good take on cars I saw years ago is that they have two modes. One is high speed death machine which needs to be isolated from humans - e.g. the average highway. The other is a mechanical horse that you can out run if you try - e.g
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by konjin 6y ago
Yes, it's a feature, one we should use a lot more of. Someone that thin skinned would demand that the project accommodate them, try to take it over and then run it to the ground. After all it's not like Stallman didn't become
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by konjin 6y ago
Perhaps a history lesson would benefit her more than one in mathematics. We don't know much about Pythagoras and why he did mathematics. But we do know a bit more about Archimedes and the reasons why he did mathematics: to kill Romans
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by konjin 6y ago
It helps to have a lot of very visible brackets when people sign up, it scares away the majority who won't cut it. Emacs is in that unfortunate position that you can learn the shortcuts and 'use' it for months before you even
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by konjin 6y ago
>Does emacs even offer anything like `vimtutor`? https://i.stack.imgur.com/egD8V.jpg That is the splash page that hasn't changed much since 2000. Reading the helpfully highlighted first menu entry do you think that
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by konjin 6y ago
Yes, it's wonderful the community is small and technically capable.
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by konjin 6y ago
I doubt they have had 20 years of using to it though.
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by konjin 6y ago
I can run them on a breadboard. An exaggeration, but not a large one.
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by konjin 6y ago
I will check it out in 10 years if it's still around. In the mean time I have actual work I need to get done.
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by konjin 6y ago
Proper multithreading/tasking.
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by konjin 6y ago
When you've been warned the world will end and ~~notepad~~ VS code will take over for 50 years you tend to become blase about the whole thing. Emacs has a steep learning curve and that's good. You need a moat to keep the barbarian

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