leaningtower

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Dynamically loading modules in Perl at run time(di.unipi.it)
2 points by leaningtower 8y ago|0 comments
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If you cannot name it, it shouldn't exist(di.unipi.it)
4 points by leaningtower 8y ago|0 comments
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The Linked in Languages (Popularity?) Index(di.unipi.it)
1 points by leaningtower 8y ago|0 comments
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Concepts and Applications of Inferential Statistics(vassarstats.net)
2 points by leaningtower 10y ago|0 comments
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Testing, for people who hate testing(eev.ee)
3 points by leaningtower 10y ago|0 comments
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Consistent Hashing(blog.carlosgaldino.com)
2 points by leaningtower 10y ago|0 comments
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by leaningtower 10y ago
Under the assumption that the story is true, thing that I cannot assume from a blog post, this should be notified to the authorities more than be posted on HN. Also notice that before any actual confirmation or official investigation, point
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by leaningtower 10y ago
As I once discussed with a friend of mine, once you remove semicolons, and give spacing a syntactic and semantic value, you almost have FORTRAN... this is just the icing on the cake :¬)
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by leaningtower 10y ago
+1
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by leaningtower 10y ago
Yes, they did not get what the world "hide" means in English...
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by leaningtower 10y ago
But that's an advantage too. As a non English-native user, I like when companies care about my language and culture and they do not stick dates to the MM-DD-YYYY format that is used by Americans only. Yes, of course, we should all go f
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by leaningtower 10y ago
You can share your Excel files and macros with other people too. Python notebooks are kind of cool but if you need something quickly to sift through the data to have an idea, Excel is an amazingly good tool for it
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by leaningtower 10y ago
From the text ``With at least 12 major Indian languages supported, Indus OS has tapped into what the market needs, not what a government wants. That's powerful because it means the software is developing and pivoting according to deman
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“India 1, China 0” or Indus OS: i18n and l10n done right(bloomberg.com)
1 points by leaningtower 10y ago|1 comments
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by leaningtower 10y ago
You should not really judge a tool by the bad use the people make of it. Hammers are perfectly fine with nail but they are horrible at cutting bread
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by leaningtower 10y ago
Well, when St. Linus Torvalds said those words, (1) g++ was not as good as many other C++ compilers, (2) the world was still full of very bad examples of C++: if you were lucky, back in those days you could have found some projects using C+
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by leaningtower 10y ago
Most probably yes. Linux desktop in general has been killed by OS X and -- on a very minor extend -- by Chromium OS and, honestly, that was easy to kill. Kde is probably the first evident victim of this
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Is Big Data a Problem or a Solution?(di.unipi.it)
1 points by leaningtower 10y ago|0 comments