malkarouri

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by malkarouri 14y ago
Totally agree. Jeff is almost acting like a common bully here. I am surprised people are coming to the opposite conclusion.
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by malkarouri 14y ago
I would have gone for "git cherry-pick" acquired the "--allow-empty-message" option or "git cherry-pick" now has the "--allow-empty-message" option myself. I think the subject is fine with the emphasis where it belongs. The verb is weir
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by malkarouri 14y ago
Does Afghanistan qualify as a has gotten out of poverty country?
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by malkarouri 14y ago
.. which are supported by all the environments in question
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by malkarouri 14y ago
Specific to NumPy. Boolean indexing. http://www.scipy.org/Cookbook/Indexing#head-86055279f6592d36...
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by malkarouri 14y ago
The lawsuits about prior art should be enough to lock down the judicial system on its own.
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by malkarouri 14y ago
(In a Bizarro World, it's Siemens bringing back Symbian) OMG
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by malkarouri 14y ago
One problem with PowerShell is that it uses too much resources for a shell. I believe it to be superior in some ways to Unix shells, but I was never able to get (psychologically) past the 15 second or more startup time needed on my machine
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by malkarouri 14y ago
True. On the other hand, it creates some level of trust since any programmer can now implement a Trello alternative for you to port your data to. So making the data available removes a lot of the lock-in. Of course, if the data can be expor
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by malkarouri 14y ago
Is that still valid? I mean, after GPRS, MMS and various technologies in this area it might not be as bad as originally implemented.
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by malkarouri 15y ago
Interesting that you effectively use an engineer's definition of "solved" rather than that of a theoretician. Message passing is effectively the assembly language of distributed computing: very low level. Mapreduce and the various NoSQL dat
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by malkarouri 15y ago
> true computer scientists already have the answers. And the answer is .. 42? No, really. When did the distributed computing issues become "solved" in computer science?
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by malkarouri 15y ago
> There is also not much stopping you from using PHP, Python, Ruby, or anything else with a REPL as your daily shell, but bash is the most popular and works quite well for this problem domain. This is relevant: http://stackoverflow.com
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by malkarouri 15y ago
A good language, as a good anything, is a reasonable language. Giving extremes as arguments against sensible middle positions is the way of madness, paralysis, or extremism..
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by malkarouri 16y ago
As somebody who used Python a lot and being unable to learn Ruby, I have to say that I don't feel they can be merged. I have been successful at learning a variety of languages. Ruby was difficult for me because it is so similar to Python an
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by malkarouri 16y ago
Any argument that builds on protecting the cash cows for Microsoft is not helpful, either to Microsoft or to the community. For big companies to survive long term, the main thing is to have the flexibility to do that. The most relevant exam
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by malkarouri 16y ago
There is nothing special about Africans that will make them "properly[sic?] be so long after we are gone". The same tendency for long wars is everywhere. The history of Europe in the 19th century and earlier was almost a series of continuou