mheathr

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by mheathr 13y ago
Mathematica is a lot cheaper than Matlab, in the US anyways. Mathematica excels at symbolic computing, where as Matlab excels at numerical computing. Mathematica happens to be poor at numerical computing, and Matlab happens to be poor at
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by mheathr 13y ago
In what way is Matlab more feature-complete and polished? With respect to just the actual language Octave is nearly a 1:1 implementation of Matlab, which is an primary goal to stride for and maintain, any differences between the two is cons
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Exercises for Tendenitis and Carpal Tunnel Prevention/Treatment(youtube.com)
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by mheathr 13y ago
I second this, and I would third this if possible; I obtained mine through massdrop as well. Having suffered from debilitating RSI at one point that took several months to even moderately recover from, an ergonomically sound keyboard (along
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by mheathr 13y ago
This article really removed some of my enthusiasm for Jetbrains products, even though I like them a lot. It's incredibly ignorant and blatantly false to anyone knowledgeable about both. As an example, I don't know how the author c
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by mheathr 13y ago
I am a huge fan of VIM's design (and by extension EVIL http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Evil in Emacs, which is what I use most of the time), and I agree that all to most of this is achievable in Emacs. I really lik
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by mheathr 13y ago
I always use braces in order to protect my future self from my current self. I don't want to end up introducing a logic error in the program because I overlooked proper scope while less coherent later on.
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by mheathr 13y ago
Personally, I find both Lisp-1 and Lisp-2 easier to read (when it is pretty printed) than any other language syntax. That the syntax or lack there of also expresses itself as an AST in addition to that is quite elegant. Due to the reduction
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by mheathr 13y ago
The analogy of Emacs learning curve being a fractal is quite appropriate I think if we take each fractal to represent an amount of time required to gain proficiency in modes that introduce significant amounts of features, with the smaller f
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by mheathr 13y ago
Emacs:Display Editor::Java:Program Execution
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by mheathr 13y ago
Rob Pike made an excellent point in one of his presentations on GO. He pointed out that utilizing a language through a DSL or FFI that utilizes indentation instead of another method makes utilizing that language inside another language more
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by mheathr 13y ago
Both arguments are not sound though, and as a result demonstrably irrelevant. The title of the thread and the argument in the GP is based on features present in ZSH but not Bash and the benefits there of. The OP's first argument is: for al
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by mheathr 13y ago
Emacs could gain a lot of performance boosts with some significant changes to its architecture. It would be a lot of work to do and doing so requires a set of skills that are much less available than other software engineering skills unfor
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by mheathr 13y ago
I am very impressed by this. Are their plans to integrate the software elsewhere such that it is available ubiquitously in every environment instead of just Android?
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by mheathr 13y ago
Fortunately computing hardware is improving at a faster rate than emacs is getting slower, so we are not interacting with molasses.
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by mheathr 13y ago
As of Emacs 24, either dynamic or lexical binding is available. Dynamic binding is the default though.
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by mheathr 13y ago
In answering this I will ignore details specific to the two tools (such as how the implementations are modified), the merits of either, how they are used, and only compare their design goals. It is true that both tools are mutable and that
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by mheathr 13y ago
Sublime Text will never be a plausible replacement for Emacs as its design does not encompass all of possibilities a lisp machine provides. Sublime Text is a plausible replacement for any tool which only targets text editing though. It has
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by mheathr 13y ago
Can you comment in generalities on the scope of changes to LT's behaviour end users can expect to be possible by design, e.g. the entire stack is modifiable to the extent that Emacs (even the underlying elisp interpreter) is modifiable, onl
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by mheathr 14y ago
If a tool exists to format the code, it is of no consequence that a check in violates the formatting, as when that code is actually viewed it can (and should be) passed through that tool ahead of time such that the check in which violates t
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by mheathr 14y ago
ASIC is an implementation of a circuit. They will be the fastest implementation of the logic, however they are the most expensive implementation of that logic by far. Unlike FPGAs once logic is implemented in an ASIC the implementation is
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by mheathr 14y ago
It is a really useful term when used in its original context, rather than the way the term is commonly used now.
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by mheathr 14y ago
I agree that the article is well written for the scope the author targets, however I think it is disingenuous to group all PhD fields into the same demographic as the return on investment for pursuing that degree is not equivalent for each
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by mheathr 14y ago
It would be strange to claim to have invented something that already existed, but whose status exists only because people were unaware of it prior. People did not say that they invented gold when it was discovered for instance.
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by mheathr 14y ago
Spelt is a valid past tense and past participle of spell. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/spelt?&path=/
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by mheathr 14y ago
Since you transitioned into full-time UX starting as a developer originally, I am curious as to what resources you utilized to improve your knowledge of good UX principles.
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by mheathr 14y ago
Technically Pi is a complex number that has the real number coefficient a = Pi and b = 0 resulting in a complex number of pi + 0j. This is because the set of real numbers is a subset of the set of complex numbers and Pi is an element of the
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by mheathr 14y ago
Instead of starting from scratch perhaps implement utility in an existing editor that is in demand but not yet available for a fee. There are a lot of things that would be nice to see in existing programs that a bounty type system would pos