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by nanis 5y ago
For every programmer who can think and reason about what they are doing, there are at least 10 who just went to a bootcamp and are not afraid to copy and paste random stuff they do not understand and cannot explain. Initially, they will app
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by nanis 5y ago
<disclaimer>Not a mathematician, but took enough Ph.D. level classes to be dangerous with bad proofs.</disclaimer> > Using a set of unwritten naming rules Simplest being things like using upper case Greek for certain se
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by nanis 5y ago
Agreed. Growing up in a country and at a time with personally accessible computers and very little literature, I was able to learn stuff that withstood the test of time and did not subject me to switching costs. Already, differences in menu
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by nanis 5y ago
>> The best thing about using only ASCII for the main syntax is that everyone can type it with their keyboard. Well, some keyboard layouts make it harder though. I have spent a considerable amount of time trying to teach programming c
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by nanis 5y ago
This really made me smile: > Programmers are a picky bunch when it comes to syntax, and it is a sobering thought that one of the most rapidly adopted programming languages of all time, Perl, barely had one for the longest time. The funny
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by nanis 5y ago
The age old solution to this problem is to package the script plus the interpreter plus the dependencies in a glorified self-extracting ZIP file. E.g. [pp], [py2exe]. [pp]: https://metacpan.org/pod/pp [py2exe]: https:&
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by nanis 5y ago
My principle has always been "commit early, commit often" and "push early, push often". This works well when you do your work in a branch and you only "squash and merge" into the main branch (even if you are th
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by nanis 5y ago
> You're using the Soviet bastardization of the name. I am genuinely curious about how the name Alma Ata which consists of two Turkic words and which how I was taught in school when I was growing up in Turkey is the "Soviet bas
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by nanis 5y ago
> real name of the city in Kazakh was always "Almaty" Originally it used to be Alma Ata which then became Almatı. This kind of transformation is common in Turkic languages. Ata does mean father or forefather or grandfather. It
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by nanis 5y ago
This is a neat article. I do have comments about testing in general though. IME most developer do not understand each test has four possible outcomes: * Code is good and test passes * Code is bad and test fails These are the only two possib
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by nanis 5y ago
Lead author on January 31, 2020: > ... the problem is that our phylogenetic analyses aren't able to answer whether the sequences are unusual at individual residues, except if they are completely off. On a phylogenetic tree the virus
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by nanis 5y ago
Title should have 2020.
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by nanis 5y ago
> E-bikes are a great opportunity Until you round the corner on a sidewalk and narrowly avoid collision with a 7 year old on an electric bicycle. I lived in Denmark for a bit in the 80s and I don't know how it is there these days, b
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by nanis 5y ago
Note that you can find the source code here: https://github.com/forwardemail/free-email-forwarding Yes, it is basic, but that's the advantage for me. I am just looking for quick and easy alternative to registrar f
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by nanis 5y ago
Thank you. I am only asking here because it's been a couple of weeks since I opened the ticket and trying to contact the author via other means failed.
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by nanis 5y ago
Yes, that was done according to the instructions.
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Ask HN: Is anyone using forwardemail.net? Are you able to get support?
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by nanis 5y ago
> That post has too many examples of hubris and delusion for me to bother quoting it here Well, I could not help myself. >> While versions of Safari, Chrome, and Opera support a technology called Web SQL Database, which uses SQL st
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by nanis 5y ago
> one of five kids (out of class of 120) that took Calculus I am always puzzled by this. Calculus was 8th - 9th material in Turkey in the 80s. In classrooms with 45 - 50 kids per one over-worked teacher. We did set theory and Boolean log
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by nanis 5y ago
> Damn. I just want a car with as FEW knobs/buttons/levers as necessary. In 2005, there was a huge publicity campaign to make cameras mandatory in cars on the basis motivated by some parents driving over their toddlers playing
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by nanis 5y ago
> sum(x)/n is much faster than using pythons built in mean function. `statistics.mean` uses `_sum` which tries to avoid some basic round-off errors[1]. I think the implementation of `_sum` is needlessly baroque because the implement
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by nanis 5y ago
> idiosyncratic scientist’s decision to write their analysis in Perl. In my experience, looking at "scientist" produced code, the programming language matters very little. It is not hard to produce something completely inscruta
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by nanis 5y ago
As I said, "becoming" not "has come true". Everything is in place for Gattaca to come true. With more centralized control of health care expenditures, the incentives of bureaucrats will be lined up and full tracking of o
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by nanis 5y ago
> wouldn't you then go to __x food shop down the street__ A-hem. Command economies and central planning are interesting like that.
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by nanis 5y ago
> If there's a famine or a meat shortage, wouldn't people turn to other foods on their own? Maybe, just maybe, I am really going out on a limb here, the USSR did not have prices for things that reflected the relative scarcity o
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by nanis 5y ago
It seems like every movie I found entertaining but a stretch in the 90s is becoming reality: * Demolition Man https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demolition_Man_(film) * Enemy of the State https://en.wikipedia.org
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by nanis 5y ago
> At this point the treaty in not yet legally binding, although according to international law the signatory country has an obligation "to refrain, in good faith, from acts that would defeat the object and the purpose of the treaty.
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by nanis 5y ago
> Banes was in the crosswalk and had the right of way, according to police, who said it was unclear what kind of vehicle the suspect was driving. > “No one knows for sure. Some witnesses said it was a scooter. Some said it was a motor
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by nanis 5y ago
> They follow my command That's great, as it should be. However, the majority of dog owners I encounter are at the mercy of their dogs, they treat the dogs not as dogs but as humans and try to bargain with them. This is merely annoy
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by nanis 5y ago
One might want to use Unicode::UTF8[1] instead of the hand-rolled helper: #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings FATAL => 'utf8' use open ':std', ':encoding(UTF-8)';

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