narimiran

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by narimiran 9y ago
> I want something that works first time, every time. My experience with Mint is exactly like that. Coming from Windows, I was quite surprised to see that everything works from the start - I thought the transition would be much more pain
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by narimiran 9y ago
> I really doubt you'd prefer matplotlib's bland standard style (MBSS) To be fair, MBSS got much better in the recent version 2.x Before (version 1.x), I always had to use seaborn and/or modify parameters, but now the defa
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by narimiran 9y ago
> He is using all standard libraries now - once he needs more, we will figure it out as we go! Maybe you could install Anaconda (or some similar distribution), which has lots (almost 500) of popular libraries preinstalled.
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by narimiran 9y ago
Are you sure you want to publicly share `api_key` and `api_id`?
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by narimiran 9y ago
I know this is not as impressive as some other projects here, but I would very much appreciate your feedback. Is it easy to use? If not, what should be changed/improved? Some feature to add (or remove)? Is the code ok? Should I refacto
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Show HN: Scopy – catalogue your digital books(github.com)
2 points by narimiran 9y ago|1 comments
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by narimiran 9y ago
> GitHub supports rendering ipynb files so nicely (...) without cloning and firing up a Jupyter notebook. There is a better way, with (even) nicer rendering, without any cloning: https://nbviewer.jupyter.org/ Here is a d
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by narimiran 9y ago
> you'll be blown away by the tools and functionality that proper VS offers I've used PyCharm before, but currently VS Code seems like the right balance for my needs.
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by narimiran 9y ago
> I've done plenty of freelance projects in F# over the past few years and enjoy it Could you give some examples of what did you do in F#? Did you choose F# just because you wanted to see if you can do it in it, or did F# have some
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by narimiran 9y ago
> One is lagging support in Visual Studio I use VS Code, both for Python and now for F#, and so far my experience has been positive. But that might be because I've used F# only for very basic stuff, and I don't know how better
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by narimiran 9y ago
> it's hard to hire people Many other commentators said something like this, so it seems to me that: Not many people are using F#, because it's hard to find employer who needs F#. And employers don't seek for F# programmer
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by narimiran 9y ago
> I would encourage you to stick with F# as you will be further along in not only understanding FP, but other modern programming languages Thank you for your kind words! As I mentioned elsewhere, I have also tried Haskell, but I never m
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by narimiran 9y ago
> At some point, if your language(s) of choice are decently powerful and you are decently good at them, you don't feel yourself shackled by a lack of agility, expressivity, or capacity for producing something of quality. Rather, you
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by narimiran 9y ago
Thanks for both links! It'll be interesting to see if something has changed in public opinion in last 9 months.
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by narimiran 9y ago
That might be true, but I'm more interested in reasons behind it. Surely it isn't something like "well, this seems like high quality, therefore I will not use it".
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Ask HN: Why isn't F# more popular?
49 points by narimiran 9y ago|113 comments
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by narimiran 9y ago
You're replying to the wrong person. I'm not the one who is doing teaching, I'm just the guy who corrects the teacher who hates Python 3 (for wrong reasons) ;)
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by narimiran 9y ago
> In Python 3, I have to tell my students that > breakfast = ["bacon", "eggs"] > sorted_breakfast = breakfast.sort() > works Well, some of your students might point out to you that your `sorted_breakfast`
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by narimiran 9y ago
> `k = d.keys(); k.sort()`? Just give me a list Here you go, a sorted list of dict keys: k = sorted(d.keys())
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by narimiran 9y ago
> a lot of useful machine learning libs are still dependent on 2 If they are a beginner, they would probably start with scikit-learn, which works on Py3. As does TensorFlow. As does Theano. Etc.
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by narimiran 9y ago
> Which Python? You mean Python 2 or Python 3? If you are a beginner and just starting - Python 3, without a doubt. (Well, even if you aren't a beginner you should use (or switch to) Python 3)
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by narimiran 9y ago
> but then someone asks: Python 2 or Python 3? And then you say: It is 2017. Python 3.