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   by neolog 5y ago

   If the new feature is incompatible with the old library, it's a different library. It should get a different name. If you're all out of names, just append a 2, as in jinja2 or psycopg2. No need to break existing software or to mak
2. 302.▲
   by neolog 5y ago

   I'm thinking Julia could be a good fit. It's garbage collected, pretty fast, and designed for numerical work.
3. 303.▲
   by neolog 5y ago

   Are there many people who can't afford to pay for a pageview but can afford the product being advertised on that page?
4. 304.▲
   by neolog 5y ago

   I see it's self-hosted. How much code needs to be written in another language in order to bootstrap the whole thing?
5. 305.▲
   by neolog 5y ago

   The only explanation I see here for what's wrong with J is > Among other things, notation, believe it or not, is much more practical and easier to learn than a seemingly random mish-mash of ASCII characters. Is that your main proble
6. 306.▲
   by neolog 5y ago

   Thanks, that's interesting. I wonder how much the lack of sleep is what causes the problems, versus other effects of the drug.
7. 307.▲
   by neolog 5y ago

   How long does a high last? How many uses during a normal day? e.g. 125 mg 4x daily or all at once or something else? Does it keep you from sleeping?
8. 308.▲
   by neolog 5y ago

   They know when google loads the image, which is when you open the email.
9. 309.▲
   by neolog 5y ago

   That just means it's based on chromium, which makes sense for a browser.
10. 310.▲
    by neolog 5y ago

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wealth_tax#Past_repeals There are two studies cited. One on the repeals is by "Institut de l'Entreprise" which seems to be a wealthy people's think tank [1] and the oth
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    by neolog 5y ago

    > However, I don't pretend to be immune to that dark corner of human psychology. I honestly don't think I have that impulse, and I know other people who don't seem to either. It's always disturbing when I see my peers
12. 312.▲
    by neolog 5y ago

    I'm guessing this idea comes from a time when people's main asset was land.
13. 313.▲
    by neolog 5y ago

    So no taxes if you don't own land?
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    by neolog 5y ago

    If you're an expert in X, you're gonna be building several Xs in your career. That's how the economy works. An employer suing you for building another X is ridiculous. If you're not funded for legal defense, your best wa
15. 315.▲
    by neolog 5y ago

    What is a "context"? I don't want to manage a ton of key files on my desktop computer.
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    by neolog 5y ago

    > pretty weird/low class move to build a free clone of the product you just worked on It's extremely common to do that. Where do you think all this industrial open source software comes from? People work on a product, then they
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    by neolog 5y ago

    Mypy shows that error statically.
18. 318.▲
    by neolog 5y ago

    I can't think of any large organizations containing only people who are financially secure, which seems like basically a prerequisite.
19. 319.▲
    by neolog 5y ago

    I can think of a bunch of small organizations. Together that's enough people to fill a large organization. Maybe there are some other properties of large organizations that make it impossible to compose them out of altruistic people.
20. 320.▲
    by neolog 5y ago

    > Are there enough to run a largish organization? Nope. I'm not convinced this is true. I can think of some small organizations full of employees who could make more money elsewhere but who are dedicated to an altruistic cause.
21. 321.▲
    by neolog 5y ago

    Trains and buses are loud too.
22. 322.▲
    by neolog 5y ago

    Yeah that's exactly what I'm saying.
23. 323.▲
    by neolog 5y ago

    So a system that relies on people being altruistic can work fine as long as people feel good about being altruistic?
24. 324.▲
    by neolog 5y ago

    > Julia (along with Elixir) are somewhere in between: All design talk and decision making is public and relatively centralized on GitHub issues. I think this is an idealized description. From the iteration blog post: "While one of m
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    by neolog 5y ago

    > ... practitioners experience in using the language I use and like the language. > For example base functions being untyped is exactly how good Julia library code must look. Julia wants your code to be generic. I don't think the
26. 326.▲
    by neolog 5y ago

    Julia is great for numerical computing, but it's not as good as it can be, even in that area. Widening the community's base of expertise will help. I'll just list a few things that come to mind. Many Base functions are curren
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    by neolog 5y ago

    There are some nice packages, no doubt. How many people with significant prior language design experience are deeply involved in the language design process? what about database dev experience? OS dev? server dev? > I also think it'
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    by neolog 5y ago

    I agree with GP. It's not just about the differing goals of the projects. Julia is developed by numerical computing people. Imho the community really needs help from some PL and systems people.
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    by neolog 5y ago

    Thanks, that makes sense to me. It's hard to find people who are knowledgeable enough about both static and dynamic systems and able to explain in layman's terms. Is there somewhere (online?) I can go to talk with people like you?
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    by neolog 5y ago

    > since the type of a variable can change at runtime. Can you give an example of that? Mypy catches this: def addsome(val: int) -> int: val += 1.1 # tmp.py:2: error: Incompatible types in assignment (expression has type