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721.
by newen 8y ago
India has a huge instinctive reaction against population control strategies, especially ones funded by the West. They tried your idea in the 1970s and it lead to lots of forced sterilizations by the government/police. See https:/
722.
by newen 8y ago
Yeah that's a great truism but using that as an argument against a feature doesn't help your case.
723.
by newen 8y ago
Now SD cards are a security vulnerability? You sound ridiculous.
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by newen 8y ago
Also most people, especially in the cities, who are middle-middle class or richer tend to send their kids to primary and secondary schools taught in english.
725.
by newen 8y ago
Same here. The academic freedom that I had during my PhD combined with the intellectually stimulating environment, I cannot find anywhere else. Also most of my current close friends I made during my PhD.
726.
by newen 8y ago
Erlang with Ruby-like syntax plus macros..something like that. It compiles to the same VM as Erlang's and has almost all of the same semantics as Erlang.
727.
by newen 8y ago
Metaprogramming is just macros: code that generates code. One use is to get rid of repetitive code patterns. Another is to move certain computations to compile time. Your statement that metaprogramming is used to solve a metaproblem is just
728.
by newen 8y ago
Check out Elixir. It's Erlang with metaprogramming.
729.
by newen 8y ago
Because PSF says they will support Python? What happens when there is a bug? You fork Python? PSF gets 3 million in revenue per year. Where do you think the money goes? Python is not a hobby project.
730.
by newen 8y ago
I'm talking about social responsibilities. Not about legal liabilities. If there is not implied social responsibility that PSF keeps python running, then no one will be using it.
731.
by newen 8y ago
This idea that are large and influential project like Python is just the same as a hobby project I put on github and do in my spare time is ridculous. I am pretty sure most of the core contributors of Python are doing it as part of their 9-
732.
by newen 8y ago
You should read "A Deepness in the Sky" by Vernor Vinge. It's sci-fi and contains lots of misuses of technologies. When I see something like what you wrote, it reminds me of this novel. Really, just read more sci-fi and you w
733.
by newen 8y ago
What. U.S. life expectancy from birth is around 78.
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by newen 8y ago
You profit? That's what every other company that sells software does.
735.
by newen 8y ago
In the majority of cases, they are getting paid to code it (by some company, organization, etc). And they benefit from the popularity of the the software. So I don't think I need to see myself as a charity case or adopt a please please
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by newen 8y ago
Wait..so, a federal employee, if they are not a law enforcement official, can punch you as part of their job and not get into legal trouble?
737.
by newen 8y ago
Regarding the short variables names, I actually like it a lot. It's nice because you don't have to read as much. Once you are familiar enough with the abbreviations, it becomes much easier to read. Just from looking at this code,
738.
by newen 8y ago
Yes I get your viewpoint about long term stability guarantees and feel it's valid to a certain degree. But I waiting for so many years for Julia 1.0 while expecting the entire language (base + stdlib) to have API stability for at least
739.
by newen 8y ago
Wouldn't hold my breath even then. They decided to split a lot of functionality in Julia into a standard library, which they will keep changing indefinitely. There goes my hope of Julia having any API stability.
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by newen 8y ago
I don't know if a personal echo chamber is such a bad thing in a pseudo-anonymous internet community. Look at what happened to 4chan and voat, where a bunch a racists decided to take over those sites and it was relatively easy for them
741.
by newen 8y ago
Well...imagine dropping a cannonball and a feather from the top of a tower. Obviously the cannonball is going to hit the ground first. You can then extrapolate this result to heavier objects and conclude that heavier objects fall faster. To
742.
by newen 8y ago
I agree with you. Most discussions I see on reddit are dumb. Maybe it's because it's popularity means more uneducated people are going to the site, resulting in lower quality of discussion. Also anonymity means people aren't
743.
by newen 8y ago
>The purpose of life is to enjoy your time alive in this world. You don't get to decide what the purpose of life is. And wanting to leave your mark on the world is just as validation a purpose of life. >The way to be remembered i
744.
by newen 8y ago
Yes? Isn't making a dent in the universe what everyone is trying to do? What else is there in life? Just surviving until you die?
745.
by newen 8y ago
Right but the thing is, people should be complaining about equations lacking explanations. Not about math notation in general.
746.
by newen 8y ago
But the fact is that math notation is the most widely known notation for writing down equations (let's make things specific to the OP case and say summation equations and partial derivative equations). Specifically for the superscript
747.
by newen 8y ago
Kind of tired of people in the programming community proudly complaining about not knowing simple math notation. Educate yourself. Everyone else in the engineering world knows these basic math notations.
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by newen 8y ago
Data flowing down seems upside down to me. Don't know why; maybe I just got used to it.
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by newen 8y ago
Yeah their branding of Watson is pretty bad since no one knows what Watson is anymore. It used to be the thing that played Jeopardy. Ok fine, we can generalize that to Watson being an NLP driven infromation retrieval system. But then I got
750.
by newen 8y ago
It's actually pretty common in all kinds of fields to see others reproduce things that they have known for decades. A fun (and infamous) example is this paper ( http://care.diabetesjournals.org/content/17/2&#x2

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