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by newen 9y ago
It's not too different from the publish or perish culture in US academia, only with a solid cash reward for publishing in peer reviewed journals. I mean professors here are filtered for number of articles here too. Considering the amou
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by newen 9y ago
Wechat had audio messages way before whatsapp. And the animated emojis way before facebook. Both used to be the shit when I was using wechat a couple of years ago. Also you can use wechat to as essentially a credit card. It's like a bl
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by newen 9y ago
You mean R's data.table and ggplot ;)
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by newen 9y ago
Actually they weren't even demonstrating. It was a gathering of people from inside and outside Amritsar, who came there for a festival. The order against gatherings of more than 4 people weren't distributed well, and so most of th
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by newen 9y ago
I don't think you've worked a lot with numpy. Matrix indexing is a nightmare in numpy and the documentation for just it is 3 pages long.
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by newen 9y ago
Flag is a pretty obscure term that you learn from using the linux command line. Booleans are in math and engineering. Flag is not clear at all and using it instead of boolean, especially when you don't even use the term boolean directl
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by newen 9y ago
I find that the amount of bugs I tend to get when I copy-paste code far outweighs any potential aesthetic pleasure I get from seeing no begin-end block identifiers. Also, I don't want to let python have credit for not having those bloc
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by newen 9y ago
Add in ducks and geese and a whole slew of other animals and I end up wondering if I'm programming in a zoo with ruby lol.
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by newen 9y ago
I think he means those intro to ruby tutorials where they make ruby (and programming in general) sound all magical, where it's so easy to program and programming is just unicorns and kittens or whatever. It becomes tiring and dumb afte
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by newen 9y ago
Got to agree. I used to google pandas problems for remotely complex stuff because it wasn't really intuitive how to do it in pandas. Now I have a better context for how simple such things can be because of data.table in R.
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by newen 9y ago
Not really. The idea is that they are hiding their profits, and so their profits are not being taxed. But the actual profit (as a percentage of the revenue) that they are hiding is expected to be similar inside and outside of the EU.
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by newen 9y ago
When the owner/stockholder lives in the US and peddle their stuff in France, and don't pay France taxes while using their infrastructure.
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by newen 9y ago
I doubt it. I use only windows but I write my code using emacs and compile my code using mingw. Linux is way too high maintenance for me. I just don't have the time for it.
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by newen 9y ago
Elementary is not GTK though. It uses EFL.
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by newen 9y ago
Well the obvious problem is that you have to test all of the code paths before deciding that your code is type safe. Static types do not have that problem.
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by newen 9y ago
The thing is I can go to Prague and drink great beer for cheap (seriously, it's usually around $2) at restaurants, while the cheap beer you drink in America is just god awful.
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by newen 9y ago
The problem is the cheap bread you find in stores in Europe is miles better than the cheap bread in America.
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by newen 9y ago
Beyond impractical. Besides it taking 10x as long to peer review something, I can't even imagine my advisor willing to do this. Most professors don't even touch code, they leave it to the graduate students. Hell, I know professors
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by newen 9y ago
Just in time compiled. Not really compiled compiled.
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by newen 9y ago
Same story. I use data.table and ggplot2, with a couple of dplyr functions, for pretty much all of my plotting and analysis now.
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by newen 9y ago
By module system, do you mean the ability to do something like "import sys; sys.function(blah)". As in having namespaces? Julia obviously has modules..
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by newen 10y ago
> the same functions that operate on the same data types, only they're scattered everywhere ??? OO is different because you have things like private variables. Meaning that only methods of an object's class can access the varia
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by newen 10y ago
Any slightly complicated indexing of array in numpy is a pain. I've spent hours reading the numpy documentation for indexing. After that project I've completely forgotten how to do indexing in numpy. I expect I'll spend more
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by newen 10y ago
Try Julia. It's fast and it combines a dynamic language and types very nicely.