nikofeyn

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by nikofeyn 10y ago
iOS? what about mac os x? it's completely stagnated if not gotten worse from a usability standpoint.
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by nikofeyn 10y ago
i have seen that presentation, but i am fairly certain i recall from an uncharted 4 chat with a naughty dog developer that they no longer use that system once they moved to the ps4. this is in large part, i believe, due to their being a tec
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by nikofeyn 10y ago
ahh. i know racket was plt scheme originally. but from my understanding, naughty dog was using their own lisp/scheme and now no longer uses that system. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_Oriented_Assembly_Lisp
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by nikofeyn 10y ago
do you have a source for that? it's not that i don't believe you. it's that i am interested. :) i have seen that one powerpoint from a while back where they used their own scheme dialect to script things. but i thought i had
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by nikofeyn 10y ago
the national instruments myRIO board has probably the lowest barrier to entry for FPGA programming and also microcontroller programming since it uses a zynq processor, both of which are programmed with LabVIEW. it also runs a real-time linu
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by nikofeyn 10y ago
racket has some nice gui libraries.
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by nikofeyn 10y ago
freeman dyson has an excellent article entitled "birds and frogs", where he gets at this same idea. as is anything he writes, it's an enjoyable read. http://www.ams.org/notices/200902/rtx090200212p.p
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by nikofeyn 10y ago
it's because this is a continuing trend that seems to be speeding up rather than slowing down. from one OS X version to the next, there continues to be a decline of the user interface and experience, where every new OS X version requir
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by nikofeyn 10y ago
i think it was hemingway who was quoted as saying something like this. and yea, it can be hard to start the next day when you've put a bow on a task and must choose between multiple new paths.
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by nikofeyn 10y ago
exactly. how many cities are forced to close schools on snow days basically just so that school parking lots can host residents' cars while the streets are plowed?
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by nikofeyn 10y ago
"proper cities." lol. okay.
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by nikofeyn 10y ago
somerville was last rated the 16th most densely populated city in the US. i don't know how you can call it "sparse sprawl". have you actually ever been there?
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by nikofeyn 10y ago
so basically because it is the most practical. who would have guessed coming from the russians? )
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by nikofeyn 10y ago
not trying to be dramatic. haha. i am mainly just excited about clojure but this has been a bit of a contentious debate which gives one pause when first getting their feet wet in a new ecosystem.
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by nikofeyn 10y ago
i saw that too. it seems to be a rather childish response. i have recently become very excited about clojure as someone new to it since there are some greatn resources for the language in the form of books (even one on frp), but this ordea
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by nikofeyn 10y ago
i have recently been excited about clojure, but your behavior and responses of other clojure people in this topic has honestly put me off of it. i understand that things are difficult and cljure people apparently work very hard, but the ton
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by nikofeyn 10y ago
you can do such a thing with matlab. many, many of the function calls and algorithms in matlab can be directly viewed. and honestly, it seems like diving into sage may not be as trivial as you make it sound. is it not a massive glue of many
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by nikofeyn 10y ago
just go to the local university library and look at the math section. :P to give a personal anecdote, i often commented with my fellow graduate students that our first two years in graduate school were spent merely getting to the 1950s in t
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by nikofeyn 10y ago
i haven't read the article but you are discussing education as it stands today and not what education should be in the ideal sense. education shouldn't be about the bullshit standardization and paper seeking that it has become. in
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by nikofeyn 11y ago
i am very good at what i do but when software engineers try to act like they know how to hire people, you have problems. i have been interviewed by a company that prided themselves on hiring smart, diverse people who weren't necessaril
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by nikofeyn 11y ago
i honestly don't understand how people afford it. i just joined okcupid, and you would think it was a dating site hosted by the travel channel.
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by nikofeyn 11y ago
that doesn't make too much sense because many, many universities already hold site licenses for mathematica where it is either free or very cheap.
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by nikofeyn 11y ago
you are describing a very limited view of what it means to do mathematics. and no, all of mathematics is not open source. much of it is locked behind institutional barriers. also, i don't understand this fervent attitude that something
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by nikofeyn 11y ago
you should read the book disciplined minds. do you have any experience with academia? it is very much not free in spirit. even getting a ph.d. these days requires more exercise in tedium and logistics than creative thought.
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by nikofeyn 11y ago
i am in the US but have looked abroad for a ph.d. program. there's one in germany that is in english. it is meant to attract students across the world and not just the US. US students are actually rare in the program. but back to my or