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by nnq 9y ago
The percent of English speaking people is probably like 4x in China or Russia vs. France or Spain. And you don't need "speaking fluency", just "advanced reading comprehension skills" to get most advantages... I coul
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by nnq 9y ago
This whole set of measures will probably lead to more and more successful new businesses being started outside USA. ...and most non-American entrepreneurs will breathe relieved, loosing some of the fear that the SV brain-magnet can siphon
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by nnq 9y ago
He added "Little" to Rocket Man... For Pearl Harbour there was no need to insult the Emperor's penis, but nowadays it seems bad for PR not to do it :)
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by nnq 9y ago
I see a big problems with using org-mode format with other editors than emacs, and that's why I use smth like simplified-YAML instead for notes : it doesn't lend itself well to indent-based folding (popular out-of-the-box fea
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by nnq 9y ago
On programming languages: It also doesn't matter whether the language has such a good support for functional programming when you don't care about doing in on the small, inside inner-inner-function level , so `map`, `foldr`,
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by nnq 9y ago
1. "Shallow" OOP - minimal use of inheritance, composition ok but without making a Russian doll with 7+ layers with it. 2. "Grand scale Functional characteristics" - exposed API should try and have "referential tran
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by nnq 9y ago
As a non-american, I'd be 100x times more scared of these giants being owned by the US gov. Actually I'd completely stop using the services of the two of them that I still use. I'll take a nice faceless profit driven shady co
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by nnq 9y ago
The "inferior" way has a clear advantage: discoverability! What if I want to call a method but I totally forgot its name and I'm not not sure how to search for what it does? What if I don't know what I want to do, but
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What. How. Why. Pic two but not the first(medium.com)
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by nnq 9y ago
> Food is simply "too cheap" This is so true in most civilized world. But same is its opposite, paradoxically. Dunno how the whole system of gov subsidies and externalized costs and all work around the world, but meat is s
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by nnq 9y ago
> more importantly for adoption than Python being a general-purpose language is that it is already relatively widely adopted in various industries as a tooling language. For good and bad, universities today are very keen on providing ski
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by nnq 9y ago
That's why I think "they get things backwards" :| ...Python went after Matlab, Octave and R. And for ML/AI is almost completely replaced them. For stats and data-exploration it shares the pie with R because they are so d
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by nnq 9y ago
Julia could have had 10x the adoption if they painted themselves as more of a general purpose language, like "write the web app and your neural networks (GPU accelerable bien sur) in the same language ftw!"... if only they'
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by nnq 9y ago
It's all about the "little things" . It's basically Sublime, except some core features like git integration (brought by gitguttter plugin in sublime), debugger gui, integrated terminals are baked in and "just work
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by nnq 9y ago
What would be the "gold standard" Python plugin for Atom? Looking at https://atom.io/packages/python-tools I see "Show usages: [...] Currently only supports detection of symbols within the same file. Thi
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by nnq 9y ago
> I prefer to have the choice of multiple plugins each with their own tradeoffs Just curios, do you know any languages besides Javascript for which this "freedom of plugins to do anything easily" resulted in any better edit
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by nnq 9y ago
One question bugs me: how the hell did VSCode developers manage to get so incredibly much better performance (both low memory usage and responsiveness), using such a similar technical platform (also Node/js/Electron)?! There a
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by nnq 9y ago
Being electron/browser based is not and excuse for such horrific resource usage ... Visual Studio Code is also electron based and it's extremely lightweight (ram) and responsive on even the most underpowered machines I've ra
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by nnq 9y ago
> being a polymath could be "democratized" I'd see the optimum as the opposite type of "democratization": replacing most narrow experts with smarter and smarter AI/ML systems (that will sooner or later surpa
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by nnq 9y ago
> the Unix design philosophy isn't just for software I have mixed feeling about the "Unix design philosophy" in software. And I'll sure as hell fight to not let it invade other aspects of life! I happen to like &quo
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by nnq 9y ago
> just for the sake of jobs It's not fun trying to sell stuff to people without good stable jobs (or even worse, without any jobs), trust me. And if you can't sell it you're not gonna do it at all, unless you can start
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by nnq 9y ago
> if your industry is not dying because someone invented a better and cheaper way to meet demands, but because there is no longer as much demand (if at all!), then, sorry, no, you do not deserve to be saved, or bailed out even ...wait,
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by nnq 9y ago
My chemistry is very rusty but, there seems to be a short road from polyphenols to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs - the stuff you might use in a laboratory to produce cancers (!!!) in order to study them)... or am I wrong? I
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by nnq 9y ago
Calling C++ programs "cancerous abstractions" is simply funny. I'm sure even C++ programmers agree :) It's NOT "why Lisp environments don't take off". That guy's face on the screen is creeeepy af th
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by nnq 9y ago
> any reasonable definition of free speech (i.e. limited) First, "limited free speech" is not "free speech" anymore. Second, you're just not going to be able to "define" things anymore as you automate a
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by nnq 9y ago
Maybe people should get their shit together and realize that true free speech include allowing videos that seek to recruit people into despicable organizations be available! Yeah, even Hitler had a right to say what he thought and i
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by nnq 9y ago
The way these two faces of the same company use same logo with different colors is so funny...
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by nnq 9y ago
It's good for driving the point that usually you want lots of small nukes , not a few big ones for maximum damage. Oh, and yeah, there's also the "surface detonation for maximum mayhem" lesson to be learned. Highl
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by nnq 9y ago
I get it, despite having a small issue with "forever" being defined as "just 2 more loc", but I just: (1) feel more drawn to "Flat is better than nested." from "Zen of Python" to dislike the extra sco
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by nnq 9y ago
Hmm. Can't argue against this. I agree, this is a legitimate case. Probably I'm a bit too stuck on "the python way" on this clash-of-cultures to see such cases that are clearly part of "the lisp way"...

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