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by nnq 10y ago
The hyperbole is not my style actually, but I use it when talking about JS because I've came to realize the in the JS community it's the only way to be heard. Generally I see the JS async styles continuum as: (0) callbacks <
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by nnq 10y ago
The huuge difference once you understand its implications is that you can: return function().then(() => ...).then(() => ...) ...and the caller of you function can decide to chain even more stuff after, in the simplest case. M
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by nnq 10y ago
If you're Grandma you don't have /boot on a separate partition, you have all / on a big 120GB at least, so if you run out of space you simply know you've run out of space. Not perfect but not a problem for 90% of pe
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by nnq 10y ago
> because I can easily rearrange / edit things That's the problem for me. I can end up obsesively re-re-...-re-editing a note or checklist, waisting tons of time. To make it worse I can end up with lost time AND lost informa
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by nnq 10y ago
This makes me wonder again: is there any such language but for people wanting an eager (not lazy) Haskell? (and I don't care for it to be JVM. but I do care for it to be be Haskell... OCaml is not Haskell and has too many weird dark
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by nnq 10y ago
It does not. Any kind of software can run on any kind of turing complete hardware. Unless you're one of those believing in the quantum mind theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_mind . Just as a human brain
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by nnq 10y ago
Most humans are pretty bad at at least a few of those things. Also, some are tasks that the human brain is specifically optimized for - human natural language most likely plays well to lots of human-hardware-design-quircks. So using them a
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by nnq 10y ago
> OCaml gives you those I know. And I learned it up to a point... But for me it unfortunately falls into that uncanny valley between truly elegant languages (Haskell, Scheme) and truly practical languages (Python, Ruby, Go). Neither
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by nnq 10y ago
> too few arguments” always an illogical answer If you write math/algo code, yes. Most other types of code benefit a lot from: - variable numbers of arguments - default argument values (to practically make use of the one above) -
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by nnq 10y ago
These 3 are the most well know and well regarded 0-to-hero type intro courses online, and high-school math is sufficient to follow along (but pick only one and go start to finish!): * https://www.udacity.com/course/in
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by nnq 10y ago
> "Social enterpreneurs" will do jack squat You could be right on this. It's probably more about changing politics and rerouting billions and billions, not something doable grass-roots style. But... Most of the clean-power
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by nnq 10y ago
As a non-american I still think that climate change is the wrong problem for the US to focus on, and space exploration and colonization goals are better targets. The US has a huge concentration of wealth and brainpower. Neither of those are
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by nnq 10y ago
Has anyone used both Elixir and Go enough to give a comparison of the feel/productivity for backend web dev? (I know it's apples to oranges... but for some tasks, like backend / high concurency microservices etc., both an app
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by nnq 10y ago
I'm more interested in an up-to-date "webpack for complete newbs with hairy hybrid-modern-legacy projects" resource, that would introduce you to everything from scratch with real examples. Hopefully including more real-world
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by nnq 10y ago
Their kings were. Imho there's a certain minority of people, maybe 0.001%, who are definitely not what I call "makers", with waaaay above average "communication/leadership/manipulation + sword swindling" s
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by nnq 10y ago
Seems like a great functional scripting language with above-retard type system. This is really cool , no sarcasm. Just please don't label it as "educational" or "academic" or industry devs will avoid it out of
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by nnq 10y ago
> a challenging claim to make ...or more like the obvious intuition and wisdom of 99% of working software developers. The intuition is not backed up by any peer-reviewed evidence but by the real world fact that most production code end
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by nnq 10y ago
Nothing rose tinted about it... yeah, the system got from state A to a less bad state B. And millions of people suffered and died in the process. Probably one of the worse and most mentally damaging ways to enact social change. Now you have
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by nnq 10y ago
...configure everything to use vim shortcuts ;) (install a vim-mode plugin for your IDE if you have to)
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by nnq 10y ago
more like Hy is to Python I'd say: http://docs.hylang.org/en/latest/quickstart.html
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by nnq 10y ago
Not an american, but the idea is that passive aggressiveness / mild-sabotage from citizens is just another way of expression, just like voting. And it works for the purpose and/or towards democracy! This is imho the untold tr
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by nnq 10y ago
> these types of courses and projects (non-CRUD, more challenging) will help set you apart from the waves upon waves of Rails/Angular bootcamp grads yes, but the question is more like whether this particular course/nanodegree
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Ask HN: Is Udacity's AI nanodegree worth it?
8 points by nnq 10y ago|6 comments
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by nnq 10y ago
Now I feel tempted to add a comment like "written by an inhabitant of planet Brainfuck, fluent in symbolic poetry, who later became a Javascript developer" to some code I've recently reviewed...
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by nnq 10y ago
The fault is that they're missing the "fuck the process, let's get this done by yesterday morning or we're all gonna die" button. (Of course, the rule for this button when you have is that you can only press it like
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by nnq 10y ago
> all computer languages are somewhat arbitrary No, avoiding unnecessary repetition (god damn DRY at the syntax level) and avoiding visual noise is not arbitrary. It's just good practical taste. I don't live in houses where
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by nnq 10y ago
I randomly browsed and got to some sklearn code snippet. great, then I'll definitely dig deeper into it!
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by nnq 10y ago
Seeing APIs that look like: Chart.Line(data) |> Chart.WithTitle("smth") |> ... ...makes anyone say "yuck" and avoiding F# for any exploratory work. And even after you understand how the pipe operator work
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by nnq 10y ago
Seems like the kind of stuff you get at by combining sklearn's official docs with some material from one of the moocs (like udacity's machine learning class, coursera's etc.) + some wikipedia. This is my default style of lear
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by nnq 10y ago
hmm... thanks for making me take another look around. I'm trying rstudio+python and rodeo tonight to see if I like them better. (Right now I use jupyter for some things, ipython gui for others, and pycharm for "real coding" t

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