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by nnq 10y ago
> code-execute-fix workflow Do you know of a better tool for such a flow, combined with the ability to have markdown+latex docs intermingled with the code? 'cause this is my workflow, but jupyter's code editor and kernell resta
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EXACTLY! "Material design" is very much opposed to how "real-world material interfaces" would look like in anything above the basics. Think about fucking ripple & light efects, but on otherwise solid-looking and matt
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It's not engineering problems . It's assumptions about how humans will behave! Maybe the region where solar needs can be scaled is not in your country. Maybe you're at war with that country. Or maybe the company producin
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NO... humanity should explore fusion because we might desperately need it to survive . To what amount can you scale up solar in a particular region?! Yeah, I know, we're into low-power everything nowadays... but let's say that
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To be honest I learned from K&R but I guess it's too outdated and not really about "modern C". But of those resources one of them seemed quite fun and probably harmless ([0]) and the other one ([1]) pretty practical and &
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Care to be more specific about what you mean? What would be your preferred way of learning C? Really, how can you get proficient at programming C without spending countless hours debugging segfaults and memory leaks?!
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> commodity crops that require [...] government subsidies in order to be profitably cultivated Wait, what?! Why would governments need to subsidize such crops? Can't the price be left to increase a bit, and have the market sort this
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From people on the other side: sometimes I'm like "ugh, even drinking smth seems too much distraction, don't wanna loose this focus now, an IV-cathether port that could just pump the right stuff into my veins, triggered aut
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Your QA engineer could use a framework like CodeceptJS ( http://codecept.io/ ) and get back the "sync behavior", mostly. If the app you're testing is messy, some of the test code will have to be injected into t
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I find it odd that nobody sees the elephant in the room: productivity is determined by the "fit" between a developer's or team's mindset and the language! None of them matter in isolation. If you have a team of people
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maybe you're on a test server (no GUI) and for whatever reason you also don't want to remote debug with node-inspector, you want it all quick and dirty via ssh ;) Python's "baked in" command line debugger that you g
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My theory is that we can have several conscious thoughts at once but most of us suppress this most of the time because without a clear "winner thought" that gets the attention and gets to decide what reality is and gets to contr
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1. Learn an "easy" general purpose scripting language ( JavaScript because you can just type F12 in your browser now and start writing code, or Python if you want something just as simple but more "logical" and &quo
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Man, you're so right and so wrong at the same time! So spot on about railways example: the real problem to solve is transportation, not railways, and a different form of transport could replace railroads. So spot off about educat
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Q: How do you get people to use your product when you suck at networking? A: Ask this question on HN mentioning your product! Damn... you're good!
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Imperative code benefits a lot in readability and maintainability if it follows some kind of CQS pattern ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command%E2%80%93query_separati... , http://martinfowler.com/bliki
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That shouldn't need a higher-kinded type though. With macros you can just write generic code that operates on futures or regular values.
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> If Mozilla wants to lower their engineering costs, wouldn't it make sense to start cutting back on projects like Rust? Do you really think that the people working on Rust would just drop it and work on something else instead? More
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> small scale Russian aggression Let's hope they keep it small and don't try to covertly start a big fire that will drive oil prices back up. It's scary to see a world economic situation where starting/fueling wars st
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John X is assigned to project Y with team A but find it very boring for him. So he overengineers in a way so that it only works by solving a very complicated engineering problem that he wants to solve instead (think "developing your ow
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I imagine you've never been the one hiring or interviewing developers, have you? There is an amazing bit though: there are the ones that you classify as "surely worthless", but then you see they can indeed get some jobs done
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"Enterprise" uses nodejs just fine... probably this is what gave IBM the idea to even try :)
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So... what's the "elevator pitch" for Swift? It has anything interesting over Elixir or Go (well, go's feature is "lack of feature" but you know what I mean) or Scala or Kotlin? I know that iOS and MacOS desp
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> I know you can change window managers but thats technical and dense. It would be nice to have a way for designers and front end devs to mess with the UX. Not really, you're a few clicks a way from installing KDE, Gnome or XFCE on
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You don't want a paid Linux . You want a paid Linux desktop-system - aka a "desktop environment software package" which support running on top of 3 most popular Linux server distros: RHEL, Ubuntu Server, Debian. The only
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A self-washing brush with a paint-injection system coupled to a digital paints mixer? Add a system to only harden the paint when a special wavelength UV light is shined on it (maybe include the "hardening lamp" in brush's he
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> There are many examples of complex professional systems that prove a decent UX is still possible ...and Adobe PS is not one of them! People tolerate its UX/I because the functionality is unequaled and, after you commit to vi
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Sincere question: HOW? I mean, even if we assume a socialist economy is terribly inefficient, like operating at 50% of the efficiency a capitalist one, it still should be enough for sustaining a resource-rich country. WTF they are doing so
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> you need to think of your variables as mutable containers rather than simple values uhm, no. you think of variables like labels that happen to be attached to a value. and since they are variable (like in "they vary"). just
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> With regards to the article's example, refactoring your code for unit tests is making life easier for the computer, not humans. And maybe that's why Bill is annoyed, being human and all. Maybe the tradeoff is actually between

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