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by papaf 8y ago
people who are more motivated and knowledgeable (depends) will be the ones contributing I have contributed to projects where I am neither motivated or knowledgeable.Sometimes its enough to be annoyed by a bug or confusing behaviour.
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by papaf 8y ago
I’m forced to use abt and I don’t like it. You don't have to use SBT. Maven works fine with Scala and is quite mainstream.
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by papaf 8y ago
Isn't Shapeless based in macros? That said, an equivalent library in Rust would be very useful.
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by papaf 8y ago
But I don’t really understand why you would need such a convoluted system to get/mutate some values in a data structure in Scala. It allows you to work with deep data structures in a safe immutable way. Scala is a nice language for w
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by papaf 8y ago
I recommend the probability chapters of 'Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms' [1]. I think this book is good because it starts off with balls in hats and goes on all the way to a Bayesian simulation of a Neuron
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by papaf 8y ago
As someone who enjoys programming in both Go and Rust I find this sort of fanatical comment distressing. Go makes different tradeoffs. Get over it. Nobody has written anything as important as Kubernetes in Rust yet. I hope that someday some
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by papaf 8y ago
The arrogance here is hilarious. I've been working in open source for years and I've never, ever heard of OSI. I agree with this statement but not in the way that you meant it.
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by papaf 8y ago
Www? How is this model sustainable? Do I have any incentive to setup a webserver?
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by papaf 8y ago
This should be the top rated comment. I wish people would put the pitchforks away, and acknowledge the challenges of funding a successful Open Source project.
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by papaf 8y ago
But you can hope right? Or are you happy with your communication, content, attention and ideas controlled for profit?
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by papaf 8y ago
I remember when the www was the same and the CompuServe users said the same thing. Mastodon has a similar feel in that the content is amateurish and free. As an anecdote, I use chaos.social and they are throttling signups because there are
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by papaf 8y ago
It's the system as it was designed to be. I am surprised that you haven't heard about the prison loophole before. It even gets a powerful scene in the film 'Gone with the Wind'.
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by papaf 8y ago
If Servo has a script crate does this mean that rust programs have the option of having an embedded JavaScript interpreter?
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by papaf 8y ago
The stereotype, based entirely on truth, is that they are cranky and hard to work with. That's kind of full on ageism don't you think? I am an older developer and I am easier going than some younger members of my team who are ve
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by papaf 8y ago
I switched from Windows to Linux on my work Dell and battery life is the same. I go to standby on lid closed and shutdown at the end of the day. Bootup to login takes 20 seconds so I don't bother with hibernate.
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by papaf 8y ago
It works as a reference, just today I found out that the devops darling of anomoly detection [1] is in volume two [2]. [1] https://www.slideshare.net/tboubez/5-things-i-learned-toufic... [2] https://en.wikip
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by papaf 8y ago
I hate meta programming. We have composition, why do you need to mess with the nature of things? Maybe you just hate bad metaprogramming? In theory metaprogramming makes a language more powerful, leads to less boilerplate code, and can de
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by papaf 8y ago
Climate is more complex than cooling or warming over a two year timeframe. There is a superposition of many oscillations [1] and these have to be separated and removed before finding a trend [2]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2F
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by papaf 9y ago
It sounds like the next step, but even if weather were reducible to machine-discoverable patterns, you first must face the need to collect an immense amount of high-resolution condition data from around the globe on an ongoing basis. Ther
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by papaf 9y ago
In recent weeks the Guardian has been running a series of articles about privacy online. The articles have been good and rare in that they included original journalism. I think that calling the newspaper out for the number of trackers is fa
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by papaf 9y ago
Researchers tend to call them Reference Counted Garbage Collectors. Here is a random example that actually recommends the opposite (RC in old generations, mark and sweep in the young generation): https://link.springer.com/ch
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by papaf 9y ago
The QT licencing is confusing because different components have different licences. However Qt is used successfully in commercial projects by sticking to the LGPL licenced components: https://www1.qt.io/licensing-comparison&
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by papaf 9y ago
No its nothing like a minor language change. This actually happened to me and my Javascript UI experience (Jquery) is obsolete in the world of React and Angular or whatever the flavour of the month is.
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by papaf 9y ago
creating complex UIs using things like WinForms, QT, GTK, Cocoa, etc SUCKS I think that this depends on your background. Personally, I would rather do a UI in QT than Javascript. I like that Qt supports high level components such as trees
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by papaf 9y ago
There aught to be a name .. I think that "vendor lock-in" comes close to describing the situation. However, it does not describe the way the dependence changes the behaviour of the people locked in. I think that "addiction&
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by papaf 9y ago
Although it probably does not fit your use case something like Common Lisp would shine in a situation like this. You can build your code at runtime from the spec and then compile it at runtime to get pretty good performance.
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by papaf 9y ago
The documentation that you linked to is not describing native OS threads. I am sure that the OCaml implementation is good for a lot of applications. However, because I am used to writing multithreaded code using pthread or std::thread, I f
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by papaf 9y ago
I did not know about places, but after reading about them [1], I can see that although they are implemented on top of OS threads, it is not a conventional threading model. For instance there is an instance of the Racket VM per place and thi
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by papaf 9y ago
I used OCaml a few years ago and I thought it was an excellent language. Despite being powerful it was really easy to learn. One thing that put me off in the end was that it didn't support native OS threads (I have the same problem wit
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by papaf 9y ago
pls provide a decent async io / http library before we even get started what else can be done in Rust I have found Rust library coverage to be really good for my requirements. Hyper ( https://hyper.rs/guides/clien

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