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by peatmoss 8y ago
I think most beginners learn languages to solve some particular thing. Python has a lot of great libraries and tutorials for learning. It doesn’t matter if Python has a lot of idiosyncrasies—new Pythonistas are copy/pasting and mad-lib
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by peatmoss 8y ago
Arguably the lisp family contains the “huggiest” use of characters, but something like Paredit turns those parentheses into something of a turbo-charged way of handling code forms. But it leads to another problem: hatred of typing commas in
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by peatmoss 8y ago
Absolutely climate change is wicked, but perhaps in superlatively vicious and subtle ways. I mean, it’s not technically hard to stop puttng carbon in the atmosphere, but it is technically hard to do stop putting carbon in the atmosphere and
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by peatmoss 8y ago
When I was in my urban planning masters program they suggested a typology of problems as sort of a 2x2 matrix, or a cartesian plane. On one margin you can classify problems according to how well the mechanisms for addressing the problem are
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by peatmoss 8y ago
Simple cross-platform GUIs are pretty easy in Racket, and there’s even a wealth of beginner-focussed teaching materials / documentation for Racket. Less tutorial material for GUI apps specifically, which should probably be remedied. St
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by peatmoss 8y ago
The brilliance of RDBMSs is the relational algebra. But, I agree SQL can sometimes feel a little verbose / obtuse. I’ve had learning datalog on my todo list for a long time. I’d love to see some other DSls for the relational algebra as
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by peatmoss 8y ago
> Aren't roads funded from gas tax? No. Not much at all. Highways, once upon a time, mostly. Local roads not really ever. https://frontiergroup.org/reports/fg/do-roads-pay-themselves
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by peatmoss 8y ago
Services are complicated, and I expect that encryption is used for a variety of purposes throughout. If a company is based in a jurisdiction that weakens the ability of service providers to use encryption for a wide variety of purposes, I’d
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by peatmoss 8y ago
It really bums me out, but I think I’m going to have to abandon Fastmail on principle. Hopefully this law will be repealed quickly before the damage to Australian software companies is too great.
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by peatmoss 8y ago
It seems like bypassing the APIs which might screw up the audio with downsampling, and something like this is what the OP needed: https://www.audioquest.com/dacs/dragonfly/dragonfly-black Edit: would work out of t
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by peatmoss 8y ago
Pardon for asking, but if you’re doing TKD sparring, my hunch is that you’re otherwise pretty fit? I do a lot of aikido as my primary source of cardio exercise, and my resting heart (Apple Watch 3, now thinking about the 4) is quite low (lo
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by peatmoss 8y ago
On the other hand, maybe we’d all have physical keyboards now instead of poking at glass...
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by peatmoss 8y ago
Oh my goodness, just think of the eulogizing of NeXT that we’d be doing here on Hacker News. But who knows, maybe in that alternate timeline Sun succeeds in making a Solaris for the masses, and Linux becomes an obscure footnote. Some flavor
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by peatmoss 8y ago
That’s a fair criticism of the parent comment. Espresso != brewed coffee. But the author does quote the article stating that the Aeropress makes a better tasting (to some) drink than the expensive (presumably espresso) machines. When I boug
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by peatmoss 8y ago
If you enjoy the process of the Aeropress, you might try one of those manual lever espresso machines. I have a La Pavoni Europiccola, which can be had relatively cheaply used. Ultimately I went with the manual lever because I got tired of t
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by peatmoss 8y ago
Ditto, except I’ve mostly stopped using Lyft in favor of ReachNow Ride which is driven by employees (i.e. not contractors) who show up in a BMW and generally drive like their income is decoupled from working long hours and the need to turn
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by peatmoss 8y ago
Isn’t most of the size in a modern game artistic assests like textures, dialog, etc.? That said, I don’t understand how bug fixes can be so big, because presumably the aforementioned art files would change substantially in the case of softw
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by peatmoss 8y ago
Early Linux distros downloaded via 14.4kbps modem for me. I... don’t even remember how many floppies that took. Lots as I recall.
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by peatmoss 8y ago
The years I spent in New Zealand painted a vivid picture of a society of doers. I think there’s something to the idea that this comes in part from being a landmass the size of Colorado, with not much more than 4 million people, with the fre
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by peatmoss 8y ago
Have you seen this package yet? http://alex-hhh.github.io/2018/08/racket-data-frame-package.... I think it could be the starting point for some data science work in Racket.
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by peatmoss 8y ago
You’re preaching to the choir here. I’d love to see a data science community around Racket in particular. In fact, you can do quite a lot in Racket today, just with not nearly the libraries and tooling as Python or R. But as a consolation p
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by peatmoss 8y ago
At my last job (company that builds data portals) I put together a basic site-to-Gopher gateway, so that people could explore data portals in glorious ASCII. I didn’t get all the functionality I wanted built in the time allotted (some of th
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by peatmoss 8y ago
Currently, this comment is heavily downvoted, which I do not understand. If Julia warrants mentioning as having a lispy core, then it’s at least as valid to point out R’s deeply lisp-inspired (and technical implementation based) heritage. I
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by peatmoss 8y ago
It’s much closer than people think. R originally built on a Scheme runtime, and the DNA of Scheme is still lurking pretty close to the surface. The meta programming facilities in R still look very lispy, and are used to good effect througho
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by peatmoss 8y ago
I can’t decide whether the old motif widgets are ugly as sin or not. But for whatever reason, I find the screenshot of that file manager to be salve for my soul. Probably just nostalgia. I must say though that I’m just as glad Motif has mos
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by peatmoss 8y ago
It’s in the OpenBSD distribution, which presumably means it undergoes the same code auditing that the rest of OpenBSD does.
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I let OpenBSD’s level of support be my litmus test. If everything on the board works out of the box with OpenBSD, it probably acheived a high degree of openness.
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by peatmoss 8y ago
The Tidyverse is more coherent and is generally bigger than what’s just in Pandas (R’s Tidyverse; I haven’t used the Python port). If you already have a good grasp of Python, sure why not learn Pandas too? In my case, I’m reasonably ambidex
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by peatmoss 8y ago
R notebooks behave similarly to org-mode, albeit with fewer supported languages and a few less options for controlling execution and value passing between code blocks. Org-mode is the oldest and most powerful environment of this sort that I
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by peatmoss 8y ago
I think if something like XFCE were to implement xmonad / dwm style tiling, that would be about perfect. I like some of the creature comforts of a desktop environment, but I prefer them to heavy on supporting features, and light on in-

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