pletnes

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by pletnes 9y ago
Tried conda or pipenv?
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by pletnes 9y ago
Pycharm and visual studio have free editions. Vim, emacs, Atom, VS Code, sublime - there are many options.
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by pletnes 9y ago
Libraries. And to build them you need certain language features. 2 big ones: complex numbers and operator overloading. The lack of these meant that everyone doing simulation and data analysis skipped Java altogether.
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by pletnes 9y ago
Tried docker? It seems VMs are faster than the native OS in the MS case. Should have most of your needs as prepackaged images.
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by pletnes 9y ago
Regular python/C++ API is threaded (to some extent). Parts of the C++ API is GPU enabled. Simd - pretty sure, the library originated at Intel, after all.
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by pletnes 9y ago
Why not really? From the sqlite docs: Beginning with version 3.7.17 (2013-05-20), SQLite has the option of accessing disk content directly using memory-mapped I/O and the new xFetch() and xUnfetch() methods on sqlite3_io_methods.
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by pletnes 9y ago
Yes, including nmake (windows-compatible).
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by pletnes 9y ago
The CLI/curses option "tig" can be handy once a year or so.
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by pletnes 9y ago
When git garbage collection runs, I do believe it collects dangling commits. Doing a "git branch backup" before doing something stupid gives you a more convenient "undo". Alternatively, just git clone to a new directory
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by pletnes 9y ago
We've tried using it, as have other peopke I know. There are serious limitations to it. In practice I'd call it vapourware. Sharelatex delivers. In a SW dev team, markdown/latex+git also works great.
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by pletnes 9y ago
Happy sharelatex user here. I'd say one of the essential advantages is rock solid simultaneous editing. I converted a couple of word users and they were instantly hooked. On a tight deadline, no less! Saved our ass in the end - the slo
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by pletnes 9y ago
Fortran is forever.
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by pletnes 9y ago
Just a few gig in a directory at work. Gave up syncing it after spending several days alternating between crashing, eating 100% CPU, and popping up error messages. Yes 1 TB is nice but you can't get to it!
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by pletnes 9y ago
Dropbox + Libreoffice is similar, yes. Also dropbox is way faster, runs on linux, and easy to script against. Oh, and onedrive consistently crashes on my win 10. But yeah, feature-list-wise, onedrive isn't bad if you're a MS fanbo
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by pletnes 9y ago
Cool post! But I run ipython / jupyter console locally for such use cases. It's nicer than plain python IMHO. Tab completion, coloring etc.
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by pletnes 9y ago
Did you mean this? http://gizmodo.com/264050/slurpr-wi-fi-box-sucks-up-six-sign...
947.
by pletnes 9y ago
You need to give ipython a go.
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by pletnes 9y ago
Automated file conversion, e.g odf to pdf, comes to mind.
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by pletnes 9y ago
Depends what you're doing I'd say. In physics based modeling, which is used more in e.g. engineering, line plots are often very useful. When examining noisy real world data, not so much.
950.
by pletnes 9y ago
Sharelatex has vim bindings that are quite good.
951.
by pletnes 9y ago
There's a significant point a lot of people are missing. In e.g. physics and chemistry, the math is not the point. Using e.g. Wolfram Alpha is great if it allows students to solve larger and more complex problems, without sitting there
952.
by pletnes 9y ago
Would be more important if the pound had an independent definition - suddenly, a lot of international trade and unit conversion apps are affected.
953.
by pletnes 9y ago
8 and 9 would be "faster" and linux support. Not insignificant for me, at least.
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by pletnes 9y ago
Personally, I have bad experience with tabs. Experience and salary are correlated. Also some languages are "tab friendly" and there are correlations between language and salary; see previous HN posts on the topic.
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by pletnes 9y ago
While "GHC is faster than CPython" is a fairly accurate generalization, I still think python performance is easier to reason about. Haskell can give you fast code, but sometimes it will be super slow for no obvious reason.
956.
by pletnes 9y ago
Disagree. A REPL does not make for a log of what you did - which is a big deal if you're revisiting/-running data analysis workflows you haven't touched in a long time.
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by pletnes 9y ago
Git bash comes with ssh. Cygwin has ssh as an optional install. Msys2 too. Of course, you need to have windows first. MS give away 30-day win 10 trial VM images with git bash installed, or at least they did.
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by pletnes 9y ago
I've heard a horror story of someone doing signal processing in node.js. It'd be nice to use a well tested Fortran FFT routine - there aren't many .js libs for doing numerics AFAIK (disclaimer: not a js programmer)