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by psv1 7y ago
> But in a language with brackets, the compiler can at least determine scope even when things are poorly-indented. Yes, but can it determine scope if things are poorly-bracketed? Because that's the fair comparison.
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by psv1 7y ago
> very difficult for python to realize when a line is indented incorrectly. It just assumes that if a line is indented a certain way, it was intentional. How is this different from some language not realising that a statement should be i
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by psv1 7y ago
So this just links to someone's opinion on Python 2 vs 3 instead of an actual discussion on the drawbacks of Python, right?
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by psv1 7y ago
None - all of my everyday clothes are the same.
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by psv1 7y ago
I would be interested to find out more about this too simply because MOOCs tend to attract people who are looking for hyped-up topics and taking shortcuts in a more general sense, while this topic is the opposite in many ways.
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by psv1 7y ago
I haven't done any physics past high school but isn't dark energy basically "Our equations don't work out, let's give our error term a name and act like it's all good"? I'm sure this is oversimplified
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by psv1 7y ago
Yes. You don't need groundbreaking never-seen-before tech for this. Scale is revolutionizing.
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by psv1 7y ago
Not necessarily "AI" but if Pearson and SVMs make the list, these two seem to fit as well: Rob Tibshirani - Regression Shrinkage and Selection via the Lasso Leo Breiman - Random Forests
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by psv1 7y ago
Yes. Every time you take the low road, that part of you wins and gets a little stronger (even neurologically speaking). The reverse is true as well.
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by psv1 7y ago
I didn't find it useful at all. Not that it was bad - it's just that there was barely anything new for me and the content lacked depth. It all felt like obvious stuff. It seems to get a lot of praise though so clearly some people
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by psv1 7y ago
> Low-code/no-code tools seem to be taking off. Do they? I genuinely don't know. Any examples?
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by psv1 7y ago
Not a TypeScript user, but what really stood out to me is that Google are using a monorepo.
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by psv1 7y ago
Doesn't any data frame interface in Python/R/Julia fit the description? (pandas, data.frame, data.table, dplyr etc.)
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by psv1 7y ago
I mean it's right there in the title :)
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by psv1 7y ago
This is one of those things that has been mentioned, used and worn out so much that you feel much cooler when you don't acknowledge it.
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by psv1 7y ago
Are any of the iCloud web apps viable at all? Each time I've tried using them the performance has been terribly slow.
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by psv1 7y ago
Can anyone offer a good guide to DevOps for people who don't directly use these tools but work with engineers who do and would like to learn more? The whole ecosystem of servers, cloud infrastructure (and all of the different offerings
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by psv1 7y ago
I'm just waiting for the new version of Reminders in iOS 13 which will largely kill the need for tools like Todoist/Wunderlist/Things.
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by psv1 7y ago
I like Julia as a language but the speed argument doesn't really apply vs Python. Yes, benchmarks against pure Python implementations look good but in reality no one uses naive pure-python implementations. Python (with all the bells an
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by psv1 7y ago
> We don't use Javascript much Not even Leaflet? I've been using its R interface and I think it's fairly easy to pick up.
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by psv1 7y ago
No chance this will happen.
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by psv1 7y ago
Wouldn't this be so dependent on the feature, product, team and company that any answer would be useless because it's too specific? Or am I missing something?
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by psv1 7y ago
Unfortunate accidents aside, there is also the constant battle with RSI. I'm still in my 20s and already I have to make sure that I stretch my wrists, switch between left- and right-hand mouse use, take frequent breaks and so on.
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by psv1 7y ago
Yep, pipes in R are great for interactive use & EDA. (Not necessarily for production code.)
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by psv1 7y ago
Not sure how it's a strawman, but let's address his statement directly. Do you agree with him that Python 3 strings are difficult for experienced programmers? Apparently they are difficult for Zed Shaw as I quoted above. And also
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by psv1 7y ago
The book has multiple chapters on printing (!?) and the style of writing is incredibly condescending. It's one of the worst Python books I've come across. A sample of his idiocy - https://learnpythonthehardway.org/
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by psv1 7y ago
Zed Python3-strings-are-too-difficult-for-me Shaw? I wouldn't bother with anything he's ever said or written.
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by psv1 7y ago
The whole article is absolute nonsense. > Asked why the UK should take the lead when China's emissions are so high, he answered that the Chinese government was very worried about the climate and was taking it very seriously.
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by psv1 7y ago
It's not something that I even considered when I got my current position and now I'm trying to figure things out.
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Ask HN: How do you handle being an engineer with a non-technical manager?
3 points by psv1 7y ago|4 comments

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