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Parallel Python, even with a GIL(infoq.com)
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by pwang 12y ago
There is work underway to bridge this gap. The fundamental bet by my company is actually basically the same one that Julia makes: higher level languages combined with dynamic compilation are the only route to performance in our modern worl
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by pwang 12y ago
This is an interesting exercise, but most of the suggestions on the page are just cosmetic, and do not address the fundamental challenge of C++ - perhaps the biggest divergence between Python and C++: A core design principle of C++ is that
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by pwang 12y ago
So was this just a commissioned piece on Julia? Julia is a very interesting new development, and has a very sharp dev community - but I find it laughable that any article about de-throning FORTRAN barely even makes a passing reference to P
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by pwang 12y ago
<steals Rob's font...>
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by pwang 12y ago
I find the new Maps to be so unusably slow, laggy, finnicky, and overall not an improvement over what Google Maps had been for the 4 years before. And I can't figure out how to show traffic WHILE displaying directions or a location tha
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by pwang 13y ago
We didn't. Anaconda is a distribution of Python for big data (big + python). It is very popular in the scientific and data science ecosystems around Python. The "people" include myself and my co-founder, the author of Numpy
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by pwang 13y ago
I disagree. These are complex to make robust, but they are not hard concepts. I think everyone should write their own GC, write a filesystem, and handle their own memory layer, at least once. Treating lower levels of the stack as "t
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by pwang 13y ago
Actually, Bokeh plots are not (yet) integrated with the widget infrastructure at all, and work in IPython 1.x. There is a fully embeddable javascript library (BokehJS) which handles all the interactivity entirely in the browser. Data can
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by pwang 13y ago
Bokeh ( http://bokeh.pydata.org ) has excellent IPython notebook support, and provides interactive, live plots inside the notebook. It also has matplotlib support, so you can trivially turn Matplotlib figures into interactive web
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by pwang 13y ago
I like that the "It is not safe to turn off your computer" is slightly slanted. The Brothers Chaps still have it.
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by pwang 13y ago
Have you played with Bokeh at all? http://bokeh.pydata.org
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by pwang 13y ago
Heh, came here to say this. Something as simple as this really blows the credibility of the entire piece.
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by pwang 13y ago
How much do the people working on them get paid to work on them? What many users of open source don't seem to understand is that actually, honest-to-goodness open source development is a major undertaking and imposition on a person&#
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by pwang 13y ago
That's kind of a stretch. Bash is the only lingua franca of devops. Perl might be next, depending on the organization you're involved with. Then Python or Ruby might be next... hard to even figure out how to objectively measure
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by pwang 13y ago
Japan called. They would like to do some, er, "scientific research" on these.
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by pwang 13y ago
Continuum Analytics ( http://continuum.io ) also offers commercial tooling and support.
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by pwang 13y ago
> a spoiled kid living a cushioned life inside a cocoon Oh, I wasn't aware that you knew the author of blog post and software. Was he really very spoiled as a child? (I'm assuming you knew him, based on your comment, because s
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by pwang 13y ago
There are several dynamics all intertwined. 1. Increased need for advanced statistical tools beyond just Excel and more affordable (and more modern) than SAS. This means that R is getting more and more attention from business analytics fol
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by pwang 13y ago
Yes, Anaconda is designed to be portable on every platform we build it for, as are all the additional packages that we build for it.
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by pwang 13y ago
Neat project, but isn't this kind of a confusing name, given the existence of the R statistical programming language? I mean, just google for "r stats"...
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by pwang 13y ago
len(set(open("test.txt").read().split()))
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by pwang 13y ago
Looks great! Is it really just you and Anand that put this together?
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by pwang 13y ago
I wish more people in the dev community would ponder your experience and decision-making process. I don't think Python 3 was a mistake. I understand the reasons for doing it, and the difficult decision making process there. I also ha
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by pwang 13y ago
1. He has extremely well-written essays on technology and business. Being able to think clearly and articulate cogently in this space is a rare skill, and I have deep respect for those who possess it. Joel Spolsky (who I also respect) is
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by pwang 13y ago
This is a bad visualization because it is hinting at a visual congruence that isn't there. When plotting things with two Y axes, you have to be really careful and honest about what you're trying to look at. When you use a line
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by pwang 13y ago
I don't know you, Matt, and I certainly don't have a beef with Paul Graham - I have much respect for him. But, the specific components of your encomium do not recommend you. More specifically: > That he started the seed fundi
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by pwang 13y ago
> That is not what you're saying. That's very much what baddox is saying, but with less self-deprecation. He/she is continuing to ask questions and indicating that the concept does not make sense to him/her. Asking
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by pwang 13y ago
> I see people complaining frequently about the use of the word "privilege" as though it's some kind of pejorative being used against them If the people using this term didn't want it to be taken as a pejorative, perh
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by pwang 13y ago
Good work Ville, let me know when you post those slides/writeup. :-)

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