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by repsilat 8y ago
Probably, though it could also be a way to say "The language in which algorithms from 'The Book'[1] are written." It would be fun if quantum computing were equivalent to classical (less fun -- probabilistic) models with
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by repsilat 8y ago
> I presume I'm not! Thank you! I've been pretty heads-down writing my thing, but I'll be sure to set aside my evenings to go through both sites exhaustively, and probably try to get in contact with both to ask for feedbac
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by repsilat 8y ago
Does that help if those characters appear in the string? My bet is on editors that let you "type your string into this text box".
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by repsilat 8y ago
AirTable looks kinda like a spreadsheet, and it's a MS Access clone at heart. Not terribly programmable, though it does look pretty usable. I think "traditional" databases will fail to reach a general audience (or rather, muc
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by repsilat 8y ago
> No runtime exceptions, ever. This is something I wonder about JS: there are a lot of places that exceptions happen in (say) Python that just return `NaN` or `undefined` in javascript. Is it intentional? Is it a good idea? Examples: the
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by repsilat 8y ago
Hah, I was nodding along with the article and then got to this bit: > What reason is there to believe we can improve programming technology to be vastly easier and more accessible? To start with, spreadsheets. Spreadsheets are by far th
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by repsilat 8y ago
Just to paint the other side of the picture: Many institutional investors think Zuckerberg has done a great job running the company, and think he'll probably continue to do a better job than a replacement CEO. As such, they want him to
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by repsilat 8y ago
I agree, though you'd be surprised at the difference in attitude between developers in each language. I think JS is now within a factor of five of C, but JS programmers are significantly more blase about performance. In many cases they
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by repsilat 8y ago
In economics terms I guess this means, - Economists say "MV = PQ", and QE adds to "M", so shouldn't "P" or "Q" go up? - But the marginal dollar of added "M" had ~zero "V", so
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by repsilat 8y ago
> all economic output of Japan in a year We all know they meant "in a year", but the article isn't explicit about it -- it just says >> the output of the world’s third-largest economy Not "annual", not
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by repsilat 8y ago
This topic comes up in the WSJ every couple of months. Not every article can cover every side of the story, and this particular piece isn't aimed at the underlying causes -- it's not an exhaustive or investigative history, it&#x27
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by repsilat 8y ago
If they received substantially fewer Asian applicants they would probably adjust the thresholds to keep the balance how they want it. It would be nearly impossible for a boycott to be so effective they could not get a "Harvard-balanced
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by repsilat 8y ago
Can anyone chip in with comparative experience between Zulip, Slack, Mattermost etc? Any subset will do. I'm not too interested in a "chat vs email" sort of discussion, just "If you've decided you want chat, which p
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by repsilat 8y ago
No, this is not the real point. Employment isn't an upside, that's the broken window fallacy. Employees should be allowed to bring food from home to eat at their desks if they want, and that is obviously terrible for jobs in local
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by repsilat 8y ago
Not only are people trashing Mongo, but this article is a ten minute walk through the barest of API surface for a library... There doesn't seem to be anything too novel in the API itself, and the pymongo project is a few years old...
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by repsilat 8y ago
When I'm on free airport wifi they'll often limit the session to half an hour and then start MITMing your traffic to try to bounce you back out to the sign-in page to agree to the terms and conditions again. When that happens, the
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by repsilat 8y ago
If it gets the https version into your browser history it can prevent a MITM in the future, though. Not all bad.
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by repsilat 8y ago
If there's a bus 250m behind it that confusion will not be long lived.
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by repsilat 8y ago
In classical computing nobody thinks of programming as consisting of a series of logic gates, though :-). Should we expect more abstractions from quantum computing models in the future? Quantum data structures, common quantum operations etc
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by repsilat 8y ago
> Lambda functions are really great in Python Hah, if you had told anyone that five years ago they would have been very confused. "What are you talking about? Lambdas in Python are horribly neutered..." Back to what you actuall
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by repsilat 8y ago
I think they're mostly being careful. In polite, educated society Netflix's content isn't going to cause any problems, but in some places there is a real danger to public order from broadcast media. "Fake news" has
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by repsilat 8y ago
They don't use the video data in the simulations, they use the processed "Where everything is" stream. That makes it more robust to sensor tech upgrades, but less to errors to do with bad sensing or sensor failure. Computatio
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by repsilat 8y ago
Hmm, that's an interesting argumentative fork to run into -- either a) SQL is Turing complete and departs from the relational algebra that the earlier post said gave it a solid theoretical grounding, or b) SQL is not Turing complete, a
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by repsilat 8y ago
Sure, those things aren't specified in SQL, but again -- that's a feature of SQL, not the relational model. You could just as easily have an imperative relational language as a declarative one, so those theoretical foundations can
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by repsilat 8y ago
In the world of "theory meets engineering" SQL is pretty embarrassing too. Read this: https://www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/~hugh/TTM/HAVING-A-Blunderful-... Just being built on the relational model is a tiny pa
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by repsilat 8y ago
At the moment all sheets in my program literally are objects, though the converse isn't true -- not all objects can be viewed as sheets. That might change in the future -- I think that being able to nest data arbitrarily is pretty impo
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by repsilat 8y ago
EDIT: Actually, more useful than me suggesting a scattershot bunch of things, it'd probably be more efficient to ask what bits gave you pause, which bits look too complicated or difficult to use. --- Yeah, I agree. The lowest-hanging f
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by repsilat 8y ago
> A more understandable way to process such a string would be to split it into constituent parts and use regex only for validation Split the regex, or split the URL itself? I kinda think the split regex is pretty reasonable: prot
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by repsilat 8y ago
Hi all. 6gunz wants to make the spreadsheet model significantly more powerful without making it significantly more complicated -- no jump to "traditional" programming/scripting, just a smooth slope of "one more useful tr
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