robochat42

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by robochat42 10y ago
Thanks, this makes the article a bit clearer to me. It's about seeing the operating system as bloat and trying to remove abstractions. Like when I see an editor written in Electron, part of me wonders how many layers of abstraction are
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by robochat42 10y ago
I also use Pandas for some of my data analysis and I found that it took me a long time to learn how to use it. Unlike numpy, I just couldn't remember how to do things and had to keep looking things up. Maybe this is just because Pandas
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by robochat42 11y ago
Having looked at the tutorial, I can see now that variable name collisions (i.e. if defined in two imported modules) are caught as errors by the compiler. Also only deliberately exposed symbols get imported into the namespace which reduces
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by robochat42 11y ago
Coming from python, I'm also surprised by the way Nim imports but I realised that it's not the same sitution because nim uses unified function call (ufc) syntax to implement its method calls. Methods are functions that due to the
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by robochat42 11y ago
seriously? I'm always confused by the large number of different low level key-value stores on offer. All claiming to be the fastest, with benchmarks to back it up. Reading the article, it seems that they could have contributed some dev
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by robochat42 11y ago
Well then we're all Bob Howard from the Laundry. The unassuming backroom guy who knows his way around a computer yet surprisingly can hold it together when confronted with gibbering Lovecraftian monsters from beyond the void. Has an i
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by robochat42 11y ago
This whole working in UTC and transforming the time 'at the last minute' into the timezone is only the current accepted practise precisely because of this problem of the time changing. Ideally, we should be able to just set tzinfo