stewbrew

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by stewbrew 7y ago
Ad 1: Maybe they like pascal, scheme etc. more than c?
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by stewbrew 7y ago
I personally don't get this. European supermarkets are full of cheap chicken meat. Can the US food industry actually beat that low quality meat with even cheaper and lower quality junk food and still be profitable? Please somebody call
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by stewbrew 7y ago
That's about what modern scheme should look like in 2020. Now let's turn this into r8rs and let the compilers take advantage of the extra information.
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by stewbrew 7y ago
Yes but most web-based solutions and most other propositions in this thread are not. I don't think you can build a business around plain text. Tiddlywiki isn't really plain text btw. You'd have to parse JavaScript in order to
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by stewbrew 7y ago
Well, all these suggestions are nice and this also looks like a nice finger exercise but you really want to start something like this only with software that's still useable somehow in 50+ yrs. So just ignore this proprietary stuff and
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by stewbrew 7y ago
IMHO the simple problems with reproducibility (of statictical studies) can be solved with pre-registration, which should become a standard. The rest really is a system crisis. Imagine: Scientist A uses (a statistical) method M to assert X.
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by stewbrew 7y ago
`:help :syntax`?
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by stewbrew 7y ago
For minor stuff you spend most time on learing ex commands (i.e. VIM API). Also, vimscript is a rather simple language. It's not haskell, we're talking about.
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by stewbrew 7y ago
The language is only a very small and trivial part. Most time is spent with learning the API that necessarily is app specific.
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by stewbrew 7y ago
Vimscript is a collection of ex commands (i.e., a DSL for editors) with a few functions bolted on that provide for a simple form of OOP. I don't think your argument is 100% fair.
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by stewbrew 7y ago
It's a rather pointless/useless survey. I'm nevertheless surprised by the omission of kotlin.
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by stewbrew 7y ago
Okay, let's discuss just two details: - They discuss an effect size related to gender based on the observation of n=7 chimpanzees. Unfortunately, the software didn't stop them from calculate t-tests etc. but this is simply ridicul
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by stewbrew 7y ago
"researchers played music to a group of chimps (three adult males and four females) and found that all of the chimps responded to the music by moving in dance-like ways—though the degree to which they danced varied greatly between them
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by stewbrew 7y ago
That was pretty much my point.
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by stewbrew 7y ago
Just an example: Why wasn't it a priority to make scala run well on dalvik? The place is taken by kotlin and is one of its strongest selling points.
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by stewbrew 7y ago
I wish ... would have ... 20 years ago.
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by stewbrew 7y ago
The problem with scala is that academic goals sometimes don't align too well with "industry needs".
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by stewbrew 7y ago
On a new OS, forth often has a "first mover" advantage. E.g. some of the first apps for MacOS were developed in forth. It's also useful when limited resources are available. OO forth is quite pleasant to work in, if you reall
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by stewbrew 7y ago
I get your point but there are few alternatives. Python and Julia aren't there yet. (And if they were, they would end up in the same place.) Anything else lacks the variety of packages and isn't really useful for interactive use.
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by stewbrew 7y ago
"Hundreds" is as an exageration. You make it sound as if libraries in other languages were bug free. In my experience, most libraries work well and most authors respond rather quickly to requests. Anyway, I think it's better
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by stewbrew 7y ago
It depends. R excels at backward compatibility and at interactive data analysis, which is what it's made for. But you're right in so far that you probably shouldn't use (much) R code in production.
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by stewbrew 7y ago
How is this related to this procedure? Both are about prostate cancer, but that's about it.
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by stewbrew 7y ago
Wow. For a "minor" release, this is really exciting. Finally, vim gets text properties. This could be a real game changer for plugin writers. Popup windows could also be interesting.
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by stewbrew 7y ago
Has MS ever been a member of the Ocaml Software Foundation?
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by stewbrew 7y ago
I don't know about VSC but most IDEs are rather difficult to extend. VIM makes it quite easy to create a plugin or prototype new ideas. If you don't need clever code completion etc., VIM is still very useful. Other than emacs, VIM
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by stewbrew 7y ago
They could have ported ocaml to the clr instead of doing their own ms thing. They could have promoted ocaml instead of splitting the community interested in a practical ml derived language - with the consequence that today neither has a rel
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by stewbrew 7y ago
“consumer first healthcare” As an European, I'd say that patients don't enter the health care system as consumers. You don't consume a stent because it's hip among friends. Also, you shouldn't get some medical treat
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by stewbrew 7y ago
"Better than Sudoku? Yes." I would have went with riding a 5 EUR motorized kids skateboard without any protection and never looking back. But that's a good analogy too.
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by stewbrew 7y ago
Why doesn't pgp/gpg not count? Because it's too difficult to set up? Do you really trust an encryption with automatically generated, non-exchangeable keys? That said hardly anybody I know still uses e-mail for private communi
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by stewbrew 7y ago
No they don't but they allow to pretend (make it look like) strict evaluation.

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