stewbrew

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by stewbrew 8y ago
We don't know yet if the developers of Julia value backwards compatibility -- they haven't reached 1.0 yet. So, I find that a rather strange choice given the reason you put forward against ocaml.
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by stewbrew 8y ago
This looks more like a contender to rclone, doesn't it?
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by stewbrew 8y ago
BTW in German, it's called exactly that: Altweibersommer (oldwomensummer).
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by stewbrew 8y ago
About that article: I assume that DT uses an index for that column while dplyr does a full search. If that's really the case the result wouldn't be that much a surprise.
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by stewbrew 8y ago
Thanks for the reference. Why don't you keep your data in a DB? I load almost anything that isn't a small atomic data frame into a RDBMS. BTW one thing that always made me avoid DT (I even preferred sqldf before dplyr was created)
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by stewbrew 8y ago
Can you backup your performance claim? The last time I checked a benchmark that compared dplyr vs DT, DT didn't come out as a winner.
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by stewbrew 8y ago
You're right and wrong: R is a disaster when you want to write programs as you would in a real programming language. R is an excellent choice for what it is used most of the time by these people whose education/training isn't
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by stewbrew 8y ago
It depends on the kind of notes: For information you want to retrieve easily later on: markdown files (avoid any wiki-like format that isn't widely used) + some way to sync those files (e.g. unison, synching, Dropbox etc.). The app doe
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by stewbrew 8y ago
Firefox on a server?
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by stewbrew 8y ago
Serious question: What are the advantages of Ubuntu on a server over, say, Debian?
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by stewbrew 8y ago
"I'm now convinced a lot of the people who demanded its demise never used it." I personally always wondered if anybody at Canonical had ever used it. It never worked right. You always had the feeling that you have to beg to m
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by stewbrew 8y ago
Is haxe used for anything other than games? The userbase seems to have a focus on flash, games etc.
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by stewbrew 8y ago
"... to help art and advocacy projects ..." Why not (serious) social science projects? Don't have today's sociologists have anything to say about this or do they need a few more decades for warm up.
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by stewbrew 8y ago
JS, Python, or Ruby have zero ahead of time compile & link time. They need some time to generate byte code, to compile the code "just in time", to load source or byte code from disk etc.
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by stewbrew 8y ago
The first paragraph is fun to read: someone on HN says people on HN are not competent to comment on the subject except for him/her. Seriously, you might have missed it but people on HN have an astonishing variety of professional backgr
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by stewbrew 8y ago
In my experience, kids find a way to make themselves understood. And their parents will find out -- sooner or later. For things they cannot find out, they probably couldn't help them much anyway. I find it rather strange to impose a de
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by stewbrew 8y ago
We found that entirely useless. It was recommended to us by someone who has no kids. As the parent, you most likely know what they want anyway.
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by stewbrew 8y ago
There is exactly one feature in emacs vim doesn't have and that's overlays. You certainly know overlays?
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by stewbrew 8y ago
There is no use in numbering tasks in todo.txt files. But you (as a developer) can create an id based on the current time stamp and the tasks content that can be referenced later on. The VIM ttodo_vim plugin does it this way.
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by stewbrew 8y ago
There are some extensions that bring task dependencies to todo.txt. IMHO outlines are a quite natural extension of the original format that can be used for that without making things too complicated.
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by stewbrew 9y ago
IMHO you probably have to make poetry in order to get it and to adequately value a poem. Even then, what you allow yourself to see in a poem is very much determined by what you think could have been done with words when the author wrote tha
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by stewbrew 9y ago
There's a difference between never stop working and living as if you would never die or having to invent a new life. As a young person you probably still have to find out who you really are and you tend to see time to live as an unlimi
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by stewbrew 9y ago
I think this was the test I vaguely remembered. Anyway, such a test probably doesn't really say much. https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ubu-1704...
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by stewbrew 9y ago
At what costs wrt ressource usage & startup time do you get these features? IIRC KDE comes last in all tests about DE performance. I could become potentially interested in KDE if this had changed over the years.
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by stewbrew 9y ago
"Totally configurable, which is ESSENTIAL for new users who want their Linux desktop configured to emulate the exact rendering of Windows (XP or 7)" Funny argument after Windows 8. So KDE gets marketed as ressort for confused wind
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by stewbrew 9y ago
"Some of my clients haven’t even found a single applicant for positions in ..." I wonder if this doesn't have to do with pay. I often get the impression they want Mr/Mrs Houdini know-it-all of ML but offer entry level pa
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by stewbrew 9y ago
The focus on inequality is irrational only for rich people or machines. Humans are social beings right from the start. You always compare yourself to others. Given that wealth mostly depends on your birth and not on your efforts given your
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by stewbrew 9y ago
AFAIK this doesn't imply static type checking though. The types are at best checked at runtime, aren't they? If so, it doesn't really help much.
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by stewbrew 9y ago
"any suggestions for a low-maintenance first ballpoint"? A bic crystal? Or did you mean first fountain pen?
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by stewbrew 9y ago
Light. Robust. Cheap. Perfect form factor. Always works. Doesn't drip. Replacements can be bought about everywhere. I have at least a dozen of these lying around and I pick the one whichever is closest.

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