stewbrew

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by stewbrew 9y ago
This really isn't the best article written on Vienna's take on housing. It also has little to do with homelessness. There of course are homeless people in Vienna too but the problem is attenuated by the availability of affordable
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by stewbrew 9y ago
You're talking about new languages, not new implementations of a (specified) language.
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by stewbrew 9y ago
Technologies may become obsolete with the advent of other technologies or social changes. I think Bruno Latour makes an important point here in stressing that human and non-human (technologies) should be thought of as one. So, a technologic
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by stewbrew 9y ago
The master doesn't know self-balancing trees?
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by stewbrew 9y ago
I think it depends on the country and its regulations -- whether the profession is regulated at all. Anyway, coaching etc. is no therapy because the clients aren't (mentally) ill or anything. There is nothing to cure, which is what the
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by stewbrew 9y ago
I'm against pathologising any normal reaction to stress. When the anger reaches a point where it actually becomes a painful hindrance in daily life it's an option to think about though. But there are also coaching and life counsel
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by stewbrew 9y ago
But then you need x years to teach them all those mini macro languages like loop etc. While I personally have pleasant memories of the time I used lisp, I learned to like languages with some syntax and the support editors and IDEs provide f
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by stewbrew 9y ago
It's pretty lame to create a fake profile just to post a lame troll post.
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by stewbrew 9y ago
I like the idea of creating a memorial blog post. I don't understand though why you mention "open source" as a method. Although some people do this, I don't think github etc. should become graveyards of abandoned project
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by stewbrew 9y ago
Why'd you want to do that? You loose your history etc.
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by stewbrew 9y ago
So, you want an editor that doesn't do anything when you press a key? I'm not sure if such an app would have many users. :-)
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by stewbrew 9y ago
Oberon?
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by stewbrew 9y ago
What exactly is missing? The tinymode, the tinykeymap (and others) plugins emulate some sort of temporary modes.
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by stewbrew 9y ago
I think the language is quite nice but the tooling is lacking (if you don't use intellj idea). Even the official eclipse plugin has many rough edges. So, when learning kotlin, you effectively also have to learn an ide if you're no
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by stewbrew 9y ago
It matters when you're teaching professionally.
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by stewbrew 9y ago
"Pedagogy" is the art/science to guide kids, literally speaking. First, I wasn't sure if he didn't actually mean "didactics" but then he talked about "students" so he probably just talks about &q
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by stewbrew 9y ago
I understand why they started neovim, but don't think the split between vim 8 of today and neovim is a good thing. Makes me think of emacs vs xemacs but worth because they use slightly different dialects of vimscript (closures, curryin
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by stewbrew 9y ago
Not sure why you single out Android since most "modern" commercial OS send data home in order to develop predictions about it's user. In the western world, it's called assistance. Android/Google at least give you a
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by stewbrew 10y ago
Know & use: (these days) R, most of the time. Wish: I'd like to explore rust, Scala, (oh yes) JavaScript/typescript, C#/F# for writing extensions for my R code when R is too slow or fragile. I'd like to avoid C++.
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by stewbrew 10y ago
It was possble to enable the JIT before. They are light on details how the JIT was changed so that they enabled it by default.
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by stewbrew 10y ago
What do you mean with "just to edit"? Aren't there any (compilation) errors, warnings displayed anywhere?
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by stewbrew 10y ago
Had they listened to the naysayers, they would have used gnome shell all along, the development resources would have been more focused, and desktop Linux would be better off. I recently switched from unity to gnome shell and it's much
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by stewbrew 10y ago
It seems to be a dynamically typed language. So they require developers to put type annotations into comments so that the compiler cannot make use of them. Oh well.
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by stewbrew 10y ago
What's the state of static type checking in closure? Is it accepted among the community? My uninformed impression is that runtime checking via specs won?
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by stewbrew 10y ago
> The problem is there has been enormous resistance to the use of algorithms in medicine That's not 100% true for all disciplines. E.g., in radiology, there are some assisting technologies around for identifying tumors etc. While ma
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by stewbrew 10y ago
I didn't downvote your comment but I don't understand what you're talking about.
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by stewbrew 10y ago
MS has a history of "embracing" technologies. The arrogance is visible in the title that doesn't mention it's specific to MS R. I didn't say you can't do this with standard R. I didn't say they invented or
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by stewbrew 10y ago
This seems specific to Microsoft R or can I install the MicrosoftML package in regular R and/or use it under Linux? I really wonder what MS's investment in R means for the future of R.
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by stewbrew 10y ago
You mentioned you have a kid and no job. So, you might also worry about the future of your family -- unless you're super rich. I think that makes a big difference. When I was 20 I had the great privilege that I simply didn't care
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by stewbrew 10y ago
1. Marx wasn't a sociologist. 2. There are quite a few economists around that would wholeheartedly disagree with your statement that his predictions were falsified. 3. Microeconomic theories are falsified every day in actual interactio

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