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by stewbrew 12y ago
Could be I got lost between thesis and anti-thesis.
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by stewbrew 12y ago
I'm not sure the authors understands what the NIH syndrome ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_invented_here ) is about. It is about writing everything yourself. IMHO the following paragraphe is highly symptomatic fo
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by stewbrew 12y ago
I personally usally find myself searching http://doc.rust-lang.org/std/ . One problem I sometimes run into is that the search seems to do fuzzy searches and generates an often overwhelmingly long list of not all too hel
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by stewbrew 12y ago
I agree with respect to the quality of the documentation. I hope they put some effort in rewriting the docs before the 1.0 release. The problem is exacerbated by a load of out-of-date tutorials you come across when searching the internet fo
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by stewbrew 12y ago
For whatever reason, I expected the article to be about haxe -- one language that transpiles to everything.
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by stewbrew 12y ago
"It's only a matter of time" in about any language. This isn't a valid argument.
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by stewbrew 12y ago
They sometimes allow to write functions for which you would have to use macros in other languages.
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by stewbrew 12y ago
Lazy evaluation in R isn't that difficult to grasp once you accept the fact and don't superimpose an evaluation model dominant in most other languages. It turns out, this kind of lazy evaluation can actually be quite useful.
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by stewbrew 12y ago
R (or rather S) wasn't intended to be a general purpose programming language. It was written as a glue language (or rather a DSL) for low-level code for _interactive_ use in the domain of statistics. The goal to have a language that sh
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by stewbrew 12y ago
You say you don't have any senior software developer friend. Aren't there any opportunities for networking in Dubai? Meetups etc.?
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by stewbrew 12y ago
I actually like the viki and vikitasks plugins a lot. Unfortunately, its html/pdf/docbook converter doesn't work with current versions of ruby.
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by stewbrew 12y ago
33 EUR for a notebook with a few dots printed on its pages? http://store.moleskine.com/aut/de-de/catalog/detail/smart-no...
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by stewbrew 12y ago
Wouldn't one rather want to use rvm?
764.
by stewbrew 12y ago
Oh sorry, I missed the obvious. So it's really rather a simplified Makefile mixed into the source in the form of specially formatted comments.
765.
by stewbrew 12y ago
with some blank lines interposed so the generator directive does not appear in the doc comment It sound's hackish to me to use specially formatted comments to embed these directives in the source file. The authors also don&#x
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by stewbrew 12y ago
Based on your original comment I had the impression our views rather diverge but maybe I got you wrong. Anyway, HN isn't really the place to discuss such matters.
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by stewbrew 12y ago
I'd say this is a biased view. In German speaking countries, social sciences rather suffers from theory flim-flam. Maybe in the US, you didn't have your Luhmann-moment yet.
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by stewbrew 12y ago
Does OPAM work on Windows? I've read it doesn't which has kept me from further investigations.
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by stewbrew 12y ago
One important item is missing from this list: your life could be over today. That you still have 50 years to go is an statistical expectation, it isn't a promise.
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by stewbrew 12y ago
It you're in game development, you might want to take a look at haxe. It seems many users use it successfully for games.
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by stewbrew 12y ago
Frankly, IMHO this combines the worst of two worlds: go's non-lispy syntax and clojure's ... dilatoriness/slowness & fragility of its tooling. I'd much prefer a clojure (or rather scheme) that compiles to go.
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by stewbrew 12y ago
Besides security reasons, I turn it off on my mobile. 10kb of text load much faster than 500kb of javascript and some text.
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by stewbrew 12y ago
A mobile version that works with javascript disabled. What a relief.
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by stewbrew 12y ago
But why? Is the work on chicken scheme finished? Does it have dead-simple ffi? Does is run on android? Does spock actually work? What's the actual advantage of bones over chicken?
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by stewbrew 12y ago
Is my impression correct that the general interest in OCaml has waned & its development has somewhat stalled? I played with OCaml when it was at version 3. I remember the mailing list to be rather vibrant. Now there seem to be fewer pos
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by stewbrew 12y ago
I guess that's what was meant: no registration, no redirects, it just works. It surprised me too. Interesting talks.
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by stewbrew 12y ago
In vim, you can still move the cursor around when in insert mode. It just isn't that functional and after a while you realize it rather is a beginner's mistake. Anyway, those modes aren't totally separated from each other. Th
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by stewbrew 12y ago
I hope this works out well for Windows users who run 20+ plugins -- no zombies or anything when neovim crashes.
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by stewbrew 12y ago
The German speaker, the woman. She spoke as if she were talking to somebody who started to learn German yesterday.
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by stewbrew 12y ago
There probably were too many people in the room who speak Spanish. The German part of the conversation is slightly scary, to some degree due to her facial expressions. I'd really like to know what somebody who doesn't know German

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