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by tomkwong 6y ago
Interesting. Thanks for the share. I wonder if programming fonts could achieve that - like the original author could specify a font for a portion of the code eg. a “destroy_context” or “drop_connection” function could have a scary look.
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by tomkwong 6y ago
Appreciate the upvote anyways LOL
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by tomkwong 6y ago
OP here. What you said is very true. Visual impression isn't the only dimension. Nowadays, it seems that most people (especially the younger generation) just want to watch a video than reading a book. There is bounded to be something
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Programming is boring art(ahsmart.com)
120 points by tomkwong 6y ago|98 comments
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by tomkwong 6y ago
You can probably leave the sorry part out. There’s nothing to be sorry about :-)
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by tomkwong 7y ago
It's quite possible that certain area of the Julia ecosystem are not not mature enough. The situation continues to improve quickly as far as I can tell. Rather than rewriting code in Python, we took an approach of using PyCall. It tu
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by tomkwong 7y ago
That's fair... although I generally found bad code that are not just bad syntax but rather bad design. Bad syntax or even project structure is easy to fix. Bad design is not. BTW, this kind of discussion is healthy. The Julia core dev
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by tomkwong 7y ago
What's the issue about global dependencies that you're trying to solve? For my production system, we manage version changes by way of Manifest.toml so that we don't get any surprises. I agree that an opinionated file system
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by tomkwong 7y ago
I'm empathetic about your experience but I have been using Julia in production (financial services use case) for over 2 years and it's absolutely working great for us - developer productivity, performance, etc. We are not stoppin
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by tomkwong 7y ago
I would avoid the two language problem so option B is out of the way. If you choose option A, then you run into a risk of having to optimize some part of the code in C/C++. So you end up with the two language problem again. If you care
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by tomkwong 7y ago
Imagine that the size of the intermediate array is half of your computer's memory. It matters because by composition it reduces the memory footprint from 2x to 1x.
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by tomkwong 7y ago
> an extradition bill by the government which allows anyone in Hong Kong deemed guilty by the Chinese government (note: HK is not China yet) to be extradited to China for trial, even foreigners. AFAIK, China is just one of the countries
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by tomkwong 7y ago
That’s true. And that’s the artifact of the difference between software engineering and computer science. One can be a successful software engineer, consistently delivering useful code that just works. Does it have to be the best design and
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by tomkwong 7y ago
Startup feels instant to me. Perhaps you are talking about precompilation. In that case, it’s insignificant for most computationally intensive applications.
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by tomkwong 7y ago
Nowadays, people just skip the manual and go to stack overflow. The best way to learn something is still RTFM.
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by tomkwong 8y ago
I agree. A policy is in place just to make sure that the company does not get into trouble. To encourage employees do do open source work does not really require a policy.
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by tomkwong 8y ago
Looks like an experimental package exists https://github.com/tshort/ExportWebAssembly.jl It's also one of the Google Summer of Code projects https://julialang.org/soc/projects/general.ht
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by tomkwong 8y ago
Looks interesting. Anyone used it before and can share the experience? It seems to fill a gap nicely. When there are more than a few apps up in AWS it’s easy to lose track.
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Graphics Principles(onlinelibrary.wiley.com)
3 points by tomkwong 8y ago|0 comments
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by tomkwong 8y ago
Congrats to the Julia dev team for making it happen! Julia v0.6 was already very functional/usable release but having 1.0 allow me to write code and have confidence that it will continue working in the same, solid foundation in the yea
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by tomkwong 8y ago
It's still happening and it's unrelated to cookie... Looks like a problem at the overstock.com side.
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by tomkwong 8y ago
Clearing cookie 2nd time was OK... it's so weird.
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Http status 418 at overstock.com
1 points by tomkwong 8y ago|2 comments
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by tomkwong 8y ago
These posts are more than 3 years old though. The latest spark/graphx should perform much better. I wonder if there's an updated study is available...
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by tomkwong 8y ago
Nice! Reading through this doc is like going back to Computer Science classes again.
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by tomkwong 8y ago
What does unreliable community even mean? As far as I know the Julia community is strong and healthy. Just check out their discourse site or slack overflow tag julia-lang.
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Segue: part 2 of why most unit testing is waste [pdf](rbcs-us.com)
1 points by tomkwong 8y ago|0 comments
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by tomkwong 8y ago
https://support.google.com/mail/answer/50200?hl=en