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by totalperspectiv 7y ago
I've always found Julia a little lacking for bioinformatics, but I'm not doing ML. I have very high hopes for Nim, which I think has better performance potential than Julia across domains and can produce binaries.
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Show HN: Include Nim in Poetry Build(github.com)
3 points by totalperspectiv 7y ago|0 comments
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by totalperspectiv 7y ago
I'm very excited for this to go live.
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by totalperspectiv 7y ago
Yeah, this is basically the boat I'm in. Python dominates. You either write it in Python, or maybe get away with writing it in something else and then wrapping it in Python. I don't mind Python, but now that I've gotten a tas
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by totalperspectiv 7y ago
Check out this: https://github.com/frol/completely-unscientific-benchmarks
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by totalperspectiv 7y ago
At this point I would not be sad if I was forced to use C# for some reason.
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by totalperspectiv 7y ago
I hadn't seen Beef before. Is it 'as fast as C'? The docs look nice.
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Ask HN: Make an elevator pitch for old languages
3 points by totalperspectiv 7y ago|2 comments
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by totalperspectiv 7y ago
I'm curious how this differentiates from Nim other than the builtin types for bfx stuff. Still cool either way and great to see something else joining this space.
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by totalperspectiv 7y ago
I wonder if there is a measurable difference between software written in a very basic text editor vs an IDE. Differences like naming conventions, name length, number of files etc. I've always thought that an IDE, while wildly useful in
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Show HN: Generate Nim Bindings for Rust Libs(github.com)
2 points by totalperspectiv 7y ago|0 comments
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by totalperspectiv 7y ago
1) yes: https://docs.scala-lang.org/overviews/repl/overview.html 2) yes: https://almond.sh/ , there are other options as well 3) The compile times don't bother me. I just set up sbt to watch f
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by totalperspectiv 7y ago
And Scala. The poster child of oop + functional
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by totalperspectiv 7y ago
It's not on the same level as the R Python ecosystem, but you should check out Scala. It has the power and flexibility, but also a fairly solid backbone of data science libs.
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by totalperspectiv 7y ago
As a torrent newb, what's the tldr on on why webtorrent over BitTorrent?
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by totalperspectiv 7y ago
Is there a reason C libraries generally prefix with 'lib'? Or is it just historic?
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by totalperspectiv 7y ago
This is super cool ... are there any more detailed docs on it? It sounds like it's borrowing a bit from Rust's ownership model?
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by totalperspectiv 7y ago
Replace the word fan with supporter, which is more in line what what I was thinking, and is certainly needed in programming.
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by totalperspectiv 7y ago
I feel like it might, if it replaced pip and gets full endorsement from the python org. It's a fantastic project, but untill it has complete backing it's just a technical risk to include in a project.
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by totalperspectiv 7y ago
Huge fan of poetry. I highly recommend people try it out. It feels like cargo, but for python.
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by totalperspectiv 7y ago
'Great Thoughts Friday' from Richard Hamming https://youtu.be/a1zDuOPkMSw
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by totalperspectiv 7y ago
Did you make a username 'smug forgetting smug' just to make this comment? For your next throwaway can I recommend: smgfgttgs 'smug forgetting thugs'?
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by totalperspectiv 7y ago
Coming from other languages I always thought of Errors as something 'other' that just kind of magically work within their own little exceptions code path. So in Rust I was expecting errors to be similarly complex and 'other&#
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by totalperspectiv 7y ago
I've been using it as a way to learn some of the fundamentals of my field and write packages from other languages in Rust as a learning exercise. Then once those reach some level of usability / goodness, I've started building
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Ask HN: Examples of User Maintainable Software?
3 points by totalperspectiv 7y ago|1 comments
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by totalperspectiv 7y ago
Here is a link to the discussion on Reddit a while back: https://www.reddit.com/r/perl/comments/dq1lzy/the_perl_maste... It's worth reading. What I think it is is a power / money grab by a smal
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by totalperspectiv 7y ago
That's a fantastic SO answer.
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by totalperspectiv 7y ago
What exactly is it about Fortran that makes it better for an HPC env and numeric computing than c++? Or is it more just an available libs/history question?
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by totalperspectiv 7y ago
Not directly related to the article, but given a green field, what project qualities would lead one to choose Fortran as a tool to solve the problem over anything else?
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by totalperspectiv 7y ago
Kind of cheating because Kernighan literally labels it as beautiful. It's Rob Pike's implementation of Ken Thomson's regex matcher. https://www.cs.princeton.edu/courses/archive/spr09/cos333&#x2F

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