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by tpoacher 4y ago
Compilation is a horrible word for it. Especially when what it refers to is basically productizing / user-friendli(er) packaging.
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by tpoacher 4y ago
Its a poor metaphor because you're focusing on the wrong part of the metaphor. It's called a papercut after the "death by a thousand papercuts" chinese torture / execution method. The idea is that a single papercut
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by tpoacher 4y ago
So, the conclusion is that in terms of the typical metrics used to get a job in academia (i.e. grant funding and publications) there is no difference between men and women. But there is a difference in terms of getting a job per se (with
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by tpoacher 4y ago
This. My linux distribution provides nano, but I still install it myself to get the latest version. If someone knows about nano and wants to use it, I don't get why this is a problem. In fact, similar thing happens with vim. It's
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by tpoacher 4y ago
I would love to see this kind of thing backfire for MS etc. I had an odd sense of pride when I found out the UK gov promotes open document standards on their websites. Whenever someone gives me flak I can now say I'm conforming to nati
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by tpoacher 4y ago
No hate to OP, but almost every single argument in the article regarding Powershell boils down to them not knowing a thing about bash. I know this is the case, despite the claim in the article that they do, because it's clear from the
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by tpoacher 4y ago
I wonder if he had a license that explicitly forbids AI training, and/or an appropriate robots.txt file, would that have strengthened his case, or not really?
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by tpoacher 4y ago
I have to say, I am slightly disappointed that the opening of Sokal's "Transgressing the boundaries" paper isn't immediately recognizable by an HN audience ... oh well.
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by tpoacher 4y ago
There was a blogpost recently on HN, which compared the "learn to code" campaigns as useful if one thinks of this along the same lines as "learn to cook". I liked that perspective. The problem of course comes when someon
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by tpoacher 4y ago
Quite. It is likely true that deep conceptual shifts within twentieth-century science have undermined what's commonly referred to as Cartesian-Newtonian metaphysics. Revisionist studies in the history and philosophy of science have cas
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by tpoacher 4y ago
Why bad? OP from 2007 still has a point. Actually, given dropbox's deterioration over time, FTP+SVN is sounding pretty good to me right now.
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by tpoacher 4y ago
> "disappeared" you mean bought and killed
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by tpoacher 4y ago
"small but vocal audience" is a rather misleading statement when you consider it refers to a company within its first year of operations. As far as I remember there were as many pebbles as applewatches around that time, even thoug
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by tpoacher 4y ago
I would think that organising your time when you're the manager is a far simpler act than organising your time when you're the managee . I've lost track of what stage I've left all my important and creative tasks, on
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by tpoacher 4y ago
Yes, and your comment seemed to imply that state between commands in make recipes (and thus use of oneshell) is somehow more important with a python shell than with the default bash shell. And I'm curious why you say this, as I wouldn&
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by tpoacher 4y ago
just because an SQL API can be abused to create an SQL injection doesn't mean databases are therefore useless.
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by tpoacher 4y ago
> The argument is that several technologies don't work 'out of the box' and you have to tweak their settings for each problem that you face, and that this means it's a scam. That's not what the argument is. The o
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by tpoacher 4y ago
Oneshell is indeed a useful thing to keep in mind, but it's mostly when you want to retain state between commands; why would it be more relevant to python than other languages?
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by tpoacher 4y ago
Pet peeve mass nouns wrongly used in the plural: codes ("e.g. download the source codes") advices feedbacks evidences moneys ("e.g. how much moneys does this cost", but "exchange of moneys" or &qu
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by tpoacher 4y ago
Sales people reading this: "What a marvellous list of great tips on tricks to use!"
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by tpoacher 4y ago
Meanwhile I was considering an addendum to my GPL licenses to read something like, "use of this code is strictly limited to humans. under no circumstances may an artificial agent use this for training. Any evidence of sufficient simila
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by tpoacher 4y ago
That's a bit like arguing "they polished the turd but some people will still complain". Yes. It's still a turd under the polish.
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by tpoacher 4y ago
Random: did you know that you can write your recipes in python? Or any language for that matter? This is as simple as SHELL = python (technically one also has to set shellflags, but python happens to share the same "execute comm
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by tpoacher 4y ago
for gcc there is the -M flag to generate dependencies. similarly, there's nothing stopping you from autogenerating them in some way that you prefer.
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by tpoacher 4y ago
Same. I honestly don't get the hate. I'm inclined to think that people who shiver at its name, either haven't bothered to read the manual and go beyond basic features, or have encountered some pretty shoddy makefiles (made po
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by tpoacher 4y ago
I dont get it. Isn't "just" simply a "friendlier make" but only for linear pipelines that could have been simple bash scripts in the first place? (in which case, why not just use a bash script to begin with?)
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by tpoacher 4y ago
Yes; like I said, it's a reflex. I know that it's abuse of terminology and I shouldn't overthink it, but, there's always a bit of a nag in my head when I hear it. I have a similar annoyance with the notation for probabil
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by tpoacher 4y ago
No, it's a collection of vectors (which may be considered ordered or unordered depending on context). The 'vectors' part is fine, but the 'collection' part is the bit that causes the confusion. You can't differ
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by tpoacher 4y ago
I have an annoyance reflex when people talk about things like "the derivative of a matrix". A matrix is a notational concept, not an object in itself. It makes as much sense to me as saying the derivative of a set, or the derivati
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by tpoacher 4y ago
I agree, except the "match your care to your resources" sounds like a bad recipe to me. I don't think it's possible to control how much you 'care' about something; only how much you act upon it. It sounds a bit

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