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   Maybe someone using Linux on Mac could tell us about the battery life they get. I use XPS-13 (4k display version), and certainly don't get the battery life promised by Dell.
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   Its good to see ocaml->js back to life. Have you considered supporting TCO or arbitrarily deep stack? I'm just curious how often could we reuse ocaml libraries with just tail call to loop conversion.
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   I'm interested to know more about IcdeCoffeeScript approach. Any blogs/articles that you know of? Typically direct CPS conversion are straightforward, but the performance suffers a lot. I'm looking for languages that are usin
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   I remember studying `Computer Systems: A Programmers Perspective'[1] in my undergrad which was pretty good and covered how programs look in assembly (calling conventions, call frames, data representation, assembly ...). Also, to get be
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   I recently started using DDG as my default search engine. I'm usually fine with searches, however what troubles me most times is the extracted content on result page. For example, when I search "How to make coffee"[1] the res
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   That reaction is not necessarily right, its just reflex which can produce more disastrous results than no reaction at all. Can't trust them much, particularly when I'm not fully aware of the situation around me (and I think one is
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   Is it just me or is anyone else getting 404 for binary download (Ubuntu).
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   For statistics I really liked Data Analysis and Statistical Inference by Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel. I think I understood statistics beyond formulas after I took this course. Apart from typical pen and paper problems, you also get programming e
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   Also MIT OCW lectures for Algorithms. These are old and video quality is not nice, but course is really good. I think they published a newer version of this course too. http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineerin
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    I personally find my syntax highlighting preferences change with mood and time. Mostly I find them useful. Sometimes I've found them to be tiring to look at, at which point I use monochrome[1] theme which is good compromise between no
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    I'm not at all familiar with Fortran. I was under impression that its old language living in legacy. I believe there are other good alternatives, why still use Fortran for new code?
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    The problem is most languages we use are not very safe, and which means if you have one unverified part in code, you can't prove code correct. I read a paper recently which tried to do modular verification of C by adding runtime contra
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    I'm pretty impressed how fast Atom has evolved in every way, be it performance or plugin system (I was skeptical last year). Its pretty powerful no doubt, but what's really cool about Atom is how quickly you can get started with i
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    I did a `ls -s .vimrc .nvimrc` along with very few changes (like replacing Command-T with Command-P). Everything ran just fine. I still don't use nvim daily, mainly due to my old habits. Perhaps I should alias nvim as vim.
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    For me its not just about multitasking. Its about distraction. With one window per app on a big screen (eg Windows 8), its just too distracting to switch. I have to go to application switcher, choose appropriate window, and everything looks
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    In my opinion a modern equivalent of messing with programming at school would be Racket. There are couple of awesome books `Realm of Racket`[1] and `How to Design Program`. Realm of Racket introduce programming by writing games. Its actuall
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    I was using beautifulsoup with lxml backend I believe. I should have mentioned earlier. There were some other graph manipulation stuff too, like favoring links with more inlinks, keeping web crawler polite but still busy by looking at other
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    I thought it would be IO bound (that's why I started with Python at first place), but since I was extracting links as well and working a bit on graph it turned out to be more CPU intensive. But well, maybe I could have written better c
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    Didn't solve my problem. PyPy still retains multi-threading and GIL stuff if I remember correctly.
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    Just wanted to share my own very small case study. I had a homework assignment to build a polite crawler. I initially built it in Python, and it was awfully slow. I rewrote same thing in Go, it turned out to very very fast (10x at least IIR
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    I would be interested to see codebase comparison with CPython compiler.
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    Couldn't agree more. Whatever program we write, it is manipulating and transforming data. If our code is revolving around data, it couldn't make more sense to formulate data before actually start code which is supposed to work on
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    Apart from being used by everybody, do they have any other reason for using JS? In general, I'm curious why JS is picking up so much for backend development? Is it just that people like using one language?
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    It was moved from Google Code to Github. It was originally written as the scripting language for UAVs on-board flight system https://code.google.com/p/picoc/
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    SML uses fn for lambda.
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    I tried and couldn't make it work couple months ago.
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    The only thing I could think of at the moment is that JS gets lambdas right.
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    I remembered someone telling me that they prefer cosine similarity over euler many times. I was looking into reason why and found an interesting paper "On the Surprising Behavior of Distance Metrics in High Dimensional Space"[1] w
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    I'm curious if ClojureScript uses the original clojure library code (eg, drop, take, map...) or re-implements them? I tried to find something in codebase, seems like it uses original.
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    You are right about it being nice to see functional code in your language. However, from my learning experience I understood the functional style much better by using actual functional language. I started with Scheme which has very minimal