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by vegabook 11y ago
> No, ... Immediate deal-killer. If your workflow involves a) more than one computer and b) usage of the terminal (surely describing most developers), then tmux attach/detach is easily one of the most awesome things since vim itse
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by vegabook 11y ago
Here is a revealing fact. Trading in FX has been electronic since well before the age of the internet, with EBS being setup to compete with Reuters as early as 1990. Still, as soon as transactions are bigger than some small nominal amount (
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by vegabook 11y ago
so... it was built for clustering but it doesn't quench your thirst for clustering? Please could you clarify.
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by vegabook 11y ago
Thank you for a balanced view. R studio is a great piece of software, and the command line also deserves respect.
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by vegabook 11y ago
The command line is not superficially superior if all you are doing all day is interactively exploring data using R. In that case, R-Studio puts a layer of convenience around the workflow. But, like all reasons that the command line refuses
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by vegabook 11y ago
Sounds like a desperate scramble to rebalance the portfolio which, reputationally, is far too long of last decade's, now-stalling, strategies. Problem is the brand is not 'hard tech', it's irredeemably soft tech. The bra
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by vegabook 11y ago
Because they belong to the class of people who have been able to create an alternative, the dollar, which has no intrinsic rarity value and can be printed at will, and these seignorage rights have made them wealthy. Clearly they have every
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by vegabook 11y ago
That was a rhetorical question.
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by vegabook 11y ago
You missed the point completely. Indeed you need to reverse the order of your underlying axiom, completely. That gold has value because it serves as money is obvious. The real question, which the author does a very good job at least at begi
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by vegabook 11y ago
Do you geddit that VS binds you to the inferior Windows builds of R? I use R every hour of every day. I started with Windows R with zero bias.....until I was forced to learn Linux against my will just to get the full, stable, all-libraries-
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by vegabook 11y ago
Oh please. I do that 20x a day without R Studio. Saving a chart is as simple as png(...). You are clearly too mouse-bound. I reject your comment out of hand.
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by vegabook 11y ago
Personally never did R studio. Unfiltered command line is always more flexible, and prevents inertial lockin to a specific tool, OS, to a large extent. Now I'm supposed to do R in ultra-bloated Visual Studio?? I learned R precisely to
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by vegabook 11y ago
Wat? Only 145k since 1969?? I was hoping to be a paper millionaire, minimum. Glad I spent it on (an average of) a couple of cans of beer a day instead.
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by vegabook 11y ago
Ummm, this should be titled 'how to pass an interview', period. Most of this advice applies well outside of programming and reads like any of 1000 self-help books of the past many decades. Sure there are a few specifics to coding
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by vegabook 11y ago
The "commentariat" charge is legitimate, which is why there is a field known as "mathematics" which is unambiguous. 1.6x by anybody's non-commentariat definition is 60% faster, as anybody who has ever even scratched
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by vegabook 11y ago
Agreed - I was just today seeing that my edition of the book still pushes the hashdict. Perils of early adoption! Still, kudos to both and my advice to all peeps looking at Elixir (and you should!) is to buy both.
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by vegabook 11y ago
Actually, while I appreciate that "Programming Elixir" gets a lot of airtime, owning both books I believe that "Elixir in Action" is a much better resource than the former. "Programming Elixir" takes a pedantic
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by vegabook 11y ago
earth to JS junkies: the gold rush is over. The new no-growth market is going to parse the coder community with much greater scrutiny in the future. Graphic designers passing themselves off as front end coders, game over. From here forward,
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by vegabook 11y ago
Nothing fancy - I message pass via zeromq to a cluster running python/numpy instances. It's pretty coarse granularity - the (BFGS curve fitting) optimizations I need from numpy will take between 0.5 and 3 seconds usually so I&#x27
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by vegabook 11y ago
Yep - my use case analyses the streaming incoming data using compute-intensive algorithms. I need very high performance single core, for which Erlang is unsuitable. Therefore I'm using calls to numpy. But then I need to distribute data
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by vegabook 11y ago
> Personally, if the OCaml multicore work ends up slowing down the core runtime appreciably, I'm going to be upset That's what I meant in my original post about multicore seeming controversial. That's part of the reason
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by vegabook 11y ago
... moreover, github's charts don't show it to have much of a recent pulse. https://github.com/ocamllabs/ocaml-multicore/graphs/contribu...
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by vegabook 11y ago
I am message passing thousands of financial ticks per second to hundreds of terminal-user consumers, each of which may wish to preselect filters that they wish applied to each series, or combinations of series. This is trivially easy to org
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by vegabook 11y ago
I really need Linux to be the first class citizen (yes I see MS has bought Xamarin but still). Also last I looked, F# wasn't looking any better than Ocaml on multinode distributed computing (please do correct me if I'm wrong).
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by vegabook 11y ago
I love Ocaml but have ditched it for Erlang/Elixir, losing a lot of elegance on the way, but massively gaining on horizontal scalability and pragmatism. I would love to stay with Ocaml but there just isn't enough of a clear roadma
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by vegabook 11y ago
I like Telegram because there's a native app for Ubuntu Phone.
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by vegabook 11y ago
Three is (finally) likely to win, if only because of the constant nagging of the project leaders, and the fact that some distros will now move to it by default. But it will be a pyrrhic victory because it will have been a force-feed, not an
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by vegabook 11y ago
yes - I have a fully kitted out one (16GB, 512 ssd, quadro, hidpi etc) and it hit me for around 2000 pounds at the time. Same price as similar MBP. The only issue I've had is that I couldn't get CUDA running properly under any Lin
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by vegabook 11y ago
I've been very happy with my Dell Precision M3800 which has outstanding build quality, easily comparable to my previous MacBook, and runs Ubuntu perfectly. In fact I like it better hardware-wise than the macbooks because it has a muc
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by vegabook 11y ago
Thank you AMD. Vulkan is essentially a development of Mantle, AMD's next-gen graphics API, and without that forward-thinking leadership, we'd still be messing with (closed) D3D on Windows, (closed) proprietary per-game drivers fro

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