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by vegabook 12y ago
yes please.
902.
by vegabook 12y ago
I am sorry, and at risk of downvotes, web dev is a much faster (dare I say it more fickle) crowd than science. Python is not a whole lot better than Golang, Ruby and of course, Node.js at this use case. Absolute numbers are not persuasive t
903.
by vegabook 12y ago
Agreed on all points though I think you underestimate to what extent Numpy is "carrying" Python. Without Numpy Python would be dead and buried in my view. Sure tons of stuff is "pure" Python but the core of its cred come
904.
by vegabook 12y ago
So this would be the same Guido van Rossum who made a completely misguided analysis of the language he had birthed, tried to make it "grow up" in version 3.x, brow-beated us all about the dubious benefit of this "new" cr
905.
by vegabook 12y ago
The imposition of capital controls signals a country that is willing to trap money within its borders. That very fact is scary, and scary requires compensation. While that usually does not apply to what are classed as "long term"
906.
by vegabook 12y ago
sure - but we're talking RUB specs who are in it for a 5 day move. Nobody is expecting annualized vol of 566% (35% * sqrt(262)). RUB has been moving several chunky percentages daily for 2 weeks at least, and is down 50% against the dol
907.
by vegabook 12y ago
Except that AAPL and others will almost certainly have rolling hedges and be essentially unaffacted by this move until they purchase new stock for payment after hedge horizon and/or larger than the hedge size (unlikely since demand wil
908.
by vegabook 12y ago
at 17% the interest rate paid by the RUB shorts amounts to 0.046% per day, whereas just today trough to peak USDRUB moved 35%. In this environment unless you "do a Sweden/Slovakia" and ramp rates to 1000% by preventing offsho
909.
by vegabook 12y ago
Disrupted to death, by sites like Hacker News. Ironic then the outpouring of sympathy on this comments page. I loved Dr Dobbs but must spend at least 10x more time on HN or SO than there, ironically again, sites which are light or zero on a
910.
by vegabook 12y ago
Sometimes a cringe-inducing name is great for visibility and marketing. See "Wii", even "iPad"...
911.
by vegabook 12y ago
I can second the Ubuntu motivation. Chrome is buggy and unreliable on Ubuntu, and I was tired of the Aw Snap several times a week. Firefox appears to be much more stable, and Developer Edition looks better too.
912.
by vegabook 12y ago
Let's be honest. The fact that surveys like this are still around 6 long years later has just become boring. I have moved to Python 3 purely because of asyncio. There is no other reason that I have found Python 3 to be compelling for
913.
by vegabook 12y ago
For me, mapped caps lock to escape and thereafter never looked back. I found reaching to the top left of my keyboard was breaking my concentration. Especially given I touch type. Also visualbell is almost mandatory otherwise "beep mode
914.
by vegabook 12y ago
Agreed. Also one can argue that the fact that English may not be the first language will in itself have an effect on the thought process, even if English is the medium used. So in that way we still have some diversity, if only obliquely.
915.
by vegabook 12y ago
I always find it refreshing to read blogs in languages other than English (in my case, French), because my sense is that points are expressed in often subtly different ways, thoughts where a different emphasis is possible only in the medium
916.
by vegabook 12y ago
Where's the gopher?! Idiomatic Golang presentations should include a non-broken link to the gopher.
917.
by vegabook 12y ago
If we accept that maximum utility (that is, the jargon economists use for maximum human fulfilment) is not only about maximum output, then the idea that we should open all our borders to the lowest bidder, becomes invalid. What is in the in
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by vegabook 12y ago
js_of_ocaml let's you do ocaml in both client and server, and in a single app, with shared variables. http://ocsigen.org/js_of_ocaml/ As it operates on the byte code you can put any ocaml into the browser, even t
919.
by vegabook 12y ago
Yes and yes. Julia is better because, having seen the mistakes of 3 x 20 year old languages, it is creating an (incrementally) better PythonRMatlab base language (not libraries). Had Julia dropped into my lap 5-10 years ago I would have b
920.
by vegabook 12y ago
For my own use case, and I use 5-10-giga-plus financial tick datasets, I find Numpy to outperform Julia 3:1. R users who need perf have already found other ways (like me). I think this Julia performance argument is hugely overrated. When I
921.
by vegabook 12y ago
Is Julia seriously targeting the R user base? Or, if it is honest with itself, is it going after the matlab people first. My sense is that engineers (Matlab users) and to a certain extent scientists (Python rules) will be drawn in, but the
922.
by vegabook 12y ago
You are strongly encouraged by the Python powers that be to move to 3, and I have only in the past few months begun to agree with them, and that is because some serious standard libraries like asyncio are now only available on 3. It's
923.
by vegabook 12y ago
Python's pip is pretty good though not quite as polished as CRAN. I have had few problems running complex code from third party sources, though one always has to be aware of the Python 2 v 3 "problem" (though it is diminishin
924.
by vegabook 12y ago
yes I have moved (back) to Python mainly because R is too slow when we get beyond a certain data size and the language is not powerful enough when data starts having to be moved around at scale. I have a 5-10 times speed improvement in nati
925.
by vegabook 12y ago
Microsoft is an entity with some of the deepest understanding of computer science on earth. Unlike the more recent, more trendy companies, this company's very roots are in programming languages, and to the extent that any complex techn
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by vegabook 12y ago
doesn't seem to work on Python 3.
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by vegabook 12y ago
just remember though that interest rates are currently 0%, even the 10y treasury bond is only marginally above 2%, so giving away 2% a year at least for the near to medium term assumes capital growth in riskier forms (equities, more donatio
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by vegabook 12y ago
Perhaps quality of recent scientific research volume has not increased as much as quantity, so the importance of each individual research piece is lower. Also, selection bias at work: like hit music, only the good stuff still gets played, a
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by vegabook 12y ago
Well that was the point of my original message. I am using numbapro and easily getting to c-speed with R-like vectorized convenience right now. It's why I question the "speed" argument as a non-argument when compared with Pyt
930.
by vegabook 12y ago
Compelling argument in your link about how performance for others allows for better libraries for everyone. I am still concerned that Julia does not go far enough in breaking the imperative programming mould, but I think it's disingenu

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