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by vph 14y ago
Research software typically have a very small user base and can quickly become out-of-date, so there's no great incentives for current software packages to upgrade. But I'm talking about the developer community of scientific Python, not th
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by vph 14y ago
There are two significant factions in the Python community: the scientific group and the web-dev group. The scientific group is pretty much on board with Python 3. Perhaps due to unicode handling intricacies, that the web-dev group ain't
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by vph 14y ago
Facebook is still growing and have not quite finished defining itself yet. Further, Facebook as it is, is not really a platform. So, as it grows and introduces new features to enhance user experience, the third-party developers will becom
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by vph 14y ago
No, it is not.
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by vph 14y ago
People ought to realize that Twitter, Facebook, were created to provide a product, a service, an experience that was not meant to be a platform. Facebook is a social network. Twitter is a microblog. Everything that they do and create th
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by vph 14y ago
>For my use case I do a single query to fetch my self contained User object which would need 30+ queries if I was using a relational database. This can't possibly be right. The 30+ SQL queries would have provided additional informatio
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by vph 14y ago
> team Postgresql has never seriously asked the question of why MySQL has had more market traction than Postgresql. And how could you possibly be so sure about this?
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by vph 14y ago
do you have a link to their paper?
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by vph 14y ago
To be the Dark Knight of the Internet, one must at least beat down a handful of Internet villains.
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by vph 14y ago
These are good entrepreneurs and programmers, and they are using great tools, but I don't think they are qualified to say they are redefining teaching basic Computer Science. Interactive platforms and approaches have been constantly introdu
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by vph 14y ago
Of course, his main point is to advocate for using computers to teach and learn math; he's selling Mathematica/Wolfram Alpha. But this is dangerous and a little shallow. And here is why. Math is the language of science; just like a C -- or
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by vph 14y ago
The author seems to suggest that the main problem -- as suggested by the title -- is that the Chinese are strongly anti-foreigners. This might be true. But I don't think it's why his business was robbed. The main problem, I think, is the
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by vph 14y ago
>Incorrect, a bunch of students with failed/successful experience is better than a bunch of students who go to college, because they were "suppose" to. Not all college students attended college because they are "supposed to". Even for
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by vph 14y ago
This model does not scale! Few college dropouts are bright up to be selected carefully to go through this process. To do this en mass would be a disaster.
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by vph 14y ago
I'm curious if your team had experience with "traditional" frameworks such as Rails, Django, etc., and decided to use Angular.js because of certain advantages? It appears that this can be easily done with Rails or Django.
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by vph 14y ago
you can list it by a topological sort.
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by vph 14y ago
This assumes that the company is a stupid, big corporation that can't care less what its employees feel. But a good company should take this opportunity -- the exit interview -- to improve things.
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by vph 14y ago
Khan Academy is social-network type of learning, where you learn from the community. This is good. But learning from expert educators is also essential and perhaps irreplaceable. There are a lot of short-sighted people, who are marveled
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by vph 14y ago
You can't easily, naturally do things on the client side as easily using Ruby or Python.
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by vph 14y ago
Meteor does not take advantage of Node.js async thing. Then, I'm not sure about the advantage of javascript being both on the server and client side. Javasccript just feels weird on the server side. Server-side apps written in Python, R
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by vph 14y ago
flickr was the first of its kind. Huge potentials. It's too bad Yahoo! dropped the ball there.
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by vph 14y ago
data structures and functions are very much related and connected. In fact, all data structures are invented to perform certain specific functions. OO is not the answer to all things, but it provides a natural way to fuse data structures
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by vph 14y ago
on the other hand, I feel the sophisticated language is rather shallow, probably based on simple rules (e.g. if a form is dominant on the website, add "accepting" to the opinion).
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Well, the path to hell is paved with good intentions.
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>2. The profile of users don't reflect who they truly are. It represent what they want to be, or at least how they want to be percieved by others. Admittingly this problem is also present when doing surveys. Do you realize that you are
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by vph 14y ago
This article estimated the time of the "Blog Post" by saying the first comment was about "10 months ago", so the posted time must be before that. This actually points out a very annoying thing that many bloggers do: They don't date the blo
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by vph 14y ago
Most high school graduates have no idea what college can do for them and what they want to accomplish in life. Giving them $100K to do start-ups ain't helping. College -- for many -- is a time of exploration. A liberal art education pro
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Curious if Peter Thiel has children. If he does, did they or will they go to college?
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Linus is spoiled; he uses a MacBook Air.
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by vph 14y ago
People are not idiots. Those who say we are just don't understand how human behaves. You expect most people will remember a 8-letter random strings consisting of letters, numbers and underscore?

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