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by wirrbel 12y ago
What makes me wonder is, I would have thought that the prospects of nastaliq are increasing with electronic devices (as opposed to old-school printing presses). What I also observe is, that arab speakers sometimes write with the latin alpha
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by wirrbel 12y ago
its an interesting read and I acknowledge the intent to keep the traditional and authentic writing system for Urdu. I have a few thoughts on this though. One would be the legibility. Of course I cannot judge legibility of writing systems I
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by wirrbel 12y ago
I think the turning point is already ahead of us where the thin client server-heavy webservices will be considered a "smell" or at least the uncanonical way of developing web apps. It pays off to do a lot in the client (good libra
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by wirrbel 12y ago
It would have great potential because it would provide a very robust building ground for a program. One of Latex's Building blocks, Metafont, a domain specific language for curve definition (as in fonts) is already implemented in Haske
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by wirrbel 12y ago
thanks for the links The power of TeX is that it is a powerful and beautiful type setter. Something like a website was not on the horizon. For Online-Documentation the best option for me is Sphinx at the moment. It is extendible and still a
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by wirrbel 12y ago
For the reader who is not familiar with Tex/Latex: Tex is a typesetting system designed by Knuth with the purpose of enabling him (Knuth) to typeset a math paper in a way that a good classical typesetter would have done (with the skils
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by wirrbel 12y ago
Considering that this was the 50s and the first compiler was written by Grace Hopper in 1952 I think judging that guy is a little unfair. We are at the moment at a point where Hardware is (to a degree) cheaper than manpower. You might want
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PyX – Python graphics package(pyx.sourceforge.net)
2 points by wirrbel 12y ago|0 comments
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by wirrbel 12y ago
The interesting thing is that the whole purpose of buying followers is then to push oneself up over the constant "noise" of the social-network plattform.
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by wirrbel 12y ago
So if a browser vendor charges for the browser (like Opera did, lets say) can I sue opera for displaying my website?
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Building Blocks: markup and examples(buildingfirefoxos.com)
1 points by wirrbel 12y ago|0 comments
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by wirrbel 12y ago
I think there are many topics in math that are left out because students have to train a few numerical algorithms. For example I was not at all exposed to logic in my math classes (if I was, it was very informal and only on a side note). Ho
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by wirrbel 12y ago
My point - and I could have expressed this more clearly, granted - was that you have one class for doing the numbers (the boring stuff), and one for doing more theory and explorative stuff. I did not want to imply that calculus and linear a
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by wirrbel 12y ago
I firmly believe there should be two math subjects taught at school. One being "Calculating" where students do the boring calculations and all the stuff, calculus, algebra, etc. and another one where the interesting and challenin
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by wirrbel 12y ago
one thing about Haskell: It is different from other languages, but once you got the "mindset" it turns out to be surprisingly _easy_* to use. * especially, the haskell way of type-abstraction is sound and makes for really nice and
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by wirrbel 12y ago
While I agree with the premise that most people do not know enough statistics, there are several underlying problems to that. When I was first encountered to statistical topics as an undergrad, the lecturer himself was not confident of the
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by wirrbel 12y ago
The biggest problem: People hide between such quantities as R-squared and p-Value. While they are just indicators on how the model fits the data, people turn them into a monolithical, undoubtable truth. That is why studies are being publish
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by wirrbel 12y ago
the terms m/s are not even well-describing or giving useful information... its good that projects think of alernatives
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by wirrbel 12y ago
To elaborate: RCS, CVS, Subversion and Git (moreover Hg, etc.) represent a generation of Version control, each revolutionizing the way we work with source control. RCS introduced version control CVS introduced version control with code exch
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Ask HN: What will post-git version control look like?
1 points by wirrbel 12y ago|3 comments
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by wirrbel 12y ago
SO aims at a simple Q&A format. I wonder why people expect it to yield "great" questions. A lot of actually fruitful topics are closed for provoking discussion. "... as they tend to attract opinionated answers and sp
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by wirrbel 13y ago
Both vim and emacs have had problems recently in balancing refactoring needs and their traditional architecture and project layout. People are more and more used to contributing to projects with an occasional pull request. However to benefi
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by wirrbel 13y ago
The whole approach makes a lot of sense. Successful refactoring goes hand in hand with setting up a test environment. Code that is not covered by unit tests is legacy code. Without tests, you have to fear breaking things and fear is a bad s
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by wirrbel 13y ago
Kind of sad how this post seemd to have resonated mostly for its reference to git, I intended (and failed) to point out my questions on mercurial. As a git user, I see one of the main features for mercurial: As it is in python, it can be us
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by wirrbel 13y ago
Fossil's user base has yet to reach a critical mass, mercurial and git are at least widely used and plugins, and services exist. I wonder if darcs will become a viable option again. For git there is ticgit, which is a tracker that live
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by wirrbel 13y ago
I probably should have phrased this more clearly: I think that a python interface (or any other high level script interface) is the more convenient way for a programmer to extend or write hooks/extend the dcvs (I am now thinking about
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by wirrbel 13y ago
While a lot of tutorials mention how complicated git is in contrast to mercurial I - being a git native - feel the other way around. Git is intuitive with a small number of concepts necessarry to grasp my whole workflow. Using this workflow
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by wirrbel 13y ago
The best way would be to release a python 2.9 which incorporates most of the changes from 2 to 3 but the unicode change. The Δ between Python 2 and Python 3 was just too wide. Even with breaking changes, with a small Δ people will just migr
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by wirrbel 13y ago
I really like scheme & clojure and I think I have done a lot more scheme and clojure than haskell. (And even a alot more of Python). However, I think that Haskell by itself has a great syntax (with some legacy cruft, granted). What is r
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by wirrbel 13y ago
clojurescript's compiler is written in java. I think there are a few obstacles that keep clojurescript from basing clojurescript purley on javascript. Nevertheless, if this is all that keeps you away from clojurescript -- too bad. Beca

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